rod_rooster wrote:..Exactly right Dutchy. Each to their own but i am not sure why people are so opposed to pay TV. I am just not sure why people feel it is their right to get things for free.
It is the requirement to pay for a lot of programmed rubbish in the basic package before you can subscribe to something you want to see that gets up my nose.
I feel insulted that they think they can make me believe all this stuff makes their minimum charge good value, and that they are trying to con me in this way.
If they just said our minimum monthly fee is this, and you can select what you want, I may respond to the honesty and decide whether it is worth it to me.
While I feel they are trying to con me, instead of being up front, I'm not interested.
It has its parallel in mobile phone pricing.
They suggest you join, for example, their $49 cap plan and get $200 worth of credit, but when you read the fine print you are up for 37 cents flag fall and 40 cents
per 30 second block.
By contrast my phone plan costs
no flag fall and 39 cents a
minute and is only charged by the second...
So, a 61 second call costs me 40 cents, whereas under the "bargain" capped plan it is $1.57..
At that rate the "$200 credit" is worth about $50 and big users may finish up $1.00 in front at the end.
[Obviously, longer calls make the deal a little better, but I've posted elsewhere a Neurosurgeons article about heavy mobile phone use and brain tumours.]
