Netflix turn-around times
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CorpseGoddess
- Joined: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:23 pm
- Status: HEY GUYS
- Location: Vancouver, BC
If anybody's in Canada, zip.ca is the comparable service and it's excellent. Their anime selection is pretty impressive, and they've added shipping spots---we have one in Vancouver and it's usually about 2 days between sending and receiving a disc. They have this system where if you've established yourself as a responsible returner, you can mark a disc as "returned" the day you send it and they'll ship another one out that same day.
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DriftRoot
- Joined: Mon Jun 09, 2003 7:18 pm
- Status: As important as any plug-in.
- Location: N.H.
Netflix for me has always vacillated between really awesome and really horrible. One place I lived, they couldn't get me two DVDs in a row - ever. One was always getting lost in the mail, or being returned as undeliverable (that account didn't last long). I live somewhere else now, and haven't had a problem yet.
I do find the turnaround times rather undependable, but I think a lot of this depends on what your mail carrier is doing with your mail. I've sent stuff back on a Monday and had it not show up as "delivered" until Thursday and other times they get it Tuesday. Same thing with shipments TO me - they'll say on Wednesday I should expect a DVD Thursday, but sometimes it won't show up until Friday or even Saturday.
The funny thing is, every time something out of the ordinary happens with my DVDs - say I send one back later than usual - they send me a customer service query asking how they're doing.
Because I use most of my Netflix account for ripping purposes, most of my DVDs get sent back the next morning. This makes for about 6-8 DVDs per month with the 1-out-at-a-time package. Like I said, sometimes turnaround is great, other times not so much, but I think only once in the past few months has a DVD taken more than a week to get to me.
Oh yeah, and just watch out for scratched discs...I've been unable to rip some DVDs because they had been used and abused so much.
I do find the turnaround times rather undependable, but I think a lot of this depends on what your mail carrier is doing with your mail. I've sent stuff back on a Monday and had it not show up as "delivered" until Thursday and other times they get it Tuesday. Same thing with shipments TO me - they'll say on Wednesday I should expect a DVD Thursday, but sometimes it won't show up until Friday or even Saturday.
The funny thing is, every time something out of the ordinary happens with my DVDs - say I send one back later than usual - they send me a customer service query asking how they're doing.
Because I use most of my Netflix account for ripping purposes, most of my DVDs get sent back the next morning. This makes for about 6-8 DVDs per month with the 1-out-at-a-time package. Like I said, sometimes turnaround is great, other times not so much, but I think only once in the past few months has a DVD taken more than a week to get to me.
Oh yeah, and just watch out for scratched discs...I've been unable to rip some DVDs because they had been used and abused so much.
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OhmGautama
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2003 7:01 pm
- Location: North Carolina
