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kudos:5 | Even at the average $100/mo for Cable TV/Internet, cable is a cheap entertainment value. A family of 4 going out 2 nights a month for a movie or sports event plus eating would more than exceed the monthly cost of the cable $. And in a down economy, this is still a good deal. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: You know... said by Linklist:cable is a cheap entertainment value. Until you look at what you ACTUALLY GET.
a THIRD of it is commericials 24/7
after 10pm its 90% paid programming[program length commercials]
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Channels like HGTV are effectively paid for by Lowes/Home Depot.
Speed channel is effectively a channel for car dealers and after market parts.
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|  VanPremium
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New Orleans, LA | said by Boricua65:wouldn't it be nice if many people decided to cancel their cable/FiOS/U-Verse subscription? If enough people did so, maybe then these providers will get the message that raising prices is not the way to go. Alas, for many this would be near impossible .
Many would need some sort of internet for work or family or something else. It is how I pay bills and talk to family, etc....and in many areas, people dont actually have legitimate companies competing with the main rival | |
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| | | | Re: You know... said by Van:Many would need some sort of internet for work or family or something else. It is how I pay bills and talk to family, etc....and in many areas, people dont actually have legitimate companies competing with the main rival
Hence why I say near impossible. I too pay my bills through the Internet and also how I get my info (news, business, etc.).
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| | | | said by Van:said by Boricua65:wouldn't it be nice if many people decided to cancel their cable/FiOS/U-Verse subscription? If enough people did so, maybe then these providers will get the message that raising prices is not the way to go. Alas, for many this would be near impossible .
Many would need some sort of internet for work or family or something else. It is how I pay bills and talk to family, etc....and in many areas, people dont actually have legitimate companies competing with the main rival If you need the internet for such things as paying bills and talking to family, that is about as lame as lame can get!!
Try doing it the old fashioned way, like mailing your bill in (might save the post office and it's workers) or using the phone (landline) to talk to family. Most everyone has a cell phone now a days, so that's even another way of talking to family. Better yet, get off the computer and go outside and drive over to the family (provided they're local). Might could even REDUCE the plan you're on with the internet and lower your bill that way.
Overall,
I think it really blows that cable companies are among the leaders of the nickel and dime you to death club though.
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New Orleans, LA | Re: You know... said by cork1958:If you need the internet for such things as paying bills and talking to family, that is about as lame as lame can get!!
Let me see if I understand this....you are trying to dictate how people should communicate (and thus what is 'lame') by how you communicate with your family?
Do you understand how absolutely idiotic and pathetic that sounds? | |
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kudos:7 | I can't tell. Is that a Model-T in your avatar? I'm guessing it is based on your antiquated tone of your post. | |
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AT&Trash and Comcap exploit their monopoly status though and cost a fortune for vastly inferior service to Verizon.
I agree with the sentiment that cable/shitverse need to be canceled but FiOS is okay for now. | |
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| Bill or WillBill or Will Willy J to you LOLPremium
join:2002-05-26
Lumberton, TX | If a lot of people canceled there service due to higher and higher prices then they drop there price to get people back then they jack it back up after they had gotten back all there customers | |
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|  coldmoonPremium
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Broadway, NC
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| Re: it happens said by G0d :This will continue to happen. Everyone acts so surprised every time it does. Costs go up everywhere so what makes you think your cable bill will always stay the same or better yet get cheaper? We just have to either accept it or get something different and pay for that.
It happens because there is no competition period. Open the pipes to all and let the market sort 'em out...
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| | | said by G0d :This will continue to happen. Everyone acts so surprised every time it does. Costs go up everywhere so what makes you think your cable bill will always stay the same or better yet get cheaper? We just have to either accept it or get something different and pay for that.
What you and many people don't understand is that for discretionary service purchases - i.e. entertainment, cost has very little to do with price.
The cablecos know exactly where the sweet spot is that maximizes the amount of money the can extract from the maximum number of customers and they know over time, that number will rise. That's how they set pricing.
