Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Another way Charter Cable sucks

Charter Cable is a horrible cable company. They keep reaffirming this to me continuously. It took them 8 months to bury a cable that had been stretched across my driveway My cable internet connections drops for an extended period of time every time it rains hard. I pay almost $200 per month to get the channels I want but have to take hundreds of channels of crap with it. And now, I have enrolled in their rewards program since I spend so much money with them. It is called Live It with Charter. Let me tell you that Live It with Charter is without a doubt the world's shittiest rewards program. They have auctions on crap like Mad Men dolls, autographed baseballs and guitars. You can spend your points on awesome valuable stuff like a 7' ethernet cable, a cable splitter and other cable related accessories. If you don't like that you can enter a sweepstakes with your points or get 2 or 3% off at participating retailers- except they don't give you the discount up front... the discount is credited to your cable bill not at the end of the month but at the end of the quarter!!! If none of this suits you, there always is "Charter Days" where they offer you for a limited time more worthless crap. They don't even offer a way to use my 70k of worthless points to donate to a worthy cause. So don't even bother signing up for this worthless program. Trying to spend the points is so difficult and the selection is so limited that it just isn't even worth collecting the points.