GameFly expanding to Seattle, Washington [update]

I completely agree. I live across the river in Vancouver and I was just about to quit my service. Too long turnaround and never enough games in stock.

I'm not sure it'll matter much. I have a distribution center 2 hours from my house and it still takes them 5-6 days to turn around a game, and thats if the availability on something in my queue is high. Sometimes I get the feeling that either they don't stock enough of the popular titles and/or they don't have enough employees to handle the flow.

I second this. 3 days for a game to get to their distribution center in wherever, and 2 (usually) for the new game to get to me. Basically if I decide I'm through with a game, it's 5 days (6 if the 5th day lands on a Sunday) before I get the replacement. The way I get around this is by having the 2 games at once plan, so that I can keep a constant flow of games coming and going, so that I'm never without a game. Still, for anyone on the 1 game at a time plan, it's not worth it in the midwest (KC suburbs here)

Put one in Kansas City or St.Louis Gamefly. Preferably KC, since a game can go right down I-70 to St.Louis (in 3 hours) which means it should only be one business day to KC, St.Louis, Des Moines, Chicago, etc. Pittsburgh distribution served the eastern seaboard, Tampa covers the south, but the Midwest is served by California (or Pittsburgh, not positive) which is a travesty.

It would be nice to have it in KC. I'm so spoiled by having a Netflix Dist Center here.

There is a netflix distribution center here? Wow, I guess that is why I send a movie in and the next one is in my mailbox the very next day. I always figured it was in St.Louis for some reason.

I'd be willing to bet that I could take a movie to the mailbox at the post office at 1am, and receive my next movie with the mail at noon.

Now if only Amazon would open a distribution center here....or newegg....

It's called Crab Pier Ristorante, and they serve Space Burgers, too.

Are you a sci-fi buff or something? I'm a real binge reading William Gibson

*on topic - at some point NetFlix is going to branch into videogames, and GameFly will be crushed and out of business in no time. Unless, NetFlix acquires GameFly...

I've been saying the same thing for the past year.....hell I thought they were owned by Netflix when I first signed up.....too bad I was wrong......

Thing is, I can't imagine that Gamefly makes too much money and it might be a loss for Netflix. The markup on video games has to be razor-thin whereas the markup on dvd's could be more substantial. But I'm just speculating.

Plus, part of the reason Netflix works so well is because DVDs are fairly inexpensive. They can have a ton of distribution centers across the US, each have a ton of DVDs. I don't think the same would be possible for video games and still turn a decent profit.

Best of luck. When my girlfriend tried it a cuppla years ago, she ended up canceling, and they continued to charge her card for a year after that and it took her forever to get it fixed.

yea I cursed them out about this too.....

they said they ship out whats in your MAIN center and if its not there they will ship something so that you wont have to wait too long to play a game......

I say its bullshit tho.....and I'm not mad enough to cancel yet......I simply brought down my plan to the 2@ a time instead of the 4...

I use to have bad turn arounds when I first started but, for the last few months, I've had to way no more than three days.

1 day for me to send it, they ship out the next game, and I get it during the third day. It's more or less two days, as both the first and last day are half-days of me without the game.

Your additional charge for keeping the game longer makes NO sense. If anything, Gamefly wants to encourage subscribers to keep games for long periods of time. The fewer games they ship, means less shipping charges they have to pay, which means more profit for Gamefly.

Sorry you're getting frozen out from playing Dead Space, but your "solution" isn't the answer.

Then tell me,Ryan then what is a better solution? Obviously they don't want to stock on more games that people actually want to play. So in my opinion the only way they'll solve this problem is by giving people a 2month limit with the games.

And yeah they are spending as much because people keep it for so long but the the customers aren't happy.