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Am I just cheap or is this a good deal?

JK8 — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:28:12 GMT

Just got this promo sent to my email from Public Mobile. Instead of giving us something worthwhile on our existing plans for being a loyal customer, I get this. Who watches TV anyways? I got rid of that years ago. As for internet, I am with a reseller which is way cheaper.

There is no way I'd go for this so called deal which is on a 2 year contract before it goes up to $178.

So you PM customers let me know if I am just being cheap or if this is really a good deal?

NC = Not Cheap

YC = You are the cheapest $%%^!!!!&%$

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Anonymous — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:27:28 GMT

You're not cheap. That's insane. I got the same email. But I know people that spend that on tv services. I spend less than half of that for 150Mbps internet and Telus Optik Essentials. I simply can not justify spending so much for tv service let alone internet. But people do.

I'm still old school with the old traditional networks. They're not all easily available via streaming and you still have to sit through ads that you can't FF through. I can deal with the brief flashes of ads as I FF through them on a DVR. I rarely watch live tv anymore.

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CFPartDeux — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 03:07:25 GMT

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Guy1993 — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 22:30:57 GMT

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LeePublic — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 23:31:51 GMT

NC kinda pricey.

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stevenanto — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:06:35 GMT

not cheap at all, we spend way less than that lol

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mimmo — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:07:17 GMT

its a great deal for telus. lol

I was also offered a special offer via sms i think it was just internet 75 ffor$85 clciking on link you could et $10 off if you were a koodo or telus subscriber. almost thought of switching to koodo (not really)

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darlicious — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 12:26:27 GMT

@JK8

Considering what my neighbour's are paying that is a deal.....grumpy_neighbour calls it the rip off a senior plan. I just haven't had the wherewithal to deal with that one yet for him. Maybe when I'm truly laid up after surgery I will tackle that one. I pay $55+tax for the essentials +the pick 6. I'm lucky (in a way) as I qualify for the internet for good program and pay $9.95 a month for unlimited internet 25.

So I laughed when I received the same offer as @mimmo ....

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popping — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 04:14:48 GMT

My Optik TV + Internet 75 2 years agreement was up 2 months ago. The best Telus offer was $109 from $87. I said too much. CSR told me if I do not sign another agreement, it will be around $180 without any monthly credit. CSR finally gave me 6 months agreement on month-to-month and cancel without penalty. I tested the OTA channels with a simple indoor DIY antenna with 2 pieces of 6" copper wires solder to the coax cable. I do not need Internet 75. I switched to Internet 30 and save a bit more.

After over 1.5 years of COVID-19, everything are going up. We are forced to cut down our expenses. We got a pair of tickets to the free screening of Shang-Chi and the Legend of 10 Rings a few days ago.

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Korth — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 01:45:39 GMT

@darlicious wrote:

I got the same msg and same offer.

Exclusive promo/sale price (only for customers "on the list") ...

Telus Internet 75 with unlimited data (2-year contract) for $85/month.

Compare to the normal price (available to the public) ...

Telus Internet 75 with unlimited data (2-year contract) for $75/month.

https://www.telus.com/en/shop/home/product/internet-75

Gee, what a sweet deal!

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darlicious — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:57:52 GMT

@Korth

Lol....and you get a $100 credit for ordering online! So the special price for loyal pm customers over two years is $340 more expensive than the average guy walking in off the street That's a sweef deal alright...sweet for suckers.🍭

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CFPartDeux — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 19:11:20 GMT

@darlicious Well, Shaw does exactly the same thing, i.e. give out semi-decent deals to "new" customers, while charging long time customers ever increasing prices for the same thing! 😠 If the wife wasn't SO adamant that she has to have her Shaw email address 🙄, I would've switched to a third party provider(where we'd get WAY more speed, for WAY less money) LONG AGO!

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darlicious — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 21:28:47 GMT

@CFPartDeux

I never relied on email but finally had a friend create one for me from Yahoo in 2008 for something I wanted to do but you had to have an email. I had under 100 emails until my bank got their hands on my email and added to my account without my knowledge and only found out about it after my purse was stolen in 2019 and I started to get notifications that someone was trying to sign into my yahoo account.

Telus had set up an email for me that I didn't really know about and at one point during a billing issue they said we've been emailing you.....and that's how I discovered it. I told them to delete it because I didn't know the address or password and have never seen it so as far as I was concerned it didn't exist and anything sent to it was null and void.

That friend who first set up my email had a top of the line tinfoil hat so had warned me to never have an email with a provider as they basically own your email so it makes difficult to leave the provider if you are beholden to your email much like your telephone number used to be.....before number portability became mandated.

Even still I only created my gmail account about a year ago preferring to use my dearly departed's account.....same goes for the one social media account I have. If you know me well enough you can find me if you don't then searching my name will get you absolutely nothing. I had an investigator once ask me why they couldn't find any info about me online and I just said "because I haven't done anything wrong!"

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Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 22:38:40 GMT

I dropped off the internet around year 2000 or so. I've used pseudonyms since. There are very few places I'm mentioned.

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darlicious — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 22:41:48 GMT

@Anonymous

Found you!

Lol....😃!

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Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 22:46:16 GMT

That is a lol! 🙂 Obviously I meant my real name.

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darlicious — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 22:54:10 GMT

@Anonymous

Check your email....

....hahaha!!!!!😉😅😂🤣

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CFPartDeux — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:47:07 GMT

@darlicious wrote:

Telus had set up an email for me that I didn't really know about and at one point during a billing issue they said we've been emailing you.....and that's how I discovered it.

Yeah, IIRC, if you don't request a particular email address, they simply create one for you, by default, using the name on your account?

That friend who first set up my email had a top of the line tinfoil hat

You mean like this..... 😁

so had warned me to never have an email with a provider as they basically own your email so it makes difficult to leave the provider if you are beholden to your email much like your telephone number used to be.....before number portability became mandated.

Yeah, that's the trouble - the wife has used that email address as her contact for EVERYTHING, such that it would be kind of a pain-in-the-butt to switch it all. I've done almost the same, but look at $30+/month savings as decent enough incentive to put up with said pain-in-the-butt. I'd probably switch my contacts to one of the generic(non-ISP provided) email addresses I have, and so could she, but simply doesn't want the hassle involved. 🙄

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darlicious — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:55:14 GMT

@CFPartDeux

Did you just bravo my post just now or am I getting double notifications of bravos with one delayed about 6 hours?

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Korth — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 03:24:05 GMT

@CFPartDeux wrote:

Not too shabby. I'm pretty sure this design would work against microwave mind control and psychotronic rays - that'll keep all the gear in those black helicopters and unmarked surveillance vans fooled, ha! - but I'm not confident it would have much value against alien telepathy. Classic noob mistake. And you can't be too careful, y'know, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is out there.

If (when!) I finally get around to making my proper tinfoil hat, I think I'm gonna go with the time-tested, proven, functional, and (in my opinion) the most highly stylish design.

Tinfoil hat ftw!