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Re: What a massive waste
Moving is extremely expensive. They're spending $250M on furnishings alone for this new HQ...and at a premium lease rate I seriously doubt this is going to be cheaper overall. The leases in the new HQ are in the high $30's while the rest of the town even for full service Class A buildings is in the $20's.
Roberts wanted his trophy and the subscribers bought him one. |
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not worth it. |
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1 edit | said by Fiberguy :
SHUT UP YOU BLOW HARD!...
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Another round of chocolate starfish licking of cable from the resident cable shills who like the drones they are spout Roberts' talking points on command.
Fine, let them drop hundreds of millions of hard paid subscriber dollars on their glass tower, video walls and mahogany desks but don't stand there on your shill box telling us how 2x a year 3X inflation price increases and overages fees are necessary to keep the networks up or how all these price increases on video are because of so-called channel extortionists like ABC. It's all lies and bullshit.
F Brian 'Leased BMW' Roberts and his shit service along with their barnacle shills attached firmly to his ass.
With this kind of wasteful spending taking priority at Comcast, it's certainly no wonder people rate the IRS higher in satisfaction than ever worsening Comcrap. |
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You have a VERY strange concept of who's money it is. You imply that the "subscribers" have any say over the money because it's "their" money, as in the subscribers. Need a lesson on economics? Comcast set a price for a product, THOSE OF US who live in comcast territory, unlike SOME around here, agree to pay it. The money changes hand. The SUBSCRIBER got the service, the company keeps the money. See? easy.
Some how you think that the subscribers are entitled to how the revenue of comcast is spent after their bills are paid. ABSURD! The only say a subscriber has is to cancel their service and not be a part of the process.
This is no different than you having any say against the way an Albertsons or Safeway spends their money after you buy groceries, or how Best Buy spends their money.
If you don't like it, then move along - it's not your place to say, NOR judge! You're not even a subscriber! I think you like to bitch, just to bitch! |
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Repeat after me:
"It's NOT MY MONEY!"
You need to remove the implication that it's "subscribers" money.. 'cause it ain't! I suppose the money you make at work belongs to your employer and with your logic applied, they should be able to tell you how to spend it too.
Really, you're not even a subscriber and you're spending an awful lot of time on something that doesn't concern you.
Further, just becuase I don't, again, agree with you and your constant whining, complaining and moaning, doesn't mean I'm a shill. I could care less if this was Comcast, Best Buy, Verizon, or WHO EVER THE HELL purchased this screen.. it has NOTHING to do with WHO.. it's the WHAT.. so you can shove your SHILL up your... $#*Q&*.
All you've done today, like others, it blathered about how you are being wronged and calling anyone who disagrees with you a shill.
SHILL THIS! |
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4 edits | reply to fiberguy
Wrong again sport. I was a customer of Comcrap between ATTB and Time Warner. I have first hand experience with their 2X a year 3X inflation price increases, nastygrams for violating their phantom caps and the ever cool 30% "how dare you not have our crap CATV" penalty.
It is the subscribers money. The subscribers pay and Comcast comes back telling them they must take increases because of this or that. Meanwhile as service gets worse and worse and prices get higher and higher, they build their ivory tower with hundreds of millions of subscriber dollars.
If Comcast and their shills want to avoid criticism, they could stop wasting hundreds of millions of subscriber dollars on bullshit and start providing decent service.
Oh, and yeah, the money I make from my business is my customers' money. In exchange for the sums they pay, they expect and get the best product and best service in my industry. And DAMN STRAIGHT if my customer service rankings were below that of the IRS, I would be putting THEIR hard paid money into improving service and quality, not a new HD screen for the lobby and fancy desk for my office. |
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4 edits | reply to fiberguy
It's the subscribers' money that is endlessly wasted while Comcast takes endless price increases crying poverty over ABC.
With Comcast wasting so much money it's no wonder they're rated lower than the IRS.
