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I need to switch. I must be crazy if I don’t! Here I am renting through both GameFly and Netflix to feed my multimedia habits. Netflix I’ve had for about two years, and my affair with GameFly probably lasted about nine months. Why dump them both? For a while, they seemed like good deals, especially Netflix, but I think they secretly know that people will get their movies or games but won’t be able to watch or play them right away. Hence, it’s highly unlikely they will go through several discs in a month. With GameFly I’d be surprised if customers rented more than two discs in 30 days. Between both services I was spending $33 a month. As time went on this felt like less and less of a deal.
Now I am considering enrolling in Blockbuster’s online service. The fee is $17.99 a month, and I can have up to three movies out at a time. Plus I get to have one free movie or game in-store rental a month. With the way my schedule is (and the handful of games in which I am interested for the 360) this seems like a better fit. Five days with a game that I am ambivalent about purchasing should be enough to help me make up my mind, and three movies out at a time should be more than enough filler between summer blockbuster releases. The only thing that worries me, though, is the offering when it comes to anime, documentaries, and foreign films. Netflix seems to have THE selection when it comes to variety.
Of course, Brian had to step in with his two cents. He urged me to avoid Blockbuster like the plague. While he was living in Delaware, a state with no sales tax, he noticed that Blockbuster charged a sales tax on its service anyway. So where is all the money going generated from this phantom tax? Sure, it would be big of me to take a stand on principal, but by leaving Netflix and GameFly and going with Blockbuster, I’ll save about $13 a month. With gas prices continuing to rise, I am going to take the savings where I can find them.