Today's tip surrounds Netflix. I got the following email message from Netflix today saying that they planned a 60% increase on my monthly bill.
Dear Broke-A$$ Brotha,
We are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into two separate plans to better reflect the costs of each. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan, or both.
Your current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans:
Your price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99).
- Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month
- Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 out at-a-time (no streaming) for $7.99 a month
Are you a Netflix customer? If so, what are you gonna do?
4 comments:
I gave up cable television when I began my undergraduate work. I didn't even bother to go and purchase a converter box to watch what is available for free from the major networks.
The library is one of the best alternatives availabe. Unless you live in a city that has a poorly supported library-then the fee for Netflix is not a bad alternative.
I just got off the phone with netflix, cancelling my subscription.
We may switch to another service, such as Hulu plus. The pay version is still around $8 a month. Not better pricing than Netflix, but you can show them they have competition.
All - I've allowed procrastination to get in the way of a needed change when it comes to Netflix. I see that my bill was up to $17/month for September because I still have both the mail and streaming options open. Netflix has since made another dumb decision to split the company into 2 parts. One with streaming and one with the mail-option.
OK -- I really don't need Netflix. Let me see if I can cancel the dayum thing this month!
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