sMoRTy71.com: Tip for beating Netflix throttle

Tip for beating Netflix throttle
I think I may have figured a way to beat Netflix's throttling (or smoothing as they supposedly call it) system.

I was getting tired of the longer and longer waits for new releases (which resulted in me getting a bunch of older movies that were farther down in my queue that I didn't really care to watch).

I decided that, if I only had new releases which had "Long wait" or "Very long wait" in my queue, Netflix would have to send me something. Otherwise, I would be paying for something that they couldn't deliver on (i.e. I pay for 3 discs at a time, but you can only give me 1 disc right now).

It may be luck at this point; however, the system appears to be working. Earlier this week, NF showed that they had received one of my movies back, so I quickly put "40 Year Old Virgin" in my queue (which also had a couple of other movies that were listed as available now). The status of "Virgin" was initially listed as "Very long wait."

As a test, I took out all of the other movies in my queue. Within about an hour, the status of "Virgin" switched from "Very long wait" to "Shipping." I got it the next day.

I've only tried this twice; but, both times, it has moved movies out of "Very long/long wait" status as soon as one of my outstanding discs is returned to NF.

UPDATE: Here is a followup on how well this trick has worked over time. It's crazy that I am currently the #1 Google result for "Netflix+throttle" because of this post.