Wow, so far in this blog I've been raving about Netflix, but things are about to change. We currently subscribe to their "unlimited + 1 DVD" plan which is currently $10. They are restructuring their pricing by splitting up streaming and disk by mail. So now instead of 1 plan they switched me to 2, which puts us at $16 per month. That's an increase of $72 per year, I sigh at them for doing this.
This makes this little penny saver upset. However in doing the math we are still saving money by avoiding cable, just not as much.
We have came up with a couple plans for this:
A) Drop the DVD plan and rent from red box if we can't stream it,
B) Get rid of Netflix and go to Hulu Plus, and rent from Red Box
Any thoughts on Red box? Never used it but I have heard good things.
Other things I've considered :
C) See if Netflix has a really cheap dvd only plan with limits, looks like they don't, lame... The annoying thing is they provide one limited plan and it includes both limited streaming and limited DVDs. It also has a crap load of restrictions. To sum it up, totally not worth it. If Netflix was more customer centric they would introduce limited DVD only packages for people like me (lots of streaming and a couple DVDs per month).
All in all, it seems like a half cooked plan for desperate grasp at making numbers. I already seen people start to drop Netflix, I'm sure i'll see more. Please also keep in mind this does take affect until September 1st so don't move just yet :)
Here is the link to the Netflix blog, not much more information than I've provided except a super lame excuse.
What is everyone else's plan of action?
PS: Netflix is still great, and a great alternate from cable (and a lot cheaper), just wish they thought about current customers before they did such drastic things. That is all...
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