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 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | Pay TV just aint' worth it anymore.... Well, we've reached the point where pay TV (be it cable, satellite, or Fios) just isn't worth what we're being charged.
Between the internet, Netflix, and my DVD collection, I say who needs 'em?
I can get good HD content OTA with an antenna. Including most home baseball, football and hockey games for free.
If I want to catch a movie, I log on and get it in a day or 2 from Netflix, and I watch it on my terms.
I'm getting really tired of defacto financing athlete's salaries by paying for ESPN and Comcast sports net. Those bozos make too much money as it is.
It may be time to buck the jock-ocracy and ditch pay tv for a while...
Besides, I spend more time reading, listening to XM, and my iPod than I do watching TV, and all 3 of those combined are cheaper than my cable bill....
Pay TV in this day and age is no bargain.....
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|   NOYBSt. John 3.16Premium
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
kudos:1
4 edits | Re: Pay TV just aint' worth it anymore....Ditto
I was all up for getting FiOS TV when they turn it on here in the next month or so. But I am seriously rethinking that due to the price, and will likely just take over the air broadcasts instead. I've done it before and quite frankly never missed the cable. Typically only one or two cable channels are even halfway worth having anyway. Most of my TV viewing is on OPB anyway (Oregon Public Broadcasting) which has over the air HD.
Comcast and Verizon can duke it out over somebody else's wallet. I am tired and fed up with their shenanigans. DSL requires local phone service. Ha! I actually dumped all Verizon services over that until they stopped tying their services (illegally I believe). Went with Cable for internet and third party for cell phone. Then notified Verizon in writing they do not get one more cent from me for any service until they stop tying DSL and phone services and encouraged many others online to do the same. About 6 months later they started offering dry loop DSL (no phone service required). They manipulate everything and their customers every chance they get, until enough of them stand up and say enough. This is the ultimate disrespect of customers. It is a corporate behavior that needs to end. But the only hope of that ever happening is for we the customers to grow a spine and be willing to do without and boycott until they ACTUALLY abolish this type of corporate behavior.
$75 Disconnection fee? You have got to be kidding. No thanks, I can live without FiOS TV. Plenty of over the air HD content available.
I encourage everyone to drop your FiOS TV prior to the $75 disconnection fee going into effect. It is the only way they will get the message. Your money talks, but only if you put it on a leash and talk it for a walk.
CORRECTION:
According to this scanned notice from Verizon (link below) the disconnect fee is $79.99, not $75 as stated in the original BBR article and recited by myself above.
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| | KenAF
join:2006-01-23
Arlington, VA
1 edit | Re: Pay TV just aint' worth it anymore.... said by NOYB:I was all up for getting FiOS TV when they turn it on here in the next month or so. But I am seriously rethinking that due to the price, and will likely just take over the air broadcasts instead. I've done it before and quite frankly never missed the cable. Typically only one or two cable channels are even halfway worth having anyway. Most of my TV viewing is on OPB anyway (Oregon Public Broadcasting) which has over the air HD. If you subscribe before January 18, you keep the current pricing until 2009 (even without a contract). If you sign up for a two year contract, you keep the current pricing until 2010.
said by NOYB:$75 Disconnection fee? You have got to be kidding. No thanks, I can live without FiOS TV. Plenty of over the air HD content available. The $75 disconnection fee is what Verizon charges if you want them to come out to your home and remove all the equipment. There is no fee if you drop off the equipment at the area service center, or ship the equipment back using prepaid Fedex shipping labels sent by Verizon.
This type of fee is fairly standard with cable companies now. | |
| | | NOYBSt. John 3.16Premium
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
kudos:1
2 edits | Re: Pay TV just aint' worth it anymore.... said by KenAF:The $75 disconnection fee is what Verizon charges if you want them to come out to your home and remove all the equipment. There is no fee if you drop off the equipment at the area service center, or ship the equipment back using prepaid Fedex shipping labels sent by Verizon.
