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@Panfilo agree

@JFlavius1

I see no logical errors in perplexity's "No" explanation: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/did-netflix-implement-a-price-oqFPs_jHTWqagOHk4AZg2Q#0

@JFlavius1 if you have made a ruling on this market, you can resolve it using the button to the bottom right of the betting options:

as the creator, you choose how it resolves (& mods are unlikely to overrule in a fairly ambiguous case like this).

if you don't feel comfortably deciding, you can ask the mods to weigh in with @mods

@Ziddletwix (i personally agree with the proposed YES resolution but that's not really relevant here)

I agree with @PaulBenjaminPhotographer

@JFlavius1 Well, it's yours to resolve then! Do try to make cases like this clearer in the future though. The description refers to a sub model that they discontinued.

$11.99 -> $15.49 = 29% increase, resolve YES?

Edit - Seems like this is for an (arguably?) improved product, so I'm much less confident of my 'yes' call.

@PaulBenjaminPhotographer Description refers to basic subscription, which should resolve N/A since it was discontinued. And if it wasn't referring to the plan specifically named 'Basic', and was merely referring to the cheapest, then there is now a cheaper ad supported version.

@Shihan What meaningful difference is there between the posthumous 'basic' plan and the current 'standard no-ads' plan?

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."

@PaulBenjaminPhotographer The same reason the "Standard" no ads plan cost more than the "Basic" plan, which made it a tangibly different plan.

@Shihan That feels circular?

Are you arguing that 'McDonalds didn't increase prices on their dollar menu items, they replaced them with all new pocket change items'?

@PaulBenjaminPhotographer No. Are you arguing that there were never any tangible differences between the Basic $11.99 plan and the Standard $15.49 plan, even when they both existed at the same time?

As far as I am aware that is the case. The only difference was who qualified for the different prices.

If someone was a Basic subscriber they're now paying 22% more, for the same product, as they were in January.

To me that feels an awful lot like a price increase for people on the basic plan...

@PaulBenjaminPhotographer That would be incorrect. There main differences had to do with video streaming resolution, and number of simultaneous devices permitted for streaming and downloading. Basic and Standard were substantially different products.

@Shihan Big if true!

(I have no reason to think it isn't)

I’d contend that this should resolve YES. The “basic” plan was ad-free, and the cheapest ad-free plan is now $15.49/mo.

@Gabrielle Hmm it should probably resolve NO since the basic plan was discontinued. I don't know, the market creator should decide. I exited the market, I don't know anything about Netflix plans but was just trying to buy NO on a lot of EOY markets. But even after selling my no share and exiting, I do think in light of @Panfilo 's comment to resolve the market NO or at least N/A is pretty strong.

@Gabrielle If that's what they meant, having it in neither discussion nor details would be a misleading market. All it says in the description is that it refers to the basic version, and all their website says about the basic version is that it was discontinued.

@Panfilo Yeah I think that's right. If they removed the Basic version and then added something else that did the same thing but called it something else, I would not count this, unless they explicitly say that it replaces the Basic version.

@nathanwei If they remove "Basic" and create a new name, thus being able to not raise prices on their plan, but still actually raise prices, that's a Yes on the spirit of the question.

Also, it's clearly not a Yes according to the letter of the hardly even existing wording.

Crystal clear N/A (in the opinion of a non-holder)

@Primer I notice it's not "Basic", but lowercase "basic", thus not necessarily a name, but probably rather a synonym for "most common" or "cheapest" subscription. Depending on how we interpret this, prices either went up or went down. N/A is the way!

Tha basic plan was discontinued, and the lowest current plan is lower priced than the basic tier used to be. By either definition, this did not happen.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926

@Panfilo @Gabrielle resolves NO

What was the basis subscription price on the 1st of January?

What if they removed the cheapest tier $11.99? Does that count as increasing price?

@esusatyo think so, but it's up to @IsaacKohane

@esusatyo And yet there's a new cheaper tier that's ad supported.