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00000 | I saw these at Compuplus last week Pretty cheap, makes you wonder how Cablevision can justifying their $300 we actually don't want anyone to sign up activation fee.
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| yeah i just ordered my 6120, for $97 with 2 day shipping, The modem was only $80 which is very good for a new docsis 3.0 modem. Hell i was just in bestbuy other day, and they still are selling the sb5101/5102 for $80... So you tell me if its a good deal or not  |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Bit
said by Bit:Pretty cheap, makes you wonder how Cablevision can justifying their $300 we actually don't want anyone to sign up activation fee. Yep because most modems will make many times their cost to the cable company in rental fees. So no "activation" fee is needed. |
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They can't justify it. |
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said by BF69:said by Bit:Pretty cheap, makes you wonder how Cablevision can justifying their $300 we actually don't want anyone to sign up activation fee. Yep because most modems will make many times their cost to the cable company in rental fees. So no "activation" fee is needed. And the activation fee isn't for activating the modem. You can buy and use the SB6120 without a fee if you just use it on the regular speed tiers. The activation fee is if you go on one of the Docsis 3 speed tiers.
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BF69Premium
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Camden, TN | said by fAcEtIOUs:said by BF69:said by Bit:Pretty cheap, makes you wonder how Cablevision can justifying their $300 we actually don't want anyone to sign up activation fee. Yep because most modems will make many times their cost to the cable company in rental fees. So no "activation" fee is needed. And the activation fee isn't for activating the modem. You can buy and use the SB6120 without a fee if you just use it on the regular speed tiers. The activation fee is if you go on one of the Docsis 3 speed tiers. That still doesn't justify it. |
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They don't need to justify it. You need to justify it to yourself. If you can't, then stay with the standard or Boost tiers. |
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BitPremium
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As long as there are no Fry's locations east of Ohio, I refuse to consider them a *national* retailer. (E-tailer, yes; but not retailer.) If Moto were serious, I would have suggested either MicroCenter or, better yet, Best Buy. (Motorola's existing SB-51xx cable modems are already resold through both national retailers and their websites.) Apparently, they are still having availability issues, since they are still resorting to spotty retail availability. |
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00000 | With only 21 locations total, Microcenter is hardly national either.
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said by limegrass69:They don't need to justify it. You need to justify it to yourself. If you can't, then stay with the standard or Boost tiers. Well, things could be worse.. they could raise the price of broadband durring the peak season + holidays (March - October, December) the same way they do with gasoline... thats IF $1 a gigabyte for overages isn't enough... /sarcasm
WHAT?!? Why give a greedy industry new ideas to screw over the consumer... I'm just saying if you keep paying the higher prices... eventually you'll get so used to it.. you'll learn to perpetually live in debt they same way the government does.
At which point, can you really have faith in the monetary system?
While we're at it... call & cancel your cable-tv subscription please. Tell 'em Tmc8080 sent you, courtesy of the Comcast & Time Warner price experimentation thread. |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to BF69
said by BF69:said by Bit:Pretty cheap, makes you wonder how Cablevision can justifying their $300 we actually don't want anyone to sign up activation fee. Yep because most modems will make many times their cost to the cable company in rental fees. So no "activation" fee is needed. Cablevision modems are free rent, there is no line item. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
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They can charge whatever they want, $300 is very reasonable. You want 2*T3 speeds for free? prepare to sell all your family's cars for the installation cost for 2 T3s. |
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join:2002-04-05
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said by tmc8080:Well, things could be worse.. they could raise the price of broadband durring the peak season + holidays (March - October, December) the same way they do with gasoline... thats IF $1 a gigabyte for overages isn't enough... /sarcasm Why would march-oct be peak? Wouldn't the low daylight winter months have more data usage? |
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| said by patcat88:Why would march-oct be peak? Wouldn't the low daylight winter months have more data usage? Gak!!! Shades of the old Compuserve twice a year slowdowns. One in September when all colleges started up and a much worse one in January two weeks after Christmas when people figured out how to get their modems from Christmas working. |
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So they've been a national retailer for a few years now.. At least by your definition since Frys has been in Duluth, Georgia (which is east of Ohio though a bit south of there) for a few years now.
I think what most people expect from a national retailer is to have one within a few hours drive of them regardless of where they live in the continental USA. That isn't likely to happen with a Frys unless they get a big influx of cash and decide to take on Best Buy. That pretty much rules out Microcenter since they are even more computer focused than Frys. I don't think either of these companies want to risk expanding too fast and ending up like Compusa. |
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BitPremium
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$300 is a rip off and totally unjustified. They are only charging it because their network won't support any decent number of users on that tier.
However in true fraudulent fashion they must be able to promote the misleading $99 advertising.
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said by travelguy:said by patcat88:Why would march-oct be peak? Wouldn't the low daylight winter months have more data usage? Gak!!! Shades of the old Compuserve twice a year slowdowns. One in September when all colleges started up and a much worse one in January two weeks after Christmas when people figured out how to get their modems from Christmas working. Don't you mean Compu$erve?
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Which is why I suggested Best Buy. |
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join:2002-11-19
Parsippany, NJ
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said by Bit:$300 is a rip off and totally unjustified. They are only charging it because their network won't support any decent number of users on that tier. However in true fraudulent fashion they must be able to promote the misleading $99 advertising. Oh, I didn't know Laguna Hills was a Cablevision territory.
Right, it isn't. If you don't have the service, you have absolutely no right to call it a rip off, fraudulent, or misleading. What do you know about their network? Nothing. |
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