Tuesday, November 22, 2011

We made the switch

Good morning all.  Happy (hopefully) halfway through your work-week…today is like a Thursday and a Wednesday in one and I love it.  Last night we officially changed our cable/internet provider and I hope it is worth the changes.  The dominant provider around here is Comcast…which usually has dependable service; but the price keeps increasing.  We were paying $129/month for:  Cable (with a decent amount of channels, pretty much everything we wanted/need, including free HBO), two HD cable boxes, internet, modem and wireless router.  When we originally signed up our bill was $68 but eventually our promos ran out.

I considered cancelling and resigning up under my married name (since the contract was in my maiden name; I even asked two Comcast reps if this would work and they said it would) but RCN was still cheaper than the rates we’d get as a “new” customer to Comcast.  With RCN our total bill will be $85/month for: Cable (same channels as before, except now we have Starz instead of HBO (Ben is disappointed he’s losing Boardwalk Empire…whoops! My thought had just been that Entourage is done and I can live without Curb Your Enthusiasm), plus we do get Fox Soccer channel or something that Ben’s excited for), 1 HD cable box and one regular cable box (since we rarely watch TV in our bedroom, we’re saving $60/yr to have just regular box in there), internet, modem and router).  In a year’s time we’ll save close to $500 by the switch (and that’s after the installation fee from RCN).

While I’m excited to save the money, I have to say, in the 12 hours that we’ve had RCN, it seems uber ghetto.  I hope we can last with it.  As with anything, there’s an adjust period, right?

Here are today’s deals:

·    AT Loft: 40% off everything in stores and online with code SHOP40
·    Banana Republic: Today (11/22) and online only: 40% off dresses and 30% off men’s suits and blazers with code BRFESTIVE (get back 10% of your purchase when you shop via ebates.com)
·    Coach Factory: Extra 30% off coupon good through 11/27
·    Gap Factory: Take an additional 15% off your $75+ purchase coupon; good through 11/27
·    J. Crew: Up to 25 % off select outerwear and free shipping (get 8% back when you shop via ebates.com)
·    MLB.com: 15% off 1 item, 20% off 2 items and 25% off 3 items today only
·    Ruelala.com has free shipping for the next 29 days! Yay for designer duds for less and not having to pay $10 in shipping to get them
·    Shutterfly: Save up to 50% off entire website (plus get back 10% when you shop via ebates.com)

2 comments:

  1. I am sorry to learn that you're no longer a Comcast customer. Would you consider coming back if we are able to match the pricing that you currently have with RCN? I can reach out to my contacts to see if we can offer you a better package. Feel free to contact me, include your info and a link to this page if you are interested in my help.

    Thanks!

    Mark Casem
    Comcast Corp.
    National Customer Operations
    We_can_help@cable.comcast.com

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  2. I am afraid that this statement is not correct"I considered cancelling and resigning up under my married name (since the contract was in my maiden name; I even asked two Comcast reps if this would work and they said it would) but RCN was still cheaper than the rates we’d get as a “new” customer to Comcast.".
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