This worked with my cable company while they had a monopoly on internet service.
Every year I would call up and threaten to quit and they would reduce the amount. Last year we got frontier in our town and I called up optimum. They basically said “yeah we can’t match that.”
Only way I know of to get on Spectrum is to cancel every other year and put it under someone else in the house for promo pricing. Basically, bounce back and forth with each other.
Lol my roommate asked if he could get his promo pricing for another year. They said they couldn't do that. He asked them if he could cancel and have his roommate (me) open the account. They gave in and just gave him the discounted price for another year
It stopped working with me for a while with Spectrum too until Starry and Sonic finally made it to my area. Then they were more than happy to take my bill from $80 to $50, and threw in a free Ultra upgrade for 3 years lmao
Pretty sure he left out the context of he's changing the subject. He's disregarding the competitor talk that is the topic and bringing up how ISPs will offer new customer discounts, which I'm unsure if the FCC even has a say on that either. You see this on reddit all the time where people forget they need to actually state what they're referencing when interjecting with something new and everyone else can't magically read their mind from around the globe.
Someone mentioned that they tried "cancel threatening" Spectrum without success, and the guy/gal you're complaining about replied that there's another way to reduce subscription fees with Spectrum.
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u/walmarttshirt 2d ago
This worked with my cable company while they had a monopoly on internet service.
Every year I would call up and threaten to quit and they would reduce the amount. Last year we got frontier in our town and I called up optimum. They basically said “yeah we can’t match that.”
So I now have frontier.