Discounts Just A Phone Call Away!!

My home phone bill was getting out of hand - yes, we still have a land line because cell phone coverage is pretty sketchy out here and we also have a fax machine AND our internet is tied to our landline!!

So I called up CenturyTel and calmly told them our phone bill was just too high and could they do anything about it? Sure they said - they transferred me to a "specialist" who looked at our account and said she could give us a $20 a month discount, as long as we signed up for another year with them - duh, they are our ONLY choice where we live so that wasn't too difficult a decision!! $20.00 a month - Woo Hoo!!!

At the end of the conversation, the gal asked me about "bundling" and I told her we had Dish and she suggested converting to Direct TV as they were having this great promotion price - it all sounded great AND the best thing was is that it included DVR on our upstairs TV also - during football season, it would SURE be nice to watch a recorded program upstairs while Glenn is downstairs watching sports!!!

I told the gal to call me back in a couple of days and proceeded to check out Direct TV online - it all sounded just like she had told me!! Glenn and I talked about it and decided if there wasn't any charge to quit Dish, we would go ahead and switch but he said to check with Dish FIRST and see if they would be willing to match their price!!

So I call Dish - give them my story about Direct TV's fantastic price and they connected me to a "specialist" and she said - how would a $20.00 a month discount sound to you??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? A discount for JUST calling??? I said absolutely!!! After she put the discount on our account, I proceeded to ask her about DVR for the other TV in our house - what would that charge be to do that??? Here I had just gotten my discount and now was about to spend it again!!

She said she would check and came back on the phone a few minutes later and told me - no charge to upgrade to the whole house DVR and in fact, you're paying a $7.00 extra charge to have a SOLO DVR unit so when we install the new one, you won't have that charge anymore!!!! Now I'm up to a $27.00 discount a month!!!

The tech came out Saturday - installed our new unit downstairs - and we now have DVR on both TV's at ONE FANTASTIC PRICE!!! Let's see - that's $47.00 a month savings - wonder what I should spend that on?????