Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Cancelling Netflix

Posted in Deals & Savings by Elliott Back on September 7th, 2005.

I did it. I finally cancelled Netflix. This will save me $16 a month, which is only two hours of work at my underpaid TA job, but I figure there’s no point in paying good money for a service you don’t have time to use, at all.

Netflix lets you rent three DVDs at a time (at this pricepoint), watch them, mail them back, and get more. The turnaround time is 2 days here, so I could watch 7/2 * 3 ~ 10 DVDs a week. If each DVD is 135 minutes long, then that is 22.5 hours of DVDs.

I have class today from 9 AM to 9 PM. Where will I find a while day’s worth of time to watch DVDs?

Not to say that Netflix isn’t very good at what it does. It’s just that I, and probably many of its other customers, don’t really need it.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 at 5:41 am and is tagged with turnaround time, pricepoint, netflix, dvds, job, money. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

5 Responses to “Cancelling Netflix”

  1. Gayle Heggem says:

    So, How the hell do I cancel Netflix? I forgot my password for Netflix & even tho. I gave them my credit card # to prove I am me, they keep sending me back to the page where I have to type in my password. Thanks for any help you can give me. Sincerly, Gayle

  2. Mike says:

    you might want to try this site out…

    http://www.switchdiscs.com

    you can trade dvds, cds and video games for free.

    mike

  3. faye queen says:

    please cancel my membership, as there are not resources in my account. thanks faye queen

  4. Courtenay says:

    How in the world do you cancel netflix membership?? I can not find a phone number or anything on the website to be able to cancel my membership. Please help! :(

  5. wanda francisco says:

    my computor is old and not compatable for net flex movies

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