I attempted to cancel my cable a couple of days ago. With summer and better weather around, I can get rid of some of the indoor luxuries and save some money.

Well, the cable company wasn’t having any of that. I initially wanted to just reduce my service down to limited basic cable (the 10-15 basic network channels.) Well, after throwing a handful of bundling offers (tv, internet and phone) at me, and lowering the price of extended basic 3 times they finally lowered it enough to where I said ok, that’s good enough. Though, after taxes I was only saving $10 and I still had the same service!

I called back the next day and told them I just wanted limited basic. They threw their offers at me again, but I refused each one. When told that limited basic was $19.95 I told them I would rather just cancel the service. So they canceled it.

I went a day with getting only NBC through the antenna when the cable company calls me again. He says it’s “to verify that I am going to cancel my service,” but then launches into the deals. I refuse 3 of them, and he hits me with one more: Limited basic cable for $9.95/month for 12 months. You just can’t go wrong there. And it’s probably good to have some sort of reliable TV for weather and such, right?

Oh those cable companies, they know how to get a guy!

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