Similar to the Kayo offer - free 12 months Binge subscription!
Works on Basic, Standard and Premium plan.
Update: Still working as of 10:31pm AEST (voucher is being accepted) - it may be a bit slow and occasionally error out due to server overload. Keep trying and it will eventually get there
Agreed, however they should not feel obliged to provide you a trial for 12 months for a service that brings them zero value or returns. There is a limit to what they can define as being "free" whilst still maintaining profitability and this whole fiasco would have not have made them any money at all.
the 3 months free trial some people get (if Binge cancelled their 12x months free) is still win for both sides
You can literally download anything off a streaming service for free 24/7 anyways.
100%
When streaming companies like Netflix decide to up their prices, stop password sharing and introduce ads, there is only so much people are willing to fork in.
Yes you can commit a crime just as easy as even jay walking but would you compare it to murder? So no its not the same deal. Your comparison is silly.
@thousandsuns: Not true - I compared theft with theft. Same deal as I stated.
With respect to Netflix they are simply trying to make money so they can continue to produce content. Content which you seem to think is fair to steal. Do you think media companies are simply charities set up to produce free entertainment for thieves?
@miztadave: I never said stealing content is the way to go but I agree everything is available online for anyone who wishes to obtain it that way. I still wouldn't compare downloading content against someone breaking in and taking your belongings. The impact of theft is completely different when comparing it against a billion dollar corporate vs an individual. Yes companies lose money but the impact on individuals is far more greater. So I still do not agree with your comparison.
It's funny you mention thieves here considering if you were one of those folks who tried to get this deal you'd be on the same page. Only difference is instead of downloading you wanted to abuse an issue with the system and attain access to paid content for free. By that logic we are all thieves here.
@thousandsuns: Mu apologies for the misunderstanding - I mistook your reply as endorsement for the practice of downloading content.
I understand your comment regarding the comparison between burglary and content theft. My point is more that both are theft - not a comparison of the effects.
Actually I didn't attempt to access these services via these "deals". I've commented several times, as well as contacted the moderators asking such posts be removed, railing against people piling on posts that are quite obvious pricing errors. It must cause a great deal of pain and cost, particularly for small businesses, refunding these "purchases".
@thousandsuns: I was always amazed that netflix made it so easy to password share even in different countries, I assume they were making good profits and weren't too worried but now the share price has dropped and subscribers are leaving they are working to stop the practice, most other streaming services prevent such practices. You can still get a Turkey netflix HD account for under $4 per month
Yes, when somebody downloads Game of Thrones, they deprive everybody else in the world of the ability to watch Game of Thrones /s
@GrueHunter: Not sure what you're getting at here? I hope you're not implying that the honest folk that pay for content should be the ones funding entertainment for thieves? To state the obvious, if everybody downloaded GoT then of course there would be no GoT or anything else to steal…
Personally if I lose Kayo, which I wasnt currently a paying customer, no big deal and aside from a little 'awww' moment, I'd move on and not care.
But my Binge plan apparently doesnt exist anymore at the price I've been paying (I've been paying $14 for HD - when doing this deal last night I noticed now thats an SD package price). So if they screw me around with Binge and offer less than I had before at the same price, or try to move me to a more expensive plan, I will very rightfully be annoyed. So IMO people do have a right to be a little mad about how this is being handled. Maybe a couple thousand got through last night before they patched the code out, in reality they should have either just let it be and consider it a mistake that cost less than the annual salary of an intern, or at best maybe try to cancel all the new accounts made last night to take advantage of this offer. Screwing with existing (or even former) customers is going to be very bad for them
Successfully managed to get Kayo and Binge last night, but just now Binge stopped working. Kayo still ok though!
Only a matter of time
dreaming if you think Murdoch will honour this
Binge belongs to Murdoch?
yes so does kayo and flash, the other 2 deals that wont be honoured
LOL im glad I missed out on the deal then
Binge also stopped for me this morning.
Worked last night. Now not working. The Kayo site seems down too?
Received an email at 2am saying ‘unfortunately your Kayo payment was declined’
Binge stopped working for me. Received an email saying payment failed for kayo (I didn't subscribe to kayo) and to complete payment and re enter voucher code.
Murdoch better not sell our details on…
I was a prior member. No such emails. They have cancelled all 3 of my subs.
Thank goodness I didn't lose any sleep over missing out on the deal of the year. It's not a deal if not honoured.
Check back on the comments here in 7 days.
Don't need to. Check comments now.
reading at comments, some people still have their 12 months intact so i'm wondering if Binge will eventually cancel them or not.
Not that it matters much if you didn't have a horse in the race tho
Binge still seems OK for me (was a current customer), still shows next payment due in a year and can watch shows.
Kayo is playing shows with no issue but unable to access my account to check the billing dates (former customer but was not active before yesterday for a few months). If they are going around revoking this would be a massive own goal on the brand and would turn me off both for good
I don't care so much if they cancel the code but I'll be very annoyed if I lose my Telstra deal
What was your Telstra deal?
3 months free sub
BINGE has been revoked.
At this stage, my FLASH trial period is showing as being extended to 12 months (I was half-way through a six-month trial).
I was already on KAYO and I didn't touch that.
I signed up for Kayo on new account (cancelled)
Added binge to my existing stream motion with active Kayo. Binge still working so far.
I added BINGE to my existing Streamotion account - it's gone for me. Random outcomes at this stage!
Same for me. Kayo cancelled.
Binge still working (so far).
Under My account > Subscription & billing :
Premium (4 screens) : FREE
Binge access 12 months of BINGE: Starts 2022/04/30 - Ends 2023/04/30
not working for existing account users.
