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join:2001-08-24
St Catharines, ON | Incredible! It is incredible as in I don't beleive it's a deal. | |
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scooter2479
Mediacom Customer Service
join:2004-04-30
Springfield, MO | Re: Incredible! Can we all say e-machines..... lol | |
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join:2003-04-19
Chicago, IL | $600 for a pc with dialup access for a year is not even close to a deal. It's as standard/average/thesameolechit to me as buying a pc outright and getting cheapo dialup service.
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| williamhines
join:2004-01-13
united state | AOL is stupid i hate that company chargin dsl prices for dial up..i dropped aol 5 years ago and never looked back. your right about them canceling your account before you close...lol aol is retarded.. i hope it fails miserably.. | |
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| CHNYC54
join:2003-07-31
Flushing, NY
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| i386
Unix God
Premium
join:2004-07-10
Tucson, AZ | I'm going to write to this SVP and tell him how incredible his deal is. | |
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raythompsontn
join:2001-01-11
Oliver Springs, TN | Expensive Is Relative Sure the SVP thinks it's not expensive. $23.00 a month is nothing for a person that makes $1,000,000.00 a year. Just like he thinks gas is not expensive as he has never had to fill the tank of his limo. | |
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| Shuddertrix
join:2004-07-08
Botkins, OH
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I can see them give out the (probably Wintergreen or emachines AMD Duron 1.3ghz - 1.6ghz) to people, but this won't last long because his limo might get in an accident or something
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Engineer88
VIP
join:2000-12-01
Smithtown, NY | Re: Expensive Is Relative That explains it - "Sorry, but I don't have a decent connection at home. I'll have to get back on it tomorrow". | |
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DSL4Brains
Premium
join:2003-08-26
Portland, OR
| said by Jammy  :
I have a good friend who still uses AOL (dialup) for himself and his family, and this guy is not a senior citizen, is not a member of a minority group, and he is an accomplished web designer and graphics artist. He is aware of DSL and cable internet connections and can afford them.
Go figure . . .
Jammy
It's probably because it's easy to use for his family. A trained monkey could use AOL...big icons, no guessing, etc. | |
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
| It never changes AOL is a waste of time, they limit free speech, and they are kind of like the internet with training wheels. AOL is the worst provider out there if you want real Internet Provider, look no farther then a local ISP. AOL was cooler when you could get tons of pirated stuff from the private chat rooms, but if you decide you want to flame someone out or even say the word “tampax” in a chat room, you can have your account canceled. I hope AOL goes down in a big burning crash.
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Happy 4th
Premium
join:2001-12-16
CM94sv
| Re: It never changes said by technick :
but if you decide you want to flame someone out or even say the word “tampax” in a chat room, you can have your account canceled.
So that's how you cancel AOL !?? They don't make easy to cancel from my understanding. I think you found the key to my sisters freedom.  Thanks.
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
| Re: It never changes I found out first hand from a friend that did the same thing. I created a screen name "welfarekneegrows", and I didn't even need to bother to call them to cancel, my account was shut off, and they never charged my card again. I've had friends get TOS (Terms Of Service) violations for saying tampax in a chat room, but really the sky is the limit. If you really don't care about your aol account just drop by a public chat room and go off on the many losers that go in there to try to "hook" up on AOL. I used to frequent the Atlanta chatroom alot, and make fun of the people coming online to find love, and to hook up with girls on AOL. So like I said the sky is the limit. One of my other friends has been through 30+ accounts with aol, she always signs back up. She speaks her mind to everyone, and that offends most.
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Voyager2K2
join:2001-10-04
Wayne, PA | Two Words People PC.
Computer give-aways didn't work for them either.
Now People PC is down in the $9.95 dial-up trenches with the rest of them. | |
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Mentiroso
join:2003-10-15
Albany, GA | ! Comments like this are why people with a working brain hate AOL. | |
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i386
Unix God
Premium
join:2004-07-10
Tucson, AZ | Comcast & AOL Heheh...
I see Comcast is competing with AOL now - and I wish them luck.
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@mi.cha | Re: Comcast & AOL Simpily put AOL is a has been. | |
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Premium
join:2002-11-29
Santa Maria, CA
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Heheh...
