Right, you over look my point. It's not about switching service providers. It's about getting a promotion that's for New Customers only, when you're really not. That's it.

Yes, there is nothing wrong with it, if your intentions are legitimate. If you have legitimate reasons for moving back and forth between providers there is not a problem.

It's built into the pricing of ANY company. You work in the restaurant business, part of the cost of the meal that is provided to you is the "lost sales" cost. That is, if you order a steak, and it is over cooked, and it is sent back to the kitchen, part of the cost for that steak is included on top the food cost for the steak itself. It is expected that not every steak will be perfect, and that a certain percentage of steaks will be sent back. This is calculated into the cost of the steak when you originally purchased it.

If a company has to change policies, make adjustments to billing systems, hire more people to stop customers from doing this, that only costs them more money. The point being is most people have ethics and don't do this kind of thing, so there really isn't any justification for a company to spend more money to stop it, but again.... In no way does this justify for what you are doing. And for the loss in revenue from customers who do this... it's easier to just rate hike the price for everyone else.

Ar you making up the rules as you go along? Can you show where it states that customers leaving a provider for another DOESNT affect prices or that internet is a cash cow and 100% profit as you have stated in the past?

It's deception because if you stayed as a Comcast customer, that promotion would not be available to you. So you are leaving with the intent on returning only to gain the discounted rate that would otherwise not be available to you.

Bottom line is that it's not illegal and not against Comcast policy. If they don't want churning then they should do something about it.

The idea behind the promotion is for New Subscribers only. It is understandable if you are switching service providers perhaps once, due to a problem with a previous service from another company (right, it's a free market). However, if you are obtaining a promotion that is designed for New Customers only (people who have not have Comcast within at least the past 24 months) or you are purposely switching back and forth between companies for the sole purpose to obtain promotions -- is fraud, or in the very least, by accepting a promotion that is listed for new comcast subscribers only is conspiracy to commit fraud.

Is it jail time or legal actions? No.
Is it wrong, yes.
Does it affect the price of service offered to existing customers? Yes.

This all falls under the first definition "A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.". By canceling your service with the intention of restarting your service 6 months later is deception, as you are posing to Comcast as a New Subscriber when restarting your service. Clearly (given the intent of this thread -- "Never pay full price for High Speed again!!!") the deception is used to unfairly gain a discounted rate... a rate that would not be offered to you if you stayed with Comcast as an existing customer those 6 months.

The equipment, the install, the billing, everything costs something at some level. I dont think I, or anyone in this thread, ever argued that new customers cost the company money.

But really, do you think a company with a plant that can handle 1000 customers but only has 200 customers has the same expense as a plant that can handle 1000 customers but has 890 customers?

Cable and DSL prices are being established by what the market will bear. This only becomes detrimental in places where one has no choice between cable and DSL. Where there is only cable, people who would rather pay $15 per month for adequate surfing and email speeds are stuck choosing between dial-up and premium priced cable. Where there is only DSL, people who would willingly pay $55, and up, for the fastest speeds are stuck with upper speeds substantially lower than they want, and are willing to pay for.

fraud (frôd)
n.

1. A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
2. A piece of trickery; a trick.
3.
1. One that defrauds; a cheat.
2. One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.

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SO HERES TO YOU FONZBEAR!!!
Working the system and causing it to work eveyone else! HATS OFF!

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