Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 10:33:22 CDT 2011
Attention, all Canadians: Stay far, far away from netflix.ca. It pales in comparison to netflix.com(its parent, with 100* as many titles available) and it also exhibits predatory marketing, which disgusts me. The old (and I thought banned) practise of "Include me in". I signed on for a free trial month at netflix.ca, and during said month all I did was browse the available movies, downloaded none, previewed none, deemed the service as a total failure, and left it at that. Suddenly this morning I get an email bill for October! I didn't do shit in September, so I'm expected to fork over $7.99 for October? To make matters worse, I have apparently already forked it over, via my PayPal account. I'm going to fight this in every available way: emails to Jian Gomeshi, letters to the newspapers, broadcasts to every eGroup to which I belong, and potentially, should I accrue enough victims, a class-action lawsuit. These fuckers have NO right to such business practises. I thought they were outlawed a couple of decades ago, in the cable-tv era. Perhaps I am right, which reinforces the strength of said potential class-action suit, or perhaps I am wrong, in which case the path is toward a change in the law which forbids such automatic inclusions, and demands instead an email (at least) from the vendor and a reply from the potential customer, who did nothing more than a 30-day trial. Effective today, I have officially cancelled my alleged membership in netflix.ca, so they won't ding me again, but I'm still out the $7.99 for October. And although that's an argue-for-peanuts strategem, multiply me by the number of people who fell (and may in future fall) for this trap, and suddenly we're talking about millions of dollars, scooped from unwary customers. This SUCKS! Anyone similarly victimized by this evil company is invited to reply to me off-list. I will gather the names and try to accumulate enough of same to launch a class-action suit. Arthur