Netflixfan’s post I learned about the Netflix History Analyizer. Its a fun little toy that anaylizes your netflix rental history and generates the following stats:
- You’ve rented 105 DVDs over 17 months from May 24, 2004 to September 27, 2005.
- Your plan costs $17.99/month so you’ve paid $305.83 total.
- Your average price per rental was approximately $2.91 each.
- Average rental costs elsewhere are $3.75 each (not including late fees).
- You’ve saved approximately $87.92 over your membership lifetime or $5.17 per month.
- You kept each rental for around 12 days on average.
- The longest you kept a single DVD was 62 days: Elizabeth (1998).
- You rented about 6 DVDs each month.
- You’re not taking full advantage of your current plan. You could be renting 19 DVDs each month.
The nice thing is that as my gut told me, we were still coming out ahead in the deal. We’ve slowed down our renting the past months or so since there is new content on tv, not to mention some baseball games that consumed our Chicago-based lives. But we are coming out ahead, and that’s the big thing.
For me, there’s even more savings with Netflix just because of not having late fees, that added at least 30% to my video rental expenses. Come to think of it, as a child I would check out mountains of books at the library and always ended up forking over large late fees. Any technology that obsoletes late fees is a boon to mankind.