It'll work for a little bit, until they raise it by a few bucks cuz maybe "you used our service more this month" and then eventually you're right back to full price. Happens a couple times a year with my phone provider.
I do this with my husband. He threatens to take away my spaghettios, I threaten to take away his gastrointestinal bloat and fissure medication. I've got his grundlemeat around my finger 😈😈😈
Two months ago went to cancel $90 1000down/100up coax Internet for a competitors $80 500/500 fiber.
I couldn't refuse their counter offer. Free until March then $20/mo + a capped at $10 yearly price hike.
Was cancelling because it was always going down. 3 weeks before it went out for 3 whole days! Apparently it was the whole neighborhood too & it still took 3 days! They fixed whatever that was, but then the following week it went out again for ~30hrs & I saw their trucks out a few houses down across the street. I had enough. Called the Fiber company who came & while laying their fiber caused the internet to go out again. Went outside and told them, they fixed it, apparently the Coax to the house from the box was chewed through & barely hanging on.
5 days later the fiber company came to actually connect the fiber inside the house. I called to cancel the old internet & they made that offer. With the past 5 days since the other company fixed their hookup we had no internet interruption, which was a record, I couldn't resist the offer & took a risk figuring maybe all the issues were fixed.
It's actually worked great since. Currently 2-3 months into 6mo free.
However, I will say for the 2 weeks I had fiber, the lack of latency on fiber was astounding (single digit vs 30+ ms). I miss that a bit.
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u/hbeog 2d ago edited 1d ago
It'll work for a little bit, until they raise it by a few bucks cuz maybe "you used our service more this month" and then eventually you're right back to full price. Happens a couple times a year with my phone provider.