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Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by donretag »

reustle wrote: post #140
donretag wrote: post #139

Now you can cancel your account worldwide! Previously, the Netflix website did not work at all from outside of their regions. Want to cancel online? You cannot. Call them? Only if you are willing to pay for a overseas call. No email support, nothing. I took these steps to cancel my account: 1) Open a Twitter account 2) Tweet about canceling my account 3) Send friend request (or whatever it is called) 4) Accept friend…

Or you could just make a voip call via any of the free options (ie Google hangouts)

With Hangouts and Skype, you had to buy at least $10 worth of credit. I used Skype to call home. Point is, their website should have worked for account issues. The interesting part is that you are able to sign up for services from overseas (that part worked), just not cancel them.

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Post by antman »

Somebody should tell Netflix that the EU is a unified market by law that does not exempt any digital service. So they had to sell to all EU countries right from the start.

At least the whole story with the vpns can stop. (Unless you live in Greece...)

http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/buyi...

  ""For these types of services, and others, you have the 
  right to buy from a service provider located
  in another EU country without:
    -price discrimination
    -having the seller refuse to sell to you simply 
    because you live in a different EU country.""
edit: You cannot deny services to the whole European Economic Area (wikipedia has a map so you can compare and see the excluded countries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area

edit:formatting

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by Havoc »

YogeeKnows wrote: post #102

Most people relate Netflix to 'movies'. I have been an on - off customer of Netflix and thoughts of leaving it often crosses my mind. But the only thing which keeps me on it are the TV shows, seasons and seasons of it. I'm currently watching Mad Men , that's 6+ seasons I want to watch. I love the luxury of just catching up on a 30-45 min TV show while I'm multitasking, eating, playing PS4 etc. I think Netflix or comp…

>Most people relate Netflix to 'movies'.

Mine seems to be 99% series in the home screen.

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by alextgordon »

r3bl wrote: post #97

Aaaand... they don't accept my credit card. I swear to god, I see this over and over again: services becoming available in my country (in Europe), but refusing credit cards that are pretty popular in Europe (like Maestro and Visa Electron).

Wikipedia explains:

> Visa Electron card accounts may not normally be overdrawn. Visa Debit cards, on the other hand, typically allow transfers exceeding available funds up to a certain limit

> Some online stores and all offline terminals (like on trains and aircraft) do not support Visa Electron because their systems cannot check for the availability of funds.

So you should try to get a Visa Debit card.

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Post by Havoc »

deepuj wrote: post #113

Netflix will have a positive effect in countries like India. Their entry will help force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure and increase average speeds. The benefits will hopefully trickle down to all internet users!

>Their entry will help force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure and increase average speeds.

I'm from a country with a similar profile (South Africa) and I can tell you it definitely won't do anything of the sort. They just throttle the hell out of you as an incentive to upgrade.

Re: Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

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Post by cletusw »

jmilloy wrote: post #81
rconti wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix's catalog(ue) is a shadow of its former self. I'm a Netflix subscriber, and can pretty much guarantee that any movie I attempt to watch will NOT be available on Netflix streaming. I have somewhat better luck with the previous episodes of American TV shows.

I haven't been a subscriber for years, and this was the main reason I left. But I remember the disc catalogue was still strong. Is that still the case? (I'm in the US.)

I'm a disc subscriber and I think there's only been one movie in the last couple years that I wanted that they didn't have.

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Post by sabelo »

deepuj wrote: post #113

Netflix will have a positive effect in countries like India. Their entry will help force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure and increase average speeds. The benefits will hopefully trickle down to all internet users!

Hoping the same for South Africa. So counterintuitive though :)

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

charlesdm wrote: post #131
r3bl wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, PayPal does not accept them neither.

Maestro isn't a credit card, it's a debit card. Probably worth getting a decent credit card !

Maestro can also be used online though. There is a credit card number on the back of it. But barely anyone supports it.

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Post by drdaeman »

donarb wrote: post #135
drdaeman wrote: post #132

Now, I'm curious - is there any way I check what would be available in my specific country without signing up and starting a trial? I want to be able to at least just do a few search queries to check if what I had watched recently is there or I shouldn't even bother and save that "free month" offer for later (because if there's nothing to watch it'd be wasted).

instantwatcher.com shows what titles are available and let's you queue them up on Netflix if you have an account. Not sure if they have a regional filter yet.

Thanks!

I've just ran through what I had watched any recently. No single title was found. Not even on US Netflix.

And I wasn't watching any obscure stuff - I practically visited popular directory sites (like IMDB), set some basic genre filters and considered watching whatever had >=7.0 and some interesting description. Then, if I liked what I saw, checked some more by a same director.

Guess, I'll have to stay with my parrot and wooden leg.

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