Over the last year I have been toying with the idea of 86ing the cable company. We have cox and in my opinion we pay way to much for what it is. We already got rid of our home phone..... I would get rid of internet but my husband really loves it. He is a gamer :)
So as of May 1st we will have about 20 basic cable channels. This is just basically so we can have the basic channels and PBS. I have NetFlix and so far that seems to have better educational shows then the cable we were paying for.
I called in to Cox to tell them the news. Of course the lady wants to give me some speech on how we really are not paying that much and for just $50 I can have all the other channels. We will see but I doubt it. Seriously, it is all trash really. So once I tell her this is my finial decision she wants to inform me that I have to pay $20 for them to put a cap on my cable line.
AYFKM?! No. I am not paying that. The lady put he on hold came back and told me that she was waving the fee.... That is good. Cause I am not paying it. I informed her that was a crap shoot and wrong of Cox to do. So if you try to do what I am doing.... Do not pay that fee, There is no need. You are not asking for them to come out. WTF. They try to get any amount of money from you they can!
So join me on our journey without cable. We are hoping to get our tv shows through Hulu and Netflix. I will come up with more ideas for the kids but as for now I think we are covered. Since we have school agaed kids, I think we are good :)
We have done that too. No more cable. We are saving over $100 a month. We use Boxee.
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