Netflix Guilt: It Can Happen To Anyone

[Brendan Goetz]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13828897/site/newsweek/' target='_blank'>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13828897/site/newsweek/</a><br /><br /></div><i>“I had “City of God” in my possession for 11 months, during which I paid $18 a month for a three-DVD-at-a-time Netflix subscription. Finally, I returned the movie in defeat while delusionally re-adding it to the end of my queue. By that time, my wife and I were talking about a dangerous new force in our lives: Netflix guilt.”</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/netflix1.jpg" /> <br /><br />I do this all the time. I think I’ve had “The Third Man” out for, like 2 years. Ridiculous. Articles like this can really help you wake up to something really silly you are doing on a daily basis without somehow realizing how silly it is. I’m still miffed at Netflix about the whole “throttling” issue, but at this rate, I’ll never be a candidate for it. I guess that’s a good thing…

[Ed Hansberry]

wow, and I thought I was bad for having Rumor Has it out for 4 months. I'm just an amateur it seems. :-)

[Damion Chaplin]

We've actually had City of God out for 3 and a half months. :lol:

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

Sorry, just don't get it. While I don't use such a similar service, I don't see the need to pressure oneself to watch something that you don't feel like watching just because the OTHER people say is good.

[sojourner753]

So,
Did you guys have the DVDs so long because you haven't watched them yet or because you thought it was so good, watching it over and over?

[Jason Eaton]

We've actually had City of God out for 3 and a half months. :lol:

You know... I been trying to get City of God for so long but ever time I look for it in the queue there is insufficent copies available. Okay maybe not. :D

I wouldn't go so far as quilt feeling, but I do know that sometimes I choose a movie I normally wouldn't rent just to keep the movies coming. It isn't holding a movie for awhile that gets me... it is having an empty queue and knowing that the monthly fee waits for no one.

If the theater releases lately are the predictors of soon to be released dvds, I feel a big slump coming along.

[Damion Chaplin]

So,
Did you guys have the DVDs so long because you haven't watched them yet or because you thought it was so good, watching it over and over?

Haven't watched it yet. :? I guess there's always something else we'd rather watch...

[Crocuta]

Interesting; it never occured to me that this would be an issue for people. Hold movies for months? Why are you even doing the NetFlix thing? If I didn't want to watch a movie any more often than that, I'd just cancel the service.

I've only just tried NetFlix for the first time with a two week free trial and now one month paid. I am sorely disappointed and am cancelling the service because NetFlix doesn't have the same idea of unlimited as I do. (Perhaps this is the throttling issue Jason mentions.) I live one day's mail (&lt;2 hours drive) from the distribution center and these guys have never managed to replace a movie in less than a week. (And it's taken as long as two weeks.)

I don't feel any stress at all for how long I hold a movie because I only hurt myself, but I'm really ticked off that they seem to sit on my movies for 3-4 days before acknowleging receipt of them, and then sit on them for another 3-4 days before shipping out the next in the queue. I've set a task in my PPC to remind me to cancel it before this month is up.

I the meantime, I've signed up for a one month Blockbuster trial. I've only had one set with them, but it's looking better. I dropped all three in the mail on Monday and today (Wednesday) got both the received email on the old movies and the shipping email on the new ones. That's more what I expected.