Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

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Joeboo

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Yeah, that's way too much effort to save $50. Not to mention asking a stranger to risk losing their job for the sake of your discount.
 
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BrutulTM_sl said:
God damn some people are fucking cheap. It just doesn't make sense to me that grownups with jobs would really go through this kind of nonsense and break the law just to save a few bucks for something you use every day.
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/shrug

Directv is normally $120, I gave a box to two friends and we split it so its $40 a month.

AT&T is $35 for 2 lines, unlimited talk, text and for our uses unlimited data which we never hit our bucket cap. Normally would be close to $100 if not more. If we had more people we trusted to add to the account that could go down even further.

My neighbor splits the Internet. Normally $80, now $40.


Most of these started out with people falling on hard times and now its more or less turned into a game of helping people save some money while getting the exact same service. You think its trivial to put $150 in someone's pocket every month? Over 20 years that is a hundred grand.

Considering most of America lives check to check and pays banks several times more than that for just the interest on their revolving debt I'd say a great number of people should consider doing it so they can get their ass out of poverty instead of pretending to more well off than they are.
 
Noodleface

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I get this weird chuckle everytime I see these Xfinity commercials where they show the two download speeds to "real people" and they say something like this is your current provider and this is us. It would be awesome if for 90% of us there actually was another provider..
 
Big Phoenix

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Kedwyn_sl said:
/shrug

Directv is normally $120, I gave a box to two friends and we split it so its $40 a month.

AT&T is $35 for 2 lines, unlimited talk, text and for our uses unlimited data which we never hit our bucket cap. Normally would be close to $100 if not more. If we had more people we trusted to add to the account that could go down even further.

My neighbor splits the Internet. Normally $80, now $40.


Most of these started out with people falling on hard times and now its more or less turned into a game of helping people save some money while getting the exact same service. You think its trivial to put $150 in someone's pocket every month? Over 20 years that is a hundred grand.

Considering most of America lives check to check and pays banks several times more than that for just the interest on their revolving debt I'd say a great number of people should consider doing it so they can get their ass out of poverty instead of pretending to more well off than they are.
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Irony.
 
Alex

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Add FX and AMC to Sling's package and I'm all over it. I'll still pick it up out of principle. Just like renting The Interview. Which was kinda bad.
 
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Cut cable and don't miss it a bit. Again sports is the biggest thing. Just canceled Internet last week and moved to gfs name for promotion. Went from 50 a month for 15 Meg to 35 for 50 Meg for the next year.
 
Kuriin

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Joeboo

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if it makes you feel any better, I'm in KC and I still don't have access to google fiber yet, 3+ years after they started rolling it out.

Goddamn its a slow process. If they announce a new city today, half the city might have fiber by 2020 at the rate they move.
 
Crone

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Joe, does Google setup an office in each of these cities to handle the billing, etc? how does that work?

Portland, my new city, is getting it eventually, and was curious about how it may effect the job market in those cities. I'm sure they'll need people in each city to handle stuff.

Time to go look if Google is hiring in those cities...
 
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I am pissed because I am moving to between Fayetville and Raleigh in a month. I don't think I will be close enough for Google fiber, so close yet might as well be another state!
 
Joeboo

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Crone_sl said:
Joe, does Google setup an office in each of these cities to handle the billing, etc? how does that work?

Portland, my new city, is getting it eventually, and was curious about how it may effect the job market in those cities. I'm sure they'll need people in each city to handle stuff.

Time to go look if Google is hiring in those cities...
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Yes, they have 1 office setup for all of Kansas City metro area, I think you can pickup/dropoff/exchange boxes/modems if need be, but that's about it, they don't really offer a lot of services there, its more of just a storefront to test out/sample their services.

Other than that though, all billing & account issues are handled online as far as I know. This isn't really a place where you'd go to pay a bill or anything like that.

Fiber Space "Kansas City" Google Fiber

They definitely don't have offices in every suburb/mall like Time Warner or cell phone shops.
 
Tarrant

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Tonight I was watching Arrow on the X1 DVR. 15minutes in it has an error that says it needs to restart....so I do. Go back into the DVR to watch my show.

Nope, it deleted it.

X1 is such a POS.
 
Noodleface

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Our X1 box is constantly pulling that "need to restart" bullshit and it's annoying. My wife was watching the patriots a week ago and it kept popping up. We ignored it and it decided to go away on its own.

It's such a terrible system. Sometimes it won't record shows, sometimes it's just frozen and I need to hard reboot it (which takes a long time to turn back on), and in general it is a hunk of shit.
 
Joeboo

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I need new DirecTV DVR boxes horribly, mine are about 3 years old and while they record fine, EVERYTHING is so slow, they just respond horribly to all commands. Changing a channel takes so long that my TV goes dark into power-saving mode because the signal goes so long without sending a picture. Bringing up the guide can take a full 15-20 seconds to populate the info.

Thing is, Google Fiber signups are happening sometime this year, but we just don't know when, all google's site says is "2015", so I dont want to get new boxes and commit to a new contract of any kind, even if it's just 1 year. Live TV is damn near un-watchable if you want to flip back and forth between 2 things, or just casually browse channels.
 
Noodleface

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You could probably go to the DirecTV office and say your boxes are broken and you'd like new ones. I've brought broken stuff to Comcast and they've replaced it.. and they're like the worst.
 
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