Netflix is testing a price surge on your weekend binge

That weekend Netflix binge you will have been daydreaming about might quickly value you some additional dough. 

That is if Netflix rolls out its evil plan to surge worth your weekend viewing. You heard that proper: Netflix is considering charging you extra to enroll in prime binge-watching hours. 

The streaming big is at present testing its devastating technique on the poor ol' people in Australia. It is not sufficient that the corporate supplies Australians with a lot much less content material than U.S. audiences, now it needs to ship them broke too. 

As first pointed out by The Australian, Netflix is operating a check that may see clients pay as much as 20 % extra once they signal as much as the service on the weekend. For customers seeing the check, it reportedly elevated the essential service from $eight.99 to $9.99 a month, the usual service from $11.99 to $13.99 a month and the premium service from $14.99 to $17.99 a month. 

Netflix made it clear to Mashable that nobody has been charged an additional payment and that no announcement has been made — it was merely a consumer check on the service. 

"We constantly check new issues at Netflix and these exams sometimes range in size of time. On this case, we're testing barely totally different worth factors to raised perceive how shoppers worth Netflix," the corporate stated in an emailed assertion. 

"Not everybody will see this check and we might not ever supply it usually."

Might not... gulp.