{"id":1648,"date":"2012-10-08T16:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:21","slug":"amazon-buy-netflix-12-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/amazon-buy-netflix-12-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Tried To Buy Netflix For $12 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb10\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1649\" title=\"Amazon Tried To Buy Netflix For $12 Million\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/amazon_and_netflix.png\" alt=\"Amazon Tried To Buy Netflix For $12 Million\" width=\"183\" height=\"121\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1649 lazyload\" title=\"Amazon Tried To Buy Netflix For $12 Million\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20183%20121%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Amazon Tried To Buy Netflix For $12 Million\" width=\"183\" height=\"121\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/amazon_and_netflix.png\">Netflix, a service that we have come to love over the past few years. It&#8217;s certainly a service that I use on a daily basis with it installed on my xBox, laptop, and also my phone. However it&#8217;s only in recent years it has really started to motor on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">According to a book which goes by the name of Netflixed, Amazon made an attempt to buy the video streaming company Netflix in the 1990&#8217;s but were turned down due to the offer being too small for Netflix founder Reed Hastings, who went on to state that he was &#8220;less than impressed with Amazon&#8217;s $12 million offer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">Amazon themselves have predictably denied all knowledge of an offer ever being made to Netflix. I imagine the reason they are doing this is because they don&#8217;t want to be associated with a business deal that they lost, which turned out to be a billion dollar company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">Of course Amazon now own the LoveFilm service as well their own video streaming service which is now available to premium Amazon customers, known as&nbsp; Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">Which video streaming service do you currently use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix, a service that we have come to love over the past few years. 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