Embarrassed to admit I did this but I might save you money

[thecentaur]

Was looking at my cable bill recently. I never really scrutinized it I guess, but I have been paying $10/month to lease a modem on top of paying for internet.

This is just a Time Warner Cable modem, nothing fancy, doesn't have WiFi I had to buy my own router for that. I have gotten my internet from them for the past 15 years I would say, and apparently I have been paying to lease a modem from them all that time.

15 years x 12 months x $10= $1800 I have paid TWC $1800 to lease a crap modem from them when I could have bought my own for $50-100. I don't know how other cable companies do it but check your bill or if you didn't know you don't have to use their modem.

 

[Redagger029]

Bought a modem years ago for that same reason. Paid $100 back then. The modem still works fine and is still saving money.

 

[Akillies]

Evil

 

[MullerRose]

Good thing you already figured it out! These charges are hidden, so unless you scrutinized, you will never really know.

 

[bigwang]

Thanks for sharing with us how stupid you are.

 

[thecentaur]

Thanks for sharing with us how stupid you are.

Wahh looks like someone is butthurt about some of my posts wahhh

Miss your nap today?

 

[HarryCaray]

Wahh looks like someone is butthurt about some of my posts wahhh

Miss your nap today?

Who are you really?

 

[thecentaur]

Who are you really?

I'm not a ghost if that's what ur asking

 

[$tinky]

did the exact same thing a year or so ago. No telling how long I leased it. stupid

 

[bigwang]

Wahh looks like someone is butthurt about some of my posts wahhh

Miss your nap today?

Nope. But I bet you sure could use the $1800 the cable company suckered your dumb ass out of. Those fees are called "stupid tax" for a reason.

 

[thecentaur]

Nope. But I bet you sure could use the $1800 the cable company suckered your dumb ass out of. Those fees are called "stupid tax" for a reason.

"Wahhhh mommy Wang I'm mad at an internet guy's other posts, I think I'm going to troll him and call him stupid wahhhh"

LOL

 

[HacheMan]

Take your BS fighting to the rubber room guys.

 

[bigwang]

Take your BS fighting to the rubber room guys.

Sorry sir. You may have to draw a map for centaur.

 

[thecentaur]

Was looking at my bills and this equipment lease charge is relatively new, at least for TWC. Started a few years ago at I think $5 and they've steadily crept it up. They do it with the cable boxes too but you lose features if you don't use their box