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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26
| reply to fiberguy
Ehhh...
"Some people look at phone service for $24.99 and wonder what the catch is... or the old "it's too cheap, there's got to be something wrong with this - no one can sell service that inexpensive and provide something good"... and quite honestly, that group is correct."
This is not entirely true either, since you can still get a basic no frills DEPENDABLE POTS line from at&t for $15. It's the taxes and fees that jack the proce up, but, even then, my basic line is about $32 a month, add $13 for DSL and it's STILL less than Comcast BEFORE the taxes/fees, let alone HSI.
Fact is, packages are for the clueless and lazy and that's how they can charge so much and get away with it, plain and simple. | |
Cheese
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join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
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| said by Fatal Vector  :"Some people look at phone service for $24.99 and wonder what the catch is... or the old "it's too cheap, there's got to be something wrong with this - no one can sell service that inexpensive and provide something good"... and quite honestly, that group is correct." This is not entirely true either, since you can still get a basic no frills DEPENDABLE POTS line from at&t for $15. It's the taxes and fees that jack the proce up, but, even then, my basic line is about $32 a month, add $13 for DSL and it's STILL less than Comcast BEFORE the taxes/fees, let alone HSI. Fact is, packages are for the clueless and lazy and that's how they can charge so much and get away with it, plain and simple. Not everyone can get AT&T though. Hell, if Sprint did this, I would jump on it. | |
Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26 | True...for the moment. But Ma Bell is putting herself back together now and, soon, very soon, your wish may come true. Of course it will soon be true for most of the country once they swallow Bellsouth. | |
fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| reply to Fatal Vector
FV,
I hate to tell you this, but your thinking is old thinking and you aren't getting the point of my post either.
POTS IS dependable.. that's the point. However, for the low cost dial tone line, local only, you are getting just that.. and no ld. People with measured service and use long distance will look at Vonage at $24.99 and say "what's the catch"... what part of that don't you understand?
Try this experoment... take two cars and place them in a parkinglot near each other with a sign in one that says "free, take me" and the other one you put a sign in the window for about $3000 less than retail" and I guarantee you more people will look at the car with a price on it. More people, and this is proven, are skepticle of something that is given away for free. Reduced price is the same thing.
All you can chew phone service for $24.95 is going to get a loony toons triple look at the service.
Also, packages are NOT for the clueless and lazy.. that's just plain absurd! Packaged service, if you do the simple match, are cheaper than when you purchase the service ala cart. For SOME people, the package may be more than they need, but don't discount people as stupid. I've been on the other end of a call center listening to customers who will say no to a package because they know it's more than they need. Consumers aren't stupid. Again.. what part of that don't you get?
It's not plain and simple.. sorry. | |
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