Netflix or Blockbuster online?

[pogohatesme]

Hey guys!  Since I know everyone on here has great opinions..........I'm 1 week into a 2 week free trial of Netflix...also just got a 1 month free trial of Blockbuster online...wondering if anyone has either or both of these and what you think of them...which is better...which is worse...or are they the same?  The only difference I can tell is that on Blockbuster they'll give me 2 free in-store rentals a month....They are the same price, seem to ship in the same amount of time.  Thanks in advance for you help!

[ME4SPADES_]

my daughter has blockbuster and she really likes it she has tried netflex that sent her the same movies 3 time and she stop going throught them so she like blockbuster she get what she put in online for

[bobby]

blockbuster sends them quicker and has a bigger selection O0

[Lish]

blockbuster sends them quicker and has a bigger selection O0

see I found the opposite with them- smaller selection BUT they do have more copies in stock than NetFilix- with NF you may end up waiting a week or so to get the movie you want {in my experience}.  If I were to actually pay for one, it would be NF, no contest.

[bobby]

i think it also depends on where you live too

[pogohatesme]

LOL that's why I love this site!  I love getting all the opinions......I signed up for Netflix last weekend.  And I had 2 of my movies by Tuesday.  But for some reason it didn't ship my 3rd (it was availiable) until yesterday and I won't get it till tomorrow.  I sent 2 back today so I'm anxious to see the turnaround time on those 2.  I just signed up for Blockbuster this evening so I'm assuming they may ship me a couple tomrrow or Monday.

[pogohatesme]

i think it also depends on where you live too

I think that is true too....when I send my movies back they are going to Indianapolis ( I live in Indiana).  And I assume that is where they come from also?!?

[*Angel*]

I prefer BlockBuster.  I guess it does depend on where you live as you say. Netflix seemed to take too long sometimes. 

[Helen]

I prefer BlockBuster.  I guess it does depend on where you live as you say. Netflix seemed to take too long sometimes. 

I have Netflix and I do like it. Can't comment about Blockbuster as I've never tried them but I think I'm going to give the free membership a try. After I do I'll let you know which I like better. As for the turn around time with NF, I find it very quick.

[MommaT]

We have Netflix here.  So far it has been wonderful--really quick turnaround--usually the day after we send them out we get an email from netflix saying that the others are on their way.  If you check in your list of movies that you set up it will tell you if there is any kind of wait for the movies.  So far havent had any kind of problems with the movies (ie scratched or wrong movies) or lost  movies or anything else.

Momma T
:P

[TIGERTIGERTIGER]

I HAVE bLOCKBUSTER and I love it! Also like someone else said you do get two coupons each month for free instore rentels that way if your between movies and need a movie you can just run down to blockbuster and reat a couple. Netflix can not offer that deal. Same price more options with BB. O0

[slidecage2222]

Netflix
PRO
1 -2 day shipping
CON
they lie to you over the phone and send out older movies   even if you got new movies in line up

BLOCKBUSTER
Pro
COUPONS

CON
2-5 day shipping

I was with Blockbuster from  Dec 2004 to  Sept 2005
I was with  Netflix     from  Sept 2005  to  Jan 26 2006
I just went back to blockbuster and heres why

We got around 7 local video stores that accept coupons

3 movies at a  time run  18 bucks + tax
1 move  at time runs 10 + tax

take the coupons  over to the other video stores and get  2  free movies on the weekends     =  3 movies at a time

so im getting 3 movies at a time on the weekends (only time i watch them) for 10 bucks by using the coupons compair to  18  per month  netflix wants 

go  BLOCKBUSTER

[pogohatesme]

Ok ....so I've hit my 1st roadblock with Blockbuster ;D......I'm getting a TV series and it totally skipped over disk 1 which was in the 1st que spot and said it was available...and sent 3 other movies instead....what's up with that?

[Helen]

We have Netflix here.  So far it has been wonderful--really quick turnaround--usually the day after we send them out we get an email from netflix saying that the others are on their way.  If you check in your list of movies that you set up it will tell you if there is any kind of wait for the movies.  So far havent had any kind of problems with the movies (ie scratched or wrong movies) or lost  movies or anything else.

Momma T
:P

I've never gotten the wrong movie but I got 2 broken ones, so destroyed it was in a hundred pieces. Had to laugh it was so smashed. Totally not their fault though, that would rest with the Post Office.

[quiltingbee]

I have netflix and I love it.  Never have to wait too long for new releases and I've never had a problem with getting the wrong movie or broken ones.  Every now and then they have to ship me a movie from another warehouse and when that happens the return envelope is to across the country.  Since that takes the post office longer to get it back to them I just put 2 movies in an envelope to the local address..lol.

I personally hate Blockbuster from a previous bad experience in the store about a year ago and won't go back to them.

[Proud2banvywife]

we to have netflix an love it.. we get 2 movies at a time an soon as we send one back we get the email the next day sayin it arrived later that evening i get the email sayin the next has shipped an recieve it the next day.. Cant give an opinion on blockbuster cause we wont use them..

[RC]

I've used both in the past, even used a third one from Walmart when they were doing it but they've since handed their business over to Netflix since they were getting clobbered in the online rental business (and with good reason- they sucked). When I was first with Netflix, they weren't as good as they are now, it took longer for movies to arrive and I rarely, but at times, did get a disc that was damaged enough that it would either stop playing or had that pixeled effect and made the picture jumpy, and hence made it unwatchable- cuz who wants to sit through all that? I did go over to Blockbuster, but found their selection wasn't as big which also meant less copies of movies so a lot of times the ones you wanted would be on long waits. And I also did not have a working printer while with Blockbuster so I could not take advantage of the 2 in-store coupons that you get and need to print in order to use them. After some time away from the online movie rentals, I have recently gone back to Netflix and they are definitely better.. they are supposed to get and send out movies in like a day or 2, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.. don't know why exactly, maybe the mailman is a little slower some days in getting it to the right spot to be delivered on time, who knows, but it still does not take a long time. I believe they have the bigger selection of anyone even though you can still get some waiting time, usually on the new popular movies when they first come out, otherwise it shouldn't be too bad. I haven't had a real problem since returning to them. Their website and the ease of use and the overall look of it is better as well. They also used to cost more, but have since dropped the prices a bit.. most likely due to the competition of Blockbuster and some other minor places. I'm surprised more places don't do the online movie rentals as popular as it is.

[missminimouse]

personally don't have either,  but if i were to choose,   Blockbuster been around much longer and has a better reputation.  Just my opinion

[RC]

Blockbuster the video store has been around longer.. but Netflix was the orignal online dvd rental, and they have been going strong for quite some time now. Blockbuster only followed Netflix in that regard. Netflix is only online, it's not like Blockbuster with actual stores to rent videos/dvds from.

[bubblegum]

Blockbuster I have had several issues with the store, so I don't care for them.  I find them to expensive for my taste.  As for the on-line service, yes I did try and I hated it.  I would order a TV series disks 1-7 and they would send me disk 2 6 and a movie. Instead of the first 3 disks to begin with.  Netflix however, I just love.  Yes I have had some minor issues with having to wait a couple weeks for popular new releases and broken or wrong disks.  However considering I'm paying 19.57 a month for the 3 at a time and we go thru about 20-25 movies a month.  We end up paying about a dollar for each movie (I did the math, for us it equals out to about $0.98 a movie) even for the popular titles, no late fees and no questions asked about broken disks, lost disks in the mail and wrong disk sent. Also unlike blockbuster do send me availbile movies in the order I put them on my list. Tried Wal-mart when Wal-mart was in the game, they were so very bad.  6-8 day turnaround on movies as opposed to 3-4 days with Netflix.  I'm quite happy to say I'm going to stay loyal to Netflix.  Have not set foot in a real video store in the year and a half we've had Netflix.