Am I the only one who upon reading “Quikster” immediately thought of “Quixtar” aka Amway’s old name?
I was seriously considering dropping the streaming since I rarely use it, but I gave my mom my password and she streams SpongeBob episodes to entertain my niece so I guess I’m keeping it until I find something better.
It probably started out as “Quickflix”, but they decided to distance themselves from “Netflix”, and changed it to “Quickster”.
I’ve not read all 7 pages. Here’s a possible explanation for what Netflix is doing:
http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/09/18/understanding-why-netflix-changed-pricing/
Apparently yes. ATC had several experts on describing exactly why this was the dumbest marketing move since the New Coke.
A year ago–three months ago–Blockbuster was circling the drain. Now it, Amazon, Hulu, and the others are circling Netflix like sharks with blood in the water.
Me too. After I move my streaming queue over that is.
This was the very first thing I thought of and came here to post.
Same thing. I moved all of my streaming queue entries to the dvd queue and dropped the streaming, also reduced the number of discs at a time but that was due to other life-factors.
Well I didn’t get the new email either so there’s something screwy with their emailing system.
I do have a question though, which side is keeping the Netflix name and which is going to Quikflix or whatever the hell it is? I’m guessing the streaming is keeping Netflix, which makes sense, but how the hell is Quickflix a good name for mailing something? That’s really not all the quick at all.
I had both as it wasn’t too expensive, but I stopped my service because I wasn’t watching much streaming at all, not more then 1 movie a month, if that so the price increase isn’t worth it. I also stopped my DVD subscription for now as I haven’t watched the one I had in weeks. For $10 or so if I watched a couple of movies a month that was fine, but when it goes up to almost $20 and I watch one or two then it’s really time to rethink my plans.
I did finally get the e-mail later yesterday, FWIW.
Netflix will be the streaming service, and the other one (however it’s spelled) will be the DVD service.
Qwikster. I ask you…Qwikster??? Why didn’t they make it Qw!kSt3R while they were at it?
It’s another item on my “evidence that Netflix is going to sell the DVD division” list - make it a name and spelling that no one can remember.
I still haven’t gotten it. I did get an email this morning telling me that the disc I sent in yesterday has arrived, so I know they have my email. I’ve only been a subscriber for 6 years, though, I can understand why they’d want me to hear about this on the news instead of telling me themselves :rolleyes:
Makes you wonder just how bad the other options were that this one survived the market testing. 
They didn’t even bother to make sure the Twitter account was available.
I was ok with the original price hike. I was already getting the 3 DVD at a time deal so it only went up by a few dollars anyway. I’m not happy with them splitting the service. I’ll pay more if if it makes the service better, but paying more for less is irritating. It’s not enough yet to make me drop my subscription but the bad decisions need to end here.
That name was taken.
n/m
Netflix shares down 7% so far today after a 7% fall yesterday. They are now 55% lower than 2 months ago.
I couldn’t find a share price for Qwikster…
So the CEO says, in effect, “Sorry for raising your fees so clumsily.” And then leaves them intact. WTF?
We had the two-DVDs-at-a-time and unlimited streaming plan, and will be dropping one of the DVDs. I think we’ll just be paying $4 more a month.
I dropped streaming last night, because I use it so rarely and eight bucks a month seems too much. If not for this stupid decision to split into two companies, I would have watched their website and, if there was something special available only via streaming, I could have subscribed to it for a month. (Like earlier this year, I saw the first four seasons of Doc Martin via streaming, and I don’t think it’s available at all via DVD. So that was the only way to see it on Netflix.)