NoFatChicks
No, I'M The Exon And You're The Intron
join:2002-06-15
Blountsville, AL
2 edits | Too little, too late
They started way too late in the arena, and they offered too little, for the premium they demanded. |
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odog
Cable Centric Vendor Biased
Premium
join:2001-08-05
Norcross, GA
clubs:
 ·Comcast
·Metrocast Communic..
 ·Vonage
| BYOA needs to be cheaper
$14.95 for email and a portal?
drop it back to $9.95 and more people will take that option.
i don't use AOL, but suggest it to people when they are to intimidated by IE/outlook. at $14.95 is a hard sell, for $10 it wouldn't be nearly as hard.
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GNXPower
Got Boost?
Premium
join:2003-12-18
Huntington Beach, CA
| AOL is way more than email and a portal. Just the Realpass (included with AOHell) is worth nearly $15, then CD quality Netscape radio, etc.
However you have to have people wanting all that content.
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | Subsidize the service
AOL should try and outsource the ISP from the provider, like MSN does for Quest. Cox ISP services suck..and Cox could subsidize this into the price of the bill if they let AOL do what they do so crappy. |
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Taurus333
join:2001-04-06
Ohio | reply to odog
Re: BYOA needs to be cheaper
I pay $7.95 for byoa. They don't seem to publicize this plan but it does exist and has been offered for a few years now. The difference is that $14.95 includes some dial-up hours while the $7.95 plan does not. |
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DHRacer
Fire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA
·Charter Pipeline
 ·Verizon west (ex G..
| How do you get this? My g/f has AOL and her parents have DSL, so she pays $15 a month just to put a front end on the DSL connection (and she pays half the DSL connection because they got it for her).
I've tried telling her she's paying too much and she could save some money, but every time I get her to call they tell her the $14.95 thing, and she doesn't argue about it and hangs up. She will never need the Dial-up, why don't they (AOL) be straight about that and offer only what's needed?
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Mtav80
Premium
join:2002-12-28
Loveland, CO
| said by DHRacer  :
How do you get this? My g/f has AOL and her parents have DSL, so she pays $15 a month just to put a front end on the DSL connection (and she pays half the DSL connection because they got it for her).
Call AOL. Tell them you think $15 is too much and threaten to cancel. You will get get a least a couple months of free service. Then they might tell you how to get the cheaper BYOA.
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL | reply to Taurus333
I, too, pay $7.95/mo. for AOL BYOA. The plan is no longer available, a new plan is tho, $9.95/mo. It's a "don't ask, dont tell" plan through AOL. Call them up, tell a friend has it for $9.95, you want it for $9.95 or you'll cancel. |
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eco
Premium
join:2001-11-28
Wilmington, DE
| reply to Taurus333
How many hours do you get with the 14.95 BYOA? I may be interested in this. I currently still have my old AOL account which I've had for about 12 years now, which I currently just use for vacations and such since I got a cable modem in 1999. I have the unlimited plan and wouldn't mind saving 10 bucks since I only need it for a few hours while on vacation. |
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odog
Cable Centric Vendor Biased
Premium
join:2001-08-05
Norcross, GA
clubs: | reply to Taurus333
interesting
$8 bucks is certainly worth it to many people... |
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justin
Australian
join:1999-05-28
Brooklyn, NY | reply to eco
Re: BYOA needs to be cheaper
5 hours dialup i think. |
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tsifox
join:2000-06-12
There
·Optimum Online
| reply to Rob
I just called them and told them a friend pays $9.95 while I pay $14.95 for the same service and he told me that was a special promotion or something.I asked him if he can switch me to that plan now and he said that it is no longer available.It sucks how they treat long time customers so I guess that's why many people cancel their service.
I may try again and if it doesn't work I will ask them to cancel it. |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
Premium
join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
·Armstrong Zoom In..
·AT&T Midwest
| AOL needs to be cheaper PERIOD!
