Donna and I have been working hard on making a budget, tracking our money and looking for ways we could cut back so that we would have more money for paying debt. A friend of ours told us they recently called the cable company and had them stop service. They wanted to have the money they were paying on cable availble for paying on bills. That's quite a dramatic step, in my opinion, and not one I'm willing to do. Yes I want to pay off our debt and become debt free as quickly as possible but I'm not at the point where I'm willing to have the cable service disconnected to do so.
What we did do though was call our cable provider and ask how we could reduce our monthly bill. The rep we spoke with, John, I believe his name was reviewed our account and discussed the different plans they had available. We could drop from Plan A to Plan B but then we would lose some channels we wanted to keep, etc. This went on for several minutes trying to find a cheaper plan that would fit our wants. Notice I said wants and not needs. We WANT specific channels we don't really NEED them. In the end we agreed that switching to a different plan wouldn't help us so John said that new subscribers were getting a $30 per month discount on our current plan for their first 6 months of service and that he would apply that discount code to our account as well.
So there you have it. Once call, 15-20 minutes of time and effort expended and $180 in savings over the next 6 months. All we had to do was ask! How cool is that. Best of all John advised us to call back in 6 months to see what offers were available at that time. Who knows perhaps with a little luck we'll be able to turn two phone calls into $360.
So how about you? Have you ever called a company and asked for a discount? If so how did it go?
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