I (Finally) Saved Money on My Cox Cable Bill. Here’s How I Did It!

Like the general public, I have a long-running “dislike” with my cable supplier. I suppose maximum everybody has problems with their cable corporate as a result of they divided up shoppers to create monopolies and don’t have any actual reason why to compete. My specific cable supplier is Cox Communications, however this tale is also useful for the ones with Comcast or different cable suppliers.

Two and a part years in the past, I defined that Cox’s pricing was once banana pants loopy. They made me take a phone provider I didn’t need to get package deal pricing. (I have Ooma’s “free” provider. It’s $five a month with taxes.) I would finally end up paying $40 for the phone and taxes to get $50 off my invoice. It didn’t make industry sense, as a result of $20 of the ones greenbacks would cross to Uncle Sam. Why now not simply say, “We’ll give you a $25 off for having cable and internet?” The handiest reason why I may recall to mind for them to surrender cash and provides such a lot to taxes was once a loopy conspiracy principle involving Big Cable and Uncle Sam.

I later realized what I suppose is the actual reason they bundled the telephone. My package deal pricing expired 12-months later. When I didn’t name as much as get a brand new package deal, they’ve successfully “sold” me the phone that I by no means sought after by way of taking the $50 credit score clear of my invoice. Here’s how I felt about it:

Pretty sneaky sis, proper?

So necessarily I want to do what I name “The Annual Cable Bundle Dance.” That way calling them up and explaining that your invoice went up so much with the expiring of the package deal cut price. Here’s the way it went down ultimate yr. I was once in a position to get my invoice to $153 for a reasonably barebones web and tv bundle. That’s no HBO, NFL Network, or add-ons like that. It contains $2 for a cable card and $three for a dumb cable field. This is as a result of I constructed my very own DVR cable field.

Two weeks in the past, it was once time to try this yr’s “Cable Bundle Dance.” It took 45 mins and a pair of transfers to get to the suitable particular person, however in any case I were given there. I defined that my invoice was once $153 and that they’re appearing that my new invoice shall be $212. They mentioned that the $212 was once an outdated value and that it might in point of fact be $188. So that’s about 23% greater than what I had prior to. I requested if we will be able to do higher, mentioning that I have this $40 albatross of a phone that I don’t need. He went via his bag of methods and located that he may decrease my invoice to $148 by way of putting off one of the vital services and products on the telephone and making use of a brand new package deal. I attempted to take away those additional services and products on the telephone that I didn’t use prior to, however I was once informed that I wanted them to qualify for that package deal.

With the associated fee at $148, I stored my self $40 from what they had been going to price me. This package deal lasts for a yr, in order that’s $480 for round an hour of my time. Trust me, no person goes to pay me $480 for any roughly actual dance.

Last week, the actual magic took place! I were given the comments e mail from Cox and I gave them low ratings (except for for the provider of the one that did moderately smartly). That precipitated them to name me again and ask what the tale was once. I defined the phone bother all over the place. She understood that it was once loopy to pay $25 in phone taxes when I didn’t use the telephone. (I suppose my Ooma taxes are $five. I don’t have the power to to get into why Cox’s is $25.)

She did one thing so easy it amazed me. She took the telephone off the invoice! Boom! My cable and web is now $126 a month. It will take me a couple of days for the invoice to up to date in order that I can evaluation it, however that’s a real financial savings.

So the name of the game appears to be to make use of the comments e mail and get a little bit a fortunate with the folk you communicate to.

As you’ll inform, I’m surprised. I presume the telephone operators have beautiful strict tips to promote extra product and now not let folks decrease their invoice. Threatening to go away is normally empty as a result of the monopoly point out above. Also, right here’s Cox prevents pageant by way of making your web invoice upper for those who join with an web tv supplier like Sling or Hulu TV. They do that by way of putting off a package deal cut price with the web provider itself. I believe it’s arduous for them to get new shoppers since they have got their markets carved out. Thus I suppose the easiest way they elevate earnings is to price every buyer extra.

Maybe that’s why it handiest took me 2.five years of complaining to get some actual financial savings on the 2 services and products I use.