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What makes something a pass through fee? Does access to a conduit count? Does sales tax count? Pass-through fees is a vague category that effectively means "I
by Guvante 3y ago
What makes something a pass through fee?
Does access to a conduit count? Does sales tax count?
Pass-through fees is a vague category that effectively means "I spent money" which is useless.
- tptacek 3y agoThe contracts with cities literally refer to them as "pass-through fees", explaining that they "pass through" to subscribers. People act like this stuff is complicated or unknowable, but you're a Google search away from reading a franchise agreement. Most cities have them, and they're public records.
- Guvante 3y agoThe only justification for avoiding displaying them is wanting to hide something. To your point actual pass through fees are transparent. So what don't they want to show you? The claim of packaging is a crock of shit. Cox won't give me a quote without an exact address since thanks to ISPs building up pseudo monopolies they charge everyone something different. If it is actually a package you can't list the final price due to that anyway. After all you don't know where someone lives based on where they buy something. Remember if you have to deal with quoting accurately you did all of the work to label properly.
- tptacek 3y agoWhat exactly would they be hiding? They've asked to quote the maximum possible total amount assuming the worst case pass-through fees.