TheWiseGuyDog And ButterflyPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-04
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| Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee? A $300 fee on top of a $99/month cost will not keep anyone that needs this level of service from getting it. It works out to 129/month if it is kept a year. What is does is keep someone who wants to just try it out short term from jumping in and out.
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  BitPremium
join:2009-02-19
00000 | 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? | |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by TheWiseGuy:What is does is keep someone who wants to just try it out short term from jumping in and out. That is what I was thinking too. Just look in the OOL forum here at all the people who planned to order it, test it for a month, then downgrade. | |
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 | BitPremium
join:2009-02-19
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1 edit | Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee? 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. | |
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| | MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee? said by Bit: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. 6 of one, half a dozen of another. ETF has a much more negative connotation attached to it for a company that doesn't require contracts. | |
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| | | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee? 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. | |
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join:2009-02-19
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1 edit | 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. | |
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| |  marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | 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. | |
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| | | BitPremium
join:2009-02-19
00000 | Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee? 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. | |
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| | | | marigoldsGainfully employed, finallyPremium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: Corp exec retirement fund contribution fee? said by Bit: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. There's delegated federal authority for barring ETFs though, not so for activation fees. (As I mentioned, this would only apply because of bundling with cable television.)
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|  RARPSL
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Suffern, NY | said by Matt:said by TheWiseGuy:What is does is keep someone who wants to just try it out short term from jumping in and out. That is what I was thinking too. Just look in the OOL forum here at all the people who planned to order it, test it for a month, then downgrade. There is no cost to CV for a downgrade back to Boost since all that is needed on their end is to push a new Settings file to the modem to reset it back to the Boost (30/5) tier. As far as I am concerned, if they want to handle the testers, then just set a $50 downgrade fee if they do not keep it for 3 months. Right now if I want to switch between Standard (15/2) and Boost (30/5) it is done by that aforementioned Settings Push. The Ultra to Boost downgrade is the same (since the Ultra Modem is able to function as a Boost Modem). | |
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