Streaming services versus Direct TV

[ultrarunner]

All of last year I turned on the 65” flat screen that came with the house one time and that was the presidential debate.

Never lived in a home with anything but rabbit ear antennas.

When cable came to the neighborhood everyone was signing up for the special 7.95 monthly rate and then adding HBO, MTV, etc.

We all gathered around the kitchen table as the sales person was explaining it all and thought dad would go for it… he said all very interesting but I’m not about to spend a hundred dollars a year so my kids will be glued to the idiot box and so it was not to be.

 

[NoTrespassing]

All of last year I turned on the 65” flat screen that came with the house one time and that was the presidential debate.

Never lived in a home with anything but rabbit ear antennas.

When cable came to the neighborhood everyone was signing up for the special 7.95 monthly rate and then adding HBO, MTV, etc.

We all gathered around the kitchen table as the sales person was explaining it all and thought dad would go for it… he said all very interesting but I’m not about to spend a hundred dollars a year so my kids will be glued to the idiot box and so it was not to be.

My 83 year old father has never paid for TV, or garbage pick up for that matter lol

 

[ultrarunner]

My 83 year old father has never paid for TV, or garbage pick up for that matter lol

I often have nothing for pickup and what I have would easily fit in one of the commercial dumpsters at property I manage.

That said trash service is not optional… you will contract with Waste Management and if unpaid the city will lien the property leading to sale if not paid…

Currently at $181.70 for weekly curbside 35 gallon service per quarter.

 

[WM75Guy]

We went to the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo today. DirecTV is a sponsor, had a booth there with national sales reps. They were able to switch us to a new account in my wife's name so we could get new customer pricing, a package with all the channels, new Gemini hardware for all TVs, and free install. Dropped our bill by $68/month. Price is good for 2 years.

 

[jk96]

We went to the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo today. DirecTV is a sponsor, had a booth there with national sales reps. They were able to switch us to a new account in my wife's name so we could get new customer pricing, a package with all the channels, new Gemini hardware for all TVs, and free install. Dropped our bill by $68/month. Price is good for 2 years.

That was always my complaint when we had directv. Always great incentives for new customers and only higher bills for long term customers. Every 2 years I had to play the cancel game. Call customer service and tell them we would like to cancel then haggle over a promotional rate to get us to change our mind. We would always end up with a lower bill for 1 or 2 years then would have to repeat the process.

 

[dmccarty]

That was always my complaint when we had directv. Always great incentives for new customers and only higher bills for long term customers. Every 2 years I had to play the cancel game. Call customer service and tell them we would like to cancel then haggle over a promotional rate to get us to change our mind. We would always end up with a lower bill for 1 or 2 years then would have to repeat the process.

Yep. When I finally got around to canceling DirecTV they tried to keep me by lowering the price. Well, if they had done that years ago and not forced me to call, maybe they would have kept a customer. Maybe. Given there was very little worth watching, which was declining year after year, even with a lowered price they offered, it was not worth the cost. The service representative and I went around and around until I said, do you have a plan to offer the channels we get now for $10-20 because that is all the service is worth. That ended the phone call and our paying for DirecTV.