Curse You, Netflix...

I love Netflix. But they're trying to kill me and put me out of a home. I used to have the three DVDs at a time back when streaming was just a few crappy movies. That was only 14 bucks a month. Then they changed all the prices and I paid 16 for the same service only a little more streaming. Then they upped the fees again when streaming got even bigger and I had to downgrade to 2 movies out at a time and unlimited streaming for the same price. Now they're raising the price again. Again!

I either have to get 1 movie and unlimited streaming for the same price I'm paying now, or keep my same plan and pay 20. Netflix used to be a viable solution to not having cable. I'm happy without cable and have been for 2 years. But if I'm gonna be paying 20 a month plus 8 for hulu plus, in addition to 40 for internet, I'm already at 0ver 70 after taxes. I should ditch Netflix and Hulu Plus because what's another 30 for cable plus HBO and On Demand?

I love movies. I still try and watch a movie every day and I enjoy that more than TV. But why is Netflix, who I generally swear by, making it so hard?! Maybe if they streamed all the movies in my queue of 480 dvds I could be happy about this. But less than 20 of them are available for instant view. Maybe if they had all the shows Hulu has, I'd be elated. But they don't. Basically I'm just getting f*cked and there's nothing I can do about it but vent to you.

Man, between bitching about the price of gas and how good things used to be before all this technology and all these assh*le teenagers acting crazy in the streets, I'd swear I was 90 years old.

Go big.

-M, p, z & shredder

Net-F(l)ixed...

So after many months of having Netflix, I finally had my first one go missing. I don't mean that I lost it, but that it got lost. In the mail. Or so they say. It was supposed to be here on saturday and is never late. Yesterday one came. Alone. So I got online to see what they would do about it and how much I would have to pay.

It turns out this happens. I don't have to pay anything. They apologized and sent a replacement. I love Netflix. But also I wondered, how many people do this? It seems like if you see a movie you love love love and don't want to return you can just say it never came. I mean, all they will do is send a replacement. What is strange is that they don't seem to care that people probably do this. They kind of encourage it actually. Instead of sending a replacement dvd of the one that never came, you can just have them send you the next one in your queue. As if to say, "hey we know you stole our shit, but hazaa! we don't care! We'll send you the next one in your queue because we are just that awesome!"

Since Netflix aren't paying me to say this I will also say something bad about them. If you have a Mac, you can't watch movies online through their site. Part of the package that I have allows me to watch unlimited movies they have on their site online, but alas, it only works with PCs. How about catering to the increasingly large amount of Mac owners and help some people kill time.

It also got me thinking about things getting lost in the mail. Does that still happen? My brother's computer he ordered from Apple got "lost in the mail" but that was clearly stolen. You would think that with the increasing number of people not using mail (when was the last time you sent a letter (not counting cards) and not an email?) the post office would be doing all they can to stay afloat. But for some reason the price of stamps is increasing still and plus you have to go to the post office. I'd actually rather communicate without getting out of bed thank you very much.

As always, go big...

-M, p, z & shredder

oh ps - If you like movies, get netflix. It really is pretty awesome.