Archive for August, 2007


Netflix pricing disparity

by Jeremy Cole on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 12:00:35 in Pedantry, Rants

I’m a little confused as to the unit pricing for Netflix. Their “unlimited” plans are as follows:

  • 1 at a time = $8.99/mo = $8.9900 each
  • 2 at a time = $13.99/mo = $6.9950 each
  • 3 at a time = $16.99/mo = $5.6633 each
  • 4 at a time = $23.99/mo = $5.9975 each
  • 5 at a time = $29.99/mo = $5.9980 each
  • 6 at a time = $35.99/mo = $5.9983 each
  • 7 at a time = $41.99/mo = $5.9985 each
  • 8 at a time = $47.99/mo = $5.9987 each

Clearly the best deal is the 3-at-a-time plan, but why give the customer a slightly worse deal for each level they go up? Currently, upgrading to the 4-at-a-time plan has quite a premium, $7, for the additional movie. Each additional movie after that is a negligible but still annoying bump in price. The 6-at-a-time plan is the worst deal, since you can get two 3-at-a-time plans for $2.01 less per month.

Going to MySQL Camp II, Brooklyn, NY

by Jeremy Cole on Saturday, August 18th, 2007 at 14:40:41 in MySQL, MySQL Camp, Proven Scaling

On serving two markets and mistakes

by Jeremy Cole on Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 11:13:08 in MySQL, Proven Scaling

MySQL Community split officially a failure

by Jeremy Cole on Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at 03:08:07 in MySQL, MySQL Patches, Proven Scaling

Adrienne v. Ants

by Jeremy Cole on Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 10:32:17 in Adrienne Quotes