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Originally Posted by JB Antennaman
My answer would be that the low rate that they advertise is a teaser rate. Something to get their foot in your door. Once you look at the cable and get good service on a daily basis, then they will give you a free programming from time to time.
When the free programming ends, you miss it and you call them and spend a couple of bucks for more service. Then they give you some more free programming and you get teased in a little further.
Before you know it, you are paying $70 a month for cable / Sat. TV..
Local cable and Dish service providers do not have the bandwidth to transmit all the local programming. In the end, I get more stations with my $450 antenna set up than you will with your $11 a month cable bill.
$11 x 12 = $132 a year.
Let's say my antenna set up lasts 10 years.
$132 x 10 = $1320.00
That is if they keep their present rate of $11 a month for 10 years.
That means that my antenna set up is only about 1/3 the cost of cable.
It's the difference between leasing a new car and buying a new car.
You get a 3 year lease and you put X amount down and you pay a little more than you would for a car payment and in 3 years, you turn the car in and you might owe them a couple of thousand dollars on top of that if you put too many miles on it or if you did any damage.
Or you can pay the other 50% they figure you still owe, and you end up paying 140% the cost of buying it outright.
Either way you end up loosing money.
If I don't have the $11 a month to pay the cable / Sat. bill, nobody is going to come and shut my antenna off.
That is why it is called Free Television.
Feel free to comment on this subject, because I don't know it all and I would like to hear other peoples opinions.
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FREE TV! I couldn't agree more. 20 years ago I sold my home and bought another a few miles away, I had cable at the old house and the cable was working at the new house when we moved in. The cable company was going to charge me $15-20 bucks to hook it up, even though it was hooked up and I had been a paying customer for a couple years. I told them they could un-hook it for free instead, they could forget it . Up went the antenna, I have moved 7 times since, 4 of which were into new homes that I have had built, and always up goes the antenna. Currently I live in Winlock WA, when I built this home I checked into Sat, I am 70+ miles form the transmitters, but when I added up what it would cost for HD service on three sets, I figured antenna again was the answer, no matter what it cost. Again, the antenna worked great, granted there was some trial and error, and most people would have given up before they put a set of stacked yagis 20' above the peak of there roof, but they would be the one's forking out $70.00 per month for something that should be free.