What else does Brian Roberts have to say, all-mighty cable spokehole? Go cash that Comcast check and download your next round of Brian's talking points and we can all find out. |
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2 edits | reply to Dogfather
You aren't any more.. If you have those problems, take it to the rant forum where it belongs! |
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Re: What a massive waste
Just remember that Comcast is a monopoly in may of its markets. |
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maxpower
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Since when does being logical make you a shill? |
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maxpower
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Why does the price of gas keep going up? I don't see any HD tvs at the local Shell or Hess. What are they spending all of MY money on? |
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Since when was my last post to this item offensive or OT?  |
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 said by Dogfather  :It's the subscribers' money that is endlessly wasted while Comcast takes endless price increases crying poverty over ABC. With Comcast wasting so much money it's no wonder they're rated lower than the IRS. What else does Brian Roberts have to say, all-mighty cable spokehole? Go cash that Comcast check and download your next round of Brian's talking points and we can all find out. You throw around the charge of "shill" very freely. Perhaps a look in the mirror is in order since as a Verizon Fios customer your vehemence against Comcast has made you suspect as a Verizon shill.
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4 edits | said by TKJunkMail :You throw around the charge of "shill" very freely. Perhaps a look in the mirror is in order since as a Verizon Fios customer your vehemence against Comcast has made you suspect as a Verizon shill. More of TK's selective memory. Funny, I seem to recall assailing Verizon for stealing $2B from Pennsylvania taxpayers while you and the other corporate fanboys defended them.
»They promised PA stuff too
Oops, it seems you missing facts isn't limited to the articles you quote.
And Fiberguy who likes to make similar accusations also has a similar selective memory. »Karl, you have proof that COMCAST published it? Including this post for which he gave me a thumbs-up »Re: Karl, you have proof that COMCAST published it?
So much for the Skeedatl is a shill theory. |
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said by maxpower :Since when does being logical make you a shill? Logic doesn't, but a complete lack of objectivity and constantly excusing the inexcusable do. |
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said by maxpower :Why does the price of gas keep going up? I don't see any HD tvs at the local Shell or Hess. What are they spending all of MY money on? Given the record profits of the oil giants, that is a very good question. |
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said by Dogfather :Logic doesn't, but a complete lack of objectivity and constantly excusing the inexcusable do. Just so I understand the rules, you're making the sole determination what does and doesn't fall into the category of 'inexcusable', and anybody else who has a differing opinion is either wrong or a corporate shill (or both)? |
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4 edits | There's no rules. Someone who CONSTANTLY kisses the ass of any particular business no matter what they do is a shill.
And yeah, I'm safe in saying that Comcast engaging in predatory pricing in inexcusable and Verizon stealing $2B from Pennsylvania taxpayers in inexcusable. I also say that Comcast wasting hundreds of millions on their ivory tower while their customer service sinks below that of the Internal Revenue Service is inexcusable. I say charging $7.50 for caller ID and $1.50 to stay out of the phone book, 'you didn't use enough long distance fees' and converting the USF into regulatory recover fees are all inexcusable.
The shills defend their price increases. The shills defend their horrid customer service ratings. They defend the wasting of money. They defend their draconian network management policies. Hell, they defend charging $1.50 to keep yer name out of the phone book. Meanwhile they CONSTANTLY assail competitors, no matter what good they do.
You can disagree with some of these assertions, of course. But when you CONSTANTLY side with the telcos or CONSTANTLY side with cable, or CONSTANTLY side with big business...you're a shill. No business, no industry, no government, no party, no anything is perfect however these various fanboy shills rarely if ever find faults in anything their heroes do.
They're nothing but spokesholes for their coaxial or twisted pair masters. If we wanted talking points, we can get those at corporate websites. |
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"I was a customer"
So what do you care? I think you are confusing a "Shareholder" and a "Customer" If you were a shareholder then you might have a valid complaint. As a customer you can take your money else where if you don't like how they spend the money they make off of you. |
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