Normally, I'm a big proponent of Gamefly. The ability to try out several games every month, finishing the shorter ones and quickly sending back the ones that don't work out so well, is a huge boon for the cheap gamer.
I'd thought that having the Tampa distribution center relatively close to us, just a few hundred miles away, would work out great. Netflix's even closer center gets us movie turnarounds of just 3 days or so from being sent to receiving a replacement.
In practice, things haven't improved that much from when it was all the way across the country. It still takes 3-4 business days or so just for them to receive sent games, and 2-3 more after that till I receive them.
Still, it was working out reasonably well. For the last couple of games, though, they've decided they couldn't procure them from the Tampa center and insist on using the Pittsburgh one. Argh! I'd much rather they skip down a few items on my queue than make me wait over a week and a half to receive a new game. Hell, they already *did* skip several Low-Medium availability games on my queue to get that one!
At this rate, it'll cost me about $6 per game I rent from them every month, and I'd still only be keeping them a few days. If we had a Blockbuster whose game selection didn't lean heavily on games that were crappy when they came out two years ago, it'd probably be a better deal to rent from them instead.
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