nightdesigns
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Re: COMCAST SUXORS
said by vic102482  :
Just because I have DISH I have topay your MORE
Sounds about right to me. You went with their competor, therefore you are not deservent of a discount. Just order the damn cable and not use it, it's cheaper in the end. Such crybabies. If it's cheaper to get it with the cable, then get it, no one said you had to USE it!
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Kaltes
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Los Angeles, CA | Next time gas prices go through the roof and you complain, remember what a hypocrite you are for calling someone else a 'crybaby' because they are upset at getting gouged. |
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nightdesigns
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| I'm not complaining about gas prices, then again i don't drive a SUV. I just deal with it, along with everything else. And if there was a deal where i'd get 50 cents less per gallon if i got a tire rotoation along with it (bundling), then i'd get the tire change as well. I don't see what everyone's complain is when there is a way to get around it. Yes if there was no alternative, then i'd be a bit annoyed. Don't forget, there's always DSL. |
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Kaltes
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| I don't think you understand the gravity of the precedent that this price hike is creating. If consumers let this slide, where will we draw the line?
Besides, your example was about a discount. Let me change the facts to mirror Comcast's facts: lets say you go to buy gas. You find the only gas station for 100 miles in every direction. The gas station charges $2.00 for gas usually, but today they jack up the price to $2.66 per gallon, unless you also get your tires rotated.
Let's say you neither need nor want to have your tires rotated, so you stuck with a choice:
#1. Pay for something you do not want in order to get the usual price for gas.
#2. Pay a 33% higher price for gas.
As you can see, the END RESULT is a choice between an illegal tying arrangement, and a massive price hike which may itself be an abuse of market power and trigger anti-trust action. Comcast is really violating anti-trust laws in 2 seperate ways, and claiming that because it is only violating 50% on each it should not be held to account.
If you read the threads on this, you see pro-Comcast people claiming this is not a price hike because you can accept the tying (they call it a 'bundle'), and you see people claim it is not an illegal tying arrangement because you can pay the higher price! |
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nightdesigns
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| said by Kaltes :
Let's say you neither need nor want to have your tires rotated, so you stuck with a choice:
#1. Pay for something you do not want in order to get the usual price for gas.
#2. Pay a 33% higher price for gas.
You forgot the third option, the option i'm pointing out.
Use option #1, and tell the guy not to rotate them (purcahse and not use). That's what i'm saying to do with crapcast. Order the cable, but you don't have to use it. Just saves you $$ which everyone likes. |
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Kaltes
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| Yes I know but you still have to PAY for that rotation even if you do not use it.
Furthermore, I tried to do exactly what you are saying. I told Comcast that I didnt even own a television and that the only reason I wanted basic cable was to avoid the even higher price hike.
BUT
The Comcast salesperson checked with her boss, and it turns out they MUST come and perform and install (which I would have to pay for) anyway.
So I had to borrow a television from one of my friends so that the Comcast people could put a splitter on the line and then plug the line into the TV.
But it didnt work......
So they blamed my tv (being a BBR reader Im not that stupid, It was obvious that Comcast had not taken the filter off my line, so I wasnt getting a tv signal).
So we sat around for over an hour, then they installed a cable box (which they shouldnt have done for basic cable) and told me that I had to have a box or the service wouldnt work, because something was wrong with my TV. The box comes with a nifty $3 rental charge, and the hassle of equipment return.
So even over my objection they assured me it had to be this way. Once they left I pulled the cable out of the box and plugged it into my TV, and WOULD YOU BELIEVE, it worked.
So I called up Comcast and told them to pick up the box immediately. They did, but didnt give me a reciept and didnt confirm the pickup, so I had to sit on the phone to make sure that Comcast put a not on my account that they picked it up, because what WOULD HAPPEN is that Comcast would say I still had the box, and charge me like $400 if I didnt return it (which I couldnt do bc I wouldnt have had it).
So then I unhooked the TV and returned it to my friends place.
So now I am paying for a service I dont use and pay $53 a month, because if I did nothing I would have had to pay $60 a month.
The end  . |
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vic102482
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said by nightdesigns :
said by vic102482 :
Just because I have DISH I have topay your MORE
Sounds about right to me. You went with their competor, therefore you are not deservent of a discount. Just order the damn cable and not use it, it's cheaper in the end. Such crybabies. If it's cheaper to get it with the cable, then get it, no one said you had to USE it!
-j
Well why dont you move to China you seem to support their beiliefs on speech.
This is the US I have a right to complain and damnit I am going to exersise it!!
I want Dish cable around here sucks I cant even get tech tv, wtf is up with that. Comcast is the only service provider here and its not a DISCOUNT its a FEE.
3 months ago I got it for 39.99 NOW I pay 59.99 what discount?
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