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Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | hilarious "anytime after 3 years Charter will not offer any refunds"?!
at the current bid (near $15k), that would mean the monthly cost is more than $400! who in their right mind would consider this? | |
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BloodRoses
The Purple Faerie
Premium
join:2003-03-17
New York, NY | Re: hilarious That's on top of considering the worst fact of all... you'd be using Charter. | |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL | Re: hilarious Why not...at $14000 a pop, charter only needs 1,357,143 of these fools to get out of debt! | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by BloodRoses  :That's on top of considering the worst fact of all... you'd be using Charter. Well in my area it's Charter or at&t and it's whopping 6 Mbps/512 kbps tier for $48( without phone service, $43 with ) or for $50 I can get 10 Mbps/1Mbps with Charter. | |
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Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA | Re: hilarious I love it - you quote: $48 price (without phone service) for DSL and claim $50 for 10mbps cable - BUT it's actually $60/month for 10mbps cable bundled with TV, or $70 without TV.
$48 isn't close to $70, sorry. | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: hilarious said by Jerm :I love it - you quote: $48 price (without phone service) for DSL and claim $50 for 10mbps cable - BUT it's actually $60/month for 10mbps cable bundled with TV, or $70 without TV. $48 isn't close to $70, sorry. Sorry first of all 10 meg is $50 with TV $60 without. Try getting your facts straight. Trust me I know what the prices are in my area.
Secondly I have no use for a at&t phone line thus I would have to pay the extra $5. I do have Charter cable. Thus I would only pay $50. So $48 is close to $50. Even if you want to compare $48 to $60 guess what it's 6 Mbps vs 10 mbps. 67% more speed for an extra $12 and double the upload. Um yeah I'll take that deal. | |
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Premium
join:2000-09-04
Collinsville, IL
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March 14th, @08:54PM
| Re: hilarious And with Charter, how much of the time do you get full bandwidth. With ATT I can't remember a time when I was below my speed.
When my dad had Charter HSI he had muliple outages a week. So many that he gave up calling it in to get a credit. | |
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Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
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March 15th, @01:42AM
| BF69 -
If I go to Charter.com and type in an address and zip for Camden TN the prices I am presented with are the ones I quoted (after the promo period). Try it.
From Charter's website:
$59.99/month for 10mbps + $10 fee (in fine print) for no CATV
I have nothing against you personally, I'm just quoting what WHAT THE CHARTER WEBSITE SAYS FOR YOUR ZIP. What one thinks is the price is irrelevant, go to the source. | |
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join:2002-10-07
Sparks, NV
| said by Jerm :I love it - you quote: $48 price (without phone service) for DSL and claim $50 for 10mbps cable - BUT it's actually $60/month for 10mbps cable bundled with TV, or $70 without TV. $48 isn't close to $70, sorry. Wow I must be one of the few. For 10/1 and Unlimited LD phone for 50.00 a month for a year  | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| said by BF69 :said by BloodRoses :That's on top of considering the worst fact of all... you'd be using Charter. Well in my area it's Charter or at&t and it's whopping 6 Mbps/512 kbps tier for $48( without phone service, $43 with ) or for $50 I can get 10 Mbps/1Mbps with Charter. so its currently 25 years before the bidder sees one dime of benefit! what idiots
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ykronic
Premium
join:2006-01-31
Canada
| Re: hilarious said by dvd536 :said by BF69 :said by BloodRoses :That's on top of considering the worst fact of all... you'd be using Charter. Well in my area it's Charter or at&t and it's whopping 6 Mbps/512 kbps tier for $48( without phone service, $43 with ) or for $50 I can get 10 Mbps/1Mbps with Charter. so its currently 25 years before the bidder sees one dime of benefit! what idiots well, it is suppose to be 'for life'. 25 years is generally minimum for a life sentence in prison. | |
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BloodRoses
The Purple Faerie
Premium
join:2003-03-17
New York, NY
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| said by BF69 :Well in my area it's Charter or at&t and it's whopping 6 Mbps/512 kbps tier for $48( without phone service, $43 with ) or for $50 I can get 10 Mbps/1Mbps with Charter. I've been faced with that decision myself in the past, I wanted faster but in the end I chose Verizon DSL at 3 Megabits. I would do it again if I had to. I've in fact lived in multiple Charter areas, and have a long list of bad customer experience with them. That's not to say I would have problems with them again, but past history makes me not want to even bother, personally.
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RadioDoc
Put Out The Cat
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
Chicago, IL
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| Oh hell. They should have etched an image of the Virgin Mary into a cable modem and sold it on eBay. They'd have bids easily an order of magnitude above that...
Apparently the sucker birth rate has accelerated considerably above one per minute.
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greendragon
Premium
join:2003-09-20
Stewartville, MN | Re: hilarious ROFL | |
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MrMoody
Sittin downtown in a railway station
join:2002-09-03
Clayton, NC
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March 14th, @11:11AM
| Bidiots Just goes to show what bidding fever does to certain people. I wonder how many of them seriously intend to pay. | |
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| cahiatt
Premium
join:2001-03-21
Smyrna, GA
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March 14th, @11:42AM
| Re: Bidiots Petoskey, MI $25.00 3/12/2008 12:22 PM CDT
That's smart money right there.... | |
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pokesph
It Is Almost Fast
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
clubs: | bids. Umm, uhh... I.. think.. I'll.. bid $1.00 Bob.. ..err Drew. | |
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kd6cae
P2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Riverside, CA
 ·Dreamhost
·Charter Pipeline
| Wy is Charter is so much debt? I don't understand Charter. Here in Riverside, the network has been rock solid for the 2 years I've been on it, with only two outages in that entire time. Yet some of their other areas, such as nearby mountain communities, they won't upgrade their cable plant to even support modern high speed internet? then there's this claimed upgrade to 16/2, well where is it, and why haven't any of their markets here in Southern California certainly, seen this claimed new tier?
