 BitPremium
join:2009-02-19
00000 | Caps are crap and the arguments for them are crap... Cause you never see the actual tier price drop. It doesn't make service cost less for a single soul, just rapes some customers for even more money.
If these cap promoters were actually telling the truth about light users versus heavy users, you would see a $7.50 "connectivity" fee and then the metered billing. But no, they still want their $45+ base price whether you download a single thing or not and then go up from there.
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | I know, what did we EVER do to them OTHER than make them lots of money. Why must they feel the need to skrew us. |
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BitPremium
join:2009-02-19
00000 | It's fine if they try and screw people...that is free enterprise. What I want to know is why they feel so compelled to try and bull-S about it. If they want to put their customers over a barrel be honest about it. Doing this endless circlejerk of "customers love paying higher prices" is getting them nowhere.
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | I agree, if you are going to skrew us(which they DO have the option to do that as they own the ISP not us) have the guts to tell us to our faces. |
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 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to Bit
said by Bit:Cause you never see the actual tier price drop. It doesn't make service cost less for a single soul, just rapes some customers for even more money. If these cap promoters were actually telling the truth about light users versus heavy users, you would see a $7.50 "connectivity" fee and then the metered billing. But no, they still want their $45+ base price whether you download a single thing or not and then go up from there. If you look at Cable Pricing, you will find their OFFICIAL Connectivity Charge is $5. I base this on how much of a discount I am given if I order an Internet Tier with TV vs. what I am charged if I want only Internet. Thus if some cable company wants to offer Metering then that is the base rate that they should be charging for no usage. If they want to toss in some usage then this amount should be deleted from the charges and the cap/allowance should then be divided from the remainder. That Per-Unit figure should be the MAXIMUM that you get charged for overage. IOW: If my Cap is 250GB and I get charged $50 after the discount fee has been removed, then any overage should be billed at no more than $0.20/GB since that is what I am being charged for the Allocated/Capped usage. |
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