Netflix might be overcharging you if you are a frequent traveller

3 points by duman 7 years ago | 2 comments

I thought there might be other people like me on HN who travel a lot for work so I want to share my experience with Netflix's unfair charging policy. I live in Turkey but I travel a lot for business and seems like I've created my Netlix account with Standard plan when I was in Poland 2 years ago. Today I have just noticed that Standard plan is 27.99 Turkish Lira in Turkey but I've been charged 43 Polish Zloty since 2 years and it is equal to 71 Turkish Lira. I wouldn't mind if it was a small amount but since the difference is quite big, I've contacted customer service for a refund but they refused to return the extra money I've been paying and I'm told that there is nothing they can do to compensate this unfair charge which is quite disappointing to me.

So, please check where you created your Netflix account if you don't want to be charged unfairly.

ryan_j_naughton 7 years ago |

There is nothing unfair about this. They have different prices for different countries and different offerings for different countries.

duman 7 years ago | |

There is nothing wrong with charging different prices for different countries. The problem is I'm living in Turkey most of the time and my bank is a Turkish bank but I have been charged in Polish Zloty all these time. I don't think they would let me pay less if I created my account in a country 2 years ago where price was 2,5 times cheaper than my original country.