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Re: scum bags indeed This practice is becoming more and more common. Companies are trying to figure out new ways to boost their average revenue per customer. They add fees to generate additional revenues. Like the Charles Schwab commercial said, for some of these companies sending them money cost you money. Verizon is having success with Fios, and it is more costly to lose the television customer than a telephone customer. There are a lot more people ordering extra services like pay-per-view and sports packages for television, then ordering extra services like long distance and caller ID for telephone.
Competition is great for us because sometimes it lowers prices or in reality slows down increases. Companies today are not as big about research and development to create new products that develop a new revenue stream as they used to be. Corporations have greatly cut their research and development departments. The mindset of companies today is to add fees and raise rates on their existing services. |
