Let's be friends. Netflix friends, that is...

[EinBebop]

If you are one of the scores of Netflix users, and would like to beef up your friends list, add me!

churchrat@gmail.com

Post yours also, and let's start a friends circle!

[The Penguin]

Not being a Netflix subscriber, I'm curious as to what this means exactly. Please enlighten me. :)

[The Landstander]

On NetFlix, you can rate movies (and TV series) on a 1-5 star scale (1 being equivalent to "hated it" and 5 being "loved it"). If you put someone on your friends list, you can see their ratings, as well as what they recently ordered and what's in their rental queue.

I'm Landstander@toonzone.net should anyone care.

vvvv it is good to see you put the appropiate stock in the opinions of Landstander

[The Penguin]

Ah, so I if I had Netflix and we were friends, I could then look at your movies and say "Well Landstander hated this one so I'll just skip it."

[EinBebop]

Plus when you're browsing movies, you can see a list of what your friends rated it, and even a short little comment along with it.

[Noukon]

You can also recommend movies directly to friends.

I don't use it, though, because my queue is so huge it crashes peoples' browsers when they look at it through the friends service.

[EinBebop]

You can also recommend movies directly to friends.

I don't use it, though, because my queue is so huge it crashes peoples' browsers when they look at it through the friends service.I thought they cut you off at 500? I have 300+, and noone's ever complained. 'Course, I only had four Netflix friends.

[RD!]

You can also recommend movies directly to friends.
Please don't be that guy.

Drizzle. >=[

rd@zimed,net

[Mynd Hed]

hbi2k@yahoo.com

Umm, just so's there's more to my post than that... Netflix is the shizzy.

[The Landstander]

Er, actually people should probably post their names, so we know who's who.

I'm Joe O'.

[Craig Crumpton]

My wife signed us up w/ Netflix, and I haven't even considered adding any "friends". I'd better make sure she'd be okay with me posting her e-mail address here.

Question to any of you who have one account but more than one queue -- how does it work? The website doesn't say. My wife wanted to have seperate queues for "her movies" and my selections, and to be able to review/rate movies seperately, but I advised against it because I thought it might cause delays getting certain movies we wanted to arrive next.

If you have two queues and you have two movies out at a time, does it pick one from each queue each time? Or is it random?

My wife and I have been fairly satisfied with Netflix's service -- on the 2-movie plan, we still average about 10 movies a month, which saves us about $25-30 a month over what we used to spend at Blockbuster.

What we don't like about Netflix, however:

1) is that they don't seem to bother to check the disc condition before they ship them off -- we've had to return two titles because the discs were unplayable due to scratches, which meant we had to wait another 3-5 days to get a replacement shipped.

2) their advertising "generally one business day delivery" is misleading. Even though we live barely 10 minutes from the local Netflix shipping address, it consistently takes them 3-5 business days to ship our next title to us. It's aggravating, especially trying to plan a movie night with friends.

[Noukon]

The multiple-queue functionality essentially takes one account and splits it into two. Each "profile" has its own queue, ratings, and recommendations. It's pretty cool.

[EinBebop]

1) is that they don't seem to bother to check the disc condition before they ship them off -- we've had to return two titles because the discs were unplayable due to scratches, which meant we had to wait another 3-5 days to get a replacement shipped.All of their movies are scratched. I read that Netflix actually budgets for a loss rate of one DVD for every twenty shipments. Invest in a disc resurfacer.2) their advertising "generally one business day delivery" is misleading. Even though we live barely 10 minutes from the local Netflix shipping address, it consistently takes them 3-5 business days to ship our next title to us. It's aggravating, especially trying to plan a movie night with friends.Your case is definitely out of the ordinary. Most users get their discs much quicker. You are counting only 'business days', right?The multiple-queue functionality essentially takes one account and splits it into two. Each "profile" has its own queue, ratings, and recommendations. It's pretty cool.Yeah, the 'family' function is pretty neat. I've got two queues set up: one for movies, and one for television. Saves me a lot of queue juggling. At one point, I had a third set up just for shipping anime, but my interest has waned.

[Craig Crumpton]

The multiple-queue functionality essentially takes one account and splits it into two. Each "profile" has its own queue, ratings, and recommendations. It's pretty cool.So how is your next disc ship determined -- does it go one at a time from the top of each queue?