Could these be just some of the reasons they're so far in debt? | |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | Re: Wy is Charter is so much debt? those are symptoms of being so far in debt.
the cause: stupidly acquiring other companies/cable locations that they couldn't afford. | |
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wifi4milez
In Need Of Garbage Pail Kids 1st Series
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
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March 14th, @11:41AM
| What a bad idea..... I sincerely hope that nobody actually gets stuck paying for this "service". I wont even renew my cell phone contract (I have been month to month for years), let alone commit $15k to my cable company. If they offered some assurance that the winning bid would be honored even if they were bought then it might be a better deal, but capping it at 3 years is terrible. Some jerk is going to win and go take out a loan, then when Charter (is sold/imploads/etc) they (dumb consumer) will be stuck paying the bank a few hundred dollars a month for service they no longer have.
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deadzoned
Premium
join:2005-04-13
Baton Rouge, LA | ** Devil's always in the details isn't it? Wow, someone is going to get screwed hard when they win that auction for "Free service" for life.  | |
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| rid0617
join:2003-07-20
Greer, SC | Re: ** "Devil's always in the details isn't it? Wow, someone is going to get screwed hard when they win that auction for "Free service" for life"
And then announce they just sold the company | |
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outofbounds
@sbc.com | wow If you are the winning bidder and outside the service area, will Charter build out to you to fufill the contract? If so, the $15K may be just right for someone that can't get BB. | |
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| MOTO6809
join:2007-11-05
Springfield, MA
| Re: wow said by outofbounds :
If you are the winning bidder and outside the service area, will Charter build out to you to fufill the contract? If so, the $15K may be just right for someone that can't get BB.
Read the fine print.. | |
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jester121
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | hehe That's like me optioning futures on my liver (available after I die of cirrhosis). | |
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netwire
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Mooresboro, NC | I'm lost... I do not understand how this is "free service for life" I mean, you are still paying for it! Any idiot that placed a bid and truly intends to pay... I have no pity for them. | |
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Doggett
@sanmina-sci.com | Re: I'm lost... NO WHERE does it say "FREE". It only says High Speed for Life. Why are you trying to inject the word free in there???? | |
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gatorkram
Spelling and Grammer impared
Premium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
clubs: | Fun and Sport People spend a heck of a lot more money than this, all the time, every day. Ever been to Vegas?
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join:2007-09-30
Cleveland, TN | 16k 16k now | |
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marigolds
Gainfully employed, finally
Premium,MVM
join:2002-05-13
Saint Louis, MO
| Bidding on the Wii People are not bidding on the service.
They are bidding on the Wii.
You can -only- be entered to win the wii if you bid.
As for the "winning bid":
Once notified, the winner must make full payment to Charter within 48 hours of notification. If full payment is not received within this time period, the next highest bidder will be declared the winner and so on until the winning bid is paid in full.
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cscottm
join:2002-05-09
Kent, WA
·Qwest.net
| Does this come with unlimited bandwidth? I wonder out of the people who are bidding the 19+ amount for lifetime service, will actually pay for it, and if they do, even though its lifetime, does this also include unlimited bandwidth. Charter would probably have some loophole saying that its lifetime service & not unlimited bandwidth & that alone would allow them to cancel you, but not have to refund anything to you.
Of course I wouldn't bid on anything that says after 3 years if we sell, then you lose. That pretty much tells me that Charter has in their minds that they are going to try to sell slightly after the 3rd year starts so they don't have to pay anything back. | |
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hdman
Flt Rider
Premium
join:2003-11-25
Appleton, WI
·Alltel Axess
 ·WildBlue
| Charter is nothing but a joke.... What a friggin JOKE. Read their fine print on the auction. You must live in their footprint to be able to bid. These clown want to charge me $20,000 to run the cable down the street they SHOULD have serviced in the first place, to service my home. The sad part is that I wouldn't even OWN the cable! Yep, thats right, if a neighbor wanted to then connect, they would pay NOTHING towards the bill.
Yes, I know, get the neighbors together, we did that. There were a few who didn't want to pony up the upfront charges, but there would nothing to stop them from signing up later on. Charter is a joke, and that is from experience. Long story, but they promised the service one fall to begin in the next Spring. When Spring came, they denied ever making the promise.
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whackamol
@mastercard.com
| Bid to $34K Plus Bid is now at $34K plus.
No, these are not people just trying to win the WII as all you have to do is 'Register to Bid' to be put in WII drawing. Forcing people to Bid to get a chance at the WII would be illegal.
Also, the peeps currently bidding all have multiple bids in which shows they are not concerned with the WII. Apparently they are just rich lemmings....
Also, Charter has been very specific that it is not 'unlimited bandwidth' but the highest bandwidth available in your neighberhood.
Bidders are hoping Charter doesn't get bought out or they are sol. | |
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wisccharterislam
@charter.com
| charter look at the stock price over the past 5 years!! the bitch is going down down down as is the company. mgrs dont dont care and inslave worker to work off the clock without pay and are being sued. they are not paying down the 20 billion and why pay for wireless internet when you can get it for free | |
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@charter.com | Price So at $49.99 at month and if you bid $37,790(which the bid is over 41,000), just to break even you would have to have the service for 62.9 years, just to break even. | |
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don544
join:2003-03-23
Ortonville, MI | 71 THOUSAND Was the winning bid,who can not do that math? | |
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