Netflix Auto Renewal is a common problem on the internet. It’s a way for Netflix to keep track of how many months are left in a subscription and make sure you’re always subscribed to the latest and greatest content. If you don’t want your subscription renewed, there are a few steps you can take to stop it.
- Change your Netflix password. This will prevent Netflix from renewing your subscription automatically.
- Disable automatic renewal on your account. This will only work if you have an active Netflix account and not if you’re using an old account that’s been inactive for a while.
- Cancel your subscription if you don’t want it renewed next month or next year. This won’t stop Netflix from renewing your account, but it will stop them from automatically renewing it every month or every year without your consent.
Netflix has always had an auto renewal option for their monthly subsriptions – even if that was not advertised (but people assumed it would be billed on a monthly basis). Then Netflix decided to offer “DVD by Mail” subscriptions on a different plan where users could opt to have their 3 month DVD subscription renewed automatically when it expired. Most of Netflix customers who subscribed to the newer unlimited streaming only service were unaware that this model also applied to them as well. It turns out that Netflix will soon charge Netflix streaming customers who have not specified otherwise, a $7.99 fee for Netflix users to continue Netflix streaming service after the 3-months expiration period (if they are using the auto-pay option). Netflix is changing Netflix subscription model from “Screeming DVD” and “Instant Streaming” payment models to just one payment model – an “All You Can Watch Instant Streaming” model.
So what if you want Netflix but only on a monthly basis? It used to be that if you were billed automatically each month you would get a cancellation email asking you why you wanted to cancel your Netflix account. Now that Netflix will be charging their subscribers $7.99 each month for Netflix by default, any customer who does not want this Netflix charge must proactively cancel Netflix auto renewal optio n. So how do you stop Netflix from charging you to continue Netflix streaming? All Netflix subscribers who have been billed automatically will begin receiving an Netflix email asking them if they would like to continue their Netflix service. Netflix users who want to stop the automatic Netflix billing should reply with a “STOP” message and include the following information.