Instant Watch titles suddenly and for unknown reasons removed

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Permalink Reply by Tecmo SB Guy on January 6, 2009 at 9:39am

Sex and Death 101 (2007)

Removed without expiration date. Then later promised in January 2009. Now return status back to "Unknown" which probably means it won't be back.

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Permalink Reply by MachZero on January 26, 2009 at 7:48am

List updated to include this and one other title. Status has not changed on any of them so no telling if or when they will return.

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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on January 26, 2009 at 11:39pm

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Extended Edition (2002) - the "non extended" version is avail. but this one was removed, it's been sitting in my saved queue for about 2 days now.

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Permalink Reply by MachZero on January 31, 2009 at 6:59am

Happened today:

Secret Rivals 2: Revenge of the Gold Fox (1977)
Archives of War: Vol. 2 (1998)
Addicted to Love (1997)

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Permalink Reply by MachZero on February 3, 2009 at 12:36pm

Addicted to Love (1997) has returned to available. I guess this one was a fluke or error since it returned so fast.

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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on February 3, 2009 at 1:46pm

Or they renewed the license quickly.

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Permalink Reply by MachZero on February 4, 2009 at 9:59am

It's possible but seeing as it was suddenly without notice removed I suspected it more likely to be something else. I still don't know why the others have not returned. They were suddenly without notice removed months ago for most of them. In a way it rather bothers me that they offer no communication at all to customers as to what is going on. I would think if they take them down for say to repair the file because of a technical issue like bad audio sync or one of the several other problems reported in the problems with IW titles thread we have going, that they would put in the note column something like will return the title after repairs are made to the file or something to let customers know what is going on. To me it is poor customer service to have things just suddenly happen with no explanation. It's like my favorite mexican restaurant that was very popular in my area. I went there one day and the next day they were permanently closed and no explanation at all as to why. That is sort of how I feel about some things that happen with netflix.

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Permalink Reply by MachZero on February 5, 2009 at 3:02pm

Adding this one to the list:

Legend: Director's Cut (1986)

This appears to be becoming an increasing problem.

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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on February 5, 2009 at 3:14pm

If you hyperlink the titles in the list above, then it can be checked easier if they've been added again or not. How about a Netflix list of these titles, then you can see at a glance what's with each title.

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Permalink Reply by MachZero on February 5, 2009 at 5:36pm

I have them all sitting in my IW queue. But I'll link them for others. I figured the list was small right now so I guess I didn't really think about it.

Secret Rivals 2: Revenge of the Gold Fox (1977) has returned from its sudden vacation :) hopefully this is a good sign. I sort of wish I knew details.

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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on February 5, 2009 at 8:52pm

As the list gets bigger and the titles pile up, you'll have to remove them to make room for other titles. The list will save you a lot of time.

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Permalink Reply by Tecmo SB Guy on March 7, 2009 at 10:25am

Sex and Death 101 (2007) finally came back to Netflix IW today, so you can take that off the list.

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