Oh happy happy days - I've finally kicked Cable Atlantico into touch. In the four or five years that I have had to deal with these people I probably had good service for less than six months. My neighbours and I paid over $2000 to DeLancer to bring the cable up the LaMulata road to the benefit of the whole neighbourhood (and DeLancer) on the understanding that we got free programmes for life. DeLancer forgot this agreement and went back on their promise and started charging me again at the time that they started to use the set-top boxes.
Now it seems they even keep a final little kick in the teeth waiting for you when you return their set-top box. Instead of graciously returning the 500 peso deposit that I paid for the box they kept the money stating that it isn't a refundable deposit, rather a guarantee against future technical problems that they will fix "free of charge". Furthermore, apparently all I have to do is keep my receipt and if I ever, ever want to go back to their cable system again, I will get another set-top box free of charge.
I'm really ****ed off about this final little insult - Maybe it's time I got my own back on what is after all a totally illegal sham.
By the way - I've now got SKY which is FANTASTIC. Easy system, polite people, punctual service, digital quality, simple payment system, with far more programmes in English, and it all drops straight out of the Sky and into my house without having to rely on miles of dodgy cables. Brilliant!
Now it seems they even keep a final little kick in the teeth waiting for you when you return their set-top box. Instead of graciously returning the 500 peso deposit that I paid for the box they kept the money stating that it isn't a refundable deposit, rather a guarantee against future technical problems that they will fix "free of charge". Furthermore, apparently all I have to do is keep my receipt and if I ever, ever want to go back to their cable system again, I will get another set-top box free of charge.
I'm really ****ed off about this final little insult - Maybe it's time I got my own back on what is after all a totally illegal sham.
By the way - I've now got SKY which is FANTASTIC. Easy system, polite people, punctual service, digital quality, simple payment system, with far more programmes in English, and it all drops straight out of the Sky and into my house without having to rely on miles of dodgy cables. Brilliant!