Thread: cable TV costs.....

I had direct satelite for years. They kept slowly increasing my payments til I finally realized...I dont even watch tv anyways. I called and cancelled them. They had asked my reasons and I told them the monthly got above what I wanted to pay, and that I was satisfied with their business except for that. And that I never watched TV anyways. 2 hours later they called me back, wanted to "Lock" me into a rate of what I believe was $29/month and it would never increase and that I would get to keep all my channels. When I was told that I was real mad because I had been paying almost $100 for a couple years. I told em where to go and that I wasn't interested in the Lock in rate! Shot myself in the foot there lol. Thats been 3 years ago, still dont pay for tv. But I do enjoy watching tv the older I get hahahaha lmbo!

Cable one breaks it off in me every month, gota check out my other options also.

I bet between our internet, cell phone, Cable TV, and controlled climate storage fee for extra space, I could buy a brand new truck for less,,, I figured about $740 for all my services,,, crazy or what? I bet some folks mortgages are cheaper then that ....

We need to get Sat to tellus how to hook up for free.

Originally Posted by scrat

HDTV antenna and roku. But if internet keeps going up. I am going to just have the local tv channels I get with HDTV antenna. I will just entertain myself by doing more crappie fishing. I also have the old hard line phone that has went up had it for over 40 years it may go next also.

My parents recently got ride of their land kine and got vonage....think it's like 10 bucks a month, I talk to them just about every day i can't tell the difference in call quality

If you haven't already check out roku's private channel list........thers a lot there to watch.

I had direct TV for about 10 years, 2 receivers. Every year when the bill went up I called retention dept and they put it back. Was always about $60. On the 10th year, they wouldnt forego the increase, so I cancelled and went with Dish. 2 recievers, HD, DVR, sling and the bill is $57 month. I've had it for 4 years and have had to call a time or two when they tried to increase it, but so far they have kept my bill at $57 .

I got a Roku with Amazon prime and Netflix pretty sweet Amazon is $8.99 a month and Netflix is $100.00 a year and you can watch anything you want pretty much and save a ton of money

Originally Posted by Takeum

Well,,, just got another annual Comcast letter of intent to increase cost of my Cable TV by a mere $14.00... that should put my cable TV monthly fee up around $180... Surely there's got to be a cheaper way ....any suggestions from the Crappie .com crew?

Call Comcast and complain. They went up on mine a couple years ago and I told them I couldn't afford them anymore and was gonna switch to something else. They lowered my bill and even gave me more channels. Call and complain......