Cut the cord is EXPENSIVE

[sekker]

Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=gadje]
lifetime price??? I don't recall that, but let me check emails

EDIT: no, they did not promise any lifetime

https://cordcuttersnews.com/did-directv-...vestigate/

That article is from 2018. I signed up in 2016, and the offer was that you get to keep the $35 plan as long as you stay with the service.

I'm sure it's much like "unlimited data" that is still capped in reality, and they gave themselves an out. But that's what the offer was.
I can confirm that the promise to early adopters was lifetime pricing. We considered that when we switched away.

[gadje]

sekker wrote:
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I can confirm that the promise to early adopters was lifetime pricing. We considered that when we switched away.

Interesting...

[RgrF]

It was probably just a dream sequence but I seem to recall a time when Apple promised free upgrades forever.

[RAMd®d]

It was probably just a dream sequence but I seem to recall a time when Apple promised free upgrades forever.


Like the time I woke up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette, after dreaming that I ran an old inn in VT.

It seemed so real, and then there were are the memories of Suzanne biting the pillow.

(I didn't recall that she was married to Tom Poston.)


More to the point, does going to DirectTV count as cord-cutting?

Anyway, it was predicted years ago with the complaints of '500 channels and nothing to watch' that ordering just what one wants would be more than what cable was charging at the time.

The old 'Be careful what you wish for' saw.