You are counting only 'business days', right?Yes, for example -- I dropped a movie off directly at the post office this past Saturday. It should have arrived by Tuesday at the latest, being within the same exact zip code. But only just today (Wednesday) is it saying they received it and will ship it out Thursday. Let's say they didn't receive it until Tuesday -- it shouldn't take until Thursday to ship.

It's been that way since we first subscribed. It's freaking rediculous. Maybe it's just the local Netflix employee incompetence. We had another case a couple months ago where they withheld sending a movie to us for two weeks because they claimed they hadn't received the one we sent back. When we complained, we got a reply saying that it was likely lost in the mail and they would go ahead and send the next title to us.

Very curiously, the very next day that "lost" title showed that they received it. A likely story. I'd bet money that it wasn't checked in properly.

[Mynd Hed]

So how is your next disc ship determined -- does it go one at a time from the top of each queue?

Say you've got two queues with three items each, on a two-out-at-a-time account:

Queue 1:
1.) Ace Ventura
2.) Back to the Future
3.) Clerks

Queue 2:
1.) X-Men
2.) Young Frankenstein
3.) Zoolander

You get your first two movies, one from each queue: Ace Ventura and X-Men. You watch Ace Ventura and send it back, and they send you Back to the Future because it's on the same queue Ace Ventura was on. So now you have Back to the Future and X-Men.
Let's say you still don't feel like watching X-Men, so you watch Back to the Future and send it in. They send you Clerks. You don't get Young Frankenstein until you return X-Men.

Make sense?

[Craig Crumpton]

Make sense?Much. Thanks for the explanation.

[Craig Crumpton]

I finally got my own queue set up and sorted (netflix really needs a feature where you can move titles from one queue to another on the same account), but I don't think my e-mail address is set up.

I'm going to send a couple test e-mails from my queue to those who posted theirs on this list and see if it works.

[Craig Crumpton]

My thanks to those of you who accepted my netflix friends invitations. I found some good titles to add to my queue thanks to you.

And wow--some of you have a friggin HUGE queue. Won't it take you like 10 years to see that many movies? But that's really a rhetorical question since I've experienced how one can really get sucked in clicking thru the site.

Another question -- I noticed an option browsing "friend" ratings where it said "____ has it at home", which I took to mean that you own that dvd. Is there a library feature on netflix to list your own collection? I sure can't find one.

[edit]Correction--I think that means the *friend* currently "has it at home" as a Netflix rental. Nevermind.

[EinBebop]

My movie queue is at about 350, and I estimate that on my two-out plan, I probably watch about 80+ a year. So.. yah, but it'll take awhile. But the beauty is that any movie I decide to see won't get forgotten. Just delayed a few years. Of course, sometimes a movie comes to the top of my queue, and I'm like, "What was I thinking when I added this?"

My TV queue tends to move much faster, probably about 120+ discs a year. I get really caught up in shows, and ends up comes second. But that adds up to about 200 or so a year. So it wouldn't take THAT long to get through a huge queue. :)

[CookieS]

Hey guys, love to find some friends for Netflix. My send an invite to surfpark@gmail.com

I already invited a few of you!

[Moto Pete]

I Just joined Netflix my email is Petenehra@juno.com

[The Landstander]

I'm bumping this because they're doing their twice yearly "get a free month" thing, if anyone is interested.

http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=80009930

Basically a free month of movies for nothing; only catch is you have to remember to cancel it.

[Hanshotfirst113]

You can also recommend movies directly to friends.

I don't use it, though, because my queue is so huge it crashes peoples' browsers when they look at it through the friends service.

I sense a kindred spirit :).

[Mynd Hed]

The only thing that kinda bugs me about Netflix is that they keep sending me junk mail offering me a free month. You got me! I'm a subscriber! I love it! You're getting my money already! Quit trying to sell me a service you're already providing me!

[Hanshotfirst113]

The only thing that kinda bugs me about Netflix is that they keep sending me junk mail offering me a free month. You got me! I'm a subscriber! I love it! You're getting my money already! Quit trying to sell me a service you're already providing me!

They're staggering me to protect thier profits, which I find incredibly annoying (if I can only have a certain number per month, just say so!), but their selection is almost impossible to beat.

[Kagetsu]

That would be a better way to talk about dvd's I rent and find new ones rather than posting on my board no one looks at. Can you choose a screen name to be visible or does it default to the billing name? That would be confusing.

Course, I don't really know anyone that rents, and I'd rather not choose at random.