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Netflix is great, but there are a few drawbacks....
They are closed on Saturdays & Sundays. That means nothing you mail to them is received on either of those days & nothing gets mailed out from them on those days either.
The other drawback is that they show favortism and do what is known as throttling. Essentially, the less movies you rent from them per month, the faster your service and the shorter your wait time for high demand movies.
Other than those 2 things, Netflix is great. Even though I rent enough to be throttled constantly, I still get more than my money's worth out of them each month.
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If you don't understand throttling, I will explain it here...
I get movies from them, watch them right away and then drop them in the mail to return them the next day. This turnaround gets me roughly 1.5 movies per week, per movie. (But I subscribe for 3 movies at a time so really, I get about 4-5 a week from them.)
My friend Nikki rents a movie and then let's it sit on her kitchen table for a month before she gets around to watching it and mailing it back.
Now which type of customer do you think they prefer, considering they pay all the postage charges and all other fees remain constant?
Because she rents so much less frequently but pays the same per month as me, they want to keep her happier. Therefore if a brand new movie comes out, it could very well show 'Long Wait' for me but "Available Now' for her. I got throttled. (Another way of looking at is getting put to the back of the line.)
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