Netflix has it wrong, multiple rental queues can be managed better. Netflix has a feature, allowing your one account to have multiple rental queues. You can give each person in your family their own queue for DVDs and Netflix will manage the process. When you do so you allocate the number of DVDs from the total for each person. So, if it's you and your wife and you're on the 3-a-month plan, you can allocate 1 to yourself and 2 to your wife or vice versa. This seems great but there is a problem.
The problem is that if all the DVDs in one of the queues are on LONG wait, you only receive DVDs from the queue that has them available up to the alotment, not the total. An example,
Eric has 10 DVDs in his queue and an allotment of 2 and all are availble now.
Mary has 4 DVDs in her queue and none are available now.
Only 2 will ship on the 3-a-month plan. There are no smarts here saying if a queue is blocked, take the next available from another queue. Or letting you specifiy what threshold triggers releasing a DVD from a queue that's available.
I called Netflix about this and they see it as a feature. I see it as stupidity.
I got rid of this not so nice feature and will manage the disks on my own. Pure stupidity.