Save on Cable TV Bills

One of the simplest, quickest, and easiest ways to save money on your cable TV bills, and other bills, is to simply call the company and ask for a better price. This is even easier to do, and more effective, when it comes to services that are offering discounts to try to lure you away from their competitors. And one of the best ways to ask for a better price is to use your junk mail to relate competing offers.

As an example of how this can help save on your bills, my mother received her cable TV bill and complained to her cable provider about the price. She took an advertisement from a satellite TV offer she had received in the mail a few days earlier, made a call to her cable company, and reduced the price of her cable by $25 a month for three months (from $65 a month to $39.95 a month for three months). This took all of 5 minutes on the phone to save $75 on her cable TV bills.

Does This Work For Other Bills I Need To Pay?

Yes. We then went through many of her other bills and services that she pays for. We contacted the credit card company and we ended up getting her interest rate reduced from 12% to 7%. We were able to get the gardener to reduce their monthly fee by $10 every two weeks for a total savings of $20 a month. The telephone company didn’t give us a direct discount on the phone bills, but the customer service representative set us up on a new plan that lowered her phone bill by about $15 a month over what she was paying. We called the newspaper and received a $5 a month on the monthly paper bill just by asking if they had any discount rates for current customers.

Why Don’t More People Do This? Is It Really This Easy?

Most people who don’t try this say the reason they don’t ask for a discount on their bills is because they feel uncomfortable. Rather, most people seem worried about what will happen if they don’t get offered a lower price and they wouldn’t know how to proceed from that point. So they simply pay the higher price.

While it may not always be the most comfortable asking for a discount on your bills, especially doing it the first few times, it does work. As with trying anything different or new, there is may be some nervousness and uncertainty of what to do if it doesn’t go as you expect. And like most things in life, if you try it it is not as bad as you may fear, and it does become much easier the more you do it. It is definitely worth the effort for the amount of money you can save on your bills, such as cable TV bills.

Do I Need To Give An Ultimatum Or Cancel The Service?

No. Many people think that there must be an ultimatum involved in the negotiations. They think they need to say “Either give me a better price or I will leave.” What we have found is that you never need to give an ultimatum when asking for a discount on your bills because most of the time you really don’t want to leave the company.

Instead, when you call the service provider, simply say that you received this offer from a competing company in the mail and that you’re “thinking about the offer” and you were wondering if your current company could match the plan. If they say yes, then you are done and you quickly and easily saved money on bills that you need to pay. If they say “no,” they can’t match the price, then you should simply ask what is the best price they can offer you. If it is less than what you are paying (but maybe not as low as the competitor), then you’re done and you saved some money over what you had been paying. And if they say that they can’t give a discount at all, then you can thank them for their time and say you will think about the situation further. That is it. Since you never made a demand that you would leave them if they didn’t give you a discount, you are never forced into an uncomfortable position.

This is a way to save money on your bills without ever having to make a sacrifice. You get the exact same service at a lower price.

How Much Can I Save On Bills?

This is a very simple and quick money saving money technique that can be used for almost all bills that you pay, all services that you use that have competition in your area. Check your newspaper ads, junk mail, and fliers for offers. Most people can reduce their costs on bills by over $50 per month (and often much more) using this method.