venting, utilities stuff, very annoyed
very frustrated at centurylink now
they advertise a 940 megabit symmetric plan for $65/mo, or 100 megabit symmetric for $50/mo, if i try to get it by their main website
but the apartment complex has a contract with them that apparently locks us into paying $80/mo if we want 1 gigabit symmetric, or $60/mo for 100/50
why
why the *fuck* can we not get the cheaper version of the same plan solely because the only apartment complex in the area with openings has some kind of deal with them
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like $65/mo is already more than we'd want to pay for internet but fuck if we're paying that much we'd better be getting gigabit for it
and they're not even offering us symmetric
despite the fact that they do offer it
because we're at this apartment complex we just Can't
why
i can't even explain why this is so intensely frustrating to us but i am very much fixating on it right now and i can't stop being frustrated and i can't do anything except be frustrated right now and it's just Bad
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@Felthry Unfortunately, outside of lawyering up, I am not sure anything could be done. Perhaps send an angry letter?
@FreyaManibrandr we are very not good at that kind of thing
we tend to shut down when we get this frustrated
it's not just us right
this is indeed some complete BS?
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@Felthry Yeah, I pay $20 for 100/100, and my next contract offer would be $25 for 200/200
Outside of contract, my service would be $45/mo
@FreyaManibrandr well yeah i know that prices for internet in the US are absurd to begin with compared to elsewhere but i'm mostly thinking this whole thing with being locked into a bad deal because of our apartment complex
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@Felthry Yeah, that is like another layer of bullshit that they're pulling just because they could. The building owners probably got a cut of the extra profit too.
Cable companies *fucking suuuuuuuck*
@Felthry because brains. No need to have a reason.
re: venting, utilities stuff, very annoyed
@Felthry@awoo.space whenever I start thinking, it's been a while since I've heard anything, should I really still despise CenturyLink? (Used them back when they were still USWest and then Qwest and almost literally rofled when at the time of that merger I read an article worrying that Qwest's management might bring down the quality of service if they remained post-merger. But no, USWest's solid history of bad service has endured)
re: venting, utilities stuff, very annoyed
@LilFluff sorry i'm much too stressed to understand what you're saying here
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just... does anyone know what can be done here
can someone provide *some* kind of help
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