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Business model is flawed

Heck, at $4.99, Cable and Sat PPV is a good deal.

reply to Klendathu
My wife would love to use this with Twins on the way she isn't going to have time to get out and return that movie. Although i was thinking about netflix no late fees either.

4.49 per movie... sounds nice. What if you never get the entire download, is there a phone number to call to be re-imbursed?
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reply to Klendathu

said by Klendathu:

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If you look at the Movielink site, it costs $4.99 to watch a single movie as much as you like for 24 hours. Now what incentive is there if I can just drive 5 minutes to the local Blockbuster and rent a DVD which has lots of extra material, costs less to rent, and which I can view longer than 24 hours.

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reply to Overdrive
Netflix sounds like a better business model to me. Order stuff online and wait a couple of days and it's in your mailbox. Their prices are fairly reasonable too for the amount of DVDs you can rent out.

Shhh... it is going to be part of a mothers day gift for her... along with some other fun stuff. having Twins is going to keep her busy and I know those late fees from Blockbuster, etc are going to kill us.

there have been so many movies that we have returned late that we could have bought them out right.
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reply to Klendathu
Try Netflix from the east coast. All shipments leave and return to CA. It isn't such a good deal with a 7 to 10 day turnaround. And as far as paying $4.99 to get a movie I can only watch on my computer and only for a short 24 hours.Hard to stop laughing at that long enough to type.

reply to Overdrive
Glad to hear that you will be blessed with twins soon, Overdrive. I agree that you will be busy, but I would think that - barring any physical impairment - she shouldn't be so busy that she (or you, for that matter) wouldn't be able to leave the house for the 5-10 minutes that it takes to walk/drive to the video store, slip a video in the return slot and then return home. You could even do it while running errands, which I am certain needs to be done on a regular basis (grocery store, drug store, etc.)

It sounds like these are your first children. If that is true, take a piece of advice from a father of two: once you develop a routine, it won't be as difficult as you imagine. Not to say that there won't be any difficulties, just that you will adapt to the situation. Heck, a buddy of mine has TWO sets of twins, and he and his wife work outside the home; and with no family nearby to babysit them, either.

Or......are you merely using this situation as justification for buying something that you want?
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Probably more like something We want.

wow 2 sets of twins.

yes our first(s).

We live 30 minutes away (total) and it is a pain to drive it. Netflixs allows us to have more than 1 movie at a time and for as long as we want, which means that If the kids are up and sick then we have to bring back the movie, or take the late fee hit.
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said by Go Chargers7:

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Heck, at $4.99, Cable and Sat PPV is a good deal.

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reply to Klendathu
I think the really telling quote straight from the Horse's mouth is:

"Hollywood studios still make far more profit from selling movies on DVD, which carries a profit of more than $10 per unit"

In other words, on today's DVD's, everything above about $3 a movie is the PROFIT.

So when a movie sells for $25 on DVD it's really over $20 in profit. I don't know how much the merchant makes in markup, but it's apparent that the Studios make a lot of money on DVD sales and are very happy.
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reply to Overdrive
30 minutes away from the nearest video store? Damn, that IS inconvenient. Oh well....