I signed up for Blockbuster Online because it was free for the first month and boy am I disappointed with the service.
Here is my current "Shipped Movies"
Movie Title Rating Ship Date Estimated Arrival
1 Usual Suspects [Special Edition] R 05/05/2005 05/09/2005
2 National Treasure [WS] PG 05/05/2005 05/07/2005
3 After the Sunset [WS] PG13 05/07/2005 05/10/2005
I returned two movies on May 3rd, but they did not process them and ship out another movie until the 5th. Thus, 1 day of delay. They ship out my movies on the 5th. They are shipping out from the same city that I live in (San Jose, CA), so it should only take one day for the movie to get to my house. (I've had stuff sent from Southern California and Oregon and it only takes one business day via regular USPS mail to arrive.)
If they sent out the movie on the 5th, one day would be the 6th (Friday), the second would be the 7th (Saturday) and then the third would be the 9th (Monday). That is a three day wait/shipping time. National Treasure was "expected" to arrive on the 7th, but it didn't come, so I can only assume it will arrive on the 9th.
So, you have one day of delay for BlockBuster to process the movies. Then four days (because of Sunday) of delay for BlockBuster to ship the movies. That is a total of five days. Logically, that is every 5 days you get a new movie, right?
No, you only have the movie for one day and then have to wait 4-5 days to get the next batch. There are approximately 30 days in a month. Divide by 4.5 and you get ~7. That means you can essentially rent 7 batches of movies in one month (assuming you keep the three movies for one day only), so really, it's not that bad of a deal, right?
Wrong again. I have (not counting the movies that are in transit to me) 8 movies in queue. Only 4 of them are Available Now, while two are Short Wait and two are Long Wait. Short Wait = Less than 2 Weeks Waiting. Long Wait = 2-4 Weeks Waiting.
So what I'll have to do is fill my queue with movies I kind of want to see until the Long Wait ones arrive in 2-4 weeks. For $15/month, I can at max get 21 DVDs which I can keep for less than one day. (Arrive one day, send out the next day)
Am I just being anal or is this unacceptable? Is NetFlix any better? My local mom/pop store does 2 Movies for $2.76 every Tuesday/Wednesday, that would mean 10 movies for $15. However, I would get to keep most of those movies for the total of 3-5 days.
Here is my current "Shipped Movies"
Movie Title Rating Ship Date Estimated Arrival
1 Usual Suspects [Special Edition] R 05/05/2005 05/09/2005
2 National Treasure [WS] PG 05/05/2005 05/07/2005
3 After the Sunset [WS] PG13 05/07/2005 05/10/2005
I returned two movies on May 3rd, but they did not process them and ship out another movie until the 5th. Thus, 1 day of delay. They ship out my movies on the 5th. They are shipping out from the same city that I live in (San Jose, CA), so it should only take one day for the movie to get to my house. (I've had stuff sent from Southern California and Oregon and it only takes one business day via regular USPS mail to arrive.)
If they sent out the movie on the 5th, one day would be the 6th (Friday), the second would be the 7th (Saturday) and then the third would be the 9th (Monday). That is a three day wait/shipping time. National Treasure was "expected" to arrive on the 7th, but it didn't come, so I can only assume it will arrive on the 9th.
So, you have one day of delay for BlockBuster to process the movies. Then four days (because of Sunday) of delay for BlockBuster to ship the movies. That is a total of five days. Logically, that is every 5 days you get a new movie, right?
No, you only have the movie for one day and then have to wait 4-5 days to get the next batch. There are approximately 30 days in a month. Divide by 4.5 and you get ~7. That means you can essentially rent 7 batches of movies in one month (assuming you keep the three movies for one day only), so really, it's not that bad of a deal, right?
Wrong again. I have (not counting the movies that are in transit to me) 8 movies in queue. Only 4 of them are Available Now, while two are Short Wait and two are Long Wait. Short Wait = Less than 2 Weeks Waiting. Long Wait = 2-4 Weeks Waiting.
So what I'll have to do is fill my queue with movies I kind of want to see until the Long Wait ones arrive in 2-4 weeks. For $15/month, I can at max get 21 DVDs which I can keep for less than one day. (Arrive one day, send out the next day)
Am I just being anal or is this unacceptable? Is NetFlix any better? My local mom/pop store does 2 Movies for $2.76 every Tuesday/Wednesday, that would mean 10 movies for $15. However, I would get to keep most of those movies for the total of 3-5 days.
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