Online services prices are different in every country!
Unlike goods, software and online services prices can be changed easily to adapt to the purchasing power / average income of different countries. Several online services are cheaper in Turkey, a lot cheaper!
You live in Turkey, you have a residence permit and you have a Turkish bank account?
Try converting your services to pay in TL.
Netflix’s platinum plan, for example, is 39.99 TL here and 13.99$ in Canada.
With the current TL/$ rate, getting the Premium Netflix plan in TL is 5$ cheaper per month.
It’s the same thing with Spotify, Microsoft Office, Deezer, Steam, Apple Music and so on…
The monthly family plan for Apple music is 10$ cheaper when you pay in TL!
Those monthly services add up… so this can easily mean hundreds of $ of savings per year!
Some services will allow you to change the country more easily than other.
You can also create a second account without using a VPN (so the website knows you are in Turkey).
Ex : email@gmail.com can become em.ail@gmail.com (You will still be getting the emails directly!)
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