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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

It would cost me $1626.11 to stay with Shaw this year or $554.40 with Telus TV. That means a savings of $1071.71

After the lower rates are over at the end of 1 year, and I pay regular Telus TV rates, I will still save $443.39 a year (and still free PVR & Wireless modem).


Anthony

yup, but you could always go to shaw and say Tellus is going to give me this for this price, what are you going to do to keep me? I know quite a few people that have done this and gotten very substantial deals in a permant price breaks that made it hard to switch.

the only problem I have is telus has a history of sucking you in with a fantastic deal and by the end of 2 or 3 years it turns into not so good of a deal. they did this to my daughter who had there internet and phone in victoria, she switched to shaw because all of a sudden she found her internet and phone changed on her so that it was almost double the cost.. and that was only last year.

I left telus because we had there free long distance evening and weekends unlimited in the 90's when they started that. then 2 years later they capped it at 2000 min with out notifying it. most people never know about that as it is a lot of min.. we had two teanage kids who called people all over the frigging country but we still stayed under 1900 min so I let that slide. although I did phone and complain and got the "thats the policy nothing we can do. then less than a year later they changed it again to 500 min cap with out any notification and all of a sudden I got a 400 buck phone bill. so I called to find out why and guess what I got.. to bad so sad.. thats the policy nothing we can do about it. next day I talked to shaw and they said there phone service would be available in my area in 3 days time. I never talked to telus again about that except when they called to find out how they can get me back.. I told them in a blunt strait to the point way they couldn't and somthing about the temp in hell and to put me on there do not call list.

I had another beef with telus in early 08, where my truck was ripped off while I was playing hockey. the cops called telus security to get them to do a trace onb my cell phone as it was in the truck and on and they said they can't do it unless it is a mater of life or death, so instead of getting a location on my truck 20 min after it was taken they never found it till the next night where it had been driven into a lake up island. so in the end because of telus' refusal to co-operate with the police it ended up costing me 20K to fix my truck by the time I am done. the worst was I had a fancy darn cell phone that was not avilable any more that did everything I wanted a cell to do.. they couldn't care less. it took me 5 months and threating leagal action (good to have a friend who is a lawyer) to get them to be gracious enough to get a 3 year price on a replacment phone. still paid 300 for the damn thing. and then they lied to me as I was looking at the BBerry phones and asked when they would get one that was wifi enabled as my starcom was and I used the wifi alot. I got told it woul dbe at least 5 years befor a wifi bbery would be out and guess what.. 1 year after I get my storm the storm 2 is wifi enabled..


where as I had to call Shaw the other day and ask why my bills seamed so hi, when they reviewed it they found none of the 1 month promo channels were cancled and I told them I cancled them 2 days befor the end of the first month which I did. since they screwed up and never did they credited my account 448.00 I didn't even have to get upset or anything. bang taken care of like that.

ok now.. sorry for the rant, but I think that explains my dislike for telus. now I need a drink

Steve