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All cable companies must be the same (1 Viewer)

NeverEnough

NeverEnough

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Left Comcast for Verizon Fios last July. Well, so much for rates being locked in for 2 years. Verizon already tried to jack up my rates. Oh, you're $5 off promo ended & your HBO promo ended. That's fine that HBO for free ended, but how about just remove it or at least ask me if I want it now that I have to pay for it?! Had to fight with them to remove it as I don't watch it enough to pay.

I do recall Comcast always finding another "promo" when another ends, though. Verizon just tells you screw off. I'll try calling back this week to see if I can get more free HBO. If not, no biggie.

 
Lehigh98 said:
Cut the cord
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I've looked into just using Netflix, Hulu, etc & it's not for me. Don't want to wait to watch my shows & have to use 4 different providers then have to hook laptop to TV & can't use computer while watching TV. Plus not saving me any $ or very little since I still have to pay Verizon for internet.

 
Magic_Man said:
I've looked into just using Netflix, Hulu, etc & it's not for me. Don't want to wait to watch my shows & have to use 4 different providers then have to hook laptop to TV & can't use computer while watching TV. Plus not saving me any $ or very little since I still have to pay Verizon for internet.
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You can get a smart tv or firestick (for Netflix, Hulu, Prime) so you could do computer and watch tv.  Prime Day has firestick @ $20 today.

 
Direct TV is no different....they are all intentionally confusing and live by fine print and social policies, none that favor the customer

 
If there is a better metaphor for how America went down the ####ter these last 40 yrs than the course of cable television, i'd be surprised.

 
Many things to complain about in regards to cable/satellite companies. That said, I cant think of any subscription based company that stops delivering unless you tell them to stop. 

 
Stuart Ullman said:
Direct TV now for $10 a month for 3 months is a good start.
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We upgraded our phones right when DTV merged with AT&T. Being AT&T customers, they offered us a package deal....$XXX for the 1st year of a 2 year contract.

So my wife asks the salesman, "OK, what is it per month in year 2?" 

Sales guy: "Ummmm, its $XXX for the 1st year."

Wife, "yea...but what about after the first year?"

SG: "Well, ummm, IDK? why do you need to know that?"

Wife: "Can I talk to your manager..." 

 
Magic_Man said:
I've looked into just using Netflix, Hulu, etc & it's not for me. Don't want to wait to watch my shows & have to use 4 different providers then have to hook laptop to TV & can't use computer while watching TV. Plus not saving me any $ or very little since I still have to pay Verizon for internet.
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What are your shows?  We've been cable free for years and never noticed much of a difference.  Get YouTube TV and you're done.  What's your current cable bill?

 
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We upgraded our phones right when DTV merged with AT&T. Being AT&T customers, they offered us a package deal....$XXX for the 1st year of a 2 year contract.

So my wife asks the salesman, "OK, what is it per month in year 2?" 

Sales guy: "Ummmm, its $XXX for the 1st year."

Wife, "yea...but what about after the first year?"

SG: "Well, ummm, IDK? why do you need to know that?"

Wife: "Can I talk to your manager..." 
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Oh yeah, I know the game. I used to work for AT&T. It's all sales based. I hated answering to a manager about my sales quotas... pushing things on people, etc.

Then next month, same dog and pony show over and over again. Customers get mad and the managers punish you for being pushy like they told you to be. It's terrible.

 
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Magic_Man said:
Left Comcast for Verizon Fios last July. Well, so much for rates being locked in for 2 years. Verizon already tried to jack up my rates. Oh, you're $5 off promo ended & your HBO promo ended. That's fine that HBO for free ended, but how about just remove it or at least ask me if I want it now that I have to pay for it?! Had to fight with them to remove it as I don't watch it enough to pay.

I do recall Comcast always finding another "promo" when another ends, though. Verizon just tells you screw off. I'll try calling back this week to see if I can get more free HBO. If not, no biggie.
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https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/vue/

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/vue/channels/

Try this or slingtv.    I prefer PSVue because you can play it on 4 TV's at no extra cost and has a built in DVR.  

It has a free trial.

