Subscription services [finances]
Jan. 10th, 2024 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeister...of course, another benefit of working from home this morning is that I was able to FINALLY call in and close our account with our irritating big-business ISP. It is the only game in town, and the local paper keeps on reporting about how it is raising rates yet again. Infuriating. As direct evidence, the rate we were paying DOUBLED over the span of one year, and that is more money than I want to hand over to this particular big business in any given month. I also resent that they make their customers call in to either beg for a reduced rate or to cancel the service.
I know this is all just the car insurance business plan to punish loyalty, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I also resent that I don't feel comfortable making this type of phone call while at work, and of course these companies know it. We are switching over to using a wireless hotspot instead, because preliminary tests suggest it is sufficiently fast for most if not all of our uses, and it looks like I can use mobile phone tethering as a backup.
Harumph.
A couple months ago, I encountered an ad for an app that (for just a low low price, presumably! Ha!) will supposedly crawl through your financial info and identify for you all of the subscriptions that you don't use that are bleeding your wallet dry. I personally have very few things set up on auto-pay, so I'm already routinely asking myself if I want to continue various subscriptions. But it will probably never cease to amaze me how cavalier other people might be with these things.
This is going to be a weird and different year, financially, what with sabbatical plans.
I know this is all just the car insurance business plan to punish loyalty, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I also resent that I don't feel comfortable making this type of phone call while at work, and of course these companies know it. We are switching over to using a wireless hotspot instead, because preliminary tests suggest it is sufficiently fast for most if not all of our uses, and it looks like I can use mobile phone tethering as a backup.
Harumph.
A couple months ago, I encountered an ad for an app that (for just a low low price, presumably! Ha!) will supposedly crawl through your financial info and identify for you all of the subscriptions that you don't use that are bleeding your wallet dry. I personally have very few things set up on auto-pay, so I'm already routinely asking myself if I want to continue various subscriptions. But it will probably never cease to amaze me how cavalier other people might be with these things.
This is going to be a weird and different year, financially, what with sabbatical plans.
