said by Dogfather :

The problem is when I went to cancel. The retention agents were horrible and abusive. After asking nicely no less than a dozen times I was finally forced to start yelling at the asswipe "I just want to cancel" over and over and over before the douche finally got it through his thick head. And I'm not alone. Virtually everyone I've talked to who had cancelled had to run the same gauntlet. I would have considered going back if my next provider didn't work out but with that level of abuse, no way.

said by Dogfather :

It's like these retention agents are paid by how many people they retain.