February 4, 2006
Netflix is Evil
but I love them. I play with my queue obsessively, as if LOOKING at the movie would make it come sooner. I rearrange it, trying to decide if I really want to see The Maltese Falcon before disc 3 of season 6 of Star Trek: TNG.
I am one of those heavy users of Netflix that they hate-I usually return a movie the next day, the day after at the latest. Soon after I joined in June I noticed a serious slowdown in getting new discs, but I don't think that they admitted at that time that it was a deliberate policy.
This article from Internet Week points out that they are delaying my shipments, and that this is disclosed in their Terms of Service.
The in-store Blockbuster'hack' doesn't work for me, Blockbuster can't satisfy my ambition to watch every episode of every Star Trek series ever aired. The depth of the documentary collection at my local BB is lame enough to be laughable, so I am a willing prisoner of Netflix (and I must admit that I also belong to BB online because Netflix doesn't have the right edition of Star Trek: TOS).
And I love to play with my queue.
Posted by Trigger Tech at February 4, 2006 3:53 PM Permalink
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I am never entirely serious, but if you mean, am I serious that Netflix treats heavy users of their service different from people who only request a few movies a month, I am absolutely serious.
Posted by: Trigger Tech at August 7, 2006 12:58 PM
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