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Originally Posted by Jace
too little too late
blockbuster has conquered this market for now, we switched about a month ago and will never look back
we get 3 in the mail, we finish those and take them to blockbuster for 3 FREE rentals and our queue in the online part gets updated immediately and new movies mailed
we have a system down right now, we are watching 9 movies a week on average right now
with netflix we got put into their "frequent renter" queue, and some of our movies were starting to take a week to get here, and somehow movies would take 4-5 days to get returned
they throttle people that return movies to quick, they suck
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I wouldn't say Blockbuster has conquered the market just yet. Blockbuster just announced it had around 2 million subscribers while netflix has somewhere around 6 million.
The reason I stay with netflix is that I like a lot of the independent and hard to find movies and they don't have those in the blockbuster store so being able to take them back to a store and get more movies really isn't a big deal to me. It is a nice feature though. However, for people like you that watch 9 movies a week I wonder how long that will last until Blockbuster starts to "throttle" you back. If you are averaging 36 movies a month at $18 per month you are paying around 50 cents per rental. They won't stay in business too long at that rate. They may let it go depending on how many "heavy renters" they get, but if they get a lot I would imagine you see some kind of throttling put in place.
I watch 3 movies a week. I watch them over the weekend then mail them out on Monday or Tuesday and have new ones by Thursday or Friday so for me netflix is great.