Showing posts with label Lock in your savings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lock in your savings. Show all posts

Monday, July 25, 2011

Marketing 101

     So some company wants me to stay as a customer of their overpriced service, and their marketing plot is this:


lock in savings at a low rate that's GUARANTEED for two years.


     Let me get this straight....you clearly are about to go up on your prices...the ones that are ALREADY so high I am an inch away from cancelling...and you are threatening me?...saying unless I sign a contract agreeing to pay those high rates for two more years, you'll increase them again and I'll stop SAVING?
    Tell 'ya what. Here's your chance to lock me in as a customer. Go DOWN on your currently too-high rates and maybe, just MAYBE I'll continue paying you every month. Clear enough? Geeze.


[UPDATE: 8/10/11 WSJ reports cable and dish companies see subscribers abandoning their services.]