AOL charges $23.90 for dial-up and I believe $54 for DSL or Cable. The amount of content they include is good, but how much is too much? You stuff your services with all this content and give your users no room to stay connected. Then you have companies like SBC offering DSL for as little as $29.95 a month. I know people that have DSL from SBC, my friends that live down the street for example as I can't get DSL but yet they can, they have just as good if not better content that AOL, and pay roughly $15 less than someone who goes with AOL DSL. As far as their dial-up, that needs to come down simply because people like me, with the best computers on the market, still can't stay connected to the service. I get 530000bps which is excellent for dial-up, but AOL has so much on their server, how am I to stay connected? They need to re-format the service and drop the price.
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98 Feet out of range for DSL and stuck with the only cable provider that won't offer broadband, what's a guy to do? |
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Mtav80
Premium
join:2002-12-28
Loveland, CO | reply to tsifox
Re: BYOA needs to be cheaper
Just call and cancel. I swear buddy of mine got AOL free for 10 months. Just called in to cancel every couple months. Was pretty funny.
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"We're now officially known as the United States of Conservative Prudes" -Blech |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | One big mistake was the proprietary stack
Initially AOL was using their own proprietary connection method over DSL. I had one poor guy that AOL 8.0 flat out refused to work on his XP machine (the AOL packet driver would lock the machine up), he had to revert to AOL 7.0. It precluded a lot of common broadband things like routers and connection sharing. They were also giving out crappy Actiontec USB modems.
They later offered a proprietary router, and finally allowed normal PPPoE login, but I could never recommend going directly with AOL broadband because of the proprietary stuff. I never understood why they did all of that, since they already had BYOA working.
With the cutthroat ISP market they are probably going to make just as much money on BYOA anyway.
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
·Comcast
| reply to tsifox
Re: BYOA needs to be cheaper
said by tsifox :
I just called them and told them a friend pays $9.95 while I pay $14.95 for the same service and he told me that was a special promotion or something.I asked him if he can switch me to that plan now and he said that it is no longer available.It sucks how they treat long time customers so I guess that's why many people cancel their service.
I may try again and if it doesn't work I will ask them to cancel it.
Cancelling won't be as easy as 1-2-3. A friend of mine had OAL for 8 months free. She'd call every month and tell them she didn't have the money (and she really didn't), so they'd give her 3 months free, and 3 months free and 3 months free. Finally on the 8th month they cancelled her account. |
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tonyram57
join:2001-11-08
Brooklyn, NY
| Had AOL for 5 minutes then cancelled.
I had them for 5 minutes about 6 months ago I subscribed for radio@aol and found out that many stations were missing that were in radio@netscape then I the program 8 at the time froze up on me a few times. Plus it was just one big portal site, I clicked links on AOL and they just linked me to other sites. After 5 minutes I called up and canceled. The only problem is sometimes they bug me to sign back up. With this now maybe they will now leave me alone. |
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CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL
| free aol
I installed 9.0 about 9 months ago. I have verizon dsl. I haven't given one cent yet to aol. I called them up to cancel my account and they keep giving me 3 months more for free. For free I will use AOL I love talking to overweight horny housewives.. LOL |
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robie88
join:2003-04-19
New York, NY
| funny, I had AOL for years and then when Roadrunner came to my building I switched but kept aol on the BYOA plan. when they raised it to $14.95 I called them and told them forget it, it was too much so they gave it for free for awhile and then at some point cancelled it. Back then, I told them if they had kept it at $9.95 I would keep it just to hold on to my long term email accounts, but they couldn't do it. I remember thinking what a huge mistake they were making letting long term customers go who had gotten high speed but were willing to keep their foot in the old AOL door.
I recently got 6 months free AOL with a new computer, and it's interesting to see how the mighty have fallen. Sounds like now they would practically give it away to keep you on. When the 6 months end if they would do it for $7.95 I would hold on to it. I don't love it, but some of the content that you used to be able to find for free elsewhere no longer has that kind of availability, so between that and the extra mailboxes 8 bucks a month doesn't seem that bad. I wouldn't give them one penny more though. |
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IllIlIlllIll
EliteData
Premium
join:2003-07-06
Lindenhurst, NY | my main reason for having an account was only for the pr server rooms. |
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