Peacock could have simply ruined your Black Friday subscription deal

Thrifty cord-cutters know the key to getting ad-free Peacock for reasonable: Ideally on Black Friday, snag a reduced 12 months of ad-free Peacock, then use Peacock’s month-to-month Premium Plus add-on choice to yank the adverts. Simple, proper?

Nicely, unhealthy information, discount hunters: Peacock is casting off its month-to-month Premium Plus add-on, and those that mixed it with a candy Black Friday deal have some not-so-sweet selections to make.

“We’re simplifying your billion and adjusting your plan,” reads an e-mail going out to Peacock customers this week. “Beginning quickly, we’re not providing Premium Plus on a separate add-on foundation, so we’ll have to cancel your month-to-month Plus add-on subscription.” 

Peacock customers with the add-on are being informed that in the event that they take no motion earlier than a sure date (generally later this month), they’ll mechanically be converted to Peacock Premium—which, confusingly, is the ad-supported model of Peacock. 

Those that need to maintain ad-free Peacock are suggested to alter their subscriptions to the pricier Peacock Premium Plus plan, at which level they’ll be refunded for any unused portion of their Premium plan. 

Now, anybody who paid the same old $80 a 12 months for Peacock Premium plus $6 a month for the Premium Plus add-on (for an annual complete of $152) would really save cash by switching to the full-on Premium Plus plan, which prices $140 a month. A month-to-month Peacock Premium subscription plus the $6 add-on prices $14, the identical as a month of Premium Plus. 

The actual worth of the $6 Premium Plus add-on got here while you mixed it with a particular supply. For instance, those that snapped up Peacock’s 2024 Black Friday promotion—a full 12 months of Peacock Premium for $20—and tacked on the Premium Plus add-on might get a 12 months’s price of ad-free Peacock for simply $92, versus the same old $140/12 months Premium Plus price. 

These customers at the moment are confronted with two choices: both settling for Peacock with adverts for the remainder of the promotional interval or getting a refund for the rest of their Black Friday reductions and switching to Premium Plus at full value. 

Aggravated Peacock subscribers are calling the change a “bait and change,” though Peacock says it’ll honor any present promotional charges till their phrases expire. 

Both means, quickly you’ll not have a handy method to flex an annual Peacock Premium plan to the ad-free Premium Plus tier for a month.