Back in January, Comcast was nice enough to fry my DVR with their updates. Then, they sent the tech out to the wrong house, leaving me without cable for a week. That wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have a five year old that can’t understand the concept of “Shit happens in services”.
And the wonderful guy on the phone assured me they would credit my account for the loss of service. So, each month I waited to see my bill reflect said savings.
This month, I saw a change to the usual $178 for Regular cable plus three Encore channels with LOTR on 24/7, Internet that sometimes works, and phone. There was a $30 difference. Except, it was in the wrong direction.
My new bill reflects improvements and expansions to the services I have, to the tune of $10 a month, with tons of extra movies OnDemand. None of which anyone wants to watch. Oh, look Beauty and the Beast… Yeah, it’s a knock off cartoon that’s like 45 minutes. Same with Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid. And they’ve added $1.99 for each of the little crap boxes we were forced to use if we wanted to watch TV after everything went digital. So, now my bill is $210.
So, I spent an hour on the phone with Customer service. And I couldn’t even get them to reduce my bill. That was just to explain my bill. You see, in their Xfinite wisdom, Comcast decided that it would be better to have one line handle bill questions and one…. Totally different 800 number to reduce your bill. Lein… yes that was his name… and he was American from what I could tell, told me that “With all the calls they received, they had to use a separate number.” In other words, all of the angry customers that can’t stand this ComCrap they get for a ton of money,.
Look, I know NBC sucks. Hell, even the guy they screwed everybody over for to keep on The Tonight Show hates them, now. He can’t wait to be replaced. But, does that really mean we all have to pay more for your crap? I wish I could go to FIOS, even if it sucks just as much, if just to bargain for a lower bill… but guess what? My borough or township won’t get it in anytime soon. I wish I could go to something like DirectTv, once again it may be crap, too, but guess what? I can’t put a dish on my house because of line of sight. So, I can’t even choose which crap I want to watch, I am stuck with one version of crap.
But when you have to have a separate phone line just for people who are fed up with the costs, what does that tell you? It tells you, your business sucks and you are just making money hand over fist so, why should you change it? Exactly. If I could have a business and charge people an exorbitant amount of money for basic stuff and raise it continually over the years without really having to give them anything better than they already have and no one would leave because of the lack of choices, it might be tempting. Then again, I don’t have a business degree which tells me all I need to know about people in big business. Satisfy the shareholders, screw the customers, and dine on the souls of innocent children and lambs with gold plated utensils with a fat profit.
Well, done.
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