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Netflix is shipping again, but it's not all good news

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by benignotx August 17, 2008 7:05 PM PDT
Don't jump to assumptions so quickly sir. I had the same issue happen to me, but I contacted Netflix, and they told me that they would NOT resend me the movies I had just returned. They said that their system was still recooperating from the recent difficulties, but that the correct movies would be sent regardless. I'm a new customer, and I'm finding the service to be decent.
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by mhinnewyork August 18, 2008 9:29 AM PDT
I make no assumptions. In fact, you are proving my point -- if the email message about the movie being sent is untrue then their computer systems are still not back to normal. Michael Horowitz
by RavenChylde August 18, 2008 4:57 AM PDT
I would have to agree with benignotx, even though over the weekend the web queue was incorrect on what I had or what had been sent. I still received what was next on my queue and what I had returned did finally say it was returned. It just took a few days to match.

My only complaint is that it took basically a whole week to get whatever went wrong fixed.
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by mhinnewyork August 18, 2008 9:32 AM PDT
I'm a happy Netflix customer, but yes, that any computer system foul-up can linger so long is inexcusable. Michael Horowitz
by benignotx August 18, 2008 6:10 AM PDT
At least Netflix is doing something to compensate for the problem. They're going to issue a 15% discount from the monthly fee. The days of difficulties was not such a huge deal.
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by steve4lee August 18, 2008 7:58 AM PDT
I noticed that the two movies I received Saturday were still listed on my queue, so I removed them manually, in case they really would resend them. I hope that helped (or did no harm) rather than confusing something else.
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by hms4 August 21, 2008 11:37 PM PDT
Still having problems, I've been waiting for my next movie for 3 days.
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