Or more accurately, it never hurts to call and threaten cancellation of a service.
I called my cable television company today to get rid of HBO, since I never watch it. I only had it because at one point, it was cheaper for me to have it than not to have it*. That promotion ended, and every so often I’d call up asking if they had any new promotions to lower my price.
Well, today when I said I was getting rid of HBO, they said there’s a new promotion where they can offer me the same service and cut about $40 off the price of the monthly bill. Once again, it would be cheaper for me to have HBO than to have cable without HBO. So I signed up for the new 12 month promotion.
* Okay, I admit I used to watch the HBO program Real Sex On Demand with my girlfriend at the time once in a while.
Updated February 6, 2012 and originally published October 31, 2004. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the RSS feed or receive daily emails. Follow @flexo on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for more updates.
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Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 
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Really? Which promo is this?
* nice.
It is a Digital Silver Plus promo that is available in my town… I don’t know if it’s offered anywhere else, but it never hurts to call.
It’s a bit like that here, you can have just the sports package, or just the movies, or for 2quid extra a month you can have both.
sounds like a conspiracy between HBO and your cable company to me…
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