saving $10/month

[rainbabies]

goodbye cable, hello dish.

today the dish guy is coming and we're saying goodbye to our cable.

it's only saving $10/month...but hey...that's $10!!

i hope we're happy with it.

similar experience recently: switched from one cable company to another, saved $7/month ... AND $119 for 3 months! I guess if you average out the $357 over 12 months, I'm saving a bit more over time.

The cool new thing here is they aren't making you sign year contracts anymore, so you can switch when there is a great new offer.

[SuzySunshine]

This is something I'll be looking into very soon. We switchd oru phone, cable, and high speed all to one carrier a few months ago and now that the "complimentery" periods are ending my bills are WAY to high. So I'm going to shop around and then go back and say match it or I'm leaving. Gotta pinch those pennies!

[rainbabies]

a friend of mine switches her phone carrier twice a year.

verizon will send her some great deal along with a $75 check. when the deal is over in 6-9 months, usually AT&T ( i think) will send her a deal and another check.

she keeps her home and business number, saves $$ and gains a check. if you have the time to do it, not a bad little deal.

I'm not too thrilled with Comcast either. :hey:

What is with all this competition? I want competing cable companies.

[rainbabies]

really, you dont like comcast? we loved them in baltimore...but here we have suddenlink. more like suddencrap. i hate them.

[DCJenn]

Comcast sucks arse.

I'll have to google it but there was a woman who was attempting to deal w/ her charges and turned calling the cable company into her full time job and finally started to get some movement and then received a bill addressed to "Bitch".

um, they paid out on that one.

Jenn

[rainbabies]

was it sprint i just read about? "if you need service...see ya"

they cut off a bunch of complaining customers.

Comcast is expensive. I wish I could get DSL here, even if it isn't quite as fast, it costs a lot less. I have occasional outages. The outages are due partly to the rats in fur coats that run along our lines but Comcast is sometimes a PITA about fixing. Most of the repair people who come here are pretty nice but it is ALWAYS my TV or wires or whatever until I convince them to take a freaking peek and then what do you know, its their fault!

I haven't had billing problems, thank goodness. I do know of a resident who put her Comcast bill on Autopay. Someone made a keying error and instead of taking out $90 for her payment took out $900. They told her they wouldn't correct but would catch up with her on the next billing cycle. It is ridiculous how much time she had to spend getting them to realize that was completely unacceptable.

[MissCrabette]

My first thought was that we've never been anything but pleased with Comcast in Baltimore, but then I remembered my experience with them in Arlington. I had free internet for almost four months and they never bothered to send me a bill, not even after I called them several times. It's not like I just plugged my router into the wall. I had to go through this whole activation process during which they collected all sorts of information. Why they never billed me is beyond me. I actually got a credit statement, probably from the previous resident, though it had no name on it. Oh well. :huh:

We had flawless service with Comcast in Nashville. I wish we could get it here. With Time Warner cable, my mailbox fills up with about 10 emails. WTH?

With Time Warner cable, my mailbox fills up with about 10 emails. WTH?

Just use gmail. You get a gig of free space, and it grows the more you use it. I can send you an invite if you want.

As far as switching from Time Warner to Everest - I sent Time Warner my payment ($126), and then after canceling received a statement w/a bunch of credits saying I only owed $18. So I now have over $100 credit w/them. I called today about getting it back, and it takes FOUR TO SIX WEEKS! Thank god we're not in residency when $100 could make or break us. Still, it's irritating. $100 is $100!

[rainbabies]

soooo...the other day, the directTV guy never showed. he did call and tell me things went bad with his other calls. okay, i forgive you..plus it was lightning, thundering and pouring rain.

well, today im not feeling as forgiving. it's now a bit after 4 and i have been waiting since noon..and he is NOT HERE! i hate the schedule of between noon and 4. WTH?

SO NOT HAPPY right now. i just called and left a not so happy message for the local company who installs.

[poky]

I'm a little ticked with our local directv people, too. We had an install scheduled between...I think it was 8 and 12. About 10:30, DH heard some noise, looked out the window, and there was a directv van, driving away from the house. wtf? That's....odd. So about 11:45, we call, and say "um..it's almost noon, we saw a van over an hour ago, what gives?" They looked it up; the guy had said we weren't home. Why? Because he called the number on the order form from the van (the number was our old landline in Portland, and was NOT the one I'd given them to call). Never got out of the van to knock on the door, never even thought "huh...503 isn't a local area code, maybe this isn't the right number", nope, just assumed we weren't home.

So I complained, the guy called the local company, who called their dispatcher and said they'd have the tech come back later that day, and would call me as soon as they had an estimated arrival time (they had the correct numbers, this time). You guessed it, never heard from them until the tech knocked on the door about 3 hours later. :P At least it DID get installed the day they said it would. But only because I called and complained. Thankfully, we were both home all day that day anyway, but man, what a PITA if we'd had to take time off for it.

[DCJenn]

Oh yeah- we've had the "I called and no one answered" bit. I've then asked for the number that they called and invariably it's something someone made up. No number I've ever had anyway. Happened with cable and the alarm company.

CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS THESE DAYS.

Jenn