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May. 30th, 2007 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalI'm still annoyed about the meeting I had with the apartment manager at the new place yesterday. I mean, whatever to driving down there and having to sign the lease and all.
But what really got me was when she pulled out the form to set up the cable.
The form she had did allow for free installation, but you'd be paying 46 bucks for the family cable package and another 30 for the cable internet.
When I asked about a basic cable package, she tried to tell me that the family package was the basic package. Umm, NO.
Also, there were much better deals offered through the cablevision site even if I did get the family package. Not sure if free installation was among them, but come on, installatioin doesn't cost that much. Either way, you still have to be home.
But what really irked me, was her insistence I couldn't take the form w/ the info with me. WTF? It was a photocopy. A photocopy that she was obviously going to fax to the cable company. She insisted "I have to turn it in". Fine, if I decided to go your way, I can fax or mail it back to you before I move in.
What a frelling scam. I wonder what her cut is off the deal. I can't wait until cable can be offered over phone lines or something else so there's actual competition. Frell going after the phone companies to open up the markets, they never charged the insane prices that cable companies do (at least, not until the feds forced them to let people use their lines but they were still in charge of all the maintenance etc). It's bad enough that the cable companies keep managing to kill a la carte cable channel choice, but the simple prices for internet and anything else is insane.
I'm going to dwell on the issue and find out if I can get just plain cable internet with nothing else without too insane of a price. If it's cheaper, I'll get basic cable (and I do mean basic) w/ the internet, but otherwise I'll go internet alone and hope that my rabbit ears pick up reception well enough. If they don't, well, I suppose that will be what the cable internet and netflix will be for. Sure, I'll miss it, but tv is just a huge time suck and I'm sure there are better things I can be doing with my time. Besides, do you have any clue how many books I could buy for 50 bucks a month? Or how many stories I might actually finish if I don't spend three hours a night in front of the tv.
But what really got me was when she pulled out the form to set up the cable.
The form she had did allow for free installation, but you'd be paying 46 bucks for the family cable package and another 30 for the cable internet.
When I asked about a basic cable package, she tried to tell me that the family package was the basic package. Umm, NO.
Also, there were much better deals offered through the cablevision site even if I did get the family package. Not sure if free installation was among them, but come on, installatioin doesn't cost that much. Either way, you still have to be home.
But what really irked me, was her insistence I couldn't take the form w/ the info with me. WTF? It was a photocopy. A photocopy that she was obviously going to fax to the cable company. She insisted "I have to turn it in". Fine, if I decided to go your way, I can fax or mail it back to you before I move in.
What a frelling scam. I wonder what her cut is off the deal. I can't wait until cable can be offered over phone lines or something else so there's actual competition. Frell going after the phone companies to open up the markets, they never charged the insane prices that cable companies do (at least, not until the feds forced them to let people use their lines but they were still in charge of all the maintenance etc). It's bad enough that the cable companies keep managing to kill a la carte cable channel choice, but the simple prices for internet and anything else is insane.
I'm going to dwell on the issue and find out if I can get just plain cable internet with nothing else without too insane of a price. If it's cheaper, I'll get basic cable (and I do mean basic) w/ the internet, but otherwise I'll go internet alone and hope that my rabbit ears pick up reception well enough. If they don't, well, I suppose that will be what the cable internet and netflix will be for. Sure, I'll miss it, but tv is just a huge time suck and I'm sure there are better things I can be doing with my time. Besides, do you have any clue how many books I could buy for 50 bucks a month? Or how many stories I might actually finish if I don't spend three hours a night in front of the tv.