I figured I'd pay for a month of Netflix so that the movie creators would get paid.
I paid and THEN Netflix asked for a phone number. Why do they need a phone number when we all know SMS spoofing is trivial?
At this point, I hadn't even logged in, and I was done with Netflix. Then and there, I cancelled my subscription.
However, the next day, I was able to log in with no problem. No phone number needed.
Alright. I figured I could use the month's worth of Netflix I paid for. I searched for the movie and tried watching it. I couldn't.
- "You can't use a VPN"
- "Your browser doesn't let us spy on you enough"
- "Honestly we're just tempting you to get this movie through piracy lol"
- "Nah, we don't care about you. We care about profits xoxo"
- "Nah. No refunds. We warned you"
I don't know what I was thinking.
Oh yeah, I wanted to support artists. But Netflix made it impossible. What a joke.
Call your bank or card issuer and get them to do a chargeback, tell them you paid for a service which was not rendered and the company refused a refund.
Also, depending on where you live, it is likely that you have a legal right to withdraw. Many jurisdictions enforce a 14-day cooling off period where any party may unilaterally withdraw from an agreement.
Not a lawyer, just a guy who refuses to let corpos get the better of me, and will use every trick in the book to fuck with them until they break.