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mattmhk
join:2003-02-06
Eugene, OR
| reply to mig288
Re: Well
"conditioning of the sale of one product on the buyer's purchase of another product". Their "conditioning"(ex. $40 for Internet w/ Cable TV or $55 w/o Cable TV) put on their Internet service really does all depend on whether or not you have cable TV or not, which many people choose not to for various reasons. I'm under the Comcast umbrella, and I'm sure a lot of people such as myself dont watch TV and have no need for digital cable or directv. Is it fair to charge someone $15 a month more because they do not wish to watch TV? | |
comcasttech0
join:2002-03-06
Edmonton, AB
| How can you say that comcast isn't forcing their customers to take the bundled packages???
Lets look at the math... if you have cable TV services with comcast, your monthly HSD service will be from $42.95-45.95/mo, not bad
Now if we get rid of their TV services, then that goes up a whopping $57.95-60.95???
What do you do now?? Essentially they're making the customers take the bundled package... and get them to spend more of their money... but it makes the consumer think they're saving a bundle for internet services...
It's a total joke!
anyways, that's my rant!
cheers,
cctech0 | |
TheMadSwede
Premium
join:2001-01-30
Holland, MI
 ·Charter Pipeline
| reply to mattmhk
said by mattmhk  :
Is it fair to charge someone $15 a month more because they do not wish to watch TV?
I agree with you 100% (because I'm in the same situation), but fair and legal are 2 different things -- whether they should be or not (unfortunately). Since it is legal, the only thing that folks in our situation can hope for is that since the fairness of this practice looks questionable, it will be a bad PR move, which will drive change at Comast.
But speaking of PR, we have to remember that high speed internet, while becoming more and more popular, still doesn't exactly have a huge voice in American society. And when the voice is occasionally loud enough to be heard, it's generally only complaining and whining. I'm not saying the complaining and whining are not justified, just that broadband users can seem like a pretty tough bunch to please.
If you owned a cable co and had to make a choice to annoy your TV people or your HSI people, you'd choose the internet ones because there are fewer of them and even fewer within that group that have no TV, just internet.
I love BBR, but us users do often suffer from groupthink in regards to broadband and many of the issues around it. Just because we wear our broadband hearts on our broadband sleeves around here, doesn't mean that the "general public" does the same...or even knows or cares what's going on.
All in all, I guess we can only speak our minds, then wait and see how it pans out.
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Welp -- finally trying this cable thing out. | |
dtiernan
join:2002-01-27
Fillmore, CA | reply to comcasttech0
Which explains, why after 4 years, I am bailing on the cable modem and going dsl. I was an early @home customer here then ATTBI and now comcast. As soon as the dsl is up and solid....I dish goes on the roof.
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