Around 6 months ago, all of the nifty promotions we were getting on our cable finally expired, and the price skyrocketed. Before the price shot up, we had premium cable service with all the movie channels, 8mb internet, etc, for a grand total of $80/mo. Wasn’t a bad deal at all! After the promos expired, the price shot up to $160/mo. Uhh, ouch. Of course, this was insane, so we cancelled all the super-special stuff, but we were still paying $120/mo for 8mb internet and “standard” cable. Double-ouch!

I finally got fed up enough with it that I gave them a call, and said I was going to switch to satellite and DSL if they couldn’t lower my price. What do you know, they dropped it to $99/mo, just because I threatened to go elsewhere. Nice!

Proves the “never hurts to ask” saying true! I really need to try that at the grocery store sometime..