morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | hilarious
"anytime after 3 years Charter will not offer any refunds"?!
at the current bid (near $15k), that would mean the monthly cost is more than $400! who in their right mind would consider this? |
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BloodRoses
Gods lend wings to tainted hearts
Premium
join:2003-03-17
clubs: | That's on top of considering the worst fact of all... you'd be using Charter. |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL | Why not...at $14000 a pop, charter only needs 1,357,143 of these fools to get out of debt! |
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MrMoody
Carbon Based Lifeform
join:2002-09-03
Smithfield, NC
1 edit | Bidiots
Just goes to show what bidding fever does to certain people. I wonder how many of them seriously intend to pay. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
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| reply to morbo
Re: hilarious
Oh hell. They should have etched an image of the Virgin Mary into a cable modem and sold it on eBay. They'd have bids easily an order of magnitude above that...
Apparently the sucker birth rate has accelerated considerably above one per minute.
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pokesph
It Is Almost Fast
Premium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
clubs: | bids.
Umm, uhh... I.. think.. I'll.. bid $1.00 Bob.. ..err Drew. |
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Air WAV
join:2000-09-16
Saint Louis, MO | LOL...
Charter needs to pay me $14k to use their service!
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kd6cae
P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Lancaster, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| Wy is Charter is so much debt?
I don't understand Charter. Here in Riverside, the network has been rock solid for the 2 years I've been on it, with only two outages in that entire time. Yet some of their other areas, such as nearby mountain communities, they won't upgrade their cable plant to even support modern high speed internet? then there's this claimed upgrade to 16/2, well where is it, and why haven't any of their markets here in Southern California certainly, seen this claimed new tier?
Could these be just some of the reasons they're so far in debt? |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | those are symptoms of being so far in debt.
the cause: stupidly acquiring other companies/cable locations that they couldn't afford. |
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cahiatt
Premium
join:2001-03-21
Smyrna, GA
1 edit | reply to MrMoody
Re: Bidiots
Petoskey, MI $25.00 3/12/2008 12:22 PM CDT
That's smart money right there.... |
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wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·BroadVoice
1 edit | What a bad idea.....
I sincerely hope that nobody actually gets stuck paying for this "service". I wont even renew my cell phone contract (I have been month to month for years), let alone commit $15k to my cable company. If they offered some assurance that the winning bid would be honored even if they were bought then it might be a better deal, but capping it at 3 years is terrible. Some jerk is going to win and go take out a loan, then when Charter (is sold/imploads/etc) they (dumb consumer) will be stuck paying the bank a few hundred dollars a month for service they no longer have.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to BloodRoses
Re: hilarious
said by BloodRoses  :That's on top of considering the worst fact of all... you'd be using Charter. Well in my area it's Charter or at&t and it's whopping 6 Mbps/512 kbps tier for $48( without phone service, $43 with ) or for $50 I can get 10 Mbps/1Mbps with Charter. |
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DHRacer
Fire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA
·Charter Pipeline
·Verizon west (ex G..
| reply to kd6cae
Re: Wy is Charter is so much debt?
Not totally sure what you mean by "nearby mtn communities" but up here I've got 10/1 and it has been rock solid and working as expected. Now their TV plant is for sh!t up here (I miss DTV) but so far the Internet at least works and is fast. I've only had one major outage and that was for 1.5 months, though it was caused by the mountain fires not Charter. I'm still hoping Time Warner buys them. It would get cheaper and better.
No way this area ever gets 16/2, but frankly I'm just thankful it has 10/1.
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deadzoned
Premium
join:2005-04-13
Baton Rouge, LA | **
Devil's always in the details isn't it? Wow, someone is going to get screwed hard when they win that auction for "Free service" for life.  |
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rid0617
join:2003-07-20
Greer, SC | "Devil's always in the details isn't it? Wow, someone is going to get screwed hard when they win that auction for "Free service" for life"
And then announce they just sold the company |
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outofbounds
@sbc.com | wow
If you are the winning bidder and outside the service area, will Charter build out to you to fufill the contract? If so, the $15K may be just right for someone that can't get BB. |
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jester121
Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | hehe
That's like me optioning futures on my liver (available after I die of cirrhosis). |
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MOTO6809
join:2007-11-05
Springfield, MA
| reply to outofbounds
Re: wow
said by outofbounds :
If you are the winning bidder and outside the service area, will Charter build out to you to fufill the contract? If so, the $15K may be just right for someone that can't get BB.
Read the fine print.. |
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netwire
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Mooresboro, NC | I'm lost...
I do not understand how this is "free service for life" I mean, you are still paying for it! Any idiot that placed a bid and truly intends to pay... I have no pity for them. |
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gatorkram
Spelling and Grammer impared
Premium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
clubs: | Fun and Sport
People spend a heck of a lot more money than this, all the time, every day. Ever been to Vegas?
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