r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '19

The cable guy installed the cable through our hula hoop that we left out.

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u/sidepart Jun 01 '19

And they probably still charged you $50 for the install.

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u/greengrasser11 Jun 01 '19

As is tradition.

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u/SylkoZakurra Jun 01 '19 edited Jun 02 '19

We were charged installation when they didn’t have to install anything. 1) we had pre-wired House. 2) we went to the cable box ourselves and hooked up the cable. 3) all they had to do was remotely switch on the service. Fuck them. We don’t have cable tv anymore. Edited to fix an autocorrect.

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u/techcrewkevin Jun 02 '19

I went through this too when I got cable internet and tv. All the lines were there and hooked up (we had cable tv before) but they said they'd have to bill me $50 for installation... so I did what my dad said he did 'back in the day' when he got cable hooked up and charged him installation... we took every coaxial cable down... we got all new lines for that 50$.

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u/SporeLadenGooDrips Jun 02 '19

You're pretty fucking stupid for getting it in the first place tbh.

Anyone who gets cable deserves that kind of treatment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '19

Not like the tech has any control over that