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Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments

Posted by timothy on from the oxygen-delivery-plans-on-hold dept.

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.'"

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  1. How? by Endo13 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The tab is roughly $1.8 million to $3.6 million in revenue a day.'"

    Really? How? I thought it was all monthly subscriptions.

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    1. Re:How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Not true. Not true at all. Read the this and this. Search for redundant if you'd like.

      Redundant is for copying from post, links or comments. Or it's for Me too post, etc. Not for asking a question that is answered by the article, where did you get that idea. Your moderator access should be revoked.

  2. How is this costing them money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have a Netflix subscription, and it seems to me that this can only be saving them money. If they aren't shipping movies, they aren't spending money on postage. It's not like I pay per movie, it's a monthly subscription thing.

  3. lose money? by fermion · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I thought that netflix took your money every month and then occasionally mailed you a CD as it is able. The more money you pay the more CDs you can have at one time, so this delay might push people from their basic $5 plan to a higher plan, espcially since you stream movies when you have no CDs.

    So, is it that they are having a problem, or simply pushing people to more expensive plans. Sure, some of the low end customers might leave, but so what? A top end customer bills for 3X the revenue, but likely more than 3X the profit.

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  4. How are they losing money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Are that many people canceling?

    Are they incurring extra postage cost?

    Replacing discs?

    Or just paying their people a ton of overtime to fix the "problem"?