I think I'm going to start charging my cable company money every time my cable TV, my phone, or my internet (or ALL three) go down. My cable TV has been out now for about an hour. Don't you think they should take some money off my bill? I'm sure if I added up all the times I lost one of the three, it would add up in a year's time. I should start keeping track of this and send them a bill.
I think I'm going to start charging my cable company money every time my cable TV, my phone, or my internet (or ALL three) go down. My cable TV has been out now for about an hour. Don't you think they should take some money off my bill? I'm sure if I added up all the times I lost one of the three, it would add up in a year's time. I should start keeping track of this and send them a bill.
i tried that they laughed it off
over the years my cable package would go up in price
in the end the standard bill was over 200 a month
and it was really crappy service cable boxes would have to be constantly reset
internet would go down for hours at a time
when we bought a new home i called about a transfer
they wanted 50 bucks for it and we would have bring in the equipment
to a local office
at that point i questioned if i could get a break on the transfer
since we are starting out at square one newbies get free installation
i was told no i complained
finally they offered a five dollar discount --LOL
so i brought up how expensive the package has become
and wanted to know about other packages to cheapen the price
they switched me to another department where i got to listen to their
advertising for a 1/2 hour or more
once someone answered we went through various options
and they all ran around 200 bucks
the newbie package was 89 bucks a month
when i pointed that out and since they are forcing me to start over
we should be considered a newbie as well
i was told that was not possible
and that i should be damn thankful that my bill was only 200 dollars a month
then she wanted to know if she could switch me back to service
i told her i would get back to her
after i hung up we googled direct tv
ordered up the service
they came straight out the new house promptly
i have had them for three years now
and has been a really good service for tv
i use a local phone company
and a local internet company
all three combined are cheaper then the cable comp
plus direct gives us a 10 dollar break for everyone we
recommend to their service
I think I'm going to start charging my cable company money every time my cable TV, my phone, or my internet (or ALL three) go down. My cable TV has been out now for about an hour. Don't you think they should take some money off my bill? I'm sure if I added up all the times I lost one of the three, it would add up in a year's time. I should start keeping track of this and send them a bill.
I think I'm going to start charging my cable company money every time my cable TV, my phone, or my internet (or ALL three) go down. My cable TV has been out now for about an hour. Don't you think they should take some money off my bill? I'm sure if I added up all the times I lost one of the three, it would add up in a year's time. I should start keeping track of this and send them a bill.
Call them each time it goes down, and ask them to refund that day. They will.
I recently found out that Dish uses refurbished DirecTV components.
Thanks though. 
I think I'm going to start charging my cable company money every time my cable TV, my phone, or my internet (or ALL three) go down. My cable TV has been out now for about an hour. Don't you think they should take some money off my bill? I'm sure if I added up all the times I lost one of the three, it would add up in a year's time. I should start keeping track of this and send them a bill.
I recently found out that Dish uses refurbished DirecTV components.
I called DirecTV the other day to tell them I will be returning the bedroom units that came with my signup package two years ago because I never use them. He told me that depending upon what units I had, they may not want them back. They would just cancel the service to those units and I presumably would just throw those receivers away.
Seems pretty wasteful.
Yeah, it looks like it's just in test cities right now.
I don't know that we have that service available here. I've never heard of it before.
I am going to look into what other services are around. However, I think Comcast is like the monopoly for cable around here, unless you can have a dish. I don't even think we have Verizon in my city (also fiberoptic network I think).
Thankfully, I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I like to have it on for the background noise. It's just TOO quiet around here. Lol!
Guess what? It just came back on! Woo hoo!
I think I'm going to start charging my cable company money every time my cable TV, my phone, or my internet (or ALL three) go down. My cable TV has been out now for about an hour. Don't you think they should take some money off my bill? I'm sure if I added up all the times I lost one of the three, it would add up in a year's time. I should start keeping track of this and send them a bill.
Seems relevant.
More seriously though, yea, that sucks.
If it's any consolation, however, satellite's not much better. My service is slow as Hell, and they're constantly jerking us around on coverage as well.
I recently found out that Dish uses refurbished DirecTV components.
I called DirecTV the other day to tell them I will be returning the bedroom units that came with my signup package two years ago because I never use them. He told me that depending upon what units I had, they may not want them back. They would just cancel the service to those units and I presumably would just throw those receivers away.
Seems pretty wasteful.
Yes it does seem wasteful. I wonder why they would do that?
Come to think of it, I just got a new modem last week from Comcast delivered to my house (which I haven't hooked up yet because I'm dreading getting behind the PC with all those wires and dust bunnies, lol), and they never even asked about the old modem. I wonder what I'll do with that?
Yeah, it looks like it's just in test cities right now.
I don't know that we have that service available here. I've never heard of it before.
I am going to look into what other services are around. However, I think Comcast is like the monopoly for cable around here, unless you can have a dish. I don't even think we have Verizon in my city (also fiberoptic network I think).
Lol.
I can't get satellite anyways because I rent a townhouse, and my landlord won't allow it.
