Getting Throttled By NetFlix
We got a new batch of Netflix DVD's in the mail today, so we sat around and OD'd on movies, coffee, & cigarettes.
NetFlix is starting to piss me off. I had to email them twice now because they keep sending us DVD's that have cracks in them or are scratched and unplayable. We're on the 5-at-a-time unlimited movies plan and we're supposed to receive our DVD"s in one business day. Until I emailed them, we were getting ours in 4-5 business days. Then for a couple weeks, we got them in 2 days. Now it's back to 4-5 days again. I found out NetFlix does something called "throttling," which means that people who return movies right away get penalized with a shipping delay. So much for unlimited movies. I also read that Blockbuster does it too. Here's a news article from The San Francisco Chronicle (Feb 10, 2006):
"Manuel Villanueva realizes he has been getting a pretty good deal since he signed up for Netflix Inc.'s online DVD rental service 2 1/2 years ago, but he still feels shortchanged. That's because the $17.99 monthly fee that he pays to rent up to three DVDs at a time would amount to an even bigger bargain if the company didn't penalize him for returning his movies so quickly.
Netflix typically sends about 13 movies per month to Villanueva's home in Warren, Mich. — down from the 18 to 22 DVDs he once received before the company's automated system identified him as a heavy renter and began delaying his shipments to protect its profits...Read more.
One subscriber did his own investigation of NetFlix's throttling and posted the results on his website.
What I'm Listening to Right Now:
Jane's Addiction - 1%
All the people I know they wanna be left alone
Some people, I don't know
They wont leave you alone
I guess you gotta be just like them
And the biggest gang I know they call the government
And the gang is a weapon
That you trade your mind in for
I guess you gotta be just like them
You know the gang and the government are no different
The gang and the government are no different
That makes me 1%
It makes me 1%
Oh God
Trouble comes down
Like a foot steppin' heavy
Shake your fist
At the bitch
Or you wave your money
You gotta be right
You gotta be right
Don't be no
Supper for a big fish
With the big lip
And the overbite
You gotta bite
