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Re: But she still liked it "Many times those agreements also provide for the phone company to work on lines inside the house, something not normally done anymore. For the elderly, its not a bad idea since their houses are usually elderly too. So it means free house calls from a tech.
AT&T calls this "linebacker" service and they pull a $2 a month rip for it. The dirty little secret is that inside wiring RARELY, if EVER goes bad, since it's tacked along the baseboard in older installs, and runs inside the wll in newer. WHAT, exactly, is going to damage it?
This is the same slick crap as charging for touch tone (yes, there are STILL places and telcos that charge $2-3/mo for touch tone.
Ma Bell at her money grubbing finest. |
gao16
join:2006-04-18
Algonquin, IL | How wrong can you be?
The dirty little secret is that bad things happen to inside wirng all the time. When it costs close to $100 for someone from AT&T to come out and tell you that the problem is inside most people wish they had linebacker. Then you tell them that it costs $25 every 15 mins they really wish they had it.
Just like any other insurance you hate to pay for it until you'd be faced with a big bill to repair. Of course if you're disciplined enough to keep money aside to pay the big repair bills you'd probsbly come out ahead not paying for it.
Most people(myself included) aren't that disciplined. |
