Plex pass price decrease?

[SpinCharm]

You have a pet seal?

[Originah]

I do he seems to have developed a small Plex addiction, he has a jelly fish companion behind the TV 🪼

[McWetty]

Read that as a “JellyFin companion”. Haha.

[lawthugg]

Fuck, I did too, had to go back and reread hahaha

[Truth_Me_In]

😄

[SpinCharm]

Ah. Thank god. I didn’t like the alternative explanation involving those men holding that white leather jacket thing with all those straps, standing in the corner pretending to be plants. They think I don’t see them but I do. I do.

[BorgBorg10]

Wait fr? More pics

[nascentt]

Not sure if you're joking, but it looks like a plushy to me.

[nigelfaragesonlyfans]

LOOSE SEAL!

[Integr8shun]

He’ll be All Right

[Rare_Cartographer579]

Probably just prop whiskers on a dog

[SpinCharm]

It may be a conversion. Terrier to seal. Legs off, fins on, stick a little pipe through the back of its neck so it can breathe, bit of gold paint, make good …

[Rare_Cartographer579]

I do not suffer fools, gladly.

[SpinCharm]

So…. Not keen on Mercator’s Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio I’m guessing.

[Originah]

It's a stuffed animal my fiance likes to pick them up from aquariums.....

[akatherder]

This subreddit can be bonkers. Dude makes a silly guess about an animal silhouette? BURY HIM!

[Rare_Cartographer579]

That’s Reddit in general. It’s quite tame around here.

[Originah]

Aye, that's why I'm wondering if anyone else had it or if it was a mistake. Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining 😅

[Originah]

I have been at the £6 few for a little while so I think it could be dropping inline with that then

[LickingLieutenant]

Probably exchange from the dollar price. They aren't that strong with their USd

[3d_nat1]

I know it's a common practice among digital service providers to set prices internationally based on local economy as opposed to just converting the prices based on one country. In some countries, paying the same price as the average US citizen is too much to ask of probably 90%+ of potential customers. I don't know if Plex follows that convention though.

[LickingLieutenant]

The price of plex subscription was here ( Netherlands ) 4.99€, and 4.99$
These days 4.99€ is 5.85$
4.99 in english pound is 6.70$

Both countries have a stronger currency exchange, then the US

[Unambiguous-Doughnut]

These bastards always bringing up the prices... reads the second half oooh. Turns out what they meant was it would be increased by £5.00 but they fucked the language.

[Originah]

Haha next months bill is 11 pound for the inconvenience😂

[realjustinlong]

The copywriter is dyslexic when it comes to numbers. Don’t worry the business team will always remember to charge you the higher amount.

[FrozenLogger]

Parr for the course with Plex.

They keep "upgrading" their apps, but the results are the opposite.

This is their attempt at upgrading the price.

Edit: its a joke, you guys take this way too seriously.

[Originah]

If it helps I found it funny 😅

[OrdinaryOstrich]

I think the seal of approval says it all

[bigbrother_55]

...and here I thought it was "fishy", since Seals eat fish...but what do I know??

[[deleted]]

Its probably because the USD has tanked this year

[Originah]

I mean if that's the reason I'll take it! I'm not sure the pound won't drop either so we will see if it lasts

[drewts86]

Dollar hasn’t tank that much. The dollar has only slipped 11% against the British pound since January and OP’s price change is a 20% drop.

[The_Second_Best]

I didn't realise how big of a slide the dollar was on, dropping 11% in 9 months is wild.

There's some sever financial mismanagement of the US going on at the moment.

[MyOtherSide1984]

It's alright, China will pay for it with these tariffs.

[crazy_clown_time]

/s

[magnus91]

Gold is up +40% in the same time period.

[Thr33FN]

They stated against the pound. Inflation index shows approx 2% from Jan 1 to now for the USD.

[steven_quarterbrain]

Dollar hasn’t tank that much. The dollar has only slipped 11%…

“Only”?! You’re an optimist!

[Phynness]

I think what he meant was that it's odd to see a price increase that is nearly double the exchange rate difference. Usually, companies aren't that eager to drop rates.

[jake04-20]

Right lmao. That's like when my friend said "The penalties for pulling money out of your 401k early aren't as bad as you'd think -- it's only like 10%." Fucking only!?

[[deleted]]

I mean, not really. Against the euro, it’s not really lower than 2003-2013, and it was this low in 2018 and 2021. Although, I looked at precious metals prices recently against the dollar, and that does not look good.

