Netflix finally listens to its members, drops plans to spin off DVDs-by-mail as Qwikster

Net­flix is stay­ing Netflix.

The com­pa­ny announced this morn­ing that it was drop­ping its ill-con­ceived plans to spin out its DVDs-by-mail into a sep­a­rate web­site called Qwik­ster, after weeks of get­ting irate emails and phone calls from its members.

Dear Mem­ber:

It is clear that for many of our mem­bers two web­sites would make things more dif­fi­cult, so we are going to keep Net­flix as one place to go for stream­ing and DVDs.

This means no change: one web­site, one account, one password…in oth­er words, no Qwikster.

While the July price change was nec­es­sary, we are now done with price changes.

We’re con­stant­ly improv­ing our stream­ing selec­tion. We’ve recent­ly added hun­dreds of movies from Para­mount, Sony, Uni­ver­sal, Fox, Warn­er Bros., Lion­s­gate, MGM and Mira­max. Plus, in the last cou­ple of weeks alone, we’ve added over 3,500 TV episodes from ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, USA, E!, Nick­elodeon, Dis­ney Chan­nel, ABC Fam­i­ly, Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel, TLC, SyFy, A&E, His­to­ry, and PBS.

We val­ue you as a mem­ber, and we are com­mit­ted to mak­ing Net­flix the best place to get your movies & TV shows.

Respect­ful­ly,

The Net­flix Team

Wow, it sounds like they’re final­ly lis­ten­ing for a change.

The Face­book sta­tus update announc­ing the change has over 2,200 likes… and it’s only been an hour since it went up!

This won’t undo all of the dam­age that Net­flix caused them­selves with the price increase announce­ment and the Qwik­ster announce­ment, but it will cer­tain­ly help them retain the mem­bers that they still have.

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