I phoned our phone company today to make sure they had upgraded our plan correctly — the email they sent was incorrect. It was fine, but of course the fellow had to try to sell us something afterwards — in this case their TV service.
He asked what we had now and how much we were paying. I told him we had over-the-air service and weren’t paying anything. You have an antenna?? Yes, on our roof. Well, how much TV do we watch, we could have more channels. No thanks, we don’t watch much TV. How much? My husband watches the weather for about fives minutes a night.
Well, we should watch more and know what’s going on in the world. No thanks. We read – we get newspapers, magazines and books. That apparently was a new concept. Is that what we do for entertainment? I couldn’t resist so said, well, yeah.
I have to give him credit, he was willing to try to keep selling but I thanked him, said he had been a big help, and hung up.
I cheated a bit — I get most of my news and entertainment from the internet, but I thought I would give him something to ponder — some people still read. And I did find the conversation entertaining.
February 11, 2019
I knew someone once who worked for them and though she made good money she quit because they gave her a quota and demanded a hard sell to people. she just couldn’t do it! I couldn’t either!
I do try to be nice to them. but oh my goodness. enough already!
The interesting thing is when I talked to the gal Friday she told me I could save a lot of money by switching plans now than my present discount for internet ended. She was very helpful and didn’t try to sell me anything else. This fellow was hard to understand (I kept interrupting to ask him to talk more slowly and to enunciate) and had trouble understanding why I had phoned. Anyway, I decided to be patient and have some gentle fun with it. I didn’t blame him, he was just trying to make a living.
Our t v is from antenna and people wonder what planet your from. Just off our antenna we get 22 channels and no bill. But I been thinking only thinking of doing streaming form Hula or something like that.
Coffee is on
The nice thing about Hulu and Netflix is you can do it by the month — no long term commitment. I like the fact Netflix doesn’t interrupt their programs with advertising, and you can get that feature with Hulu too if you pay a bit more.
At the moment I’m watching a lot of educational programs using The Great Courses Plus. It’s a bit more expensive but I’m learning a lot.
I haven’t got a TV at all, and although I do read some books etc, I mostly get my news/entertainment from this here “box” thing…and that Net connection includes my landline.
We have two TVs, and the one in my study isn’t hooked up to the antenna. I use it for streaming programs that I watch while I use my NordicTrack treadmill.
When I called to change the service through my internet provider I had the same thing. I was keeping the internet but cancelling the phone and the cable tv. She kept trying to sell me cheaper packages and said she just wanted me to be able to watch tv…lol I told I appreciated her effort but I could not afford it.
I’m guessing a lot of people are cutting back their cable tv and landlines because of the cost. Our landline cost has really gone up over the years. 🙁
What fun!
That reminds me of the days when you couldn’t buy your own phone so the phone company was pushing color phones and princess phones. At that time, I live in a tiny apartment with old fashioned furnishings. It was four rooms with a small central foyer that had a tiny table in it. So, I wanted a plain black desk phone I could set on that table with the cord reaching into other rooms. It was very hard to explain to the clerk that I really only wanted one, plain black, desk phone. No, not two phones, no not color, no not a wall phone or a princess phone, just a plain black desk phone. I won but it did take some effort.
We still have a wall phone in our living room. It’s over 40 years old and has a dial, of course. Andy loves it but it doesn’t work if he has to push buttons for help menus.
I, too, have antenna TV by choice — receive all the major commercial stations and their secondary ones, plus 2 public TV stations — have my land line and cell phone. Don’t want cable, but only problem is ny Internet speed slow as molasses and can only upgrade if I install cable line. Could refuse TV but little cost reduction.
We don’t have the option of a cable line here. We have
highbandbroadband over our phone lines and the maximum we can get is 12 Mbps. It is still a lot better than when we started — using just the phone line and not being able to make calls when we were using the internet. One of the disadvantages of living in the sticks.Often help menus that ask you to push this button for that will let you dial zero to get a person. I sometimes use that even with buttons available to not have to remember each list of choices.
Thank you! I will tell him that. 🙂
I have an antenna too.
I also have a Roku hooked to it.
I can watch several things, YouTube etc.
And I have Netflix because I’m on Lily’s account.
But I probably spend more time on my phone, watching videos, reading and posting on Facebook or Instagram.
I’d never ever get cable because I have no need for it.
I didn’t know about Roku TV, so I read about it. Thank you. 🙂