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As a litigious american immgrant, I've been able to mitigate my costs with counter-claims. Every time the price goes up, I send their CFO a bill for the yearly
by anonbanker 10y ago
As a litigious american immgrant, I've been able to mitigate my costs with counter-claims.
Every time the price goes up, I send their CFO a bill for the yearly difference of my charges. After the second notice, when the CFO has defaulted and is now personally liable for a lien, I get a polite letter from someone else in the company saying that my bill has been "credited for mistaken charges."
When my bandwidth goes down, I bill them back for the adjusted bandwidth. same song and dance, and the bandwidth shoots up again after an "upgrade on your node was completed".
In short, I've had a 100Mbit connection with Shaw for 4 years now, with (almost) no outages for $70/month.
- deskamess 10y agoHow does that work? I mean what is the basis for the counter claim in law? I don't mind writing a couple of letters to get this going.
- anonbanker 10y agoIf you're really interested in the foundations of filing a counterclaim, I would suggest Brian Blum's seminal work[0]. It will explain in great detail more than I could summarize. However, I'll relay a parable told to me in first-year law school contracts class: A man picks up a hitchiker on the side of the road. beautiful girl. She offers to fool around with him while driving (use your imagination). after the act is over, she says "I forgot to mention: I'm a prostitute, and that act cost $50." Without missing a beat, the driver responds, "It just so happens that I forgot to mention: I'm a taxi driver, and this trip costs $60, so I'll take the $10 you owe me now." 0. https://www.amazon.com/Examples-Explanations-Contracts-Brian-Blum/dp/1454815477 https://www.amazon.com/Examples-Explanations-Contracts-Brian...
- sounds 10y agoIf you published this as a blog post (anonymize first, if you wish), and it included some measurements along the way of what you've seen over 4 years, you'd get a happy following here on HN and over at dslreports.com. Please do!