Comment Way to make the problem worse (Score 5, Interesting) 481
Wow, this is corporate stupidity at its finest. How exactly will this make more people subscribe?
The only reason for this is that the CEO is freaked out about a stock drop and is overreacting. If anyone deserves to be fired it is the Netflix CEO. Everyone knows that the most powerful tool in business is brand recognition, and they are just throwing it away.
From what I understand most of the people that dropped the DVD service did it because they weren't using it and it was just a good reason to do so. If anything this move will force more people to drop the DVD service as they will lose they que and no one will like having to pay 2 separate bills from same company.
Way to go Netflix you just make a small problem much bigger by overreacting. I have a feeling that their stock is going to tank today.