Posted: 1/31/2005 8:56:35 AM EDT
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I noticed an interesting trend over the last couple of weeks. You are not guarenteed to get your movies in the queue order even if their availability is listed as "Now." Three times now in the last two weeks, I've gotten stuff out of order. I think that I know the reason, too. Not every title is stored at all of the distro sites. I think that NetFlix takes shipping time and queue order into account when determining which items to ship. I have a distro located in S. Vermont, therefore, I get titles in one day. The titles that keep getting skipped are new to NetFlix (but old titles) which leads me to believe that they have not been sent to all of the distros. Anyone else notice this problem? |
It is skipped and the next item with availablity of "Now" is shipped instead. BTW, an interesting point is that NetFlix gives preference to new members, so my bet is that you won't see a "Very Long Wait" for a while. |
For the first 1-2 months of my membership, I would mail back a movie on Monday, they would receive and ship a new one Tuesday, and I would have it Wednesday. Now I send it back Monday, they say they get it on Wednesday (if lucky), they ship one out on Thursday or Friday and I end up getting it on Monday. Think I will be canceling my membership soon (maybe re-joining). |
(never more than two days, and never out of order)
been having the same problems with the also,netflix is in the next county over from me. |
Apparently they are jumping on the success of NetFlix: Blockbuster Online: The Movie Store at Your Door |
the local stores has the same program also so if you want to get them faster,it just cost more. |