You sir are no Netflix...

After 5 months, I canceled Gamefly. I really want to love Gamefly as much as I love Netflix. With games costing as much as $60 these days, renting makes great sense. If you subscribe to the 1 game Gamefly plan, you only need to rent 3 games a year for you to make your money back. How hard can that be?

Not as easy as you think. My netflix movies get to my home with a 1 day turnaround. Not so with Gamefly.

I'm on the east coast and Gamefly is on the west coast. It takes 1 day for my queue to figure out which game to send me, 1 day to get the game packaged, 5 days in the mail to make its way to my home. That's 7 business days. So it can take upwards to 2 weeks for me to get my game. I've taken to only keeping one game in my queue at a time to speed things up.

Now double that for me to get my 2nd game. It takes 5 days to mail it back to Gamefly, another 2-3 days for Gamefly to figure out they have it, then day 1 to figure out which game I want starts over again.

The Fastreturn service? I've only seen this notice twice and even then, it still didn't speed up anything.

I've had several games take over 2 weeks to register as returned at Gamefly. To expedite the process, I periodically upgrade to 2 games at a time so that I can get another game while waiting for my first game to get back to them. Once I get my next game, I downgrade the following month back to the 1 game plan. So I end up paying at extra $4-5 a month to expedite the process and get my next game faster.

I hope they open more shipping warehouses eventually.