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Each month, Netflix provides movie entertainment to more than 2,000,000 satisfied customers.
Netflix

Do this many people actually pay $19.95 a month ($21.99 effective on June 15, 2004) to rent as many DVDs as they want? You can only have 3 titles on your rotating list at a time. When you add shipping time you might have 1 DVD in your possession at a time because you’ll be in the process of sending one back and waiting for one to arrive. Depending on shipping and processing times, you might at a max, get 10 movies if you are lucky and I bet that is pushing it. How many people actually watch 10 movies in the course of a month?

Even if you do get 10 movies a month, that comes out to $2 a flick. Add in the hassle of shipping them back to the company and waiting for a new movie to arrive and it doesn’t seem worth it at all! I rent movies from Hollywood Video for the whopping cost of 99 cents for 5 days including new releases. Hmm…it’s cheaper per movie, no waiting, no shipping back. So where’s the advantage with Netflix? Seriously…

I see free trials at Best Buy, Circuit City, on numberous websites, and everywhere else. I’m curious to hear from anyone that has a subscription…why?