Horse&Country TV - plan change warning

[SafeInSage]

Hi all

Just got an email from H&C saying they’re changing their plans today (so much for a heads up!).

Plan used to be £5.99 a month and you could cancel anytime. It’s now £6.99 for 12 months (no cancellation) or £149.99 per year if you want to download show clips. Or there’s a pay as you go monthly flat fee of £7.99 (under which you don’t have access to everything like you used to).

Not sure I can justify having it anymore. I like to delete it when I have seen everything interesting and there’s nowhere near enough new series to justify keeping it for a year. Disappointing to see them putting prices up when they can’t even fix their streaming on apps/TV. You can’t even see a description of a show on fire tv and you can’t skip through a video on iOS. Bit of a joke!!

*Edited by admin to add clarification*

The pricing change is only for new H&C subscribers/plans.

 

[Lady Jane]

Well they have just lost a potential customer. I was thinking of subscribing to watch All Stars and see if there was anything else I fancied, but I definitely won't now

 

[SafeInSage]

Well they have just lost a potential customer. I was thinking of subscribing to watch All Stars and see if there was anything else I fancied, but I definitely won't now

I doubt I’ll stay with them after this. I’ve messaged them to ask if it is absolutely a 12 month commitment. Not going to pay £7 a month for H&C when you could have Disney plus instead, which has heaps more and an app that works.

 

[shortstuff99]

If you pay 12months upfront then it is 4.99 a month.

 

[SafeInSage]

If you pay 12months upfront then it is 4.99 a month.

This is certainly better, but myself and many others don’t particularly want to commit to 12 months of H&C - you’d easily run out of things to watch within 6 months. Just seems greedy. I wouldn’t mind if they were giving us more shows & a better service.

 

[sakura]

lol, no chance

 

[July dreamer]

Thanks for the info. I subscribed this summer just to watch the eventing, probably won't bother next year, I haven't watched anything else on there so probably won’t be worth it to me. With the eventing there was an awful lot shots of the crowd/sky/out of focus/jumps with no competitors..........

 

[Dexter]

Another one who was planning to sign up when I'm off over Christmas and would probably have kept it on if I enjoyed it, but I probably wont bother now.

 

[throwawayaccount]

Money grabbers.

 

[ecb89]

Well they have just lost a potential customer. I was thinking of subscribing to watch All Stars and see if there was anything else I fancied, but I definitely won't now

ASA has had such negative feedback

 

[shortstuff99]

I use it to watch dressage in the winter and the eventing in the summer. Has generally been okay for me. Guess it is more expensive to run now, who knows. Netflix has doubled in price recently too.

 

[SafeInSage]

Apparently they will honour prior plans if you’re still on them, so don’t cancel unless you’d like to switch to a new plan at a later date. Fingers crossed I can stay on my current one for a while!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Thanks for the heads up.

I used to hop onto and hop off the H&C monthly subscription service quite regularly. I only used it (under sufferance, as the delivery is so bad) to watch the major eventing fixtures. However, last time I went to hop off a few weeks ago I had a nightmare, as I couldn't leave without answering multiple questions about why I was leaving and it demanding that I make suggestions how the coverage could be improved. Nothing I wrote seemed to be sufficient, and I ended up telling them to Go Feck Off.

My subscription was eventually cancelled, but they still took the next monthly payment anyway ?.

Avoid, avoid.

 

[teapot]

ASA has had such negative feedback

Oh has it? I thought I was the only one thinking this series hasn't been anywhere near as good.

 

[scats]

I used to jump on and off it as I wanted, but won’t bother now.