Ok, thats it, I seriously had to let this one out otherwise I could be driven to head in to the Telstra headquarters in the city right now and piss inside their glazed sliding door.
For so long I have been annoyed by the ways in which the Telstra Corporation rips off everyday Australians. This annoyance has been fed by the pathetic cost and performance of their cable internet and the frustrations of friends stuck in contracts with their mobile phone division.
My rant today my friends, focuses on fucking FOXTEL.
For so long I have been annoyed by the ways in which the Telstra Corporation rips off everyday Australians. This annoyance has been fed by the pathetic cost and performance of their cable internet and the frustrations of friends stuck in contracts with their mobile phone division.
My rant today my friends, focuses on fucking FOXTEL.
Now a FOXTEL customer once again after a six year layoff, I cannot believe how Telstra have now cleverly and basically unfairly packaged their ‘package options’ in order to rip off everyone.
My family pays $634.00 p.a. for what is called the ‘get started’ package. This package consists of the most basic channels, many of which you could actually find yourself wishing you could pay NOT to have, due to the annoyance of having to flick through them.
Upon purchasing this package (I must admit without prior review (thanks mum), I realised the only sports channels available within were the FOX SPORTS NEWS, EURO SPORT NEWS and the king of all channels, SKY RACING. You can imagine the taste of disgust that built up in my mouth when I realised there was no live EPL or AFL. These channels (FOX SPORTS 1, 2, 3 aaah fuck off) come at an extra cost of $15.95 per month (or $191.50 p.a.). It was unanimously decided (by myself and no other family member) that the EXTRA sports channels were compulsorily required, therefore we acquired them.
I now sit in a position where I want the Lifestyle Food channel and perhaps some of the Travel channels, as these in fact are the only channels I used to like to (other than the sport channels and occasional news or Discovery), prior to the one month free 'platinum package' offer expiring, but no…. This will cost me an extra arm AND I will be paying mostly for the other shitty channels which come with the ones I want, compulsorily.
I actually wasn't going to blog this, until The Moff reminded me of how we now get advertisements at regular intervals, easily competing in annoyance with free to air television. This broke the proverbial ‘donkey’s back’.
I therefore hope with little faith that FOXTEL, oh sorry TELSTRA, will allow us all to pleeeeaase for the love of god, pick the channels we want at unit rates. I am positive this will still be profitable for the company (how many hundreds of millions?) and will prevent poor souls such as myself, from truly losing their shit.
*Listens to café primo ad in the background “noin nointy”, and signs off.*
4 comments:
Brilliant. I cannot believe how many ads foxtel has despite the fact that you pay good money for it. They are milking every dollar.
The bastards.
It's because they are fucking Jews I bet.
Man I hate the Jews.
Brilliant.
one of the funniest blogs to date. just what i needed after a close. i was hesitant to open the blogpage, given the lack of activity, but seano mate, you've come through nicely. well played.
bravo
ps.. who keeps writing about the jews?
I like it Seano. It is also something that annoyed me when we had foxtel. I do get the idea of packages, but I can not condone picking all the channels any sane man would like and putting them all in DIFFERENT packages, thereby virtually forcing you onto the premium package and making you pay for 8000 channels you don't want and 20 minutes of adds an hour. I thought the idea of paying for TV was so you didn't have to watch ads, which are there so you dont have to pay for television. WANKERS.
You are funny but...
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