Best Free Stuff on the Internet: Movies

Both Netflix and Blockbuster take up to four sometimes 5 days to send you a movie and four or five days to receive the movie back before they send you another one.
You pay more than you would renting them at the Video Store.

I LOVE, LOVE Netflix! I HIGHLY recommend them to anyone. I always get my movies fast and I save a ton of money! They have a great movie selection too.

I love Netflix. They always get my returns the next day and mail my new movie out that same day. When I moved they even let me put my account "on hold" for no charge! Alicia must live far away from the closest netflix location to wait so long for her movies....

I use Blockbuster. I get my movies in a day or two. I don't have to mail the DVDs back either. You can drop them off at a Blockbuster store. I save tons of money! They have a huge selection of hard to find movies, new releases, games, and TV series. I get free rentals at least once a week. I highly recommend it.

I have been a Netflix user for almost 6 months and I have to say that my experience with them has been stellar. I have never had to wait more than three days for a movie, except when the mailing was around a holiday. Most of the time, I get the movie within a day or two. We have so many movies lined up to watch that it will be a long, long time before we run out, so it is worth it for us.

I use Blockbuster online and Love it. I get unlimited rentals 2 at a time for $15 a month. Plus instead of sending them back through the mail if you take them into A store you get a free rental for every movie your sending back. I take my 2 rentals in on Fridays get me 2 free in store rentals and by Monday like clockwork i have my next shipement. I wouldnt consider changing, I m hooked.

I have been using Netflix for almost a year now and absolutely love them. As for the post that said it took 4-5 days to get the movies and then 4-5 days to send it back, I wonder where she lives-the North Pole? I send in the movie, takes about 1 to 2 days for them to get them, then about 1 to 2 days later I get the next movie. In total, it's about 4 days(maximum) in between movies. I can watch two movies a week if I send it back the same day I watch the movie. That's two a week, 8 a month, for $10. Not bad, $1.25 or so a movie! If I'm busy, I pay no late charges and in the past I paid so much for late charges I wasted a huge amount of money and it made me sick. Now I might waste a buck or two if I'm late watching the movie but that's nothing compared to before Netflix.

had blockbuster online for over 2 years...never had a prob with them....always had about a 2 day turn around for my movies...if i sent out movies on monday i would get new ones on weds.the only thing they did was send me dup movies once in a while...

I have no problems with NetFlix infact I live in 100 miles away from a "real" town and it takes 2 days for them to recieve my movies and 2 days for me to recieve movies from them so a total of 4 days. But I get 3 or 4 movies at a time watch one send it back and have a new one by time Im sending another movie back.Unless you sit home and do nothing but watch TV and Movies all day the amount of time it takes the POSTAL service(not netflix) to get you a movie isnt bad

I used to use Blockbuster, but their customer service was the pits! Was paying for the three movie service and getting 1 movie at a time. After complaining for over 2 months, canceled service and now use Netflix. Much better!

I'm in a large town next to a big city and I've seen that Netflix DOES play games by slowing things up. I've mailed the movies back the same day, yet it sometimes takes two additional days for them to get one of them. This has been a problem with them for years.

I subscribe to Blockbuster Online, unlimited rentals 3 at at time. They have an excellent catalogue of hard to find films and classics. I take each mailed one back to the store, they exchange it for any other DVD movie or game in the store and they log my returns in on the spot. Within 1-2 days Blockbuster Online has shipped me my next DVD(s) from my queue and so I have up to 6 DVD's at once. I usually get a brand new release right away, often before it's generally available in-store. I just return their in-store DVD's within their grace period, no late fees, one flat fee. Also, the DVD's I've received by mail as well as in-store have been flawless.
Friends who use Netflix have found Netflix just slows down their delivery if they average more than 3 DVD's a week, as though they were put on "an S-List" at Netflix. Maybe that's what happened to Kelly above...

Blockbusters program is AMAZING! I get movies in 2 to 3 days and much faster if I return them to the store. And I get an additional movie FREE at the store with the one I return. It's an awesome program. I pay for 3 at a time and I get to watch as many as 8 movies per week!!! Amazing! P.S. Great customer service too!

Alicia, many people had the movies coming slow like you did. They found out the mailmen were enjoying them first. Now they are required to immediately put them in a metal box. Complain to Netflix and they will monitor your account. Mine now come every couple of days. I love Netflix.

I belong to the Blockbuster Online 9.95 plan which allows one movie out at a time. Between turing them in at Blockbuster and the ones they send, I average about 4 movies a week. As long as I turn it by 11 each day, my next movie always arrives the next day. Course I guess it also helps in that the local distrubtion center for Online in my area is only about 60 miles away.

I have never had to wait more than 4 days for a movie to come back from Netflix.That is From the time I drop the old one into my mailbox until the nest one is back in my hands.If I were to rent from the local video store, It would cost me approx. $3.99 for each rental. I get at least 4 rentals a month from Netflix for less than that. If you need to have more than that, Netflix offers you other packages to rent more than one DVD.

I used to belong to Netflix, but never again.
If you watch a movie and return it fast all of a sudden they slow down your shipments so you can't get more movies than they deem normal I guess.
They even admit to what is called throtteling. Go with blockbuster.

Blockbuster will donate old movies to our Veterans. Netflix will not. I perfer to support the businesses that support our Troops! Thanks Blockbuster for your generous and thoughtfulness! Keep up the GREAT work!

I use Blockbuster and they receive my movies in one day and I get new ones 2 days later. I have 6 movies at one time when I take the movie back to the store and walk out with 3 and then receive 3 in the mail.