NetFlix History Analyzer
Here's another way to "Analyze your Netflix rental history and determine exactly how much you've been paying per rental, compare it to what you would have paid somewhere else, and compute your savings."
This one is online, so there's no spreadsheet involved, just a box where you paste your history. The results are nicely formatted. It gives you an estimate of your "limit" (how many discs you can rent before Netflix de-prioritizes you), which is entirely hypothetical. It doesn't allow you to include more than one plan at a time, so you need to know when you changed plans and split your history to calculate each separately.
posted by Becky @ 10/31/2005 07:30:00 AM
3 Comments:
At 10/31/2005 11:46 AM,
matthom said…
Apparently, I'm not taking full advantage of my current plan.
"You could be renting 45 DVDs each month."
Really? I could be? Well, if I quit my day-job, and went to live in a cave, sure.
I'm also not sure these results are accurate, if you've switched your plan. For example, I started out on the 3-plan, then I went to the 5-plan, and now I am at the 7-plan.
These rental statistics are a great idea, but there's too many external variables to consider.
At 10/31/2005 12:43 PM,
manuel said…
The problem with this tool and that of frogcircus' is the omission of throttling (withholding shipments) from the results. Theoretically, it may be possible to rent 45 movies a month except Netflix's accounting system prevents it from happening. Tallrock's rental simulator takes throttling into consideration providing more realistic results. Very rarely do I hold on to a rental for "4 days" as this web site claims--this is the effects of Netflix withholding shipments.
At 11/07/2005 8:51 PM,
jsandpiper said…
Hey, where's the "Send full rental history" link gone? I haven't used it for a while, and it doesn't seem to be there anymore. I get a page with my recent rentals (broken down into time periods up to 90 days old), but scrolling to the bottom, there's no "send full history" link where I'd expect it. Did it move? I can't find it on the "Your Account" screen either.
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