Netflix price increase

BionicRasher

This just arrived to my email - price rise on the way

In order to continue adding more films and TV programmes, we are changing our price from €6.99 to €7.99 for new members. As a thank you for being a member of Netflix already, we guarantee that your price will remain only €6.99 for the next two years.

evlgmaojr27ypu

Any one know when exactly this price hike comes into place ?

The email I got last year states that it won't happen till May 2016



However in my account it tells 1 Feb 2016 now

Cocoon

I just checked my Netflix account and it says

Your plan price is changing to €8.99 on 06/03/2016

I didn't get an email as yet informing me of the price increase.

Hardly use Netflix anymore so canceled it..

mad m

Got email to say it's increasing to 9.99 a month. I was on 6.99 but the extra 3 euro doesn't justify it.

podgeandrodge

mad m wrote: »

Got email to say it's increasing to 9.99 a month. I was on 6.99 but the extra 3 euro doesn't justify it.

I got that too. But the original plan we were on included HD. If you're happy with SD, which looks fine to me, you can change your membership to a 7.99 plan for single user use.

degsie

Going from 6.99 to 9.99 p/m is a 40%+ price increase! I might consider the SD option and see how that works out. I presume I can just switch back to HD any time?

evlgmaojr27ypu

degsie wrote: »

Going from 6.99 to 9.99 p/m is a 40%+ price increase! I might consider the SD option and see how that works out. I presume I can just switch back to HD any time?

I think you can upgrade any time, but it will only become active after the next billing cycle (My guess).
However you can test SD option at the moment (under your account -> Play back setting) and it is pretty bad, even on a laptop. Looks like your watching one of those old CRT TV's

I would happily pay 1screen + HD for 8 bucks though

Hollister11

It's €3 ffs. People always love a good moan.

There's some savage content on Netflix, well worth the money.

evlgmaojr27ypu

Hollister11 wrote: »

It's €3 ffs. People always love a good moan.

There's some savage content on Netflix, well worth the money.

Well I personally don't think there is a lot of good content on the Irish site, On the American one - Yes.

I would happily pay 3 extra quid, if they stop curbing on VPN usage.

branners69

Gary Refined Fisherman wrote: »

Well I personally don't think there is a lot of good content on the Irish site, On the American one - Yes.

I would happily pay 3 extra quid, if they stop curbing on VPN usage.

I completely agree with this. I dont care about the increase too much but not getting access to Netflix US and Canada has p!ssed me off!

So bye bye Netflix!

TallGlass

Cancelled it, the VPN been blocked and the then the price increase just pushed me over the edge and particularly the CEO with comments like 'they say they will leave but I bet they wont', No respect for customers, plus the US are still 9.99$ which is around 8.99€ so we get a 1€ more and less content.I am going to try see if I actully need it or can I go without it, will also try out Amazon prime, seems to be a better deal, with deliveries, books and streaming content.

slavetothegrind

i think it's great value for money. House of cards alone justifies the increase.

Old enough to remember going to extravision and paying a couple of euro per title rented per night.

Are those leaving just downloading for free?

branners69

slavetothegrind wrote: »

i think it's great value for money. House of cards alone justifies the increase.

Old enough to remember going to extravision and paying a couple of euro per title rented per night.

Are those leaving just downloading for free?

I cancelled today.

It was great value for money when we had access to the US catalogue. When the US catalogue has 5,750 items and we have 2,900 and as mentioned above we pay more. It most certainly isnt great value for money!

Netflix will want to be very careful as there are plenty of other SNIPPED options. This sort of carry-on and attitude will push more people to jump.

podgeandrodge

So what's the main content available to US that we can't get on Netflix? I presume all the big series are available to both?

degsie

podgeandrodge wrote: »

So what's the main content available to US that we can't get on Netflix? I presume all the big series are available to both?

https://www.finder.com/netflix-usa-vs-world-content

Poor old Morocco and Albania!

The Ritz

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