Source please. I do not see any of that in the BBR article or any of its links.
Oh and by the way, I do not need nor want triple play contract that seems to be required to lock rates until 2010.
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| | | | KenAF
join:2006-01-23
Arlington, VA | Re: Pay TV just aint' worth it anymore.... said by NOYB: said by KenAF:The $75 disconnection fee is what Verizon charges if you want them to come out to your home and remove all the equipment. There is no fee if you drop off the equipment at the area service center, or ship the equipment back using prepaid Fedex shipping labels sent by Verizon. Source please. I do not see any of that in the BBR article or any of its links. Oh and by the way, I do not need nor want triple play contract that seems to be required to lock rates until 2010. I am the source for the original article.
Search the FiOS TV forum and/or ask there if you have a question about the disconnection fee and don't want to take my word on it. | |
| | | | | NOYBSt. John 3.16Premium
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
kudos:1
2 edits | Re: Pay TV just aint' worth it anymore....
said by KenAF:I am the source for the original article. Search the FiOS TV forum and/or ask there if you have a question about the disconnection fee and don't want to take my word on it.
And yet you misstated the amount of the disconnect fee. According to the scanned notice from Verizon you posted the disconnect fee is $79.99, not $75 as has been incorrectly reported in the original BBR article, repeated here by myself and even by yourself, and maybe a few others. So please do not take offense that I like to know and see the sources first hand.
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| | NOYBSt. John 3.16Premium
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR
kudos:1
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$79.99 to pick up a set top box.
Laughing out loud. Where do I apply for that job. I bet there are a few people looking for a job who would do this for less than half that and give a one hour arrival window to boot.
People, just say NO! to Verizon FiOS rip off. Not only is both the service and equipment rentals (STB & DVRs) way over priced but they want you to pay outrageous fee to disconnect. I guess that is the only way they figure they can get you to stay and continue putting up with their shenanigans. What a joke.
"Pay TV just aint' worth it anymore...." is exactly right.
Or maybe more to the point might be, dealing with Verizon just aint' worth it anymore...
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| | | | | Being "fairly standard" does not make it right. Thanks for the information about no charge when you return the equipment. That makes it better, as I always return the equipment. | |
| | |  MadMANNPremium
join:2005-08-19
kudos:2 | said by KenAF:This type of fee is fairly standard with cable companies now. I have never seen a $79 charge for equipment pickup. The highest I have seen is $20.
Verizon has always been notorious for ridiculous charges, even when they were a POTS-only provider. An example for my area:
VZ Repair charge: $110
Comcast: $24 video & $39 HSI
VZ Telephone Jack install: $105 for 1st/$53 for additional each
Comcast Jack install (cable or phone): $28 for 1st/$14 for additional each.
VZ wall fishing: $110 first hour/$60 each additional hour per tech
Comcast: $36/hour per tech.
VZ Reconnect fee (applys to non-pays or seasonal subs): $60
Comcast reconnect fee (same application): $28
And BTW, VZ typically does not have to send someone in person to restart a service, whereas Comcast does send a tech every time. | |
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| | You know I agree with what your saying. What if 1/2 of America doesn't sign up for Satellite,Cable or FIOS services. What if they get a FTA receiver & look at stations that aren't PAY TV. My neighbor who is a foreign has one of these boxes to look at TV from over in India & Japan. He says that his TV & satellite isn't disconnecting. Half of his programs are brodcast in english too. He paid once for the receiver and he doesn't pay monthly fees. He says that American Companies are ripping us off, forcing us to watch PAID advertisments & we are paying subscriptions for the TV too. They get ppaid double , consumers get the shaft. Then if you have a TIVO or DVR they don't want to allow you to skip the commercials even when you pay an extra monthly fee to have the DVR/PVR.
Americans are getting hosed. Might wnat to take up reading again & the new Amazon Kindle reader may be a huge success! | |
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