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It seems like existing Netflix customers have a strong incentive to "buy" the Chromecast since it is essentially free as long as your Netflix plan is $12/month or more:

Once your Chromecast ships, you will recieve an email with a promotional code for 3 months of Netflix. Offer valid for previous, new and existing Netflix members, one per Netflix account.

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From reading the fine print, it appears that it's only the $7.99-per-month plan that's covered, but you can apply that discount against a more expensive plan.

[Edit: note that that still leaves it very cheap.]

Yes. If you already have Netflix, it's essentially a $12 device. Stupid easy decision to make.

Disclaimer: I just bought one.

> $12 device Not exactly. With shipping plus taxes , total came to ~ $41. So 41 - 3 x 7.99 = $17 device

I don't know, I just bought it on Amazon with free shipping and spent a total of $35, so it's effectively $11 for me factoring in the Netflix savings.

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