In spite of the personal efforts of Mark Livingstone (MD of LoveFilm), and an "I'm sorry, take an upgrade for a month" (which I appreciate), the service is still poor.
It seems that there are several ways to be screwed:
1. Your discs can arrive late, with artificial delays imposed at the LoveFilm shipping department. This MUST be an artificial delay, because Mark L. fixed it and for the last two weeks I've been getting discs VERY quickly indeed.
2. You can receive titles which are way outside your top ten list. Although my titles have been coming very quickly now, they are nowhere near my top ten requests. Sure, if 5 of my top ten are new, in-demand titles, I would expect some delay, but not 2-3 weeks! Don't put any more than the MINIMUM required on your request queue... If you have more (I had 68 titles on my list), you'll get a lot which are nowhere near your top ten.
BTW- When I first complained about receiving non-top-ten discs, I got a reply which said they would fix it so that I got more of my preferred discs. It DIDN"T HAPPEN, but note: They said (in writing) that they could (!) fix it !!!!
Mark L. actually sent me an email saying that if I reduced my (long) request list down to ten titles, that that would not change the number of top-ten titles I received! I guess he means: You'll receive NO titles instead!
And his secretary was very unapologetic and just wanted to argue with me.
I guess: Buy up your competitors, raise the prices, and screw the customers!