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Unit649
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| reply to BrianDamage
Re: Damned If They Do/Don't
Sure they will. Not like its that hard to anyway, even if I was to not have a discount card, my credit card company and/or bank could tell where I shop anyway without any intervention from them. Unless of course I go to a cash only basis, but then my money will make me no money at all, even though 1% or less is pathetic for interest nowadays, its inconvienent to carry cash as well as unsafe, and I somehow have to make a little money with my money anyway. Can't do that without banks or anonymously.
No matter what I do, somehow I will be tracked. Besides, my DNA profile is out there too, well close enough to it, being a security guard I have to be fingerprinted and subjected to rubber glove/drug tests frequently so I'm going to have alot of me on file, well, alot more than the average person at least. I have to be able to drive, so the state will know who I am, and they get my thumbprint and SS# with that. Have to have a gun carry permit to do my job, so now the feds have my info for that.
I actually shop at a grocery store that doesn't use cards. But since they have a no debit card policy, its write a check or hit the bank for $100 each time I go. Thats not convienent, so wallah-my purchases can easily be tied to my name and tracked.
If I ever get sick, I'll go to a medical facility and have who knows what taken from me. Supposedly its used for testing, but who knows-anything could happen to that sample-it could be placed into a database for all I know!
Either way, I'm gonna be tracked. I might as well benefit from the tracking and get discounts on stuff out of it. Its either that or pay full price, walk, and....well, can't live anywhere nowadays without providing a name and a social security number either.
I'm gonna be found no matter what I do to try and hide it. I hope they find the data they collect on me to be interesting. I'm sure it builds them an interesting profile, and it helps them to 'target' me for certian discounts and ads. Not much I can do about it, so I might as well sit back and enjoy it. The worst thing that will happen is some of their junk mail will help me start a fire to keep myself warm in the winter I guess 
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BrianDamage
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So the grocery stores will have your personal info and shopping habits on file, and Best Buy will have that AND your DNA profile....NOT a good idea at all......
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Unit649
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| reply to dvd536
I jump through the hoops, trust me. I'll get my $50 back if I gotta give blood to do it
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dvd536
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| reply to Unit649
said by Unit649  :
But heck, I can't talk, I walk into best buy, see a router or something for $199, then read the fine print saying (after $50 rebate, takes you 8 weeks to get it, today you pay $249) and I go for it.
its basically charging you LIST PRICE then making you jump thru all sorts of hoops to get it for the price that you would have gotten it at had you bought it at a non rebate store. supermarket club card stores do the same thing altho keeping records of your shopping habits and you get the same price that you would at a non card store.
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Unit649
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| reply to oliphant5
Not shocking, the inventors of the bundle were cell phone companies, alot of them ran by phone companies. Those execs have now moved into the wired or cable companies and are spreading this stuff.
Just like on TV when you see something for $19.95. Its twenty bucks, we know it is.
But heck, I can't talk, I walk into best buy, see a router or something for $199, then read the fine print saying (after $50 rebate, takes you 8 weeks to get it, today you pay $249) and I go for it. Thats why the companies do it-it does drive sales, gets the product into the home.
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amenite
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| reply to oliphant5
said by oliphant5 :
How do you please everyone?
You be honest about the bundling.
You don't pull a friggin' Comcast and magically raise the rate $15 (over 30% increase), then claim that those with CATV and HSI suddenly get a $15 "discount". You don't pull a Verizon and charge a good rate of $35 for DSL while requiring the customer to take their overpriced POTS and local voice service.
Or pull a Cablevision/Optimum Online ruse where you offer the service for $29.95/month, then magically raise the rates by 50% in a little over 1 year's time, and reduce the "discount" by 50% also, to a marginal $5 for those with family cable or above.
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oliphant5
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| reply to ArchAngel21x
How do you please everyone?
You be honest about the bundling.
You don't pull a friggin' Comcast and magically raise the rate $15 (over 30% increase), then claim that those with CATV and HSI suddenly get a $15 "discount". You don't pull a Verizon and charge a good rate of $35 for DSL while requiring the customer to take their overpriced POTS and local voice service. There's no discount as they charge $15 more than they should for the "features" that people generally want like caller ID or wishing to not be listed in their phone directory.
What SBC is doing is not only giving the discount off their normal DSL rate but also a small discount off of the normal DN price. That's a real deal (so long as they don't continue raping customers with consistent price increases for POTS related services).
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