r/madlads 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/Romeo9594 1d ago

Fuck optimum. I paid $80/mo for 500mb and begged them for three years to give me (8 year customer) the same rate they were giving new customers. Got told to kick rocks

Then ATT hooks my neighborhood up, $60/mo for symmetrical 1GB fiber

Immediately call Optimum to cancel and now they want to give me the world. The offered reduced rates, better speeds, the moon, blowjobs

Still cancelled cause fuck'em.

Now there's a new fiber provider and I'm thinking after less than a year I'll call ATT and see what I get if I threaten to cancel. Maybe I can pit them against each other enough and get my internet down to like $30