I see Comcast is competing with AOL now - and I wish them luck.
- Eddie
What do you mean? How are they competing?
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Unix God
Premium
join:2004-07-10
Tucson, AZ
| Re: Comcast & AOL Yeah,
"Attention AOL subscribers!"
"Comcast High-Speed Internet is faster than AOL"
Something like that.
Comcast > AOL. To fix that statement actually, everything is better than AOL. I hope AOL fails and gets more bad reviews on BBR (other than that "it is #1" review). | |
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Flizesh
Premium
join:2003-08-16
Staten Island, NY
clubs: | Only reason.. only reason aol was so big in the first place was cause of their CD spam
and yes, it is a bitch to cancel they will pretty much kill themselves before letting you cancel. | |
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| slpaige
join:2002-04-26
Bentonville, AR
| Re: Only reason.. hah, yeah, I did this free thing so i could get another free thing, some free ipod thingy. So i cancel 2 days later and the guy on the phone is a complete idiot. I finally tell him about 5 things he can do with himself and to shut the hell up (cleaning it up for the boards) and listen to the words comming out of my mouth.
I called up and was very polite for the first few minutes until I figured out what he was trying to do. I started getting louder and more verbal in saying I wanted the service canceled. I guess they are trained to to recognize cancel as "keep it".
So finally i told him the next words i want to hear come out of your mouth are "yes sir, i'll be glad to cancel your service". Before that i had asked to talk to a supervisor (with no luck). I got very vulgar on the phone with him because the idiot would not shut his hole up. But i did get it canceled. After i told him to go f himself. He was all studdering and scared sounding.  | |
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SquareSlinky
Premium
join:2004-05-25
Tampa, FL
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| AOHELL I never had a AOHELL account as I don't like what I view to be censored. If I want news, chat, or anything else, there are other places to get it. AOL has one thing left, their IM program. They do have people hooked, but they don't earn any money from it and the competitors are making waves for them. | |
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spie34
Hmm
Premium
join:2004-01-06
Boise, ID
| AOL? A deal? I don't think that it is a deal at all. AOL is not user friendly. Their email system sucks. Their web browser sucks. Plus it is way more expensive then anything else there is. And on top of that I wonder what kind of computer you can get for 300 dollars? Probably a POS | |
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wuy3
join:2004-08-04
North Haven, CT | Thats True ya I think the days of AIM being free are gonna be limited... time to start converting to trillian or something | |
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drjim
Premium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Torrance, CA
clubs: | Incredible Deal??? Well, now we know who Bagdad Bob works for.
IT'S NOT EXPENSIVE! NEVER, I TELL YOU!
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CurtesyFlush
Bababooey, fafafooey, tatatoothy.
Premium
join:2002-08-23
Fontana, CA
| Mooooooooooooooooooo There's a hell of a lot of people in North America who can't exist unless someone's telling them what to do and how to do it. AOL's sub base reflects that scary trend.
There's also a sense of safety in the pack. GD cattle.
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sic semper tyrannis
Premium
join:2002-05-26
Salem, OR | Re: Mooooooooooooooooooo Well it is about time to take these GD cattle out to slaughter and AOL with them as well.
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npln
Us Army
join:2000-07-17
San Francisco, CA
|  Hell NO
In a years time they will make back the cost of the PC. I wonder what the early termination fee would be. probably the $300 for the PC. PLus the headaches when trying to cancel!!!!!!!!!! Being a former AOL customer it took me 4 months.
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Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
Albany, NY
| AOL Inertia Right now about the only thing AOL has going for it is inertia. People who have used AOL for years (like my in-laws) don't want to go off of it and try another ISP. But inertia will only get you so far, especially when more attractive offerings siphon off your users.
As for the computer "deal", the article states that HP sells a similar package for $450. Add Internet access through Earthlink's PeoplePC for a year at $10 a month (price from the article also), and you'd pay $570. This is $12 less than AOL's "incredible deal".
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Chizep
Premium
join:2002-04-07
Concord, NC
| Re: AOL Inertia said by Jason Levine :
As for the computer "deal", the article states that HP sells a similar package for $450. Add Internet access through Earthlink's PeoplePC for a year at $10 a month (price from the article also), and you'd pay $570. This is $12 less than AOL's "incredible deal".
