[Discussion] OT: My Lost Opportunity

[Gilbert D.]

Bob wrote:

>** Reply to message from "Thomas Clayton topcatdrc at yahoo.com" on Tue, 1 Aug
>2006 17:36:55 -0700 (PDT)
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>>BTW, and Off-Subj. as well, Comcast had some telemarketing firm
>>calling on their behalf with a special "triple-play" offer: $79 /
>>month for a year (then $139? but I may be moving by that time). I
>>ACCEPTED but after getting my info and transferring me to Comcast?
>>"Scheduling", the connection got lost.
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>Personally I don't like these so called special deals and will not buy them. 
>For me they cost too much because they include things I will not use and for
>which I still have to pay.  Let me pick what I want and only bill me for them.
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>My son had such a deal with his cable company.  He has gone back to using a
>real phone because the cable phone had bad quality and was unreliable.
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Well I can only speak from my experience with RCN (I am not an employee
;-).  I have had good service, it is just that the price is creeping
steadily upwards.  I started at about ninety a month and now I am double
that.  The only thing I added was the HD TV option.  This is the reason
I am looking into Comcast.

hth,

Gilbert