Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

Netflix price increase

72 replies

Mol1628 · 21/03/2022 07:42

Is anyone else cancelling?

Just can’t justify the cost of it anymore. I’ll use the free streaming services and iplayer.

We have a lot more cutbacks to come I imagine.

OP posts:
anniewaits1 · 21/03/2022 09:10

Yes we are changing ours down from premium to 2 screens as the number of times that could be an issue is minimal.

I also read a tip on here to get Disney+ for free with Tesco clubcard vouchers. It's only £8 of vouchers for 3 months and you can let it expire and do it again.

PoxyAndIKnowIt · 21/03/2022 09:17

I checked... its £1 per month increase for basic and standard packages: £2 increase for premium.

I know lots of people are struggling these days, but given that the cost hasn't changed for years this doesn't seem an unreasonable or prohibitive increase.

LynetteScavo · 21/03/2022 09:25

I'd cancel Dinsey+ to pay for it first. But then I pay for very little entertainment or any hobbies, and I do love watching films.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

Cost of living TV
WeCouldBeSpearows · 21/03/2022 09:25

@PoxyAndIKnowIt

I checked... its £1 per month increase for basic and standard packages: £2 increase for premium.

I know lots of people are struggling these days, but given that the cost hasn't changed for years this doesn't seem an unreasonable or prohibitive increase.

The cost of the basic package hadn't changed for a while. The cost of the other two have gone up. The premium one has gone up loads, it was less than a tenner when I first subscribed to it.
LynetteScavo · 21/03/2022 09:27

I didn't even know there were different packages as DH pays for it. He's not a premium type person, so now I'm wondering what I'm missing out on.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 21/03/2022 09:28

@AuntieMarys

Ours is included in our sky package
Ours is too, I haven't heard anything. Sky owns Netflix now,don't they?
Fatgalslim · 21/03/2022 09:31

I signed up for Netflix last night after my free Disney + subscription ended, I am less than impressed, everything I searched for wasn't there and there was absolutely nothing I fancied watching

waltzingparrot · 21/03/2022 09:42

We have the basic one and I still think it represents good value for money considering how much we use it. We're not eating out/cinema as much as we used to but having friends round and watching Netflix films.

stuffnthings · 21/03/2022 09:54

@LynetteScavo

I didn't even know there were different packages as DH pays for it. He's not a premium type person, so now I'm wondering what I'm missing out on.
Essentially the premium level plan allows 4 screens to stream at the same time and also stream content at 4K/UHD.
WeaverofWords · 21/03/2022 10:31

Yeah I saw it's going up, too. I will keep it for now, because my kids use it, too.

Does anyone know, can you cancel your TV licence if you only use the TV for Netflix, Prime, and YouTube?

That might be one way round it. We never watch live TV. Occasionally maybe BBC4 iplayer. Is it worth cancelling the licence instead?

Smeds · 21/03/2022 10:35

We are keeping it until this season of Snowpiercer has finished and then we're cancelling. We rarely find anything on there that we want to watch, where as we are heavy users of prime and Disney+.

MyDcAreMarvel · 21/03/2022 10:36

No it’s fine gone up £2 for me. I think Netflix is great value and watch is daily. Rarely watch regular tv.

SaltedEggplant · 21/03/2022 10:41

Sky owns Netflix now,don't they?

No

Soubriquet · 21/03/2022 10:46

I haven’t had a notification either but looking online it looks like it will be going up anyway to £15.99 (we have the ultra plan).

We use Netflix a lot so will have to swallow the cost

thevassal · 21/03/2022 10:48

@WeaverofWords

Yeah I saw it's going up, too. I will keep it for now, because my kids use it, too.

Does anyone know, can you cancel your TV licence if you only use the TV for Netflix, Prime, and YouTube?

That might be one way round it. We never watch live TV. Occasionally maybe BBC4 iplayer. Is it worth cancelling the licence instead?

You don't need a licence if you only watch netflix, YouTube, prime, or catch up services on itv, ch4 etc. You need it if you watch anything live or on BBC at all. So you could cancel it but wouldn't be able to watch bbc4 on iplayer. I mean you could, but shouldn't.

I wish bbc would bring in a plan like netflix/prime etc so you could drop in and out on a monthly basis. I don't have a licence but there are things I'd occasionally like to watch on iplayer but I can't be arsed with the faff of setting one up then cancelling then being the subject of all their letters/chase up asking why you've cancelled,treating you like a criminal!

I suppose even prime and netflix and Disney and now tv all together still add up to less than a sky package...!personally I can't imagine ever watching that much tv to need having multiple paid for options at the same time as well as all the catch up services but am aware that makes me sound like a knob Grin

duvetdayforeveryone · 21/03/2022 10:50

I cancelled after the previous price increases.

Soubriquet · 21/03/2022 10:51

We don’t watch live tv, therefore no tv license here

WeaverofWords · 21/03/2022 10:53

Or I'm wondering if you are an occasional user (like I am), whether it's worth cancelling it, and just rejoining on a free trial if anything comes up that's worth watching.

Maybe that's tight. But needs must!

Soubriquet · 21/03/2022 10:54

I doubt you would be able to get another free trial if you cancel and rejoin unless you use a new email address which would be tedious if you do this multiple times

EdgeOfSeventeenAndThreeQuarter · 21/03/2022 10:55

I’ve got the basic “gammy eyes/shit tv” package. It’s phenomenal value. We don’t have any terrestrial channels/no tv license and to think 20+ years ago I was paying £2/night dvd rental.

I’m as skint as a skint thing but I can’t get excited about £1/month increase when every other fucking thing is going up £5/day!

SeasonFinale · 21/03/2022 10:56

£1 a month for the standard package.

I can live with that.

TidyDancer · 21/03/2022 10:58

Yeah I get it through Sky and haven't heard anything about them putting the price up (although they have just put the prices up in general anyway).

I've just cancelled britbox because I only kept it for a couple of things that were put on there and I've watched those now.

I'm trying to cut back on everything as much as I can at the moment, but this is more to do with wasting money on crap that I don't need rather than anything else.

DidymusAmbrosius · 21/03/2022 10:58

They all add up to far too much as a collective (Prime, Netflix, Disney+, Apply TV+, Starz, NowTV...)

We now have a strict 2 streaming services max policy - and turn them on/off each month to keep the variety. TBH, the behaviour of all of them is starting to piss me off. It's a clear 'we can't get any more new subscribers so need to squeeze everything we can out of the ones we've got' policy and Netflix are not alone in changing to that tactic.

gamerchick · 21/03/2022 11:00

@ShirleyPhallus

Just use someone else’s log in? Wink
Yeah the kybosh has been put on that.
thevassal · 21/03/2022 13:35

@WeaverofWords

Or I'm wondering if you are an occasional user (like I am), whether it's worth cancelling it, and just rejoining on a free trial if anything comes up that's worth watching.

Maybe that's tight. But needs must!

I think netflix have stopped doing free trials a while ago. Probably because of people (including me!) doing this tbh
Swipe left for the next trending thread