Netflix is going downhill.

[Saulbadguy]

Over the last couple of months, it seems I am getting more and more unplayable DVDs. I do what they ask of me, and mark on the sleeve that the DVD is unplayable, and I would like a replacement sent. Do they ever send a replacement? Well, they did once. Other than that, they just send whatever is next in the queue.

Anyone else having similar problems?

 

[warcrow]

I've never had that problem. Then again, I dont have a Netflix account either...

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: warcrow
I've never had that problem. Then again, I dont have a Netflix account either...

same here

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: warcrow
I've never had that problem. Then again, I dont have a Netflix account either...

Funny how that works out...

 

[blodhi74]

that is why I am liking the $24.99 blockbuster pass

 

[5489]

well funny thing is, i've had netflix for over a year now, but i havent even touched the site for 3 months (website says i havent returned anything for 3 months) but i mailed out the DVD's a couple days ago. I hope i dont start experiencing this problem

 

[JSang]

i have not had a problem with unplayables...and BB just doesnt have a big enough selection to tempt me to switch

 

[xSauronx]

ive gotten dozens of movies and never had a problem with any of them

 

[DT4K]

Sounds like you have a P.O.S. dvd player since nobody else seems to have the problem, including myself. I've rented hundreds of dvds from Netflix and NEVER had a single problem with them at all.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
ive gotten dozens of movies and never had a problem with any of them

same here

 

[Smaug]

No problems here, check the ol' dvd player

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
Over the last couple of months, it seems I am getting more and more unplayable DVDs. I do what they ask of me, and mark on the sleeve that the DVD is unplayable, and I would like a replacement sent. Do they ever send a replacement? Well, they did once. Other than that, they just send whatever is next in the queue.

Anyone else having similar problems?

imo netflix just got a lot better when they opened a distn center where i live.

 

[0roo0roo]

no probs here either

 

[So]

Originally posted by: blodhi74
that is why I am liking the $24.99 blockbuster pass

No problems here. I refuse to try BB's pass because 9.5/10 of thier DVD's are scratched to hell and skip at least once per film. Netflix seems to have a clientel that doesn't abuse the merchandise as badly. I just got sick of the hassle of taking DVDs back to BB

 

[Squisher]

Mammoth Video now offers a $19.99 DVD club. Only 2 videos at a time though, for up to 31 days.

 

[Porter1173]

no problems here, even though the dvd's without any special features gets on my nerves at times.

 

[NightCrawler]

NetFlix is great at first but then go's downhill really fast. I started getting bad disc and then it just seemed to take longer and longer to get my next discs on my list. Eventually it wasn't worth the money when they weren't sending me that many per month.

Another thing is that if they lose one in the mail they charge you full price.

I did rent a bad disc from blockbuster once but at least I could jump in my car and quickly get a another one and finish watching the movie.

The rest of the blockbuster DVD's have been fine.

 

[Rickten]

been with them for over a year and they absolutely stomp on BB. BB has crap for selection.

I've had a total of 7 DVD's lost in the mail and have never been charged once. Takes one day to get the discs. Its pretty obvious that BB is scared and realize they simply can't compete or else they would have started their pass promotions.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: DT4K
Sounds like you have a P.O.S. dvd player since nobody else seems to have the problem, including myself. I've rented hundreds of dvds from Netflix and NEVER had a single problem with them at all.

So, how is it my DVD player is a POS when Netflix fails to send me a playable one when I mark the sleeve saying "DVD was unplayable, please send a replacement"?

Also, I go through about 30 movies a month.

 

[JoeKing]

Netflix is good for hard to find, indy, non-mainstream, movies. I still go to Hollywood Video (BlockBuster can bite my candy cane) for mainstream recent releases. With HV I don't have to wait 2 weeks to watch a new release. Netflix doesn't seem to carry nearly enough DVDs for new releases. Extremly long wait my ass.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: Squisher
Mammoth Video now offers a $19.99 DVD club. Only 2 videos at a time though, for up to 31 days.

Is Mammoth a chain of video stores?

 

[MustISO]

In a year with Netflix I had two unplayable. One was broken in half when it arrived and the other was broken to the center ring. I cancelled when they started slowing my account down because I rented "too much".

 

[ohtwell]

I've only gotten one unplayable DVD from them, and they replaced it quickly.


: ) Amanda

 

[Saulbadguy]

Ah well. Could be my distr. center, in KCMO.

 

[dsfunk]

I've never had an unplayable disk. I have had a couple lost in the mail. They do not charge you for it. Your dvd player might be a pile. Go to the website and report the disk as unplayable and have them send you out a new one. They will send it out immediately instead of you waiting until the unplayable disk gets back to them. I don't know why you would just check the box and hope that the guys that get paid to open envelopes all day would get it right all the time.