 
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Magic_Man said:
I've looked into just using Netflix, Hulu, etc & it's not for me. Don't want to wait to watch my shows & have to use 4 different providers then have to hook laptop to TV & can't use computer while watching TV. Plus not saving me any $ or very little since I still have to pay Verizon for internet.
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I went to Hulu Live 45 dollars a month.  It has 5 of my local channels and a good selection of what I got on Directv

 
All my service went out last week & they really treated me like #### in the process. Ended up out for 2.5 days or so & they gave a whole $9 credit. Then they offered a whopping $15 more because I raised hell. I give me HBO free for a year as well & call it a day. Nope, only $15 OR HBO for 1 month LOL! My problem was their techs dropping the ball not scheduling someone to come out & causing me to have no service for another day b/c of that. Then they try telling me they can't send someone out. #### this company.

 
Magic_Man said:
All my service went out last week & they really treated me like #### in the process. Ended up out for 2.5 days or so & they gave a whole $9 credit. Then they offered a whopping $15 more because I raised hell. I give me HBO free for a year as well & call it a day. Nope, only $15 OR HBO for 1 month LOL! My problem was their techs dropping the ball not scheduling someone to come out & causing me to have no service for another day b/c of that. Then they try telling me they can't send someone out. #### this company.
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I hate cable companies. About 3 years ago I was left with no cable/internet for 3 days. Then, when they finally got out, they showed 30 mins earlier than the bottom of the window they gave me. Wife and I got home (son, like 14 at the time, was home) and the cable guy was in the house and on my computer. I was pissed, no way should he have gone in without us home.

Of course, my son got an earful, he'd been harped on for years about never letting anyone in the house and had been specifically told not to answer the door while we were gone.

I desperately want to cut cable completely but we have very limited reception for OTA channels and I can't not have sports. We cut down to basic a while back and picked up PlayStation Vue for about 6 months. Pretty happy overall with PSV though the interface was a little clunky, but got all (and more) of the stations we lost cutting to basic. Alas, we got sucked back into Spectrum with another introductory offer. But when that runs out-and now that they charge 6/month/TV for digital receivers-I'll find another streaming service. May go back to PSV but will have to research them all again, might choose a different one.

 
Comcast-Xfinity kept jacking my bill around.  Ended up I had to cut more services to keep the bill the same.  Went from 4 TVs to 2..lost many channels.   So finally I switched to WOW with no contract and around 110 a month for cable and internet.  To be honest I was not really happy with the TV stations but it was 50 a month cheaper so I dealt with it.

About a month in we get a knock on the door and it is a Comcast sales guy saying "We want you back"  I say I never wanted to leave but we could not work out a price.   The guy ends up giving us 18 months of everything including movie chaneels we don`t even watch for 92.00 a month plus tax.   I say "Why did they not do this over the phone and save me and Comcast all the BS of taking my stuff out and switching over?"  Said only the door to door guys have the power to give the best deals.

 
I complained for a long time about not having any choice in cable and internet providers, but Verizon recently became available in my building.  Too bad Verizon is the worst of all of the cable companies, so I am still stuck with Optimum.  At least they aren't Verizon, though.  So many nightmare stories about Verizon.  In addition to the stories mentioned in here, a friend lost internet in his business (restaurant) due to the weather (back in the winter).  Verizon charged him $150 fix the problem.  At least Optimum would have done that for free since it was their problem with their network and not something that he caused.

 
Here's the short version of my "last straw" with DirectTV.  Came home one day and the satellite was out. Called them up, quickest a tech can come is end of next week they said.  I haggled and raised hell, they finally got a tech to come out in two days.  Told them I was working evening shift that day so schedule a morning call, they say ok no problem.  Guy showed up at 4 pm and left a "sorry I missed you" sticker on the door.  I called them to remind them I needed a morning appointment, and to make sure he'd come back the next day.  "Oh no, you have to completely reschedule, and the earliest I have is next week...".  I #####ed some more, got them to come Monday (by now it was Thursday).  Told them I'd be on graveyard that day, so please come in the afternoon, they say ok no problem.  No cable all weekend.  I work off graveyard on Monday morning, sleep, and wake up at 2 pm to another "sorry I missed you" message.  Did the song and dance again, finally got a guy to come out and fix the problem 9 days after it went out.  There was a small part that went bad on the dish, guy said it happens to 1 out of every 4 dishes.  He changed it out in 5 minutes and it was fixed.  

