I’ve never been that interested in Netflix. I find their service in general very interesting, but up until last year (I think it was) we couldn’t get Netflix in Canada. When they started offering their service here I checked out the video offerings, and found that there was nothing they had that interested me. All the movies were lame or quite old. And anything else I could get on Shaw cable, including newer and better movies.
Today I received a special offer in the mail with a code to allow me 1 free trial month. So I thought, what the hell, I’ll maybe give it a try. But it turned out that they expect you to give them your credit card number, and sign up as a regular member. And you then have to deal with the restrictions of trying to cancel at some point before the trial ends. What a scam and waste of my time. I’ve dealt with this sort of “free” nonsense before with other companies, and it’s never easy to cancel once they have your credit card info.
So I try to find some way for a non-member to email them and point out the disappointment with this “special offer”. Well there seems to be no way to contact them if you aren’t a member. That’s assuming that members do get some way of contacting them. Correction, they instruct you to call an 800 number, but no email addresses. I suppose that way their call centre has one more kick at my cat. Don’t try to kick my cat Netflix!
So not only do I feel they have little to offer me video wise, but now they have annoyed and soured me to the company further. Good job Netflix.