Netflix Woes Mean a Gap In Shipments 239
Loopback writes "It appears that I'm not the only one waiting for my NetFlix movies. It seems they are being bitten in the rear by their home-grown proprietary inventory management system. 'Netflix has been facing shipping delays and outages in its distribution centers for the last two days and is fumbling to find a fix. The tab is roughly $1.8 million to $3.6 million in revenue a day.'"
Re:Fist Prose (Score:5, Funny)
Most Netflix users are mindless fat slobs who wouldn't notice a few days of delay.
Hey, some of us aren't fat!
Re:Fist Prose (Score:5, Funny)
I'll admit fat slob, but not mindless.
Re:Netflix sucks if you use linux (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fist Prose (Score:5, Funny)
Netflix has the biggest volunteer distributed backup system on the planet. If they were smart they could have planned for this outage and had their customers supply backup disks to other customers who were not getting shipments on time.
Re:lose money? (Score:3, Funny)
I thought that netflix took your money every month and then occasionally mailed you a CD as it is able.
Well there's the problem. They're supposed to be sending DVDs!
Re:How? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good timing (Score:4, Funny)
I haven't even watched the movies I have at home due to the Olympics.
Yeah, those 13 year old gymnasts are really hot.
Re:Good timing (Score:1, Funny)
>I'd hazard a guess that most straight guys find well-toned 16 year old girls in leotards at least mildly attractive, even if they don't exactly have choice tits.
I'm a straight guy who finds 16 year old girls in leotards very attractive, and my tits are plenty big, you insensitive clod!
Re:We're Sorry DVD Shipments Are Delayed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fist Prose (Score:1, Funny)
They do work with them quite closely - to the point of actually setting up little sting operations.
Re:We're Sorry DVD Shipments Are Delayed (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's a grid on a whiteboard.
A great big whiteboard.
With Expo markers - the good kind, that smell.
Re:Fist Prose (Score:5, Funny)
Living in Texas, I have more than a few discs that are full of bullet holes, I assume due to the drunk-sober cycles. And also, many movies just deserve it.
It has been like that since the beginning of time.
I don't see a problem (Score:5, Funny)
Their inventory seems fine to me - I got Roadhouse, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, and Battlefield Earth right on time.
But I can't wait that long! (Score:2, Funny)
I've been using Netflix lately to watch TV series. Are they implying now that I'll have to wait AN ENTIRE WEEK for the next episode? That's just cruel and inhumane!