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Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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It just looks like the game is up. Every company is trying to raise prices and squeeze more, so that stock prices remain up. If they could accept a lower stock price instead, they'd just be more stable, and retain loyalty on the other side of the recession curve.

Soon they'll learn that eventually you run out of other peoples money

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’ll have to call Netflix to cancel and they’ll just pass you around the call Center until they hang up by accident.

More like, if you cancel, your account gets deleted for good, so you lose your profile with users, history, recommendations. You can pay x/month to pause your membership.

Come on, we all know deleting your data would be a premium-only feature.

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months. My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good. Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experien…

It's the go-to strategy for us as well, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts this is the next target for some sort of crackdown

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Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’ll have to call Netflix to cancel and they’ll just pass you around the call Center until they hang up by accident.

More like, if you cancel, your account gets deleted for good, so you lose your profile with users, history, recommendations. You can pay x/month to pause your membership.

Netflix recommendations are useless, so this sounds like a win to me. Random is more interesting then "let us fail at understanding you based on limited demographics".

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months. My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good. Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experien…

It's the go-to strategy for us as well, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts this is the next target for some sort of crackdown

Agree. I think they would've numbers by now how many are doing like that. Like if its 0.01% maybe not worth the effort now. Once its reach 0.1%, its time to empower customers by providing weekly/monthly/quarterly plans at different pricing points.

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months. My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good. Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experien…

That's a pretty good approach, but there is one drawback that may be significant for some.

You see a movie or show and then want to talk about it with your friends and find that they've all either won't be back on the right streaming service for a new months or they've seen it months ago and aren't that interested in talking about it any more.

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Crave recently did the same thing in Canada, got rid of their $9.99 “mobile” plan, and now the $24.99 subscription is the only choice available for new subscribers. Sucks because all I want to watch is new Star Trek series, which means paying $28/month after tax to watch about 3.5 hours of content.

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months. My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good. Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experien…

>My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on.

Probably saner than my chaotic good approach of having gone back to torrenting but donating a subscription worth of money to the Against Malaria foundation to ease my conscience now that I'm not a broke student any more. I can't be bothered with the obnoxious subscriptions and autplay UIs

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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Tangent: As much as it feels like we just have “bundles” like the bad old cable days, I really enjoy getting to change streaming providers every 2-3 months. My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. And in a year we’ve got that service back and we Hoover up the last year’s added content that looks good. Lots of ways to measure it but when I think about how much I pay and what my experien…

>My wife and I just Hoover up whatever we’re interested in then move on. Probably saner than my chaotic good approach of having gone back to torrenting but donating a subscription worth of money to the Against Malaria foundation to ease my conscience now that I'm not a broke student any more. I can't be bothered with the obnoxious subscriptions and autplay UIs

This is the way to go

Re: Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’ll have to call Netflix to cancel and they’ll just pass you around the call Center until they hang up by accident.

More like, if you cancel, your account gets deleted for good, so you lose your profile with users, history, recommendations. You can pay x/month to pause your membership.

Netflix already deletes your account after 10 months, probably for this specific purpose.
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