Netflix to charge an extra £60 a year if you share your account with others

JSmithy45AD

Bradden said:

I bet they regret this tweet now!



I'm one of the many UK subscribers based in Turkey.

6 years later? I'd rather doubt they do regret it.

danthemoneysavingman

warby68 said:

We are a family of 4 but the 2 student sons live elsewhere mostly. We currently share the membership.

Better read up what it means. 

I was thinking best way is to set up the "2nd home" link thing mentioned. But I only have 1 child so prob no use for you. Just a thought

wild666

I could see that a child that regularly does babysitting for another family if that child goes to babysit every week, sometimes more than once per week, and logs into the child account at another address might find that the original account holder, the parents, could be hit with the charges, if that child logs in and watches hours of content whilst babysitting. 

luvchocolate

Mines just been turned off 
I was on my son's in a different property. 
It was good while it lasted but not going to bother now 

matelodave

Is the world really going to stop if you have to pay to share your Netflix subscription.

You either pay up or give up and Netflix will either flourish or die but it probably wont stop the earth rotating. 

luvchocolate

luvchocolate said:

Mines just been turned off 
I was on my son's in a different property. 
It was good while it lasted but not going to bother now 

Come back on today 
Son assures me he hasn't paid anything 

LeesArt

wild666 said:

I could see people ditching Netflix if they are forced into paying £60 per year to have a friend outside the household pay £60 per year for them to be added to the account, I think the £60 is per person outside the household using the account, so they account holder could be paying up to £180 per year on top of their £15.99 fee if they were sharing with three households outside of the subscribers address. 
There is only one way that sharing outside the household MIGHT NOT be detected and that is on the £6.99 package where the subscriber shares with someone else and they watch the content at different times of the day, i.e. one person watches in the morning and another person watches at night and if Netflix asks they say that it is watched at a different address because they are there at that address babysitting or something similar to avoid the £4.99 extra charge. 

You are visionary, because that is exactly what we did, it caused us to have rethink, we often sign up for a top level unlimited user version of a package and Netflix has hiked the prices since we started, they also reduced the resolution on lower packages.  We did not get a 4k TV deliberately and probably would not have noticed the difference but we feel they scwewed us.

So we had a family meeting, we proved we could technically get around it but we also asked ourselves how much we really valued it, then to test this we decided not to use it for a month.

My son offered to download torrents of anything we wanted but none of us felt the need and none of use the BBC or Sky or Freeview or UK TV Apps.

We considered splitting into individual accounts and were annoyed at the downgrade, we also were seriously P'ed off at the idea of ads, we felt Netflix has lost the plot, they have forgotten what got them all those users in the first place.

We should have dumped them during the pandemic when the platform was filled with tripe content and the interface gave you TMI, before they made the recent changes I was already annoyed at them putting "hurdles" in front of me continuing watching or choosing from mylist.  Watch one foreign film and suddenly your are recommended to watch stuff you have no interest in.  So you have to start downthumbing everything.

Then they put kiddies stuff none of us want to watch in these recommended, trending and the 40+ synonyms for suggested in.

I tried to contact Netflix to explain what was wrong but this is a company that does not engage seriously, so they were already annoying me and leaving me no method of helping them improve the platform.

So they were already in a place where we were a bit annoyed with them, then they pull this price hike nonsense and let us be clear, that is what it is. 

I don't like being herded like cattle, I don't like nag screens and I don't like companies that don't value our custom.

What surprised us is how easy it was to not use Netflix for a month, we moved the icon on some devices and deleted it on others.

We had a family meeting and all were fine with dumping it and I do not have any regrets, if there is some "must watch" content on Netflix my son could download it but I doubt we will bother, we never watched live TV since we dumped the TV License and we did not even install any app that COULD watch live TV (e.g. Pluto).

If Netflix had just been honest and put up the top package up a pound or two we would have probably carried on, but the way they did this and how on one occasion it said I had used up my traveling token or some such nonsense was too much.

I doubt we will ever be back, none of my kids have signed up and are not interested in their "offers" while for us it is now a matter of principle, Netflix have decided they don't want customers like us so that is fine.  We will continue to hear on Radio 4 business programme how they have lost income even if they manage to make it look as if they have more subscribers, but at the end of the day it is income and profit that matter.  They may have a blip of new users but they will soon see the loss of value.  The top package was £15, now entry level without ads is £11, they can do the Foxtrot Oscar!

LeesArt

warby68 said:

We are a family of 4 but the 2 student sons live elsewhere mostly. We currently share the membership.

Better read up what it means. 

It means it is time to dump it