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Are you getting your money's worth out of Netflix?

Here's a website that will identify how much it is really costing you to rent DVDs from the popular service.

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FeedFlix

Hi from the FeedFlix team. Thanks for the write-up. We just wanted to emphasize that there is no security risk in joining FeedFlix. Netflix uses the OAuth mechanism which allows your Netflix credentials (ie your email+password) to always remain private - these are *not* shared with FeedFlix. We apologize for the few hiccups you've had in signing up. Just saw a dozen or so users sign-up in the last few minutes - so everything's humming along fine now. Do come join!
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FeedFlix setup

As appealing as this service sounds I, like the author, found the initial setup to be not ready for prime time. I tried about a dozen time without success...

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Find another way

If you use Firfox add-on Greasemonkey, you can build a script to perform the same functionality without requiring you to store your Netflix credentials (i.e access to credit card) with another company.

All you would need to do is preview each of the pages once and you could make a script to put all the information together in a summary page.
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Hiccup

I just had a hiccup and had to start over.
This may be because I have about 4 years of Netflix history to sync.
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History correction

Actually, I'm about 5 1/2 years Netflix membership (wow, didn't realize), so that could totally be my issue.
Either way, I just had another hiccup and had to try again.
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No luck for me either.

No luck for me either. Sounds good though. I'd love to try it.
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Tried it

I tried this, but can't get it to go beyond 5%. Does not seem to be "humming along."
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Still Trying - no luck

I have tried about 6-7 times today, and no luck yet.
Maybe the trouble is FireFox 3.0.8 ??
I'll keep trying for maybe 5 or 6 times, then give up.

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Netlfix does this

Under your account, Netflix will give you a complete list of everything you've rented, with dates. I copied and pasted, and my editor counted the lines (movies). I did have to compute cost per movie myself. It was easier than posting this comment, by far. Those reCAPTA things are unreadable, and the try another doesn't seem to work.
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Feedflix timed out

Having problems using Feedflix. Seems to be timing out. May just be the high volume because of the Google article placement. I'll try it again tonight to see how it works. I do a lot of instant movies & rentals, so I expect to see I'm getting a better deal than most ;)
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fascinating

Fascinating, you know I have alwyas wondered if Netflix was a good deal or a crock. I am leery because its yet another subscription thing and if you don't use it you lose it, just like my Gym bills. I dislike subscriptions and prefer "pay as you use" models personally though so I'm giving it a pass for now. Plus I only rent like 5 movies a year.
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Worked Great

Good Catch, worked fine for me, only took about 30 seconds to get a very detailed overview.
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Worked for me too :)

FeedFlix worked like a charm. Nice reports in less than a minute. My price per movie turned out to be $1.12, I guess I'm getting a good deal with Netflix :)
The Netflix Blue Ray increase is a little frustrating though. It's just another way of raising the price (not that the others don't do it, DirecTV for example). Blue Ray is the new standard. Some honesty, please...
On the good side, the Netflix service, accuracy, speed and variety are great! I love it!
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