It seems that depends upon how much you use it. sort of a catch 22. To be a great deal, you have to use it enough to make it payout at least what it would cost to rent locally, which granted, that wouldn't be to hard to do. But be a Netflix "Speed renter", that means turn them around as soon as they get here, view them, mail them, make next selection over and over again, and what happens?
you may get "Throttled".
Say a person was renting 18 to 22 DVDs a month. Then, the company's automated system identified him as a heavy renter and begin delaying his shipments to protect its profits.
The same Netflix formula also shoves a person to the back of the line for the most-wanted DVDs, so the service can send those popular flicks to new subscribers and infrequent renters.
The little-known practice, called "throttling" by critics, means Netflix customers who pay the same price for the same service are often treated differently, depending on their rental patterns.
There's a class action suite filed in California:
Sound off, what do you all think about this practice?
Does it seem like this is "Unlimited Rentals" as Netflix claimed?
Oh, you'll note that Netflex changed it's declared policies in Jan this year, you know, the legal mumbo jumbo, I presume in answer to the lawsuite, and disgruntled people from being throttled.
Don't you think that netflix would be better served to treat everyone equal, and just absorb the loss from the lesser percentage that can turn movies around on a dime and return same day or next day?
Of course, Netflix whines about postage being .78 cents per DVD to and from, well, it was part of their original business model. They couldn't anticipate just how many DVDs a person could rent? Oh, I think they could. I mean this is a publically traded company now. I think they knew quite well, it's just they got greedy, and wanted to tweak their profits for shareholders, and I might add, at the Frequent Renter's expense-
you may get "Throttled".
Say a person was renting 18 to 22 DVDs a month. Then, the company's automated system identified him as a heavy renter and begin delaying his shipments to protect its profits.
The same Netflix formula also shoves a person to the back of the line for the most-wanted DVDs, so the service can send those popular flicks to new subscribers and infrequent renters.
The little-known practice, called "throttling" by critics, means Netflix customers who pay the same price for the same service are often treated differently, depending on their rental patterns.
There's a class action suite filed in California:
Sound off, what do you all think about this practice?
Does it seem like this is "Unlimited Rentals" as Netflix claimed?
Oh, you'll note that Netflex changed it's declared policies in Jan this year, you know, the legal mumbo jumbo, I presume in answer to the lawsuite, and disgruntled people from being throttled.
Don't you think that netflix would be better served to treat everyone equal, and just absorb the loss from the lesser percentage that can turn movies around on a dime and return same day or next day?
Of course, Netflix whines about postage being .78 cents per DVD to and from, well, it was part of their original business model. They couldn't anticipate just how many DVDs a person could rent? Oh, I think they could. I mean this is a publically traded company now. I think they knew quite well, it's just they got greedy, and wanted to tweak their profits for shareholders, and I might add, at the Frequent Renter's expense-
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