Lin is speaking to a woman at the door. She said, when he first opened the door, that she was doing a customer service survey for AT&T services. After informing her that we no longer used any AT&T services at all, the real reason she is standing on our porch came out: she wants to SELL us service with AT&T.
After Lin told her how much we pay Time Warner, here was her response:
“What, do you have extra money to throw away? AT&T is so much cheaper.”
OK, how about we prefer the service, because TW sucks less than AT&T? Or … how about the thousand channels we have on cable and the internet connection that is faster than anything coming through a “dedicated” phone line?
“Oh, you don’t have a thousand channels!”
Why, yes … yes we do. We certainly don’t watch all of them, but we could, if we wanted to watch all of them.
I wish Lin would stop talking to her. The cable bill is in my name, and there is no way in hell I am switching to AT&T for any service or any reason whatsoever. Not to mention, the ADSL service isn’t available in our area yet … only the satellite dish broadband and cable, and I don’t care who is trying to sell me a dish, there is nothing at all, even a low price, that could convince me to trade cable for a dish.
Thank heavens. She’s gone. Lin’s phone rang. Can’t wait to hear what he has to say. Not that it matters. As much as I gripe about Time Warner, it’s the best game going right here and right now. Besides, while she was babbling, I looked it up on-line (on my zippy connection), and yeah, we could certainly pay less FOR less, and then there are the fees and the fact we’d have to have a land-line from AT&T, so in the end, we end up with much less for about the same price. Didn’t mention we’d need to have a land-line phone while she was twittering away about how wonderful AT&T would be for us and how much money it would save us, now did she? Of course not. Typical salesman bullshit.
Customer service survey, indeed. Lying little bitch. Gods, how I hate people trying to sell us stuff at our front door. :puh: