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bad news for netflix is great news for gameznflix! from the front page of yahoo news! yeaaaaaaa!!!
'Throttling' Angers Netflix Heavy Renters By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer 2 hours, 3 minutes ago
Manuel Villanueva realizes he has been getting a pretty good deal since he signed up for Netflix Inc.'s online DVD rental service 2 1/2 years ago, but he still feels shortchanged. That's because the $17.99 monthly fee that he pays to rent up to three DVDs at a time would amount to an even bigger bargain if the company didn't penalize him for returning his movies so quickly.
Netflix typically sends about 13 movies per month to Villanueva's home in Warren, Mich. — down from the 18 to 22 DVDs he once received before the company's automated system identified him as a heavy renter and began delaying his shipments to protect its profits.
The same Netflix formula also shoves Villanueva to the back of the line for the most-wanted DVDs, so the service can send those popular flicks to new subscribers and infrequent renters.
The little-known practice, called "throttling" by critics, means Netflix customers who pay the same price for the same service are often treated differently, depending on their rental patterns.
"I wouldn't have a problem with it if they didn't advertise `unlimited rentals,'" Villanueva said. "The fact is that they go out of their way to make sure you don't go over whatever secret limit they have set up for your account."
Los Gatos, Calif.-based Netflix didn't publicly acknowledge it differentiates among customers until revising its "terms of use" in January 2005 — four months after a San Francisco subscriber filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company had deceptively promised one-day delivery of most DVDs.
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quote:Originally posted by alohadream: porn is an $8 billion dollar industry in the us.hope gzfx gets some of it!i like porn and love jenna jameson!scorching!sizzling!hurt me!
quote:Originally posted by alohadream: bad news for netflix is great news for gameznflix! from the front page of yahoo news! yeaaaaaaa!!!
'Throttling' Angers Netflix Heavy Renters By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer 2 hours, 3 minutes ago
Manuel Villanueva realizes he has been getting a pretty good deal since he signed up for Netflix Inc.'s online DVD rental service 2 1/2 years ago, but he still feels shortchanged. That's because the $17.99 monthly fee that he pays to rent up to three DVDs at a time would amount to an even bigger bargain if the company didn't penalize him for returning his movies so quickly.
Netflix typically sends about 13 movies per month to Villanueva's home in Warren, Mich. — down from the 18 to 22 DVDs he once received before the company's automated system identified him as a heavy renter and began delaying his shipments to protect its profits.
The same Netflix formula also shoves Villanueva to the back of the line for the most-wanted DVDs, so the service can send those popular flicks to new subscribers and infrequent renters.
The little-known practice, called "throttling" by critics, means Netflix customers who pay the same price for the same service are often treated differently, depending on their rental patterns.
"I wouldn't have a problem with it if they didn't advertise `unlimited rentals,'" Villanueva said. "The fact is that they go out of their way to make sure you don't go over whatever secret limit they have set up for your account."
Los Gatos, Calif.-based Netflix didn't publicly acknowledge it differentiates among customers until revising its "terms of use" in January 2005 — four months after a San Francisco subscriber filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company had deceptively promised one-day delivery of most DVDs.
quote:Originally posted by jat35: There is plenty of free porn on the internet. Why pay for it?
unfortunately as adult webmaster living out of my adult webpages i have to agree :-) The companies dealing with staff for adult on the internet are always few steps before normal internet services and i would say that rental of porn is thing of the past.
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I think of businesses that sell porn as basically trashy and lacking in common decency. Porn destroys families just like drugs often do.
I hope GZFX has the guts to continue putting family entertainment ahead of profiteering. I know this post is extremely politically incorrect. Sorry, and good luck to all.
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Even with all the free "****" they have out there it is still "****." When I was about 13-14, I started my own porn websites and made commission off of them through advertising. That business was awesome back then. Much later it died thanks to stuff like Limewire and such giving out free, really huge movies.
But you know what? DVDs are still, by far better. I had access to all of the free movies all over the internet, bit I still found myself signing up for URENTDVDs back in about 99 or so. Maybe later I forget. But anyway, the point is I, a guy that got free stuff all the time, paid money for DVDs. Course, I wasn't the typical watch it and send it back. I was ripping them onto my computer and making a huge collection.
Now I'm not sure if it's confirmed that they are going to do porn. But if they do, I hope they make it a completely different section from the website so only people from other parts of the internet find it. Not even people on the main website should know about it or know how to get to it unless they deliberately search for it. GZFX doesn't need to advertise porn titles on the family portion of the site. Hell, I'd make it two completely different businesses all together. You need to separate them out anyway. Can't mix and match titles. SO if they do add porn, hopefully it'll be a totally different website.
GZFX is somewhat of a gamble. I can agree with you guys on that point. BUT, if they wait until last minute to reveal the results of the CC deal, it's going to be a bonus if we buy in on the next dip regardless. Suspense is enough to draw up this PPS and now that they've gotten most of the bad stuff out of the way, it shouldn't drop much more. I'md efinitely putting money in soon. Just don't know how low I'll catch it at
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Man guys,Netflix just got hammered hard this morning on AOL. They pounded away and posted a tone of negative posts about netflix and put links to couple of other blogs that was hammering them as well. One that was a forum and some of the members were mentioning GZFX.
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same here iwear, san diego paper slammed them, havent looked in the wall street journal yet. netflicks is going down.
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Big time monkey,big time! I read in hope maybe that they would mention GZFX in the main column,but they didnt.Oh well,Maybe it make NTFX owners want to start looking elsewhere.
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it's doubly good news for gzfx as investors in ntfx look at gzfx and subscribers to netflix look at gameznflix.both new investors and subscribers will propel gzfx out of the pennies and it may replace ntfx as the online dvd darling.
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All I know is I have been ave. down and in a good position for a run.Lots of people on the sidelines checking this stock every day.Wait another 3 weeks anticipation of circutcity national rollout.I have the time at this price you?
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I see a little insider trading went on 2/9/06 & 2/10/06 with Netflix not much about $350,000 worth. I look for gzfx to start an upward trend. http://www.secform4.com/insider/filings.php
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Me again and another week has passed Again I live next to Salt lake City trial store and AGAIN the CC insert has the GamezNflix advertisment. I think the final deal requires more inventory and more distributions sites to open as CC expands thier area with gzfx. This seems to be the best explanation why GZFX would be spending the bucks NOW on more inventory and as far as porn I think we can forget that having any association whatsoever with CC Hype is good if it is spread with grains of truth
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DVDmarketplace.com Signs GameZnFlix Inc. as a Featured Merchant
VANCOUVER, BC, Feb 13, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Steve Gaspar, President of VMH VideoMovieHouse.com (OTC BB: VMHVF), is pleased to announce that VMH VideoMovieHouse.com subsidiary http://dvdmarketplace.com, the company's new innovative on-line DVD marketplace, has added http://GameZnFlix.com (OTC BB: GZFX), a seller/renter of DVDs and video games on the Internet, to its growing roster of on-line merchants. This strategic move allows GameZnFlix Inc. the opportunity to market its surplus inventory of previously viewed DVDs to the ever-expanding database of customers buying their DVDs at http://dvdmarketplace.com. GameZnFlix Inc. brings previously viewed content to the DVDmarketplace.com community. DVDmarketplace.com intends to help GameZnFlix Inc. realize additional revenues by providing them with an effective on-line vehicle to sell their previously viewed DVDs.
According to Brian Holden, Marketing Director for http://dvdmarketplace.com: "DVDmarketplace.com recognizes the opportunities associated with bringing buyers/sellers together using its new proprietary third-party sales platform. Our goal is to create the premier DVD buyer/seller community on the Internet and allow DVDmarketplace.com customers the opportunity to buy products from an array of merchants who, as a whole, offer the widest selection of new/used DVDs. We intend to secure some of the largest new/used DVD vendors on the Internet today. Featuring merchants such as GameZnFlix Inc. is part of this long-term strategy."
Customer/Merchant update:
Anybody with a credit card looking to sell their new or used DVDs can simply register as a seller on the site and compete alongside http://dvdmarketplace.com's featured merchants. Buyers and sellers, large and small, looking to sell a DVD simply find the movie on the site by UPC or title. Then the seller simply clicks the red link on the movie cover "Sell yours here." Have a movie you are looking to sell? Sell it on DVDmarketplace.com.
About VMH VideoMovieHouse.com:
VMH VideoMovieHouse.com (OTC BB: VMHVF) is an innovative online seller of DVDs worldwide operating websites under the http://dvdmarketplace.com,http://videomoviehouse.com and http://videomoviehouse.in banners. "The company intends to concentrate its near-term expansion efforts towards the third-party e-merchant business, commencing with DVDs and expanding to other media products as opportunities present themselves" according to Steve Gaspar, President. "The company is planning a national advertising campaign rollout with aims of creating the world's largest interactive DVD Buyer/Seller community, http://dvdmarketplace.com," added Mr. Gaspar.
About DVDmarketplace.com:
http://dvdmarketplace.com, a subsidiary of VMH Videomoviehouse.com Inc. (OTC BB: VMHVF), is an innovative third-party e-merchant bringing buyers and sellers together with the aim of providing customers the lowest possible prices on the widest selection of DVD movies anywhere -- while at the same time providing them with a totally trouble free and pleasurable shopping experience
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