Cablevision 101Mbps: $300 'Activation Fee' > Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee?

reply to Bit

Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee?

Of course it would which is why their major competitors don't do it. You don't think Verizon would charge $300 for every top tier install if they thought they could get away with it?

reply to TheWiseGuy

Then you would do an ETF, not an activation fee. This is just a junk fee so they can advertise $99 without having to charge "only" $99.

If you think about it, if you amortize the activation fee over 5000 years and 1 month, there was no activation fee since you paid less than 1 cent for it each month. Actually you paid $0.004999999999999c for it each month, that gets rounded to 0, so in effect the activation was free.

reply to Matt
Why not have a $1500 activation fee and a free first year? FREE 101Mb INTERNET ought to look great on a billboard. These junk fees are such B.S.

reply to Matt

reply to Bit
ETFs are barred in a lot of cable markets (which would preclude bundling). And even if not barred, tend to make for very sour franchise renewal negotiations later.

Activation fees should be barred too. CV isn't "activating" anything, otherwise the same charge should be levied against all HSI subs. If they want to charge for the cost of the modem, let them do it, and it becomes the property of the customer.