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Worth noting- the $35 Chromecast dongle comes with three months of free Netflix membership (including for existing users), which makes the thing very cheap indeed.

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Just ordered mine. With the three months of Netflix included, my cost is only $11. Ridiculous.

More like $17 after taxes and the cheapest shipping, but still cheap enough for me to impulse buy.

Amazon how has them in stock. I have prime, but I assume it's free super saver shipping for > $25, and no taxes (collected) in many places.

Well that was close.... I also have prime so I figured I might get my chromecast quicker if I cancelled my order from google store which I made 4 hours earlier (I went with cheapest shipping).

Click through the confirm prompts to cancel my order from google. Click to buy from amazon, expected delivery date: 22nd of August.

Arrrrrhhhhhhhggggggg

Flick back to the google store tab and find that it has declared that I couldn't cancel my order. Phew.

Successfully cancel my order from amazon.

Exciting!

So, Amazon actually said when Chromecast might ship by? When I was about to order it, it didn't give any indication of when it might arrive, it just said "we'll email you when we get an idea."

The Google play store guaranteed shipment by August 7, though, so if Amazon really expects it to arrive by late August, I'll just go with the play store.

Oh, wow. They told me July 30. Glad I submitted my order early - didn't realize it was gonna be a line.

Wow, that was quite the steep function. My guaranteed date was 26 July and it shipped a couple hours after I placed the order.

Any idea if the thing can run via a proxy? Could be a fairly clean way of using Netflix from Australia.

It streams from one of your devices, not directly from netflix. If your device can proxy, it can

It would seem the opposite, it does not even need the device to be on while it's streaming from what I've read.

If you get multiple Chromecasts do you keep getting bundles of three more free months?

I'm guessing they'll link it to your Google (Play) account.

Bottom of [1]:

"...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."

I would suspect not.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromecast

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