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Get Your First Year of Peacock for Just $24.99 (Regular $79.99)
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I still think it would have been good if Max and peacock had combined. MaxCock would have been worth $25, but just a peacock isn't.
That's the current game. I'm going to 'cancel'...okay here's a big discount to stay. It's tiring.
Alas, it's no longer possible to sub to this, and then pay only an additional $6/mo, or $60 per year to upgrade to ad-free 
Yeah they screwed all of us who got the $19.99 Black Friday Premium Plan promo. Getting the promo and paying the $6/mo for the Plus add-on was a decent deal. However at the beginning of this month they sent us an email titled as, "We're Simplifying Your Billing and Updating Your Plan". What it really should have been titled as was, "We're Simply Screwing You by Billing You More for the Premium Plus Plan"! What they really were doing was hitting us with a shifty bait and switch tactic. They baited us into the $19.99 promo knowing a majority of us would pay the $6/mo for the Plus add-on. Then after 6 months they switched it by dropping the Plus add-on option and said sorry Charlie if you want the Premium Plus Plan you now have to pay either $13.99/mo or $139.99/year! And, oh yeah, we'll refund the 6 months you have left of your $19.99 Black Friday Premium Plan promo. So I told them screw you too. I'll take the $10 and you can shove a thousand dih's into your poker face effer.Alas, it's no longer possible to sub to this, and then pay only an additional $6/mo, or $60 per year to upgrade to ad-free
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Did they cancel the plan for people that prepaid the whole year for the Plus add-on ($60)? I would hope not as you they had an agreement. But month-to-month...anything can happen.
As far as I know, Peacock only allowed people to choose the monthly plan with the Black Friday promo. However, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect them to allow those of us who chose the Black Friday promo to get the Plus add-on for the duration of the promo. I believe most people who signed up for the promo also chose the Plus add-on option. Had the Plus add-on option not been available I also believe that a majority of us would have passed on the promo. I know I would have. I also know the whole experience has left a bad taste in most of our mouths and soured our opinion of Peacock!
$24.99 is close to 30% off of the price for the Premium plan. If Peacock discounted the Premium Plus plan the same amount, it would come to $97.99. That comes to $8.17/month. Guess how much it cost those of us who got the Black Friday promo with the Plus add-on per month... $7.67. That's a difference of ONLY 50¢! So some imbecile at Universal or Peacock decided they would piss off those of us who chose to get the Black Friday promo with the Plus add-on for a measly 50¢!!! Don't tell me that somewhere down the line Peacock won't come out with a promo price for their Premium Plus plan. You know they will and when they do I'll still tell them to shove it up their arse!
All Peacock had to do when they decided they were going to drop the Plus add-on was to do this: Tell us we could get a refund for the remainder of the Black Friday promo. Then turn around and say we could pay $13.99/month or we could get a promo price of $48.99 for 6 months. Sure it would be 50¢ more per month then what we were paying but hell it's only a measly 50¢, right??? I can tell you almost for certain there would be a whole hell of a lot of less pissed off people and maybe Peacock also comes out a whole lot less worse for wear!!!
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