SIL is silently mooching off our Netflix streaming account

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is gutsy... change the password.

No she is family. But DCUM has shown me that most of you women don't value family and/or even know what it means to be a family. Your responses aren't surprising.

[Anonymous]

Personally I would not mind sharing with my in laws (yet) ... They just need to ask "nicely". If you don't like the idea, just change the password. The only thing is that the last time I changed the Netflix password on my iPad it didn't prompt me to log in again on the other devices such as Xbox ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would bother me more is that she would not only have access to shows but also my private account information like my bank information. I would change the password just because of that.

+1. Regardless of your attitude about mooching in general, the fact is that this makes you uncomfortable, and you can change that easily by changing your password. If she asks for further access to your Netflix account, I suggest pointing out that it can't be used in two places at once and this causes problems when your family wants to watch a movie but "someone else" is using the account. If she persists and you decide to let her mooch, you could ask that she call you every time she wants to use it so that you don't run into further access problems; perhaps that would dissuade her.

[Anonymous]

I want to hear about all the other examples of SIL's cheapness!

[Anonymous]

Is your concern cheating Netflix or not following their rules? If so, I would just tell her that and then after discussing it with her, change the password. If your concern is just her getting something for free, what difference does it make?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is gutsy... change the password.

No she is family. But DCUM has shown me that most of you women don't value family and/or even know what it means to be a family. Your responses aren't surprising.

If her sister in law had asked and been granted permission to keep using OP's account then it would be fine. But she didn't and according to OP she is "mooching" off her account. Why is that okay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She is gutsy... change the password.

No she is family. But DCUM has shown me that most of you women don't value family and/or even know what it means to be a family. Your responses aren't surprising.

If her sister in law had asked and been granted permission to keep using OP's account then it would be fine. But she didn't and according to OP she is "mooching" off her account. Why is that okay?

OP says SIL "learned" her password. How exactly? Did she give it to her to key in for the children to watch a movie? If so, perhaps SIL assumed that OP was casual about it and didn't mind her using the account.

[Anonymous]

Op, you said you would change the password without telling your dh. Why is that? Is this his sister? Is it possible he might have given sil the impression that it would be ok to continue using the password?

[Anonymous]

On the one hand, it doesn't affect you, so I get the "who cares" camp. On the other hand, if I didn't really like my SIL to begin with, this would really irritate me.

You're not obligated to allow her to use it, especially if she hasn't asked. If it bothers you that much, just change the password and stop worrying about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to hear about all the other examples of SIL's cheapness!

I'm curious too. SIL has to know that this isn't appropriate.

[Anonymous]

ask her to split the bill. or find another service that you can both share. work together man, find the love

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Anonymous wrote:I know on our account only two shows can be watched at a time. So if the kids are watching something and DH is watching something, I can't turn on another movie without getting an error message.

How old are your kids OP? We change passwords all the time because the older kids see us enter them.

I would just change it. It's annoying to have what someone else watched affect your queue and suggestions and technically it's not allowed by Netflix. If she has the gall to ask about it just say that it prompted you to change your password like it does every 3 months or something.

Viewing history does not affect your queue....only your suggestions.

Except that you have to put something in your queue to watch it. So unless SIL is watching and will continue to watch only the exact show already in OP's queue, she is going to have to mess with it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know on our account only two shows can be watched at a time. So if the kids are watching something and DH is watching something, I can't turn on another movie without getting an error message.

How old are your kids OP? We change passwords all the time because the older kids see us enter them.

I would just change it. It's annoying to have what someone else watched affect your queue and suggestions and technically it's not allowed by Netflix. If she has the gall to ask about it just say that it prompted you to change your password like it does every 3 months or something.

Viewing history does not affect your queue....only your suggestions.

Except that you have to put something in your queue to watch it. So unless SIL is watching and will continue to watch only the exact show already in OP's queue, she is going to have to mess with it.

I meant "exact showS".

[Anonymous]

First - is it that big of a deal?

Second, if it is that big of a deal, change the password and get over it.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she thinks OP doesn't know, which is even sneakier.