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Blockbuster online movie rental service ?
rlemmon:
Has anyone used blockbusters on line rental service. If so were you happy with it ? I am done with netflix. I am sick of waiting to or three weeks for a dvd.
Thanks
AtomSmasher:
Netflix usually gets my movies within 1-2 days from when they sent them, when I switched to blockbuster it took 5-7 days. It just depends on your location, some people will get great service from one, and some will get great service from the other. If your not happy with netflix, then definately switch to blockbuster and see how it goes. You can also turn in the movies they mail to you in the blockbuster stores and rent another movie from there for free, which helps a lot if your not getting the movies fast enough.
Dervacumen:
We've been using Blockbuster for at least a year or so. I've no complaints, and highly suggest it if you have a brick and mortar store around you. We frequently take our 3 via-mail-movies to the store and exchange them for 3 other titles at no cost.
rlemmon:
Atomsmasher, It only takes 3 days for them to arrive when they send them. The thing is they don't send them. Every thing starts out ( in my que) as a short wait and then moves up to a very long wait. The thing is they throttle there service, newer members get movies sent sooner while older members get backburnered. Its a dirty trick, Its in the fine print of the user agreement but i don't remember were.
Dervacumen , I don't have a blockbuster store. The only thing here is a video warehouse. Everything i rent from them skips and i have to make a trip back to get another copy. I think I will give blockbuster a try anyway. I rent too many movies for it to be cost effective for me to pay $4.00 a rental.
Thanks for you help guys.
shmokes:
I've been a Netflix member for years and I've never felt like my service has been throttled. It may have been, but my queue has over 400 titles in it. All but two of them show an availability of "now" except two of them. Numbers 200 and 269 in my queue show "Short Wait".
And I rip my movies and send them back without even watching them first, so I go through quite a lot of movies. Whenever I read something like this I can't help but think that the throttling thing gets blown a bit out of proportion. I think throttling only happens to titles that are in very high demand, and only to people who are sending them back so fast that it is obvious that they are ripping them.
Anyway, like others have said, your quality of service with either service is going to depend on your proximity to a distribution center. That makes Netflix a better service for most people because they have more distribution centers than Blockbuster. That said, I'd be pretty tempted to switch if there was a brick and morter Blockbuster in my town.
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