“Dear Melissa,
Jurassic Fight Club: Season 1: Disc 1 was not available from your local shipping center. Fortunately, it was available from a shipping center in another part of the country. It’s on its way and should arrive within 3 to 5 days.
You’ll notice we also recently sent the next available DVD from your Queue to enjoy while Jurassic Fight Club: Season 1: Disc 1 makes its way to you.
Your Queue now shows this extra DVD rental. Enjoy.”
Oh, Netflix. All the nasty things I said about you yesterday behind your back because I wasn’t receiving my DVD about dinosaurs fighting and was instead receiving a mopey drama that I wasn’t in the mood for…forgotten. I’m sorry, baby. Let’s never fight again. Unless it’s with dinosaurs.
I love Netflix so much that I’m afraid they are really plotting to enslave me.
If they send me free movies, I don’t even CARE. Enslave me with entertainment!
Which reminds me: I need to send back Airplane! and The Fifth Element tomorrow so I can get movies on Saturday. Which ones which ones which ones… Hmmmm.
Fact: I seem to be the only nerd on earth who LOATHES The Fifth Element.
do you loathe bruce in all his sci-fi rough-n-tumble glory or just the crazy trance sdtrk? lol
I loathe Bruce in general.
Your whore mouth. SHUT IT.
I am going to cockpunch the shit out of you.
I’d pay for that kind of treatment but i need to kindly ask you only wear stilettos when you do it.
You shut your whore mouth.
I wish I got this kind of service from netflix.
It’s usually “Oh, we decided to give new releases to someone else. Meanwhile, it’ll take 4 months for you to get the movie. So instead of sending you what was next on your queue, we’ll just randomly select a movie to send you.”
And let’s not even start about the discs I get from the post office a week late, stamped “Damaged at Post Office.” Yeah, I know what that means, you bastard postal carrier. STOP DIVERTING MY MOVIES. GET YOUR OWN DAMN SUBSCRIPTION.
I generally don’t have new releases at the top of my list–by the time I want to see something, the disc isn’t in heavy demand anymore.
If that happens often with your movies, you ought to file a complaint. I have my problems with my postal carrier (he doesn’t even TRY to deliver things like certified letters because it would take actual effort to go to the door, like I am supposed to anticipate receiving a certified letter and be waiting daily by the damn mailbox!) but if my mail turned up opened and late, I would be even angrier.
As long as the “next available DVD from your queue” wasn’t “Jurassic Fight Club: Season 1: Disc 2”
Nah, if I’ve never seen a show before, I don’t put all the discs up top in a row just in case I hate it. Then I’ll only have wasted one disc trying it instead of several.
Netflix seriously has the best customer service i have ever experienced.
I’ve been iffy with them–there are times when I’ve been certain my service was getting throttled, there have been times when I’ve received a disc that was snapped in half, and I marked it damaged and sent it back, only to receieve the EXACT SAME DISC in the mail three days later, and when my outgoing mail was stolen, it counted as a black mark on my record even though I had a police report. But I’ve never actually had them be proactive like this before, and while that extra disc costs them next to nothing to send, it really makes me appreciative as a customer.
Best hundred bucks I’ve ever spent.
I’m definitely considering picking up one of those babies. I’m sure when I do, it will only be a few short weeks before my ass permanently fuses to the couch.
i heard somewhere an xbox 360 can be configured to stream netflix too…
Yeah, if you have an Xbox Live account, you can set it up for Netflix streaming. I don’t have an Xbox, though, so I can’t comment on how well it works.
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2009/05/19/netflix-comes-to-windows-media-center.aspx
That sounds like the bets show… EVER. You must tell me how it is.
I wanted to like it but ultimately went ‘meh’. The problem is, it doesn’t know whether it wants to be science or entertainment and thus fails at both. They claim to be unearthing a ‘jurassic crime scene’ and solving the case using science, but then they make up a lot of ‘facts’ that the fossil evidence doesn’t support for the sake of entertainment. Then, during the actual dinosaur fight sequences, they cut away to dudes I couldn’t give a squat about giving repetitive commentary–during football games, do they cut in the middle of a play to a shot of John Madden talking about the play? NO. NO THEY DO NOT. He may talk during the play, but we’re still watching the actual play and not some schmo talking about it. They even directly contradict themselves! In one sequence, a dinosaur baby is killed, and the mother, who is ‘incapable of mourning’, devours the baby. In the next, a dinosaur baby is killed, and the mother rips apart the attacker out of a sense of vengeance over the baby. Which is it, dudes? You can’t have it both ways!