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Re: Jeez said by KONG4:
Your thinking is correct and wrong at the same time. I can understand the bundled savings. As a consumer am I for volume purchase discounts. But there discounting is done BassAckwards.
For illustration purposes lets say that internet only is $50 a month and Cable tv only is $50 a month. The correct way to do this would be that if you have both bundled the price is discounted to $85 a month. The shady way of doing things is like they are doing now. Your internet has been raised to $65 a month. If you want you same price on internet you have to buy the TV service too. And then your bundled price will be the current price of $100 for both services.
There is no savings. There is only a price hike and extortion to a market that prolly on the whole does not have another choice.
Bundled services have to start somewhere. You think people were pissed off when insurance companies increased prices for people with car insurance if they didn't buy home or life insurance at the same time? As I said, some people see this as a rate hike, but those are the people with just cable internet at the moment. Others just see it as bundled services.
As I have said before, another way to do it was charge ALL new customers this new pricing plan. If you want cable internet only, then charge the new amount. If you have both and drop cable TV, then charge the new amount for cable internet. I don't know if that would have worked, but it might have.
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