We have 204 movies in our queue.
The hubby is in charge of All Things Neflix for our household, and I’m not quite sure why things are in the order they are, and, according to my calculations, it will be three years, two months, and 21 days from any of the movies I picked out. 
How 'bout you?
I keep my queue (rather compulsively, in fact) at exactly ten. I add new things to it as I return movies. Any longer, and I lose interest before the movie arrives.
You know, you can reorder your queue to move some of your choices a little closer to the top.
But the hubby is the boss of Netflix. If all the Russell Crowe movies suddenly moved to the top of the queue, I think he’d catch on to me.
And, oy, did I screw up the OP. Try:
“The hubby is in charge of All Things Neflix for our household, and I’m not quite sure why things are in the order they are, but, according to my calculations, it will be three years, two months, and 21 days before we get any of the movies I picked out.”
I’ve never heard of this, but it sounds like a very good deal. I checked out the Netflix home page and FAQ’s, and it still sounds like a good deal.
So, what’s the catch? I mean, I might not ever have to go to the we-think-you-shouldn’t-see-this-so-we’re-editing-it-out-without-telling-you idiots at Blockbuster again, so it must be too good to be true!
It’s the real thing, jm. I’m guessing that their postage costs are pretty low because the discs are so light (they don’t send the cases). I’ve been a member for about five months, though, and so far I’m very happy with the service. Mainly because I can get the obscure indie/foreign stuff that my neighborhood Crappywood Video doesn’t carry.
Join! Do it! All the cool kids are in the club… you want to be one of the cool kids, don’t you?
But I’m sure they’re making money. Once you buy a DVD, it lasts essentially forever, so they can rent it out again and again… there’s probably lots of people who pay their fees but hang on to the movies for a long time… and you wouldn’t need a huge warehouse to pull it off.
You can even figure out how to cancel the service if you don’t want it any more, unlike some subscription-based services.
The only catch is that it isn’t really unlimited- you only get 3 at a time, and you’re limited by the speed of the USPS. I get about a 6-day lag from putting one movie in the mail to receiving another, which means I’m not likely to get more than 12 movies a month from Netflix.
jmizzou, the catches are these, from my point of view:
Timing is everything. You can end up with anywhere from zero to three movies in your house, depending on what rate you watch them and whether you remember to put the already-watched ones in the mail. If you’re really disciplined, you always have at least one to watch, with one on its way to you and one on its way back to Netflix.
You can’t make a last-minute choice. The movies are just sent by mail, so unless you can sustain your mood for two or three days, you might find that you’d like to watch a light romantic comedy, but unfortunately, you’ve only got Lorenzo’s Oil and Behind Enemy Lines, and Dude, Where’s My Car? is in the mail.
Sometimes (rarely!) the DVDs arrive broken, probably due to the tender offices of the USPS. Both times this happened to us, we emailed Netflix and they sent the next movie in our queue right away (even before they recieved the broken one in the return mailer.) That’s about as fair as you can make it, but it still sucks when you get your heart all set to watch a movie, and then it turns out you can’t.
165 in my cue.
I’ve never received a broken dvd, but I do have a total of 5 lost dvd’s.
I have 91 in my cue. I’ve received one broken dvd, one that wouldn’t play, and I have 4 lost dvd’s.
When you say that you have “lost” DVD’s, do you mean that they never made it to you in the mail?
I guess we’re lucky–haven’t had any lost ones.
I mean that some never made it to me and others never made it back to them when I mailed them back.
They’re not too concerned about it, unless it gets in the high numbers - then they freeze your account, apparently.
Only 20 in our queue, but just wanted to chime in on the Service.
We go through two to three movies a week, usually. It’s rare that we are waiting for new movies without one to watch.
We seem to get the discs faster than some other others who have posted here, perhaps because we are in Los Angeles and one of the two Netflix distribution centers is in Santa Cruz. If I mail one back on a Monday, I generally get eMail notification of it’s receipt on Tuesday, another eMail of the new delivery later on Tuesday, and receive the new movie on Wednesday. That’s pretty quick!
We’ve been members of Netflix since December 2001, and in all that time only one disc was “broken” when we recieved it. One other wouldn’t play (but it wasn’t visably “broken”) and several others wouldn’t play properly at first but did after we cleaned off the discs. The two that wouldn’t play at all were sent back with no problem.
We recommend it.
I’ve been a member for 6 months, no lost or damaged DVDs. My queue is at 22.
I live only 15 miles away from a distribution center so the turnaround time is 2 - 3 days. A quick check shows that I’ve had 21 movies in the last 90 days, so they average $3 each.
Having to plan to time the movies is no big deal - the worst case is that you can still go out to Blockbuster and rent one the old fashioned way. In practice, I’ve not had to do that.
181 for me.
None.
Of course, that could be because I don’t have a DVD player yet. 
Netflix is exceptional if you live near one of their distribution centers. One is in MD only a few counties away so they receive our DVDs usually in one day, and we can receive them in one or two days as well.
51 in my queue (I thought that was a lot until this thread). I’ve been a member for over 2 years, and I LOVE this service. I was paying a buttload of late fees, I never have time to stop by the friggin’ video store. I’m on the 5-movie plan. As stated above, timing is everything.
Also, in 2 years I’ve had maybe 3 or 4 lost/broken movies. They never seem to care, were always real good about it. My only complaint is that they stopped carrying the Playboy/Penthouse movies.
I had Netflix for awhile but cancelled.
There was too long a delay in getting dvd’s back and forth.
I calculated I was getting about 10 per month.
It was a deal, but frustrating.
So I took the $20 and got HBO and Showtime instead and haven’t looked back.
FYI…Blockbuster, Walmart and a few other chains are following the lead and in certain parts of the country, they are testing the $20 a month all-you-can-rent policy. It makes it a lot easier to drive down the block and pick up a dvd and drop it off and get the next one tomorrow. As much as I hate Blockbuster, I would be more inclined to sign back up if I knew I didn’t have to wait for the mail to do the delivery.
That said, Netflix had good customer service, a great selection and are trying to make the turnaround better by offering closer locations. I wish them all the best…great idea, soon to be ripped off by the big boys.
I’d just like to state that you can actually have 8 movies out at a time (at the price of $39.99/mo) with netflix… since a few have noted only 3. //\etalhea|) said he was on the 5 movie plan so he gets 5 movies out at a time.
As for the OP my queue never really went over 10 because like FisherQueen said, we lose interest in the movie by the time it actually gets here. But I recently cancelled my subscription, not because Netflix was bad, it was great! If I picked a movie on Tuesday I’d usually get it on Thursday. I’d seen so many movies I don’t think there were any more that I wanted to see, so I didnt feel like shovelling out the extra moola.
What do you mean “in the queue”?