Saturday I was supposed to receive 3 discs and only 2 were in the mailbox. I assumed netflix had started to "throttle" my service for heavy usage (google it if you don't know what I'm talking about). Today I received the third disc in my mailbox.

The mailer was missing the detachable portion that has the mailing address on it and the disc was inserted such that the netflix barcode was not aligned with the window on the envelope (so the disc was removed from the envelope and reinserted)! I think someone stole it thinking they'd get to watch a movie for free. Joke's on them because it was disc 6 in a TV series.

12/28/2009 5:01:24 PM

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"COOL STORY BRO"

12/28/2009 5:02:33 PM

that was awful nice and brave of them to return you movie,
i'd say the only person who would do this is the mailman himself

12/28/2009 5:03:59 PM

Balls on the thief, because I would probably only want to see maybe 15 percent of all movies, so odds are I'd get suck with shit

and borrowed netflix would have been the more fitting title here

12/28/2009 5:05:58 PM

Do people really get throttled? It makes sense for bandwidth. Do people really watch movies with such a short turnover rate?

12/28/2009 5:09:04 PM

^ It happens. With computer storage so cheap and plentiful, you could rip DVDs as fast as they'll send them and store everything without spending a lot of money.

12/28/2009 5:11:53 PM

That's awesome!

My brother used to have everything he ever wanted on an external terabyte hard drive.

12/28/2009 5:15:18 PM

Round trip postage costs netflix somewhere around 60 cents/disc. It's $16.99 / month for 3 at a time. Returning discs on the same day you receive them you could manage 30-45 discs/month accounting only for postal transit times, which leads to netflix losing money.

I've received 11 discs this month (but I just upgraded to the 3 disc service last week).

12/28/2009 5:21:09 PM

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"Do people really get throttled? It makes sense for bandwidth. Do people really watch movies with such a short turnover rate?"

Oh yes.

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"^ It happens. With computer storage so cheap and plentiful, you could rip DVDs as fast as they'll send them and store everything without spending a lot of money"

Exactly.
I don't think I have watched a single movie (yet) from all the rentals we had when we did have a netflix subscription. Although it wasn't by design. It was more "Eh...I'm not in a movie-watching mood. Rip it and send it back", as opposed to "let's rip as many as we can".

12/28/2009 5:24:41 PM

I canceled almost all of my TV channels in favor of netflix.

12/28/2009 6:04:48 PM

anyone want to trade some ripped movies?

12/28/2009 6:59:17 PM