Subscriptions

[Gray]

I always look at the weekly survey on the MSE website.
This week it asks what services people subscribe to.
I don't subscribe to any (either listed or otherwise).
Am I alone in that? I suspect that I am.

Netflix, gyms, Sky – do you use the subscription services you pay for?

Subscriptions have boomed during the pandemic as many of us spent more time at home. Yet providers know once they hook you in, you don't leave, even if you've stopped using the service – that's why they offer free or cheap trials.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

 

[Deleted member 2457]

I always look at the weekly survey on the MSE website.
This week it asks what services people subscribe to.
I don't subscribe to any (either listed or otherwise).
Am I alone in that? I suspect that I am.

Netflix, gyms, Sky – do you use the subscription services you pay for?

Subscriptions have boomed during the pandemic as many of us spent more time at home. Yet providers know once they hook you in, you don't leave, even if you've stopped using the service – that's why they offer free or cheap trials.

www.moneysavingexpert.com

I don’t subscribe to any either.

 

[jjbomber]

Am I alone in that? I suspect that I am.

Only Spotify on that list.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Spotify, Amazon Prime, Netflix and a few magazines - Delayed Gratification, Science Focus, The Sky at Night, Autocar, evo and RT. Did, and will again at some point, have swimming pool membership. I'll wait until it feels like we're most post-COVID than we are at present.

 

[Gray]

I don’t subscribe to any either.

I would have had you down as a subscriber to at least one of those gel.......so I'm not alone as a non-subscriber.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

I would have had you down as a subscriber to at least one of those gel.......so I'm not alone as a non-subscriber.

I know people might think that but I am quite tight when I put my mind to it.

 

[Gray]

I am quite tight when I put my mind to it.

It comes easy to me

 

[Deleted member 2457]

It comes easy to me

 

[Friesiansam]

I thought I was going to join the list of non-subscribers but, we do have Sky which is on the list, mainly because terrestrial doesn't work well here. When the current contract comes to an end though, we are going Freesat. Then I can join the miserable sods who subscribe to nothing!

 

[Deleted member 108165]

Amazon Prime is my only subscription service. Got the Fire Stick to make my TV smart again and just rolled with Prime.

 

[Deleted member 2457]

It comes easy to me

It used to me too, then I had a major mental breakdown, then all hell broke loose!

 

[Gray]

It used to me too, then I had a major mental breakdown, then all hell broke loose!

Hopefully your mental health has since recovered. (Health takes priority over all else).

 

[Deleted member 2457]

Hopefully your mental health has since recovered. (Health takes priority over all else).

Thanks mate.

 

[Gray]

we are going Freesat. Then I can join the miserable sods who subscribe to nothing!

As a miserable sod, needless to say I've had Freesat since it started
Channel 4 is no longer in HD though as they refused to pay what Freesat required.
Not sure if all brands allow it, but my (older) Humax models can tune to any non- Freesat channel from the Astra satellite (inc. 4 HD)....so you're not limited to channels on the FS platform - though with non FS you are limited to now / next info (no full EPG / timer recordings).

 

[jjbomber]

I don't subscribe to any (either listed or otherwise).

BBC TV Licence?

 

[Gray]

BBC TV Licence?

...and car tax.
Of course they're optional, although I'd say they're as close to compulsory as it gets.