donaldk
Premium
join:2000-10-19
Thunder Bay, ON
| reply to moonpuppy
Re: Figures don't lie but you can lie with figures......
oh I love watching american cable companies advertise cause its stupid. Wow get triple play Comcast for $33/month each (so $99/month at the end of it).
In a very faded almost overscanned bottom of the commerical it says only for the first year and it does not say full price. f*** that I keep my dish thank you very much (which is full of this nonsense cable co ads btw). I seriously wonder what the regular price is (which I bet is what the FCC uses... no I am not glorifying the FCC either, it has its own problems... you could always have the rogue style CRTC which needs a bitch slap in parlament... ). |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to N3OGH
said by N3OGH  :I'm paying those bums $100/mo And there's the problem. Until you stop paying those bums $100 a month they'll keep treating you like one.
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Toolmaster of La Grange.
Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus! |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | reply to JTRockville
500 channels and nothing to watch.
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs:
| reply to Mchart
said by Mchart :selling me new nose hair trimmers! Speaking of which. *cough* |
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crischen
join:2000-11-07
Anderson, IN
| reply to moonpuppy
Give me a la carte. I probably only watch 15 channels.
Local NBC/ABC/CBS/FOX Affiliates (Don't watch CW and actually only watch Boston Legal on ABC.)
Sci-Fi
Food Network
Discovery
USA
Cartoon Network
TBS/TNT
A&E
History
Comedy Central
SpikeTV (For Star Trek)
My Cable Company (Insight) used to offer three packages for their digital boxes at $5 each, but recently (Nov.) combined them into one $12 pack and added about a dozen new channels nobody will watch. I called and cancelled it and told them I wasn't going to pay it til they added Boomerang.
I mean, yes, you can argue the per channel cost is lower (because of must carries that cost nothing getting averaged in), but 90% of the channels are garbage.
Someone mentioned ESPN costing $2.50... to be honest, if the channels I watch (that aren't free must carries) were that much, I'd still save money.
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-Kinsey
Geeky chix0r |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by crischen :Give me a la carte. I probably only watch 15 channels. It's funny. Some of the same people who yell "let the market decide" are the same people who don't want ala carte pricing.
I'd venture to say that a good portion of the channels out there would not survive if they weren't packaged wth other channels. Maybe they need to charge more for ads and pay their way onto a cable system. |
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idjk
@sprintlink.net | reply to Mchart
Anybody remember when cable 1st came out it was ad free- that was the reason for the monthly charge. |
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