Comcast sux

[MaggieL]

You mean you're not grateful to them like you are to billg?

After all, they're making it possible for a non-nerd like you to use the Intarweb. :-)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

You mean you're not grateful to them like you are to billg?

After all, they're making it possible for a non-nerd like you to use the Intarweb. :-)

No, they aren't..that's the problem.

[Elspode]

I had a not-great Comcast experience this past week, and I'm not even a customer yet. I'm trying to be a customer, but damn if they aren't making it hard for me to throw a huge pile of money at them every month. Doesn't bode well.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Elspode

I'm trying to be a customer, but damn if they aren't making it hard for me to throw a huge pile of money at them every month.

That's surprising...for those of us who are already customers (for "standard"-- not to be confused with "basic"--cable TV, in our case), the campaign to "upgrade" to digital (you know, where you get charged for every TV set, tuner card, PVR or VCR in the house and become a potential impulse pay-per-view, internet or telephone customer) cable is both strident and constant.

The most annoying commercials on Comcast TV are the ones for Comcast; they cannot be avoided (unless you're watching a premium channel, perhaps...but of course they've moved all the premium channels to digital).

And the next most annoying commercial is the one you either join in progress or is interrupted in the middle because Comcast has done a poorly-synchronized override of a cable channel's commecrial with one of their own.

We'll likely soon be replacing Comcast completly with DirectTV or similar...I'm expecting an AOL-like "retention" effort when they get that news...

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

No, they aren't..that's the problem.

And yet you're posting. Amazing. :-)