Comcast Offers Broadband Price For Life Promotion > doesn't sound so bad

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Re: doesn't sound so bad

It's not really a scam if the Internet price doesn't rise and the video price does. They're still holding to their word, if their word only says the Internet price won't rise.

Otherwise, how is it a scam? No one is going to deny that Comcast raises rates on video service.

So wouldn't it be more of a scam, especially since there are no contract penalties with this deal, to NOT get the $42.95 deal? I mean, if the price on your TV is going to raise then the price on the Internet is probably going to raise too. So why not get a fixed price on the Internet?

It's only a scam if they trick you into buying video from them when you don't already have it just to get the low Internet price.

Now seriously, you don't think that requiring cable TV service to get a "lifetime price" on HSI is not a come-on?

So you've got your guaranteed forty-three bucks of HSI but in order to keep it you have to pay an additional $25 per month (for the sake of argument) in video service fees over the next five years. You don't think that somewhere in that video price increase is not a hidden HSI price increase? What's the difference? You really think that Comcast does not cross-subsidize in order to keep the only part they have any local competition on--HSI--artificially priced?

And what if you decide to go to satellite like I said? It's a marketing parlor trick. A way to "offer" something of zero value.
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Since there is no contract, I don't see a scam.

If you notice that your video price increased more than normal customers, then you cancel your service.

If it was in a contract with an ETF, then you'd have a point.

Then it's not really a "lifetime" deal, is it?

Pure unadulterated marketing hooey.
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Indeed.