Select users of Movie Pass got emails explaining that our service agreements were changing and that we would no longer have unlimited access to a movie every 24 hours.
My option was $30/unlimited. I am now offered $40/6 movies or $99/unlimited!
Come to find out this was only a small segment of their subscribers that received the new dictum which goes into effect on Aug 3rd. According to their website there has been ongoing research to see what new tiered pricing plans should look like by the first of the year. The research started a few months before Mitch Lowe officially took over the first of July. Mitch (Netflix, Redbox, etc) obviously wants this to be a prime money makers and take it public.
Even though there has been a short apology to those in the research groups there has been no retraction of their Draconian plans to run off mostly the retirees like me. Oddly, Movie Pass has been around for about four years and there has been no cry of bankruptcy so this is about profit over public relations.
So, faced with $40/6 movies it probably looks like bon voyage to something that was too good to be true. The new rate saves me maybe $6 dollars over six films---about the same I could get by saying "senior".
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Topic - Movie Pass Crisis . . . - Billy Wonka 12:36:49 07/07/16 (13)
- Screw 'em... - musetap 22:06:50 07/07/16 (3)
- And... - mkuller 09:59:28 07/08/16 (0)
- I am a senior and even use Movie Pass as a senior....... - Billy Wonka 09:26:51 07/08/16 (1)
- If Lowe has anything to do with the selection for streaming... - musetap 21:45:49 07/08/16 (0)
- The evil Lowe and his plan . . . . - Billy Wonka 19:06:28 07/07/16 (0)
- Does this guy own rental units in Seattle? I sense a pattern. - free.ranger 16:20:23 07/07/16 (0)
- RE: Movie Pass Crisis . . . - Victor Khomenko 15:55:05 07/07/16 (4)
- In the last six months I was twice carded for not being a senior . . . - Billy Wonka 18:55:10 07/07/16 (3)
- I once was walking with my granddaughter... - Victor Khomenko 19:56:34 07/07/16 (2)
- I was once mistaken as a zygote at my VA. * - Billy Wonka 09:29:50 07/08/16 (1)
- LOL. - free.ranger 09:44:26 07/08/16 (0)
- RE: Movie Pass Crisis . . . - mkuller 14:01:27 07/07/16 (1)
- They need me buying popcorn (which I don't) and . . . - Billy Wonka 19:09:35 07/07/16 (0)