Netflix: when a rate increase is a savings....????

[Nathan]

On Sept. 30 Netflix will be raising their rates, but in their fantasy world that's going to be a "savings"...what kind of arithmetic challenged fools do they take us for!



So I visit my account/plan and see:



$11.99 is what I'm currently paying, up from $6.99 originally. I'll have to pay $15.49 to have the same level of service. That happens to be a 33.36% increase, rather than some kind of 40% "savings" that Netflix is trying to spin.

Who the F_ do they think they are kidding? I don' need a slide-rule to figure it out, Google will do it for me!

 

[MarkinPhx]

I just wrote in another post that I am going to stick with the ad supported plan. The ads aren't very obtrusive to me. I do miss out on the 4k video but a lot of shows I watch aren't in 4k anyway. The downside is not all shows are available with the ad plan because of agreements with different studios. I will probably cancel Netflix soon anyway and switch to Max for a month or two once the season of House of the Dragons is over.

 

[Nathan]

I have really liked Netflix, but there's really nothing holding me, all the shows I have in My List I've watched several times already. Same with Paramount Plus, which I cancelled a month ago.

Hulu and Amazon don't impress me either, maybe I'll have to take an online course in "something" as a pastime.