ELNK and PeoplePC are affiliated? | |
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Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
Albany, NY | Re: AOL Inertia Actually, I was just copying and pasting some of the text from the article and figured that I just never heard of Earthlink acquiring PeoplePC. Now that I'm double-checking it, they don't seem to be affiliated. | |
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npln
Us Army
join:2000-07-17
San Francisco, CA | 1997 I left AOL in 1997 AND NEVER LOOKED BACK | |
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SubTexel
Keyboard Commando
join:2003-11-20
Hampton, VA | Re: 1997 Last time I used AOL was in 1993 or so, and even then it sucked ass. Dropped it after the free 10 hours or whatever it was and never looked back. | |
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mrchris
We don't miss you Bush
Premium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | I left in 1999 | |
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kraughl
join:2002-08-18
Woodburn, OR
clubs:
| This is crazy..... My dad has DSL through local telco. He still uses AOL's Bring your own access package. So let's see that is $39.99 mo for dsl plus $9.95 for BYOA. $50 bucks to have faster AOL. I don't understand. I have tried for years to get him to move away from AOL. My uncle same problem. He has Comcast HSI and AOL BYOA. They just won't give it up. Once AOL has a grip they never let go. It is like crack for it's users. Flashy pages and stuff. Me just DSL with local ISP. I agree with most I don't like things filtered. I like to surf where I want when I want. | |
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Nam Vet
Premium
join:2001-12-03
Allentown, PA
| Re: This is crazy.....
no Praises! |
It takes an act of congress to cancel and untill you do you will be riped off!
»www.planetfeedback.com/sharedLet···,00.html
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xirian
Premium
join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY
| yeah right AOL has to be the crappiest thing out there. All they do is add bloat to their browser. The only reason they still have customers is because people dont want to loose what they are used to. My family pays for aol along with cable internet. I use the cable only, they all insist on using the aol browser and then screaming at me if something doesnt work. Die aol, because of you existing I have to have MORE work. not to mention my parents thinking they would drop FAST INTERNET before dropping the crappiest isp ever. I dont know why anyone would drop 10/1mbit web for 56k. But hey, what do you expect from someone who sees "YOU HAVE A VIRUS UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER FROM THE LAN IMMEDIATELY AND RUN A VIRUS SCAN. [OK] [DELETE] [CANCEL] [DETAILS]", clicks ok, and ignores it every time it pops up :\.
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TercelChick
join:2002-08-13
| Aol Will Make Some Money If they are using a short term instrument, like a bond or E&S policy type dealie to finance the outlay. Basically, AOL can calculate how many of these 300.00 deals they want to provide for, say like 1,000,000 or so, multiply that times the difference in the price of the deal (300.00) from its real cost (in bulk prolly about 200.00), and get an 1,000,000,000 cash infusion for about 10-20 mill.
They pay upfront for the security with money accounted for as a one time charge to earnings (absorbed by parent company), then recoup this cash in the form of the monthly service fees. Customers who terminate before the contract term will likely get a early termination fee. This is the part where AOL make the most cash.
The customer will either 1) pay the termination charge (unlikely) or 2) not (likely). Even if the customer does not pay, AOL will get a nice lump sum chunk, as the defaulted fees will go to a collection agency, which will pay AOL say 60% of the original amount in return for assuming the debt.
This is how Cingular and other wireless companies make money from "free phone with 2 yr agreement" promos. I had a manager at Cingular tell me the company actually makes more money if you terminate and default than they do if you stay within your minutes, and maintain the service. | |
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gooner4life
Oo 2 Be A Gooner
join:2002-08-04
london
clubs: | Re: Aol Will Make Some Money I never was with AOL I first started when I was 12 with those rip off merchants Compuserve (same company now arent they?) an entire 11 years ago scary to think back.
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Unix God
Premium
join:2004-07-10
Tucson, AZ | Re: Aol Will Make Some Money I'm also surprised of this on Gateway's computers:
[code]Six months of America Online dial-up[/code]
It's like... NO WAY! Just ask Gateway to not do it on all of your computers.
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