Then the bill came for the full amount, PLUS $125 for technician fee.  I called them and told them it needed to be reduced, that I was not paying technician fee for their equipment malfunction, and that I was without service for 9 out of 30 days that month, which was X dollars (something like $30 bucks if I remember correctly).  So issue me a refund for X or I would short this next bill by that amount.  They offered $10 off the bill, and I pay half the technician fee. I countered with no technician fee and free NFL Sunday Ticket, then they upped their offer to $10 and HBO for one month. I asked for a manager, blah blah blah, finally their final offer was 1/2 of X and HBO for one month free.  I then told them to just cut the service off, I would be finding another provider.  

Bought a firestick that afternoon and signed up for Hulu (already had Netflix and Prime).  DirectTV can DIAGF as far as I'm concerned. 

 
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It should be simple - you buy "points" from your cable provider and use them how you see fit. Buy 500 points, spend 200 on HBO or Showtime, 100-200 on sports, 10-100 apiece on channels you want, receive a dozen or so networks that are trying to establish themselves as point-producers but can make it on ad revenue til they do. Ratings=points, a network's stock goes up & down  seasonally. News/sports/food&leisure can cluster if they want to or not. The tech is there, this can be done home-by-home pretty easily.

Instead, once ESPN started charging rent to providers 35 yrs ago, Sumner Redstone used USA Network profits to buy MTV and other cable networks and packaged them for greater fees (you take all or you dont get none), Diller did similar, then the six companies that own 90% of content got in the act and, all of a sudden, those 250 stations are owned by less than 10 content companies, that end up being owned by service providers so they can charge themselves for content. That's the only reason you pay so much and STILL cant find something to watch when you have 600 channels, including 350 you would never even consider watching. There is no motive to capture interest, only attention, so networks put up nothing but repeats of their own hits if they develop any or franchise movies which might stop your clicker.

 
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Was a Fios customer for 10 years.  Contacted them every time when my contract was up that I was interested in getting whatever subscription/promotion that they were using to get new customers in.  Every time they told me they couldn't do it. I liked the service so I stayed with them for those years until this May....when I decided to significantly cut back on cable by going over to Comcast.  It wasn't until I called for the cancellation of service for FIOs  and told them we were done that they agreed to let me in under the new customer promo. I was like "Sorry, Bro....Comcast does suck and your service is better, but at least they didn't make me jump thru hoops to get what I wanted".....Rep laughed, agreed that they way they did it was dumb and told me to come back at anytime....WHY NOT JUST LET ME ORDER IT WHEN MY CONTRACT IS UP!!!!!!!!

 
Da Guru said:
Comcast-Xfinity kept jacking my bill around.  Ended up I had to cut more services to keep the bill the same.  Went from 4 TVs to 2..lost many channels.   So finally I switched to WOW with no contract and around 110 a month for cable and internet.  To be honest I was not really happy with the TV stations but it was 50 a month cheaper so I dealt with it.

About a month in we get a knock on the door and it is a Comcast sales guy saying "We want you back"  I say I never wanted to leave but we could not work out a price.   The guy ends up giving us 18 months of everything including movie chaneels we don`t even watch for 92.00 a month plus tax.   I say "Why did they not do this over the phone and save me and Comcast all the BS of taking my stuff out and switching over?"  Said only the door to door guys have the power to give the best deals.
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I left Comcast for Verizon b/c Comcast jacked my bill up for no reason almost monthly. Got tired of having to call & waste my time to get it back down.

 
For folks who have Youtube TV, how do you like it?  I've considered ditching Directv because I pretty much use it only for Sunday Ticket and NBCSN.  I'm reluctant to give up the Ticket, but that's a lot of money to devote to essentially that one thing.

 
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