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[neb52]

Netflix is good. Lots of titles, especially rare movies you may never have heard of. Pricing is good, even though they have been upping the prices at little over the past year. You get your movies fairly fast and anytime one doesn't make it(USPS machinery eats it) then they will ship a new copy for free. So far I have been pleased. I don't know about Blockbuster's, didn't they just start theirs?

[ecurbh]

My wife and I used Netflix for a while, and were happy with their service. Huge selection, and very quick turnaround. When we sent a disc back, we would have the next one sitting in our mailbox 2 days later.

The reason we quit after about 4 months was that we had finished watching the movies we ~really~ wanted to see, and could no longer justify the cost. The price was $20 when we were members, and we quit when they announced they were raising their price to $22 or so. I have heard they dropped their price back down since then.

[SuziQ]

We've been members of Netflix since Oct. of 2000. We've had nothing but good experiences with them. We are especially fortunate in that we live less than 10 miles from one of the distribution centers. When we mail back a movie, they get it the following day, ship the new one back to us and we get it the day after that! I'm not sure how many movies we've watched in the four years we've been members, but it's well over 300. We enjoy watching movies with our kids, and as they've grown older (the youngest is almost 16), our base of possible movies has expanded.

Once, we sent a movie back that never reached Netflix for whatever reason. Another time, they sent a movie to us that never reached us. As far as I can tell, we've never been charged for either one.

I know that Netflix recently reduced their per month price. I think it's now $17.95, you get a max of three movies at a time, and you can keep them for as long as you want. You set up the list of movies you want to see, and they send you the first three.When you finish one, just pop it into the pre-paid mailer. When they receive it, they'll send you the next available one on your queue, and you just keep that going.

[isom35]

netflix is great, I saw no need to try blockbuster. netflix has some bizarre hard to find stuff, including a great selection of the "Something Weird" titles from Mike Vraney. my only beef with netflix is that their search engine is weird. I did a search for Ilsa, didnt get the Ilsa movies, but did a Dyanne Thorne search, and they popped up.

[BJClinton]

File-sharing is free.

[kittymyrib]

NetFlix gave 100% of its political contributions to Democrats. Cross it off your Buy Red List.

[rwfromkansas]

Both seem like rip-offs. It is ridiculous to spend almost 20 bucks a month. Drop it down to 10 and I would sign up since I do like the movies...

On the plus side, Blockbuster is smart to get rid of late fees in their physical stores.

[tortoise]

I've been using Netflix for years and love it. The deepest movie collection I've ever seen, and the turnaround is extremely fast. Well worth it, and a lifestyle shift once you become accustomed to it (like Tivo).

There is a possibility that Blockbuster is as good, but I strongly doubt it is better.

[GeorgeSchiro]

I've tried Netflix twice now over the past few years.

My full story was posted 1/8/2005 at:
http://www.manuelsweb.com/netflixopinions.htm

I believe that Netflix uses dishonest techniques to limit the number of DVDs received per month. I was hoping for 12 on the "3 out" plan. When I cancelled it was about 8.

I will try Blockbuster now.

[lazzydrake]

I recently changed from netfix to blockbuster.com
I like it MUCH better I can take my envolopes to my local blockbuster and exchange them for in store rentals and it checks them in for me and thay mail them faster. Try it out, I got two weeks free by using promo code 26013b. my friends used the same code and also got two weeks free