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collisions and dotgirl, regarding different options for Comcast Cable. Feel free to move along and NOT clock on the Comcastic lil' LJ cut below if you could really care less.
First off, we have what's called the "Tripple Play" deal. I know it includes cable television, but hear me out on this okay? You get your internet, your Digital Phone AND your Cable Television all installed FOR FREE, and the services cost you $33 a month for the next year. The bad part is that if you cancel one of the services early (such as calling in to cancell the TV part of it), all the other services then shoot up to around $50 a month from that moment on.
Option 2 is the "Just Internet" (as I like to call it). Installation is $25, service costs you $19.99 a month for the first three months and then $50 a month each month there after. No strings, no contract.
And then there's option 3, which is my favorite. Get cable television installed for $25, then go buy a Self Install Kit at Best Buy or a similar retail outlet (I'll research further if you like). ALmost every "Retail offer" out there gives you a FREE self install kit, a FREE cable modem and a rate of $19.99 a month for your first 6 months instead of just 3. Once you have the internet installed using the Self Install Kit, youc an cancel the television end with no repercussions and they'll only charge you for as long as you actually had the service (probably a grand total of up to 5 days at the most, could be even just one day if we time it right).
collisions and dotgirl, regarding different options for Comcast Cable. Feel free to move along and NOT clock on the Comcastic lil' LJ cut below if you could really care less.First off, we have what's called the "Tripple Play" deal. I know it includes cable television, but hear me out on this okay? You get your internet, your Digital Phone AND your Cable Television all installed FOR FREE, and the services cost you $33 a month for the next year. The bad part is that if you cancel one of the services early (such as calling in to cancell the TV part of it), all the other services then shoot up to around $50 a month from that moment on.
Option 2 is the "Just Internet" (as I like to call it). Installation is $25, service costs you $19.99 a month for the first three months and then $50 a month each month there after. No strings, no contract.
And then there's option 3, which is my favorite. Get cable television installed for $25, then go buy a Self Install Kit at Best Buy or a similar retail outlet (I'll research further if you like). ALmost every "Retail offer" out there gives you a FREE self install kit, a FREE cable modem and a rate of $19.99 a month for your first 6 months instead of just 3. Once you have the internet installed using the Self Install Kit, youc an cancel the television end with no repercussions and they'll only charge you for as long as you actually had the service (probably a grand total of up to 5 days at the most, could be even just one day if we time it right).
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Date: 2006-11-18 06:06 am (UTC)and what are you thinking buy a self install kit?
Buy a modem, then have one of your friends who work for Comcast stop by a cable store and pick up a couple jumpers. Or have the tech leave you a couple when he sets up the tv. Once you have block sync the walled garden will appear, or since you have to call to get the services added have the person on the phone push registration.
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Date: 2006-11-18 06:07 am (UTC)silly me
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Date: 2006-11-18 06:27 am (UTC)Okay, so thing is, I don't know if the address in question actually has any service going to it at all.
And I see what you mean about the "just buy a modem and have me add the services from here" angle... but why do they need the jumpers? WHat are jumpers? Can I get them at Radio Shack?
(Never did a ride-along)
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Date: 2006-11-18 06:49 am (UTC)jumpers are the cables from the wall to the modem or to the TV
And yes you can get them at radio shack, but then we the field professionals would have to mock the radio shack cables and mock them we will. The cables we provide are of better quality with better fittings and we give them away!
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Date: 2006-11-18 07:38 am (UTC)So really, all we need is a modem and a tech to turn on the juice, right?
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Date: 2006-11-18 07:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-18 07:58 am (UTC)Aparently I was taught NOTHING 3 years ago when they hired me :(
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Date: 2006-11-18 08:56 pm (UTC)its not a hidden code and will work for the unwired video install and premium hsi install
I've learned more about sales and discount codes in dispatch than I ever knew in the call center.
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Date: 2006-11-22 09:23 pm (UTC)