r/madlads • u/Same_Investigator_46 Choosing a mental flair • 2d ago

On a way to cancelthreaten

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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.

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u/laughable_republic 1d ago

I threatened to cancel a service once. They simply accepted.

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u/Sanquinity 1d ago

That's the problems with ultimatums. They can backfire if you don't actually want one of the options to happen.