I can relate, as I have had Pineapple Express at home for over a year. After reading this thread, I am looking to change to the streaming only plan, but I have no idea where the DVD is. Does anybody know if they will charge me for it if it is indeed lost?
I have the 2-DVD and instant, I think my rates will increase to $20 a month, really, if you can't afford $20 then I don't know what to say. Also for those people who don't want to pay or now don't want to get the service, almost every tv show nowadays you can find on the internet. Daily Show and Colbert have full episodes right on their website, Hulu has Family and The Simpsons and whatnot. I'm sure they have much more, I just don't do Hulu myself. Anything news related you can see live streams on their website.
There's an option on netflix where you can report a problem. Simple say you've already returned it, they don't even ask or call you, its an automatic 'we're sorry, would you like us to send you another copy, or send you the next dvd in your que'
I'll just drop DVDs. I've only gotten 2 DVDs since I subscribed to Netflix. The first one sat on my desk for 3 months and I returned it without ever watching it. The second one I watched two episodes and now it has been sitting around for about a month. I can live with just Netflix streaming, HBO GO, and TV.
Or pay the price of the movie and if you find the movie within a year and send it back, you get your money back.
It was only a matter of time, but this is one heck of a price change. I'll drop down to streaming only, since I average less than 1 DVD per month. I can't figure why they won't discount for having both plans. They could have settled in at $13 or $14 instead of $16.
There have been plenty of great movies on their Streaming, though they do get removed from time to time. A big problem for the movie studios is all the people that rent from Netflix, and turn around and burn a copy of the DVD.
You've got to be kidding. Can you paste your queue here? Not trying to be a smartass, but I've GOT to see this. It is kind of funny how people (myself included) are screaming bloody murder about paying an extra $5 a month. We're talking about roughly a quarter per day and people are acting as if they're being forced into foreclosure or something. LOL. If I end up dropping the streaming option, it will be because of the crappy selection, not the extra $5/month.
Mine used to be over 100. I've finished a lot of them, and removed all the ones that were for my son. 27 have expired on me, but I still have 55 movies.
actually, it's $6. anyhow, for me it's not the actual amount, but the percentage. 60 freakin percent increase! maybe it could have been justified if they threw a few incentives in but we get nothing extra. $6/month equals $72/year. I can do enjoy alot of other things with an extra $72 besides paying extra for the exact same service.
ive got about 50 in my streaming queue. thats one way to look at it - another is that they are hitting their customers w/ a 50% price increase, which is really bad business. if they wanted to bring it up that much it should be been done over the course of a year or so - not as much of a shock that way. im one of the few who does dvds more than streaming, so ill be cancelling streaming. there are enough movies to watch online, but most of the priority stuff for me is dvd only. i understand why they had to do this though - their costs are about to go up dramatically so they are trying to get ahead of it.
You guys really think the streaming plan is crap for 8 dollars a month? Thousands and thousands of movies available right at your finger tips for 8 bucks seems like a great deal to me, even if they don't always have the newest titles. I'm a documentary kind of guy though.
