Mon 12 Dec 2005
I just received an email from BlockBuster Online announcing their $29.99/month (first month $14.99) MovieSuite package. Billed as “the new, easy way to see all the movies you want at one low price”. This new package offers:
Wed 5 Oct 2005
Last year I joined NetFlix and used it for a few months. I liked the selection and definitely the convenience of receiving DVD movies right to my mailbox, but after awhile I got busy and found it wasn’t worth paying $19.99 a month. But here’s what really pissed me off and has caused some unhappy customers to post rants such as “Why NetFlix Sucks!”. I was getting too many movies each month, so they stopped sending them as fast; instead of 2-day turnarounds, it was taking longer and longer to get the items in my queue. Excuse me, but that’s not mentioned in their d*#ned terms of service! For the first few months of my NetFlix subscription I was returning the DVDs the same day I received them (I just copied them to a hard drive for viewing later, then deleted them after I viewed them), and that meant I could get more rented then they wanted me to receive in a month. So good-bye NetFlix with your high prices and crummy business practices, and hellow BlockBuster Online!!