whocareswhatitis
@sears.com
| Wii Promotion
I live in the Chicago suburbs and heard the radio ad for the free Wii this morning. The disclaimer at the end of the ad stated for new residential customers who sign a 24 month contract. Promotional rate ends after 12 months and normal service fees apply after. So it sounds to me like you are going to pay a hell of a lot more over the months 13-24 than the Wii is worth. There was no mention of credit checks from what I heard. |
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Jonbo298
join:2004-01-12
Council Bluffs, IA | Good way to screw someone after 12 months. Take the Wii now, then later when the 13th month bill arrives, you are ticked at how much it went up, except you're stuck for another year.
Suckers! |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | reply to whocareswhatitis
What a ripoff. Just like all their promotions. |
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Corydon
Cultivant son jardin
Premium
join:2008-02-18
Denver, CO
clubs:
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I'm trying to figure out what exactly is wrong here. When I've signed up for cable in the past, they almost never offered promotional rates for as long as a year. IIRC, the promo on my HSI that Cox gave me in Phoenix ran out after a mere 3 months.
Comcast has been offering 12 month promotional rates on their triple play for some time now. So unless you're one of those people who thinks they deserve to have an eternal promotional rate, I'm having a hard time seeing the problem.
I suppose you could object to the two year contract. That is something that's new to cable. But no-one's forcing your hand there either. At least here in Denver (which according to Karl is one of the places offering the Wii—I haven't seen or heard any ads yet), Comcast is still pushing the same old 12 month triple play promo with no contract whatsoever.
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ninjatutle
Premium
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | reply to whocareswhatitis
This reminds me of those Free PC offers back in the 90's. You got a free pc system if you agreed to subscribe to some dial up company for 2-4 years. Total rip off and they probably did hook a bunch of uneducated poor people. |
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