{"id":2365,"date":"2006-02-07T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2006-02-07T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T09:34:12","slug":"zip_this_mofo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/zip_this_mofo\/","title":{"rendered":"zip this, mofo"},"content":{"rendered":"

some time ago, i wrote<\/a> about my concerns regarding the take-over of the DVD-by-mail subscription service i was a member of offered by VHQ Online by its only real rival in Canada, Zip.ca.
\nwell, the first few months of the changeover were relatively smooth. yeah, i didn’t like Zip’s queue system, but they do have a great feature called ZipRefill in which you log onto their website to tell them when you’ve mailed a DVD back to them and they forward you the next in your list right away.
\nthey warned us VHQ members that, eventually, the 3-DVD plan we were subscribed to would be phased out. i didn’t change any of my preferences in the vain hope that they’d reconsider such a silly notion. well, i got an email this last week which has put the nail in the coffin of my relationship with Zip.
\nnot only are they removing the 3-DVD plan (yet, you can subscribe to the 1-, 2-, 4-, 6- or 8-DVD plan. huh?), but they are also instituting a $2.49 per-DVD shipping & handling charge if you exceed X number of rentals per month.
\nfor example, on the 2-DVD plan, you start paying S&H when they send you the sixth DVD that month (the 4-DVD plan starts charging on the twelfth). so, if you were like me last year, watching all three DVDs they sent me every week, i’d have had to pay shipping for at least three discs every month. that’s another $7.47 each month, effectively increasing the monthly fee to $27.42, not the advertised $19.95 (before taxes).
\ni’m really annoyed with this whole situation. true, i haven’t been watching nearly as many movies in the last six months as i was previously, so i probably wouldn’t be affected too severely by the excess S&H charges, and you can set up your account so they warn you before they ship the Xth disc that you’ll be billed so you can say no, but for me, a person who hates paying shipping for anything ever<\/em>, this is a total slap in the face.
\nso, here ends my love affair with DVDs-by-mail. it’s been great while it lasted, but from here on out, i’m walking across the street to Blockbuster if i need to rent a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

some time ago, i wrote about my concerns regarding the take-over of the DVD-by-mail subscription service i was a member of offered by VHQ Online by its only real rival in Canada, Zip.ca. well, the first few months of the changeover were relatively smooth. yeah, i didn’t like Zip’s queue system, but they do have …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}