Sister abusing Netflix Account

[CrazylazyJane]

I don't think I am but shouty sister is making me doubt myself.

DP has a Netflix account. He uses it to watch stuff during his lunch break and at home. I use his account for binge watching at home. All good. DS came to stay for a while and used our Netflix account when she was staying with us. Since moving out she had continued to watch and download stuff on our account. No one was particularly bothered by this, as the only time I use the account is to stream stuff at home.

Now holidays have arrived. I went to download a few episodes of something to watch on the plane and it says there are too many devices being used. I text sister to ask her to delete her downloads and she said she would. 2 weeks later, she still hasn't done it.

We're now due to go on holiday - train this time and we have the same problem. I phoned DS to remind her to delete all the downloads and her response was "but I'm flying to Canada on Monday! What am I supposed to watch?" I suggested that she get her own account, at which she wailed and nashed her teeth saying "you don't pay for the account so you have to right to order me to delete downloads.

Spoke to DP and he has deleted her device off the account and changed the password. Since then I've been getting abusive text messages from her. So, I'm really not being unreasonable am I?

Screenshot the texts and next time she asks for something end them to her

How many devices do you have? We’ve got 7 on ours and one of those is MIL - we’ve all just got different areas

How are downloads affecting it? It's only if two people are watching at the same time! Someone come and tell me it's not that?

She’s being ridiculous. I share my sister’s Netflix account, and she’s paid the extra £2 a month to allow more people to watch things at the same time as my parents sometimes use it too. She won’t accept any money towards it from us bless her (I suspect because her single income is higher than DH and I put together!) so if she ever texted me asking me to delete a download or stop watching something because it meant she couldn’t use it then I would do so straight away - because it’s not mine, she’s just nice enough to share! Your sister has shown that she can’t share properly, something most people have learnt by about the age of four!

She’s a freeloading twat.

Another vote for change password and get it to log out of all devices. Job done.

I had the same. Downloads deff affect it. I had to ask my brother and his mate to delete their downloads because i couldnt download. It said there were too many like OP said.

YANBU

your DH did the right thing, ignore her until she stops her tantrum.

OMG the op says in her last paragraph that he changed the password which is why shes being abusive. Why don’t people read

Deleting the downloads won't do anything. From the account settings, you can remove the allowed devices. Remove hers! And then change the password. You don't need her to do anything.

The only way to deal with a tantrum is to ignore it. It sounds as if your entire family need to make that their policy with your sister from now on.

Cancel the cheq....err password.

Holy crap doesn't anyone bother to read the Op's posts any more? As above, classic "Cancel the cheque"

Absolutely change the passwords she sounds like an entitled brat!

All the family want to placate her and keep the peace but it has nurtured an environment of her throwing tantrums and getting shouty.

Good for you for standing up to her. The same thing happened with my sister until her behaviour became so unbearable I went NC.

I wish my family had challenged her behaviour growing up instead of just 'Well, you know what she's like.'

Utterly pathetic of her.

Remind of this......

Just ignore her texts. Don't ever allow her use the account again. She's definitely a CF. Stop pandering to her.

oh no the split screaning thing!too close to home this haha.
how about 3 siblings. who gets the two.thenwhat if two of those siblings move out to their own home.one still living at home....who gets the two!!!!world war fricking 4 and one sibling feelings unloved or loved the least.

If she can afford to fly to Canada then she can afford to pay for her own. They will have entertainment on the plane anyway.

Fucking hell. It’s not your lookout if she’s happy to pay for a trip to Canada but is too tight to buy her own subscription. Can’t believe she’s been using free trials and then sponging off you but can afford the trip. she deffo has issues.

How are downloads affecting it? It's only if two people are watching at the same time! Someone come and tell me it's not that?

You can only have stuff downloaded on a certain number of devices - I'm not sure how many but I have had to ask DH to delete stuff off his laptop or whatever if I'm flying and want to put films on my ipad.

What is it with netflix & cfery? My eldest DP had a message from a friend 'sorry havent been in touch for a while must catch up blah blah' oh and 'I think you must have changed your netflix password can I have it?' - it had been over two years'!

Just reply to her texts: “Lol.”

For those wondering about the downloads, I pay for the least expensive Netflix option.

You can have up to 6 profiles but only 1 account is allowed to watch live at any one time, and only one device is allowed to have downloads on at any one time.

So if I have downloads on my phone then Noone else can download stuff onto any devices regardless of whether I'm watching the downloaded items.

This is to prevent people downloading content onto multiple devices then turning them all on to flight mode and everybody being able to watch their downloads at the same time.

OP-YANBU

If you aren’t paying for the account you have to accept you don’t have priority. If the payer wants to use it you delete or log off as necessary. She’s a CF, ignore her tantrums.