Sick of Cable, Pay too much for FiOS

[superdog]

Originally Posted by THC

I have Charter Communications (aka Spectrum) where I am, and a friend told me this.. every cable/internet provider now has what they call a "loss mitigation dept" and what they are there to do is stop the exodus of customers, like all above is speaking about... my bill was 160 a month including wireless internet, so I called, asked for LMD and said I am about to leave you, what can you do for me? I now have all premium channels and internet for 100 a month.. try it folks... strength in numbers!!!!

Wow. Definitely doing this.

All my promos ran out an my latest bill was crazy. I’ll be cutting the cable before I continue paying this price.

All I really need is internet anyway.

[GB-man]

Originally Posted by superdog

Wow. Definitely doing this.

All my promos ran out an my latest bill was crazy. I’ll be cutting the cable before I continue paying this price.

All I really need is internet anyway.

I did that for my fios internet. Internet bill is now 47 per month and I'm using PS Vue.

[bdex75]

We pay $70 month for internet.

Our DirecTV bill was $170 with no premium channels. 5tv's.

We upgraded our wireless router for $200. We got Netflix for $10 mo. We got DirecTV Now for $35 mo. We put a cheap local antenna on each TV that actually gets watched live (2).

With DTV Now you can log into ABC and NBC apps to watch shows the next day I believe it is. (Not a week or a year later). Only issue we have run into from a programming side is CBS. Can watch live on antenna but need to pay $6 mo to get cbs app if we want to watch Big Bang on demand.

All comes down to the shows you watch and the channels they are on.

The HBO package is more expensive on DTV now but you can get the app for $10 mo.


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[cruise_bone]

Originally Posted by Lordofrolex

Get a fire stick $39, (Jail Break it which will pretty much give you full TV access with movies and shows) ... Youtube to learn how

Netflix Prescription $9.99mo
HBO Prescription $9.99mo

And your good to go!

"Prescription"

[cruise_bone]

I like the comment above relating to Comcast/Spectrum and the Loss Mitigation Department. I will be making that call soon. I would also like to find the BEST alternative.

Comcast sucks.
I had Infinity at my last place and it was far superior.
I would leave both if I could get the following:

All the ESPNs
Golf Channel
NBC Universal
All travel and food related channels
BBC America
The two channels that constantly show COPS, the Original and Best reality TV show ever!
Don't so much care about the premium movie channels.

[superdog]

I know that I am terrible negotiator.

However, I thought I would get my bill down.

First point, my wife says she never watches TV. I always dispute this, but I have learned to let this go.

So as I am on the phone with Cablevision, she says, what are you crazy, you can't get rid of all the channels. So I lost out there.

I threatened to go to another provider. That did not work.

I was able to get $25 off each month. $15 because I never use the DVR anyway, and $10 as a promo for the cable boxes.

So I failed. But I did save $300 a year, so I guess that is good.

[wantonebad]

Originally Posted by superdog

I know that I am terrible negotiator.

However, I thought I would get my bill down.

First point, my wife says she never watches TV. I always dispute this, but I have learned to let this go.

So as I am on the phone with Cablevision, she says, what are you crazy, you can't get rid of all the channels. So I lost out there.

I threatened to go to another provider. That did not work.

I was able to get $25 off each month. $15 because I never use the DVR anyway, and $10 as a promo for the cable boxes.

So I failed. But I did save $300 a year, so I guess that is good.

I'm telling you Seth, it doesn't matter, they don't care if you threaten to leave, not one bit. And the talk above about "mitigation dispute" or retention departments might be true for some cable companies but not for FiOS. I have on three separate occasions been told very nicely to pound sand. But not before they tried to sell me on enhanced DVR or WiFi bandwidth packages...

[superdog]

Originally Posted by wantonebad

I'm telling you Seth, it doesn't matter, they don't care if you threaten to leave, not one bit. And the talk above about "mitigation dispute" or retention departments might be true for some cable companies but not for FiOS. I have on three separate occasions been told very nicely to pound sand. But not before they tried to sell me on enhanced DVR or WiFi bandwidth packages...

Lmao. They did actually try and sell me on increased bandwidth. Too funny.

[GB-man]

Originally Posted by superdog

Lmao. They did actually try and sell me on increased bandwidth. Too funny.

they tried to sell me on some 1GB speed Internet last minute with fios. They almost got be to bite them I remembered I've never had a problem with my 75/75mb plan.