pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
I would be paying 60% more than I am now. How is that not enormous?
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pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
I don't have them in front of me, but I believe I saw a rise from 10 bucks to 16 for the same service. How can a 60% increase not be seen as enormous?pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
Damn, beaten to the punch.noxiousdog wrote:pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
I would be paying 60% more than I am now. How is that not enormous?
Percentages are misleading when talking about this dollar amount. $6 a month, on its own, is not enormous.noxiousdog wrote:pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
I would be paying 60% more than I am now. How is that not enormous?
I agree, it's not enormous, and I could certainly afford it. I just choose not to. I could afford to have cable TV, but I choose not to have that either.pr0ner wrote:Percentages are misleading when talking about this dollar amount. $6 a month, on its own, is not enormous.noxiousdog wrote:pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
I would be paying 60% more than I am now. How is that not enormous?
It depends. $6 a month for a crap sandwich is enormous. And percentage based is the only relevant number because $6 is meaningless without context.pr0ner wrote:Percentages are misleading when talking about this dollar amount. $6 a month, on its own, is not enormous.noxiousdog wrote:pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
I would be paying 60% more than I am now. How is that not enormous?
Which, incidentally, is close to the cost of an annual membership to Amazon Prime.pr0ner wrote:$72 a year doesn't sound bad to me at all.
Doesn't sound bad for what?pr0ner wrote:$72 a year doesn't sound bad to me at all.
$8 a month to stream movies or $8 a month to have a wider library sent to my home sounds very much worth it to me. I'd just obsess over movies in the mail and am too cheap and lazy to build an infrastructure for streaming. I pay $5 a month for satellite radio that I hardly listen to and I think that's alright, though I must admit that's right at the top of my price point. Anything more and I'd quit.noxiousdog wrote:It depends. $6 a month for a crap sandwich is enormous. And percentage based is the only relevant number because $6 is meaningless without context.pr0ner wrote:Percentages are misleading when talking about this dollar amount. $6 a month, on its own, is not enormous.noxiousdog wrote:pr0ner wrote:How are these price increases enormous?
I would be paying 60% more than I am now. How is that not enormous?
And you're doing it yourself, $72 a year sounds worse than $6 month doesn't it?
Regardless, the service is worth $10/month to me, it's not worth $16. I watch a limited amount of it, and I'll save money by cancelling altogether, or by spending $8 instead of the $10.
Any subscription based service that I'd be interested in.noxiousdog wrote:Doesn't sound bad for what?pr0ner wrote:$72 a year doesn't sound bad to me at all.
The (slight) irony with Amazon Prime is that I'm currently getting Prime shipping for free through "Amazon Mom", wherein you get free prime service if you set up auto-subscription orders for various baby products (diapers, wipes, etc.). But sadly that doesn't include Prime streaming.Smoove_B wrote:Which, incidentally, is close to the cost of an annual membership to Amazon Prime.pr0ner wrote:$72 a year doesn't sound bad to me at all.
This is silly. Any rational person understands when your service remains the same but your billing goes up 60% there better be some serious rationale, otherwise expect customers to be upset.noxiousdog wrote:Doesn't sound bad for what?pr0ner wrote:$72 a year doesn't sound bad to me at all.
I don't disagree. The problem is that once you get to the $16 price point there's other options. Red Box, Amazon Prime, Hulu+, etc.LordMortis wrote: $8 a month to stream movies or $8 a month to have a wider library sent to my home sounds very much worth it to me. I'd just obsess over movies in the mail and am too cheap and lazy to build an infrastructure for streaming. I pay $5 a month for satellite radio that I hardly listen to and I think that's alright, though I must admit that's right at the top of my price point. Anything more and I'd quit.
And yet I pay nearly $40 a month for basic crappy cable... and I keep thinking about canceling and I keep not canceling it and I probably watch 40 hours of TV a month (that I shouldn't) and that 40 hours of TV bombards me with 25% or 10 hours of commercials that I, in turn, cut down on in with TiVo, that would want $10 a month to keep that service up if I hadn't paid for a lifetime subscription some ten years ago.
It's interesting how we value things. All the movies I want to see for $8 a month seems like steal to me if I am willing to maintain the infrastructure to get have that luxury.
Looking at it that way, it's $8/month (minimum, unless you're maxing out at 2dvd's /month) or $96/ year or $16/month or $192/year if you want DVDs and streaming.pr0ner wrote:Any subscription based service that I'd be interested in.noxiousdog wrote:Doesn't sound bad for what?pr0ner wrote:$72 a year doesn't sound bad to me at all.
Or Amazon Prime as Smoove pointed out.
