Netflix price rise will be to their detriment.

Exactly. I was responding to a poster who claimed nobody she knew would need to do that.

By the way, Im not saying a Netflix subscription is a necessity . Im just saying the argument that ‘it’s only £24 pounds a year” is tone deaf.

I had a free 2 months about 7 years ago. Then I used to sign up just for Christmas period coinciding with the new Crown series.

i wont be paying for it anymore - I don’t use any streaming services unless they offer me a free trial and then find out I hardly watch it.

How do people find time to watch all these services. I am retired with minimal part time work and my days fly past with little opportunity to watch tv.

Problem solved by not subscribing for one year.

Well lucky you and your friends. Read any thread on MN about cost of living pressures and it’s depressing to see how many families are literally counting the pennies

We cycle through streaming services. Never have more than one at the same time. We keep a note of anything we might want to watch, and when there is more than a few things on the list for any given one, we sign up for a month. Once we have exhausted it, we cancel.

I've just cancelled mine. Not paying £8 a month to occasionally watch a movie with an advert every 10 minutes. Still have Disney plus for the kids. Will pirate anything I want to watch in the future.

We cancelled last time. Don't miss it.

They can price it however they like but I don't think it's worth the increase so have cancelled and bought a different subscription.

Why? They owe you nothing. They’re a business at the end of the day. Price follows demand.

Agree, some people’s sense of entitlement is crazy.

I don't think it means that, just that a 60% price rise is very unreasonable!

About 40% would need to do so. That won’t happen. They’ve calculated they’ll increase their profits, and regrettably I think they’re right. They’re not a social service, so they’re doing nothing wrong.

That’s less than a price of a coffee… For you to have such a visceral reaction to an an extra £3 / month make me think you must be really struggling with money
and on a very tight budget.

How come I’m paying £17.99 a month 🤔

when you compare that to one cinema trip though …

Mines gone up £3 as I have someone added on. Shocking increase

I doubt it’s going to make a negative difference to subscriber numbers as previous increases haven’t. Many people like myself don’t like content on terrestrial TV (ITV is especially bad for brain dead dross). I rotate my subscriptions to get value for money, Now is my favourite and has the best TV shows. Going back to Netflix tonight for a month to watch the new series of Monster and in a few weeks an intriguing new drama called Below.

I really resent subscribing AND watching ads. £8/mo is fine without ads.

however, i tried using my account from my mums house on my laptop and it wouldnt work - i'm not paying for a service i cant access elsewhere, i work away a lot. So that's that.

We cancel then renew for christmas and binge watch the good stuff.

Same

I just cancelled. £2 is bloody ridiculous.

I dip in and out. Content isn’t great. Same with Amazon,

I immediately cancelled mine, I just sign up to subscription services briefly when there’s a series I want to watch then opt back out and move on.

I probably wouldn't have reviewed the fact that we have the subscription if they hadn't emailed me to say there was a price increase, that's what made me consider how much we really use it

But that's not the price rise that would make you cancel it, it's the fact you can't find anything to watch. If you don't watch it then £1 a month is too much.

We used to have Netflix when we could use it across the family-two at uni in term time and us at home. We used it to watch films when visiting my parents as well. As that was clearly not how they wanted the set up to work, we just cancelled it completely. I really don’t miss it. The kids probably watched it more but now they’re working, none of them bother to pay for it so they can’t have missed it that much!

If enough people cancel surely they would have a rethink?

The cheapest Netflix package (with ads) has jumped from £5.99 to £7.99 monthly. The £2 a month is the highest rise on any of their plans. It's a bit surprising that they've targeted those customers, as obviously many of them are going to be very price-conscious and it might cause them to rethink their membership, whereas you would think that those on the top all bells-and-whistles package would be less likely to notice an extra £2 monthly.

The sums involved might seem small, but it's actually a 33% increase, and I'm not sure how they justify that? With all the different streaming services added together the bills just keep getting bigger and bigger, and something's got to give.