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Originally Posted by PooperScooper 
Before the postal increase, the x-out plan seems to correspond to x-out-per-week. We'll have to see if Netflix does anything wrt the extra postal costs. Less than $1 per disc is not going to happen. Ask your local rental places to rent you discs at $2.50 per disc and to keep them as long as you want (don't forget to mention you want them to order discs that Netflix has and they don't) - and see what they say.
Don't forget to add in gas and time. I'm not picking on anybody - just trying to point out that Netflix isn't that bad a deal.
larry
Before the postal increase, the x-out plan seems to correspond to x-out-per-week. We'll have to see if Netflix does anything wrt the extra postal costs. Less than $1 per disc is not going to happen. Ask your local rental places to rent you discs at $2.50 per disc and to keep them as long as you want (don't forget to mention you want them to order discs that Netflix has and they don't) - and see what they say.
Don't forget to add in gas and time. I'm not picking on anybody - just trying to point out that Netflix isn't that bad a deal. larry
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Originally Posted by nebrunner
20 movies out - you are never going to get that
I just checked my complete rental history going back to 2003 (its stored under preferences on Netflix.com)
The most I was ever able to rent in a month (I should say the most Netflix ever sent me in a month, because the slowdowns have always been on their end) was 13. The least I ever was able to rent in a month was 9. There were only a couple 9 months, just about every month was 12 or 13 total and this is on the 3 out plan.
That puts it at $1.53 per disc my cost. I guess that is fair considering I dont have travel time or gas cost to get to the video store. Someone else here mentioned that Netflix will slow you down on purpose if your per disc cost starts to get below $1.50, and I believe them.
20 movies out - you are never going to get that
I just checked my complete rental history going back to 2003 (its stored under preferences on Netflix.com)
The most I was ever able to rent in a month (I should say the most Netflix ever sent me in a month, because the slowdowns have always been on their end) was 13. The least I ever was able to rent in a month was 9. There were only a couple 9 months, just about every month was 12 or 13 total and this is on the 3 out plan.
That puts it at $1.53 per disc my cost. I guess that is fair considering I dont have travel time or gas cost to get to the video store. Someone else here mentioned that Netflix will slow you down on purpose if your per disc cost starts to get below $1.50, and I believe them.
No, but I do feel I am being throttled already and I am not a heavy user. Is 20 movies per month heavy usage when you are on the 3 out plan? I don't think so. I think anything beyond and average of 5 rentals per week is pushing it a bit. I see some complaining that they don't get more than 50 per week. That is just ludicrous. I am not going to jump the gun. I am going to give things a month to pan out. That will be 6 weeks if you add the free two week trial. That should be plenty of time to give an evaluation. If things don't shape up, I am going to BB.
At this point I am looking at 3 or four movies per week on the 3 out plan. In my eyes that is just un-acceptable.
Craig
drops our mail off any where from 12:30 to 2:00 pm. She also picks up the mail in the drop box during her stint ay the mall. Now, I do not know what time those people at Netflix start work. 
But when I check my e-mail in the morning before i head off to work (6:30-700am) I have an e-mail saying they have received my dvd's I mailed the previous day. Pretty darn good in my book. 
All in all I am very happy with Netflix. 
Mind you there are 3 of us all with different tv/dvd players in our household. 