Absolutely. I'd not fault you for quitting over $16 a month if you don't want to justify it. For me, whom movies aren't all important, that's an extra cheap bar night a month or an extra $16 into my mortgage or savings. I'm in the same boat for my satellite radio. $5 a month is nothing, really. But when I don't use the service much going over that seems silly, when I could get an extra lunch every month that I could appreciate that much more.noxiousdog wrote:I don't disagree. The problem is that once you get to the $16 price point there's other options. Red Box, Amazon Prime, Hulu+, etc.LordMortis wrote: $8 a month to stream movies or $8 a month to have a wider library sent to my home sounds very much worth it to me. I'd just obsess over movies in the mail and am too cheap and lazy to build an infrastructure for streaming. I pay $5 a month for satellite radio that I hardly listen to and I think that's alright, though I must admit that's right at the top of my price point. Anything more and I'd quit.
And yet I pay nearly $40 a month for basic crappy cable... and I keep thinking about canceling and I keep not canceling it and I probably watch 40 hours of TV a month (that I shouldn't) and that 40 hours of TV bombards me with 25% or 10 hours of commercials that I, in turn, cut down on in with TiVo, that would want $10 a month to keep that service up if I hadn't paid for a lifetime subscription some ten years ago.
It's interesting how we value things. All the movies I want to see for $8 a month seems like steal to me if I am willing to maintain the infrastructure to get have that luxury.
In the grand scheme of things, $16 a month isn't that much. But, that doesn't mean that I use it that much to begin with, so I can take those entertainment dollars elsewhere. Not out of spite, but I can find a better use for them. All netflix really does for me is allow me to stream instantly to the TV through my xbox. I'll just go back to using my DVR, and if there something really important, I'll hook up a laptop to the HDMI and stream amazon prime which I'm doing already.
So, as long as they just keep raising it $5/month every month it's ok cause it's just 2 cups of coffee?wire wrote:My $19.99/month subscription is going up to just under $24/month...color me pissed. What that's like 2 cups of coffee that I'll have to cut from my monthly budget...fuckers.
I've been with Netflix since June 2003 and my subscription rate has gone up twice maybe three time since then. This time in 2009 I was paying $16.99 +tax and now $19.99 +tax and in September I'll be paying $23.99 +tax. I believe also that at one point my subscription rate decreased sometime between 2003 and 2009. I must have missed the $5/month every month increase you mentioned.noxiousdog wrote:So, as long as they just keep raising it $5/month every month it's ok cause it's just 2 cups of coffee?wire wrote:My $19.99/month subscription is going up to just under $24/month...color me pissed. What that's like 2 cups of coffee that I'll have to cut from my monthly budget...fuckers.
Zoom...wire wrote:I've been with Netflix since June 2003 and my subscription rate has gone up twice maybe three time since then. This time in 2009 I was paying $16.99 +tax and now $19.99 +tax and in September I'll be paying $23.99 +tax. I believe also that at one point my subscription rate decreased sometime between 2003 and 2009. I must have missed the $5/month every month increase you mentioned.noxiousdog wrote:So, as long as they just keep raising it $5/month every month it's ok cause it's just 2 cups of coffee?wire wrote:My $19.99/month subscription is going up to just under $24/month...color me pissed. What that's like 2 cups of coffee that I'll have to cut from my monthly budget...fuckers.
I've never understood why it gets more expensive per disc past the third disk. Shouldn't it get cheaper?Isgrimnur wrote:Unlimited DVDs (no streaming)
1 DVD out at-a-time $7.99 a month 2 DVDs out at-a-time $11.99 a month 3 DVDs out at-a-time $15.99 a month 4 DVDs out at-a-time $21.99 a month 5 DVDs out at-a-time $27.99 a month 6 DVDs out at-a-time $32.99 a month 7 DVDs out at-a-time $37.99 a month 8 DVDs out at-a-time $43.99 a month
Which is streamable on Netflix.Smoove_B wrote:Sorry, this has been bothering me all day:
Good news, everyone! Netflix jacking prices again!
This.RunningMn9 wrote:I only really use the streaming these days, so I guess I am in for a $4 discount. Huzzah!
Inverarity wrote:I hope this price change works out for Netflix because I dread the day when the contracts run out and we get each studio with their own subscription site. That spells market inefficiency (middlemen = division of labor = better for me, the consumer).
Besides,
This.RunningMn9 wrote:I only really use the streaming these days, so I guess I am in for a $4 discount. Huzzah!
Now when is that movie going to be available for streaming?
I assume it's because you're increasing the usage of their infrastructure. As part of the 1-out club, I'll have that one disc out for months before I actually watch it. If you're paying for eight out at a time, your mailman likely hates your guts.Defiant wrote:I've never understood why it gets more expensive per disc past the third disk. Shouldn't it get cheaper?