All this bleating about costs going up and development of new services is just a smokescreen to make the medicine go down. | |
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join:2009-07-08
New Orleans, LA | This is where people scream that a company can do whatever it wants, however it wants, whenever it wants and if anyone says otherwise? SOCIALIST! YOU HATE FREEDOM! AND PUPPIES!
No, not every company strives for the last, single dollar that it can get. Do companies want the best profits? Sure. But this nickle and dime crap is so far from every business that it sickens me to hear so many idiots continuing this "That is how business is done!" line whenever a company screws consumers | |
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Philly burbs
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1 edit | subscriber loss... I hope the customer service line doesn't end up looking like the old AOL account cancellation problem from hell!
BTW, Comcast, Time Warner and Cablevision (maybe others) are committed to offering introductary offers @ $29.95 each for a year. So, to be able to "afford" that, they have to $$ jack up $$ the prices on EVERYBODY ELSE (read: the LOYAL customer base who wouldn't think of leaving them). They dare you to leave even though your loyal AND paying higher than $29.95 prices for your services. Though timing might come back to bite TWC... consumers are on a roll moving their money out of big banks.. and you KNOW how much of a hassle that is to close savings & checking accounts.. and if TWC's customers are one of those.. I think they're in trouble!! | |
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join:2004-03-11
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Inflation or greed When prices are raised, how do you know whether its because of inflation or greed? Inflation is a scam!
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|  Dude111An Awesome DudePremium
join:2003-08-04
USA
kudos:11 | You dont but knowing how US companies are,I WOULD SAY ITS NOTHING BUT GREED!! (That and not wanting to hear customers bitch about them dropping networks so they instead raise prices to keep the garbage people want) | |
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Bottom line if you want it, pay for it. if you dont then ,well dont. if you chose to keep it.. well than stop complaining. you have a choice... tv or not tv...lol | |
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join:2001-06-11
Downers Grove, IL
kudos:2 | Time Warner = Rip-Off After to moving to a Time Warner only condo complex (thanks to a HOA contract), I have chosen to NOT give a penny to Time Warner for cable TV. Their prices were already a joke and now they want to raise them... | |
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Them pesky yacht payments Don't get lower just because you lost video subs so you hike prices to cover them. if it weren't for sports and watching new shows the day they air, cord cutting would be way higher.
these companies need to stop acting like their shit don't stink.
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Grinnell, IA | This is only the beginning Look for Mediacom, Suddenlink, Comcast etc. to do the same | |
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| | Cancel if you dislike Stop bitching and moaning and cancel if you so dislike. You can watch antenna TV, listen to the radio, read a freaking book and gasp!... pay bills the good old-fashioned way, write and mail in a check.
But I bet most of you complainers out there like your Jersey Shore and Dexter BS and your torrent downloads of Top Gear and Battlestar Galactica and your all inclusive phone so that politicians can bug you over dinner time with robocalls and make you feel wanted and important.
Bah! All the agony! Spare me the nonsense! Do something useful for a change! Go rake some leaves! Plant a tree, chop another one for firewood! | |
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| | | Re: Cancel if you dislike Amen to that! I cancelled DirecTV since I was paying 65$ a month to watch 12 channels regularly. Now for what I paid for DirecTV I get phone w/unlimited long distance, internet and netflix streaming + DVD. I cut my entertainment/internet/communications bill in half compared to what I was paying before. And if those $#^$^@#$@ content providers jack up their prices so Netflix has to raise theirs too much more, I'll cancel that as well and they won't get ANY of my money!! | |
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join:2003-01-30
Riverview, FL
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| Blame The Broadcasters.... Everyone complains when cable/satellite rates rise yet congress allows broadcasters like ABC/ESPN, FOX/News Corp etc raise rates at an alarming rate. This is costing these companies a TON of money and do you really think companies are going to cut into their profits to cut you a break? No. It gets passed onto the customer. So if you don't like it write congress. They are the ones bribed by the broadcasters to allow these huge rate hikes. | |
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| | | Re: Blame The Broadcasters.... the telecommunications act of 1996 was horrible. They said it would spur competition and in alot of areas where is this competition?
