We at Technology Bloopers are tired of being ripped off and we’re not going to take it anymore! We were paying Comcast a total of $86 per month for our home office business account and a whopping $156 per month for our TV. To add insult to injury, the user interface for selecting movies was not only hard to use but contained annoying videos unrelated to our searching for movies. Fortunately, this interface had annoyed us to the breaking point (and our aging DLP chip in our rear-projection TV set had lost a lot of its tiny “fingers”, looking increasingly like a starry night all the time) so that we had very recently contracted with a home theater installer who understood the pricing structure of Comcast. He arranged a deal with a total cost per month of about $60, compared to the former total of $242.
Admittedly, a lot of the savings came from removing the TV part (we have little interest in TV most of the time, and resent paying a huge fee for it). And for the small amount of TV there is a little-known, but FREE, alternative that provides most of the programming—an antenna (either indoor or outdoor.) So a large fraction of people are paying huge fees for something that is free. (Incidentally, both alternatives deliver a lot of advertising.)
By coincidence, the Wall Street Journal’s new Personal Technology columnist, David Pierce, chose as his first column (on February 15) to discuss the various alternatives to cable TV that use the Internet but are considerably less pricey.
Tremendous savings.. you motivated me to change and thank you very much for the post!!!
I sympathize and think that your post is great. Maybe you and Forbes’ Laurence Kotlikoff can join forces to write something big about Comcast ripoff – Kotlifoff writes about how Comcast is ripping off his 97 year old mother (and probably many other seniors as well) — https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2017/05/07/comcast-has-another-way-to-rip-off-consumers/#6c67157e53a6
Great savings! You motivate me to do the same and I appreciate the tip. I, as many others, are chagrined by all the money we pay Comcast. Thank you for the dose of motivation – so that we bring about change and savings.