05-16-2007, 09:52 PM
It's tough to find deals. Comcast, as mint says, will charge you a low, low rate of just $20/mo, but that's just for the first 3-6mo, then it goes up to $60/mo, plus basic cable tv, plus their extra fees, plus their fee charging fee, fee managing fee, fee collection fee, taxes on those fees, tax collection fee, a tax on that fee and then random charges, fees for random charge processing, fee for random charge over charge, fee for random charge over charge removal, fee for random charge over charge over removal, more than 20 fees fee...
Pretty soon you're left feeling like a maroon for paying to watch 20 minutes of commercials ever hour. They charge you for making them money.
Anyway, I pay the Comcast thugs. But here's what I'm in the process of setting up:
- Killing my $75/mo land lines. I've switched to VoicePulse for VOIP. Once my number moves over, then I'll keep one basic line of the ~$10/mo variety. Net savings, $40/mo.
- Getting basic cable TV for $12/mo. That will make the drop my "no cable TV fee" of $10/mo. Net savings of -$2/mo, but then I don't have to mess with the rabit ears anymore (we don't watch much anyway.)
- Upgrading my internet packaging to get more bandwidth. Net savings of -$10/mo.
So my total net savings is $28/mo. Overall internet/tv/phone expenses go from $135/mo to $107/mo, but I also get faster internet, better TV reception, cheaper long distance and better phone services.
Pretty soon you're left feeling like a maroon for paying to watch 20 minutes of commercials ever hour. They charge you for making them money.
Anyway, I pay the Comcast thugs. But here's what I'm in the process of setting up:
- Killing my $75/mo land lines. I've switched to VoicePulse for VOIP. Once my number moves over, then I'll keep one basic line of the ~$10/mo variety. Net savings, $40/mo.
- Getting basic cable TV for $12/mo. That will make the drop my "no cable TV fee" of $10/mo. Net savings of -$2/mo, but then I don't have to mess with the rabit ears anymore (we don't watch much anyway.)
- Upgrading my internet packaging to get more bandwidth. Net savings of -$10/mo.
So my total net savings is $28/mo. Overall internet/tv/phone expenses go from $135/mo to $107/mo, but I also get faster internet, better TV reception, cheaper long distance and better phone services.