I love Netflix – the ease of ordering DVDs online and getting them in your mail box. I am currently on the “3 at a time – unlimited” meaning I can have 3 DVDs out at any time and order as many as I can watch each month.
I have always bucked at Blockbuster’s online DVD rental service not only because I am still bitter for all the late fees they charged me over the years, but I also don’t like big companies who try to dominate the world (or at least their niche), stomping out all the little guys in the process.
However, I am a bit disappointed in Netflix today. I checked my queue which displays all the DVDs that I have slatted to arrive soon, and 10 out of the first 15 have “waits” on them. In other words, Netflix does not have enough inventory to supply me so I have to wait for other members to return DVDs. See screen shot below.
What do you see? 4 “short waits,” 5 “long waits” and 1 “very long wait.” This is not good. In fact it tempts me to cancel my membership and just give in to the behemoth – Blockbuster, where I know I can get these movies.
So, Netflix – please increase your inventory so this does not happen again. I am a brand evangelists for Netflix but if they cannot meet my needs…. well, hopefully it won’t come to that. 
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It depends on where in the country your nearest distribution point is. Some are more fully-stocked than others.
In some cases, netflix sends movies from nearby locations. I’m in NYC and I’ve gotten things from White Plains or Rochester, even.
Some of those movies are not in “long wait” in my list. But then again, I have a blu-ray player, an hd-dvd player and a dvd player, so the load distributes better.