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04-07-2009, 07:46 AM | Topic Starter |
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Cable Companies : A RANT!
Do you ever get tired of being nickel and dimed to death? I do
My latest edition of the cable bill came with a little increase this last month. Over $2 in one month with no explanation on the bill. Looking closely between last and this months bills I found a difference in the "Maintenance" charges. The charges jumped from $2 to $3.95. Why a nearly 100% increase? Time to get on the phone and find out. I get a very nice lady on the phone that explained the whole situation to me. She said that the company had people on all different pay scales in the computer system. Now that they've discovered the discrepancy the company had the bright idea to set everyone to the maximum scale in the system. I was not very happy by this point, and because the rep on their end was nice, I held my cool. I told her that I thought they were wrong for posting the increase to the bill with no explanation for the increase. With the economy in shambles the way it is, putting more financial pressure on your clients is not very wise. I ended the conversation with a, "Well I'm not paying for this anymore" and got the maintenance removed from my bill. What was I paying this for? To safeguard some Coax cable and a splitter? Not me! No more Nickel and Dimeing this dude anymore! |
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04-07-2009, 07:53 AM | #2 |
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04-07-2009, 08:03 AM | #3 |
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Cable companies are the bane of my existence. I despise the way they do business.
I thought Time Warner was bad, but then I moved down here and was exposed to the absolute worst customer service in the world when I signed up with Comcast. I've considered getting a corporate job with them just so I could F them up from the inside. |
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04-07-2009, 10:03 AM | #5 |
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TWC raised mine from $140 to $190 in one month (admittedly, the first year incentive package had ended, but of course they didn't let me know it was over). I called to see if I could get it brought back down to about the same as I'd been paying, loyal cable customer that I am. They said no- I said fine, then I just want RoadRunner and nothing else- brought the bill down to $50/mo. By not showing they'd work with me on a more reasonable bill, they lost over $100 in monthly revenue. Screw the greedy b**tards.
This pushed me to drop the landline and cable TV and replace them with my existing Sprint cellphone lines and Netflix. We're happy as clams. Z
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04-07-2009, 08:23 AM | #7 |
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Local telephone companies often charge a maintenance fee too, they call it "inside wiring".
In general, it's a ridiculous ripoff. |
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If your house is fairly new or you know how to troubleshoot it may be the case. But 90% of the homes I work on are frogged together and daisy chained from one end to the other. If they have wire maintenance, I stay there until everything's working. That may entail running whole new wiring. If you don't have maintenance, I prove that the phone works to the NID, let you fix it yourself, or charge you $52.00 an hour to troubleshoot/fix it.
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However, even the average non-techie can pull phone cable. For alot less than what is charged. In this case, you're buying an extended warranty but not for something you can't fix yourself but something you're too lazy to do yourself. |
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I'm strongly considering just getting rid of cable and downloading any TV on the Internet. I'm seeing less and less reason to have it, and just need to talk my wife into it.
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A half mile is WELL within the 20,000-foot range of standard DSL. In fact, at a half-mile, 15Mb DSL could be available. |
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