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Anyone have any advice for haggling and getting a lower price for cable and internet?
I have been with Cox for about a year now and they are the only option in my area.
I'm paying 140 a month for (15mb down/2mb up) internet and digital TV, and I just think it's a joke. I can 15 dollars by downgrading my internet to the lowest option, and I'm going to do that, but I pay 73/mo for the TV and its like.. I basically have 30 channels that aren't garbage. I'm pretty sure its the lowest option.
Do I go in and threaten to cancel it all completely? Or do I just nicely ask for a way to lower my bill?
I would cut the TV completely but I do kind of want a normal living room and I think not having TV of any sort would be weird. And I do like to watch FS1 on weekends.
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>>18236500
I'm right there with you on this question. Completely garbage service, insanely expensive... I want to cut the cord too, but FS1 too.
I'm paying for the 50 Mb down though... even worse. Shit never works.
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cancel television
get sling TV or some other internet TV service
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>>18236508
Dang man. Crazy to see someone else in the same situation.. Yeah it sucks. Luckily I've never had problems with the internet dropping out, I would be pissed if that happened to me after paying for 50mb.
I looked up satellite internet options and it just doesn't seem viable and is relatively the same price, maybe a little lower but with more hassle and way lower speeds.
>>18236513
>cancel television
I would, but there are two or three programs I like to watch live and I doubt I could watch them on sling TV.
Also, I'm almost positive I can't just have internet alone, everything comes in packages. Like I have to have TV and internet, or a phone and internet, I can't just get internet alone. I remember asking about just starting with internet when I first signed up and I got talked into getting a TV package with it because it would only be a little bit more a month, and I would get faster internet. I think I got rused hard.
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>>18236521
why don't you see what channels Sling TV offers.
I have their blue package, which included all the channels I wanted like ESPN, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, and TBS.
Plus a bunch of fodder channels I flip to occassionally, all live broadcast.
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>>18236527
so it looks like the one I would want would be 25 a month.. that seems too insanely good to be true. There has to be a catch?
You have it and like it?
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>>18236521
Other Cox hater here - you can get internet alone, but yeah, it's like $90. Then you start counting all of the services you need to "cut the cord," and you're looking at $10 for Netflix, $10 for Hulu, $30 for Sling or whatever... and then you can't watch your live sports and shit.
I'm assuming you live somewhere like I do, where Cox is really the only option for broadband. I'd love to switch to DirecTV, but then I'd have to use DSL for broadband, which isn't acceptable.
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>>18236500
switch services for a few months then go back to cox for that sweet new custoemr discoount
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