i have not lost any debate and i have not ignored anything you've said. you have still YET to reply to the $92 cable bill i have. you're only reply is that cable is "expensive".
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i have not lost any debate and i have not ignored anything you've said. you have still YET to reply to the $92 cable bill i have. you're only reply is that cable is "expensive".
I considered myself paying extra to NOT watch commercials. Up until I dropped it this fall, I could record 6 HD shows at once on my $94 sat DVR service, and watch them anytime. Never watched commercials for the last decade, even live sports I'd start watching later. (used to pay for NFLST, too) Between Hulu's crappy Flash player and the bizarre commercials, I try to stay away. I'm certainly not going to start paying them even $1/month until their service is worthwhile. How is that opinion hard to understand?
I'm really going to have to figure something out come summer. Hulu is the only source of some of the shows my family likes, other than cable/sat. Actually, it'll be before summer that new seasons start.
(and I don't drink coffee)
time warner cable. our plan is $86.99/month plus tax= $92 and some change/month.
they give you free cable modems for the internet and they charge you $6.99/month on the HD box but then they discount that off and include it in the promotional price of $86.99. now that plan only lasts for 12 months, but as soon as it's gonna end i call back in for the same promotion and they gladly add it.
when verizon fios 1st came out here in dallas i checked them out to see about pricing and for me to run 2 extra tv's i would have to pay extra bc each tv needed a box on it even if it was sdtv.
with TWC i can just plug the tv's into the cable jack and get 100 channels without having to pay extra for any boxes.
Let me give you some perspective. You sound like you are in the Dallas market. You are LUCKY. Dallas has one of the most competitive areas for TV/Internet services. For my part of the country, my competition is Comcast vs Comcast--literally. My options for TV are to have Comcast or satellite (not really an option for me) and high-speed internet is either Comcast (can get 50mb/s) or Clear (owned by Comcast, 3MB/s and shaky at best). Internet speed is what is important to me because I download/stream most of the TV I watch. So yeah, my bill is $76 too. $60 of which is Internet.
Your theory on calling 'retentions' to get your bill reduced after your promotional period isn't the same for everyone either. When I said I wanted to cancel my TV because the bill was too high after the promotions stopped--talking to multiple people mind you, different days--I was pretty much told to not let the door hit me on the way out. (this was actually screwed up on my account and they ended up charging me more, but that is a different story for a different day)
Long story short, Comcast knows that no competition = no reason to offer good rates.
Sad thing is, they don't show their 'ala carte' rates on their website either. They pretend they do, but they still try to jack them up if you really want service that way.
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Comcast bought AT&T Broadband here maybe 8-10 years ago, then to celebrate a few years later they bought TWC. Now we have: Comcast.
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Seriously? I live in Dallas, Tx and get my cable/internet from Time Warner. Yes, I also get it cheap. Thing is... I'm not ignorant enough to think everyone gets it this cheap. So I will go ahead and address the insanely cheap cable bill issue for Surf Monkey. In a few places you can get cable for that cheap. Most places you can't. Stop acting like since one little blip on the map gets it for cheap that means that everyone does. Yes, we all understand how insanely cheap you get your cable, etc. etc. etc. Open your eyes to the rest of the world.
Seriously? I live in Dallas, Tx and get my cable/internet from Time Warner. Yes, I also get it cheap. Thing is... I'm not ignorant enough to think everyone gets it this cheap. So I will go ahead and address the insanely cheap cable bill issue for Surf Monkey. In a few places you can get cable for that cheap. Most places you can't. Stop acting like since one little blip on the map gets it for cheap that means that everyone does. Yes, we all understand how insanely cheap you get your cable, etc. etc. etc. Open your eyes to the rest of the world.