Stupid Netflix users

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Entry posted by Random Terrain January 26, 2009

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If you go to just about any bonus features disc page at Netflix, there will be a few comments by dimwits who give it a one star rating because they were disappointed to see that it was just the bonus features and not the movie. They are not rating the disc, they are rating their own stupidity. It says Bonus Material in the title in big letters. If they can't read that, they need to drop Netflix and get something like HBO where no reading is necessary. Just turn on the boob tube and watch whatever comes up on the screen. They'd probably complain to HBO that they stared at the screen for hours and they saw nothing but black. They'd have to be told that they need to turn on the television.

If you are a Netflix user who is kind of stupid, look up and read the damn title. Don't just look at the pretty picture. Bonus Material means just that. It's bonus material. It isn't the movie. It's a disc full of extras that could include cool behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, how the special effects were done, and other goodies.

And here's another tip for any Netflix users who aren't too bright. If your DVD arrives in pieces or it's scratched so badly that it won't play properly, don't go and complain in a review and give the movie one star. Go to Your Queue and look to the right of the movies that were shipped to you and you'll see Report Problem. Click on the Report Problem link next to the movie you want to report and you'll get easy-to-understand instructions on what to do. Never rate a movie based on the condition of the DVD. Get it replaced and rate the movie based on what you thought of the movie. Giving a low rating, complaining in your review about a broken DVD and hoping Netflix will fix your problem by reading your review makes you look like an idiot who should be locked up in a basement full of food and left to starve to death.

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supercat 125

Posted January 27, 2009

Every once in awhile NetFlix sends out a wrong disk. Someone rents a movie and the bonus disk, mails them back in the wrong sleeves, and the person at NetFlix fails to notice and correct the problem. Perhaps that happened to some of the people who write those bad reviews. Still, I would think those people should be able to figure out what's going on.

Also, NetFlix does not always do a good job of making clear what content is on what disks. It would be helpful if there were fields in the database for the titles of individual programs on a multi-program disk. That information is usually found in comments, but is not always easily searchable.