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thinking of making the switch....cable to satellite???

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ChadTower:

If you are an existing customer you just call and ask specifically for Customer Retention.  Then you get what the new customers get.

hulkster:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 08, 2007, 03:50:48 pm ---
If you are an existing customer you just call and ask specifically for Customer Retention.  Then you get what the new customers get.

--- End quote ---

i was thinking about doing that with my comcast service.  that way i could free stuff for the next 6 months or whatever.  thats what my older brother has done for the longest time...and he says hes getting HD stuff for next to nothing.

ChadTower:

Comcast doesn't care.  They'll tell you to eff off and then shut off your cable for three days in a "billing mistake" to prove their point.

boykster:
I'm a cable guy, but mostly because of 2 points:  I can't get a good shot at the birds from where my house is (geographical limitation), and they don't have HD locals on the dish yet and I can't get teh HD OTA (again because of geo issues).

I would definately consider it for lots of reasons, but I'm tired of hearing the flawed mantra that with cable you're paying 'rent' on the equipment eternally...sure, you're paying to use their equipment, but its such a small amount of $$ per month ($5 for the HD PVR) that you would NEVER actually pay off the damn thing.  I priced out the comcast HD DVR I have - they go for $800.  that's a lot of months of $5 to buy that outright.  Add to that the fact that if (when) the DVR dies, I just take it in to a comcast office and get a new one.  No warranty hassles, no calling a tech, nada.

I was really hoping that the HD dish service Voom would have made it on its own, but they just couldn't survive on their own and ended up as content on dish....

ChadTower:

boykster, that's why people swap a year of commitment for that $800 DVR.  It's worth doing for a service you intend to keep long term anyway.  You don't have to pay the rental fee and you get the hardware either heavily subsidized or free.

Though now with the higher end stuff like the HD receivers they're trying to force people to do two years.  That commitment is riskier.

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