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Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments
Loopback writes "It appears that I'm not the only one waiting for my NetFlix movies. It seems they are being bitten in the rear by their home-grown proprietary inventory management system. 'Netflix has been facing shipping delays and outages in its distribution centers for the last two days and is fumbling to find a fix. The tab is roughly $1.8 million to $3.6 million in revenue a day.'"
Most Netflix users are mindless fat slobs who wouldn't notice a few days of delay.
Hey, some of us aren't fat!
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
I'll admit fat slob, but not mindless.
how do you watch movies live?, aren't movies kinda, you know, taped?
Netflix has the biggest volunteer distributed backup system on the planet. If they were smart they could have planned for this outage and had their customers supply backup disks to other customers who were not getting shipments on time.
I thought that netflix took your money every month and then occasionally mailed you a CD as it is able.
Well there's the problem. They're supposed to be sending DVDs!
You say tomato, I say fruit.
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I haven't even watched the movies I have at home due to the Olympics.
Yeah, those 13 year old gymnasts are really hot.
>I'd hazard a guess that most straight guys find well-toned 16 year old girls in leotards at least mildly attractive, even if they don't exactly have choice tits.
I'm a straight guy who finds 16 year old girls in leotards very attractive, and my tits are plenty big, you insensitive clod!
I got this email this morning but received a DVD today anyway. Unfortunately, that DVD turned out to be "Attack of the Clones," so somehow I'm not entirely pleased to have been unaffected by the shipment problems.
They do work with them quite closely - to the point of actually setting up little sting operations.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's a grid on a whiteboard.
A great big whiteboard.
With Expo markers - the good kind, that smell.
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Living in Texas, I have more than a few discs that are full of bullet holes, I assume due to the drunk-sober cycles. And also, many movies just deserve it.
It has been like that since the beginning of time.
Their inventory seems fine to me - I got Roadhouse, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, and Battlefield Earth right on time.
I've been using Netflix lately to watch TV series. Are they implying now that I'll have to wait AN ENTIRE WEEK for the next episode? That's just cruel and inhumane!