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Blockbuster online movie rental service ?
ChadTower:
When I used netflix, whenever I started to turn movies around quickly, they'd start to take 3-4x longer to arrive. I'd slow down, they'd take two days. I'd send them back quickly again and it would take a week.
Then I used Blockbuster for about a year and it was great... better selection than you'd think and the ability to get in store rentals was very useful.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: rlemmon on February 04, 2007, 08:10:57 am ---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.
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Thats the reason why I switched from Netflix to Blockbuster, although I've since switched back. If I remember right though, Netflix was sued a year or two ago for throttling its customers, so now they don't do that.
shmokes:
I seem to recall that they were sued and so they had to stop throttling without telling the customers that this would happen. I believe that they continue to throttle, albeit now with a disclaimer on the site saying as much.
pointdablame:
around my area in NJ, they are both fairly quick. I've used both now, and would just switch services whenever i felt i was being throttled. Solved the problem for me.
Blockbuster's new Total Access is really cool though, I'd probably go with them if I were using a service right now since I have a lot of Blockbuster stores near me.
LPZ:
Total Access is the best. Take your mailed in dvds to the store to get new ones and when they scan you mailed ones, the warehouse sends you your next ones. My wife got us in this and I didn't believe it, but it works. That's why it's called total access. We do the 2 dvd plan and we pass a blockbuster every 2-3 days or so, so the plan is great.
LPZ
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