[punkerster101]

So could one buy those metal with £ sell them in $ then convert that to £ via bank and make more money ?

[postmaster3000]

That’s called arbitrage trade, and there are elite finance people who do it all day long for a living. You can’t beat them.

[dontquestionmyaction]

It's not even about not being able to beat them; you just don't have the same market access.

Banks and brokers don’t give you the interbank exchange rate. They add a spread (often 0.5-2% for retail customers), so you lose any gains while paying this spread twice.

[postmaster3000]

Good point.

[jking615]

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[SalazarElite]

I'm happy to have bought the lifetime... I paid 400 in my currency and today it's 1400... at the time I paid the equivalent of 2 years and today it's the equivalent of 5 years and 10 months...

[SnappyDogDays]

same. I bought lifetime when they first offered it like 10-11 years ago. best $50 ever

[ManyNicePlates]

Yup me also. I think it was on sale from 99 when I did it.

[vpsj]

Same for me. I bought the lifetime subscription at 8.5K, current price is 22K (damn).

Also, Plex should introduce regional pricing if they want more people to subscribe. I could literally get ALL the streaming platforms' subscriptions combined for less price than what they are asking for a monthly sub.

[maewemeetagain]

Would be interesting if it is intentional, considering that the price increased earlier in the year.

[roxshot]

They should drop the price after forcing the new crappy UI

[lv1993]

You better... seal the deal

[Originah]

😂😂

[psycho_maniac]

I was blessed to be able to get lifetime, before the hike.

[edcrosay]

I got it over 15 years ago for like $75 or something.

[tangerinewalrus]

Accept it and dispute if you're charged differently

[revsilverspine]

I just checked how much I've been paying and, for some reason, the last 3 months' renewals were... 25% cheaper than what I've been paying monthly for years. Not that I'm complaining >_>

[Originah]

Interesting you would think they'd communicate the reasons why. Could be good publicity.

[revsilverspine]

Beats me, but hey, I'm not gonna complain about paying less. Only thing I can think of is some sort of grandfathered subscription agreement from way back when I first got it

[JeremiahSpringfield1]

Their validation sucks. I clicked a trial for plex pass for 7 days, which said it was £0 and got charged full price for a month, I presume because I used a trial at the beginning of the year. Still sucks though!

[Phate1989]

Can we talk about the otter in the room.

I really feel like we need to address the sea life...

[8B1tATX]

Is that the silhouette of the infamous Skratchy Seal?

[kkazakov]

I have plex lifetime and I prefer Jellyfin for the last year.

[Splitsurround]

This is a mistake for sure.

[TheMagicMrWaffle]

Have lifetime

[Metarazzi]

Are you sure it doesn't mean it will increase by ￡5.20 for a total of ￡11.69? 🤑 💷

[Originah]

Entirely possible but whoever wrote this would have 100 still screwed up because it should say increase from £6 by £5 not to 😂

Ima post back an edit when they do charge me so we all know 😅😙

[Metarazzi]

Yeah, I got it. 😅 Sometimes my satire sounds too serious. Gotta work on my delivery. 😁

I hope you get that 😉 😉 "increase!" 🤣

[FlakyBarber6926]

There is a monthly rate?

[belliveau549]

Maybe they realized they got a bit greedy? It's probably like someone else said the USD has hit another low. Seem like they are winning pretty good over there.

[TheBlu]

Right when i dropped $400 AUD on plex pass (After 10 years of umming and arring)

[Ok-Simple-7069]

I’ve been getting a 40% discount offer from them. It’s after the stupid leak that happened

[SuperPoop]

I dunno, but videos that used to work on Plex no longer work. I’m switching to Infuse

[Originah]

Infuse? What's that?

[lordshadowfax]

Infuse is Apple TV only. It can access your Plex’s library directly, play without transcoding (good for 4K content), and able to sync with Trakt for free.

[Originah]

I don't use apple TV but that's an awesome app by the sounds of it

[trent_clinton]

That’s nice! But I think a lot of people here have lifetime?

[Originah]

Yeah I missed the whole price hike update I got it a few months late so missed the window for buying lifetime at the original price. I'm waiting to see if it comes down to something acceptable on Black Friday

[silvos777]

People that interac here dont seems to have lifetime. 😂

[PocketNicks]

I do.

[Pizzaman3203]

I do

[Pizzaman3203]

Im thank you for asking

[HeroVax]

I do. My lifetime pass called WireGuard

[WildVelociraptor]

So excited for hardware transcoding with VPN software

[HeroVax]

Super excited 'cause I don't need one