Congress needs to give the FCC the right to regulate cable rates again. | |
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| Re: Blame The Broadcasters.... said by mikedz4:the telecommunications act of 1996 was horrible. They said it would spur competition and in alot of areas where is this competition?
Congress needs to give the FCC the right to regulate cable rates again.
I normally do not stand up for big corporations but working for a satellite company I understand more about how this works. I used to think that cable/satellite companies raised rates just because they thought it would be fun and wanted to make a bit more money.
Regulating cable rates won't do anything but hurt the cable/sat companies. I mean I agree companies shouldn't be able to raise rates at will but what should also be regulated is the rates broadcasters can charge for services. Hell even OTA broadcasters charge outrageous rates for cable/satellite companies to carry their stations. You would figure these broadcasters would allow the companies to carry the stations for free or pay the cable/sat companies. They get more viewers which would mean more advertising dollars. Instead they get in bitter contract disputes over local broadcasts? Its all a big joke and prices are spinning way out of control. | |
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Swanton, OH Reviews:
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1 edit | Unhappy With Time Warner's Prices? "And, she said, popular features that allow customers to start shows over or watch television shows on an iPad require money to develop."
If you need an iPad to watch tv, you are part of the problem.
If you can't get organized enough to either watch your show or record it and expect Time Warner to solve your problem, you are part of the problem.
If you can't live without video-on-demand, you are part of the problem.
If you expect every last niche and foreign channel to be available in HD, you are part of the problem.
If you expect Time Warner to do anything other than dream up costly new "features" of questionable value that they can claim are popular and use them as an excuse to continue raising prices, you are part of the problem.
The most expensive commodity in the world is CONVENIENCE. Once they get it in their heads that you will pay to have something made easier, they will start overcharging you for it...and if they have little or no competition-regulation, they will start gouging you and it will never end. | |
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join:2005-08-09
New York, NY | TV is good I like watching television. I'll pay whatever increase comes my way.
I don't watch commercials since I have TiVo. Most channels are not commercials and I don't watch the ones that are. There is a lot from which to choose and I am happy with what is offered.
So shoot me.
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join:2001-08-31
Byron, GA | Cox customer Am getting sick of these companies increasing costs and it's
Not warranted,if cox increases my bill I will cut back by what they will increase it by.
I already decreased my directv bill by 25%
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| | | Re: Cox customer Im dropping my TW phone and TV next month, getting DTV and will use my cellphone also thing of getting the new Magicjack+ seeing as it plugs directly to a router now. | |
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Byron, GA | Re: Cox customer said by Heated Man:They are in business to make money!!! It is called a business for a reason. It is not a charity. It is a simple concept.
However expect people to leave then.
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join:2005-03-05
Coventry, RI | Don't shoot the messenger The primary villian here is, and always has been, the TV networks and their corporate parents: GE, Viacom, Disney, News Corp and Time Warner TV (not Cable). That doesn't mean that your local cable and FIOS pushers are not in bed with the devils - they are.
But until the government steps in and ends the networks blatently anti trust practice of forced bunding in the deals they make with the re-brodacastsers, and allows real competition, you will continue to pay an ever increasing price to watch commericials. Unfortunately, our governent agencies have become more and more corrupt over the past 30 years, so we have to fend for ourselves.
There was a time when the over the air world lived with 3-5 channels and snow and multipath distortion in the picture. Those days ended with the change to digital broadcasting. Crystal clear reception, free HD, and more over the air channels than you think are out there for more people than you can imagine, with just a rooftop antenna. Find out what you can get over the air for free at antennaweb.org or tvfool.com. Then make the decision. Cut the cord if you can. That's the only thing the networks will understand. | |
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