About a month ago, I got in a game that I had requested last August. I had canceled my service last September. The envelope was postmarked 10/5/05.

I think this is the postal service's fault, as they're apparently still clearing out backlogged mail from last year.

I'm just wondering if I should hold on to the game or ship it back.

I've had occasional problems since resubscribing to Gamefly this year. In the past, I had no problems.

Well, the same day I posted this, I got my next game. I live in an out of the way place that most people don't even know exists, so it would be really surprising if it were someone thieving from my mailbox. More likely, I suppose, is a postal employee somewhere.

Still, I was sort of taken aback by their response. They suggested I complain to the post office, which I'll do. However, I sorta' felt like I was the one who paid for a month of service during which I had none, and then to have a very lukewarm response...Seems like if they were worried about theft, they wouldn't put the damned things in those bright orange envelopes!

At any rate...I'm a hair from cancelling. I love the idea of the service. I love that you can get the PDF instructions online. I love the Keep It program. I've had something like 8 games since joining 4 (5?) months ago, two of which didn't work. I had a month of missed service. So, I'm teetering...

I've had Gamefly for about 4 months now. 1 game got lost on it's way to me and they shipped out another soon as I reported it. I really really like their service. However, I'm going to be cancelling it after my current month runs out, I'm all the way on the east coast, and the one distribution center kills me. It takes a week for them to get a game and another week for me to receive my next one. I'm paying for all this downtime. I am on the gameznflix trial and so far I like it alot, got my games overnight (!) and you get 3 games for 17 dollars. Dead Rising, Chromehounds and Oblivion were all available soon as I signed up. We'll see how long I like them.

I'm thinking that it would be pretty easy for someone at the post office to jack these games. For one, the bring orange envleopes stand out and I'm sure their are poor mailman out there who want to play games too. There's no way Gamefly can prove what happens once the games leave their distribution center...

I've never subscribed to GF, only bought. Twice they've shipped me the right game in the wrong case. When I e-mailed them about it they immediately sent me the correct case. Didn't even ask for the other one back.

Once or twice I've gotten dirty discs from them (I just got a copy of The Outfit that actually has chips on the edge), but never anything that doesn't work.

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I live in Mass so I tried them out for a while. Even though they are in NJ they were slow and never shipped the titles that I wanted.

I dont know how gamefly handles their users queue, so this is just from the perspective of someone who uses a similar service.

We use Netflix for movies and tend to churn through dvd's pretty quickly. Because of this, they do seem to delay our access to newer titles or hot titles and in their system I am sure we are tagged as a 'heavy' user. Basically they know we already take good advantage of their services and they make less profit on us, so prioritize hot/new titles go first to less-frequent renters, to up their customer satisfaction and to encourage those folks to upgrade their account level etc.

So what is available to one user of a service, may not be equally as available to another user. Not sure if something similar is going on in their queue system.

Well, I think I'm gonna' try another service soon. I don't think it's the distance -- if the time it took to travel from there to here weren't infinite, I'd be fine! It's just suspicious to me that the only ones that don't get here are titles that are in high demand. I've gotten two non-high-demand games recently.

If it were the queue cooldown time bit, why would they send me an email telling me the game has shipped? On the other hand, if I'm the only one having issues like this, maybe it's just some fluke thing.

Note to self: never try taking anything from polypusher's mailbox!

I had similar troubles with Gamefly last year. Multiple titles came up missing (being sent and returning), but they didn't give me the benefit of the doubt - and cancelled my account. Unfortunate.

I came across gamerang and have been very happy. They have delivery confirmation for each title being sent to you. They have all the games and I get them within 2 days they're shipped. It's a good service. Recommend it if your woes with gamefly are beyond repair.

Well, that's no different than GameFly...at least for the 360. The only games I've gotten in the last two months are Blazing Angels (oh god, don't make me think of it again) and the just-received Oblivion.

I'll look into gamerang. I'm also tempted by the cheap price tag of GamezNFlix (stupid, stupid name...at last they have the alternative gamesnflix.com).

GameFly's been pretty great for me and Logan on 360 games. Dead Rising, Saint's Row, Tomb Raider, Condemned, Call of Duty 2, and a few others... so far the only time we've had trouble getting a new game is right now with NHL2K7.

I really liked gamefly when I had it, I only cancelled due to financial constraints. Gamefly is excellant as long as you live west of the Mississippi.

GameLender looks nice. Too bad they don't have an option for 1 game at a time. Though I have more consoles, I play more PC games so I don't need or have the time for two at once. Ultimately, that's why I haven't signed up for one of these services yet. I will probably lose money since $15 a month is more than I spend on console games monthly. I might have been mistaken but some of the lower rated ones on that review list had PC games. A possibility.