Yeah mine got cancelled too.
Surely this is breach of their terms, if we all lodge complaints to our relevant Fair Trading we should all win as it must be a false advertising claim? As other members have said, they can't just have a voucher with clear terms allow sign up and cancel the next day?
Where was the voucher advertised though? I mean besides here? It seems like it’s F1 related and meant for Kayo (since the just renewed the F1 deal recently).
I’m wondering if this was an employee voucher that got leaked or something? Makes no sense that they would just randomly offer everyone 12 months free on all their services.
I don’t see any reason they would honour this.
If someones existing account gets cancelled and they lose their existing deal… then I can understand being annoyed at that. Sorting it out with billing is likely to be a nightmare as well.
Ahahahahaha
So did anyone with an existing sub lose their existing sub as well or just revert back to their old account?
Did anyone get this deal ?
Well apparently 770 people since it has 770 positive votes, hence why i dont like to vote positive till i know it is an actual deal.
Dogged
An awful lot of harvesting occurred overnight with these streaming deals lol
The entitlement in the comments are reaching sky high
This site summed up to a tee.
I think if they sent emails to everyone apologising that the code was never meant to be shared publicly and offering maybe a reduced trial, fewer people would take issue with it. Lost my subscription this morning. No email, no explanation, nothing.
I don't understand this.
Is every deal somehow revokable by the vendor at will at any time for any reason?
What is the threshold for a vendor to not be held to its offer?
Sure is. Hence this is why when you get discover something keep it yourself until you get it or until sub is over
It was always like this but has become increasingly prevalent within the last two years.
Within last two years, more ozbargainers on this site, enough to overload may be a more advanced servers. May be a matter of time before a big company such as Google buy the ozbargain site, like Musk buy twitter, Scotty will be … for the rest of his life!
Glad I didn't see this.
yeh was working 12 hours ago - now it wants payment.
got to watch 6 episodes of Ballers tho…..
What season?
Watched the first two, would watch the rest but didn’t activate my two free months of binge (facepalm)
Mine got cancelled as well. Didn't some people who got cancelled yesterday night get a 3 month voucher? I didn't even get that :(
Still working here. Previous customer through telstra. My account is showing next payment as 2.5.23.
Mines still live - however I cannot check my account:
Account Details
Manage Account I get this:
"Cannot find entity by key: 'IN_PROGRESS_ARES'."
Shrugs…….so be it - if I have to pay a month, its one less beer at the pub. Then I'll kill it off.
I emailed the support team to ask them to reactivate my free subscription. The dude says voucher code did not come from Kayo or Binge. They will be investigating where these codes came from so they can provide proper actions to whoever is accountable for releasing these codes.
Lmao why did you do that and what did you expect
Since I couldn’t watch any drama on Binge, thought I’d bring some drama to Binge lol
Oof someone is going to have a bad day tomorrow
Might someone has already left and produced code on his last day? lol
Interesting, the codes seem to have started on a reddit AFL forum yesterday and then rapidly spread from there.
Quite a few of posters cranky that it ended up on Ozbargain 😆. Though by that stage it was all over twitter and other forums anyway.
We're at war.
Some day this war's gonna end….
I dont blame them, once it gets on Ozbargain, all the non members / lurkers just swoop in and destroy any chance of the deal sticking. So if it did start elsewhere and they were hoping to keep the deal, i can understand their frustration. Same thing happened to some wine deals i remember which started elsewhere and were going along fine till it came on Ozbargain and got completely destroyed.
Mines still working, but they don't have a FireStick app and sideloading isn't working, so its kinda useless to me :(
Which version of firestick do you have?
the firestick 4k max
Binge 1.1.1 apk works on my 4k max. Only issue is the icon shows blank image. Doesn't show the binge icon, but it works. The kodi option below is another way, which I have working on a old firestick lite or basic edition.
@arsenal1: unfortunately doesn't work for me, opens to splash screen and closes straight away, same as the up-to-date version does
@Tarinedier: Just updating in case anyone else was having trouble: I sideloaded a different appstore called "Aptoide" on my Firestick, and I installed Binge from there and its working without issue (except the icon).
Sideloading worked on mine
Install kodi on your firestick and this repo: https://www.matthuisman.nz/2020/02/slyguy-kodi-repository.ht…
then install his add-ons for Kayo and Binge :) (https://www.matthuisman.nz/2020/07/binge-kodi-add-on.html)
thanks, just tried and this worked great
I was a Binge customer already. I got 12 months added with the offer. I also signed up for Kayo (new customer) and got 12 months. Neither offer has been revoked (yet). I also signed up to Flash, but when I log in it says I'm not a paid subscriber and sends me to the payment page. 2/3 (for now) ain't bad
Nothing canceled here. Watching movie after movie. Just watched don’t breathe 2. However I cannot see any details if I go to manage account. I’m not concerned getting anything charged because I’m a new customer and haven’t provided any payment details or credit card. I just used the voucher…
Mine’s the same except with kayo. Not sure why I still can’t see my account details.
WTF! I don't get it. Others have it still active but got cancelled for most with out any email including me
Mine is still working but I get the 'IN_PROGRESS_ARES' error when I click on account. If they do charge me, there's no way I can cancel my sub anymore.
I got an email from Binge saying "Unfortunately, we weren’t able to complete your subscription yet because we couldn’t process your payment."
purpose of promotions/advertising is to sell something to someone who wouldn’t otherwise buy. I’d sign up if free, and unlikely to use, yet may end up subscribing at expiry due to inertia. I’m surprised they didn’t want CC for “verification”.