The guy from DISH came today, to switch my parents away from my plan. I’m all “meh.. whatever. As long as they’re happy, I’m happy”. But at the end, the ones that are
happy, are the greedy TV providers with their costly packages (that the customer has very little wiggle room to save money). And how this is still a concerning sign of what’s to come for internet access, once they do the same thing.
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So what happened — why aren’t they back with DISH? The guy wanted to move the dish, saying the previous installer put it in a bad place, and that the wood was rotting around the bracket. Yay.. more holes. And my father wants none of that BS. And no amount of talk from the tech guy claiming the satellite will fall if it’s not moved, is going to sway him.
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And so, no changes will be done. He also feels that patching the holes will do no good, and that the wood around the patch will start to rot away. Said the only true fix, is to re-shingle the roof, and they doesn’t have the finances for that. So they’ll be sending back the boxes, and my parents will try to get one of our neighbors to take the dish down.
So that means, the guy that was from AT&T (and if he had stuck with the current plan of re-aligning the dish), we would had been in the same predicament (where we would be possibly more screwed).
But now mother feels it’s “an excuse” to put more holes in the roof.. *frustrated sigh*
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On top of that, I was hoping to save some more money on my Spectrum bill by seeing how much it’ll be, if I were to downgrade my internet speed back to 300MB. But on the day I got the services installed (and without them telling me prior to installation), the 300MB I had is no longer available. The options are 200MB, 400MB, and 960MB.
Apparently I was ‘grandfathered’ on this old 300MB plan (when Time Warner still existed). I was supposed to be auto-upgraded to this 400MB plan (and save some money in the process). But something went wrong, and I was excessively billed for using an old plan.
I can still downgrade to 200MB, but I’ll only be saving $25 on the bill. I was hoping to save that much by only going down 100MB. But… I dunno. The fact they didn’t fucking warn me, I feel burned.
But, after talking to my mother, we’ve decided to keep the 400MB plan. But the catch is, if the bill goes over $200 (by something like 2020-2021), I will then have to do some drastic measures to get the cost back down.. even if this means no one has TV.
Thing is, my mother’s all “we would be fine without TV”, talking about how overly complicated the remote is and how it’s hard to see the guide.
Yeah, they’re scummy, and lied by saying this and that channel would be available (and it turned out they weren’t)– just like any cable/satellite TV company. But at least they provide decent service.
It could be worse, though. This could be a thing…
