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| How to get my senior citz. parents TV without cable? 255$ month cable bill! |
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| cdev:
They build the mistakes and overbillings they do into their software. I learned that years ago when my then girlfriend worked as part of an education overseas program for a while (she was in the former USSR, not long after the transition) suddenly the telephone provider started making a bunch of billing mistakes, all in their favor. This was before it was easy to use the Internet. There were only a few Internet providers then there and their service was funky at best. you can bet I complained because the telecom firm was overbilling me quite a bit. I figured out that they must have thought I was Russian because who else would call there so often..(She had a lot of interesting stories to tell as you might imagine!) Firms that provide telecom services are basically utilities and they have you over a barrel. Often they have near monopolies which makes them eager to milk the situation for all they can. And they do. Unfortunately they also have international agreements that prevent governments from setting up alternatives of any kind.. --- Quote from: tooki on March 31, 2021, 04:12:54 pm ---The best option is probably to call Comcast and threaten to cancel and switch to something else. And be ready to follow through in case they’re dumb and not willing to come down a lot. But they likely will. You never get a good deal by being a loyal customer to a telecom company. You do the best by switching and availing yourself of new customer promos and the special deals the retention departments can offer when you threaten to leave. --- End quote --- |
| SilverSolder:
I recently called my cable company to complain that my bill is too high compared to the prevailing market nowadays, and that I intended to switch to a competing provider. Magically, they were able to halve my bill! :-// |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: cdev on March 30, 2021, 02:12:54 pm ---Now I am starting to go grey so I am kind of old school, but I remember, when I was younger, television was completely free. --- End quote --- It isn't. Look up the ad revenues and (maybe) tax money that goes into making / distributing TV programs. You basically pay a TV advertisement tax on top of each and every product you buy. Heck even government information distributed through TV ads isn't for free so there goes your tax money. If you add it all up you'll see you pay a couple of hundred dollars a year! |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: pardo-bsso on March 31, 2021, 12:23:19 pm ---Buy the premium package and share it with the neighbours to split the bill? --- End quote --- That's a serious crime, get caught and you can get massive fines or even a prison sentence for it. Seems extreme to me, but it is what it is. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: cdev on March 31, 2021, 03:42:32 pm ---Here in the US its all about the upsell.. They want digital copy protection too. No "analog hole" --- End quote --- Their worry over the "analog hole" is totally ridiculous. Absolutely nobody is recording an analog video signal onto VHS or even digitizing it. HDCP was cracked wide open long ago, it's trivial to record a perfect digital copy of anything that can be displayed on a TV. |
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