The more services a customer you get from from your cable company (or your ISP, or your phone company), the less likely you are to be interested in switching to a different vendor for those services. It’s about “lifetime value”: they aren’t looking at what you pay this month, but how much money they will make from you over time; I can guarantee you that they have research which shows them that.
This is why AT&T (with whom I have a landline and mobile phones) is absolutely desperate to get me to switch to them for internet. I get 2 to 3 direct mail pieces from them each week, and an earnest young sales person (who is trained to not take “no” for an answer) coming to my door 3 to 4 times a year.
(And, I, too, have a VOIP telephone line from my cable company, which I have never used, because they called me one day to offer me a new bundled deal, which was less than my old cable+internet deal.)
If you said the more services I get & use from a company the less likely I would be to switch, I would agree with you. But two people in this thread stated that we don’t use the third service, & frankly intertubez is (or at least should be) a commodity. It’s the pipeline connecting you to the web. Assuming similar or at least fast enough speeds do you care (or even know if you go over a friend or relative’s house & connect to their wifi) what provider you are using?
I have never used my provider’s email, precisely because I don’t lose anything if I switch providers. Therefore, the only differentiator is cable, what channels you get, & possibly more importantly, I know the channel #s on current system but I’ll have to learn all new channel #s if I change to a different cable provider. However, with the number of cord cutters & modern TV interfaces does that really even matter anymore?
It’s that, once you have multiple services from an ISP (internet, cable, landline, cell phone), they are making it more difficult for you to switch.
If all you really use is one or two services, even if they provide you with more, and one of those is internet (which is at least less differentiated than cable or whatever), then, yes, you aren’t that intimidated by switching, and “bundling” doesn’t do much to keep you, personally, from switching.
OTOH, Someone who uses. say, Comcast for internet, cable TV, phone, email, etc. is the one who would face a much bigger set of hurdles to switch, and that is really the goal they have (or, at least, historically had) for bundling – to get customers so enmeshed in their landscape that it’s a PITA to change.
With cord-cutting and landlines going away, it may be less of an advantageous thing for companies to offer, but it’s clearly not going away entirely. Yes, a lot of people have “cut the cord,” but half of U.S. households still subscribe to cable TV.
I know this board is full of people who use extremely clever terms like “sportsball” to refer to various sports so I’ll be in the minority. I’ll watch the entire game. I’ll catch some of the pregame but certainly not all of it. I’ll be rooting for my numbers and for an entertaining game. I’ll be drinking beer and eating food that is bad for me.
As a Seahawk fan (the Seattle NFL franchise) I’m watching the entire game. If it were just me, I’d watch it on a slight delay and skip the commercials and half-time show. But, I’ll be with family, and they’ll want to watch it all.
If I’m going to a sit down restaurant for breakfast, it’s almost certainly because I’m traveling. And most of my travel is over weekends. So I’m pretty sure Saturday is the most likely day to do it. But maybe Sunday is nearly as likely.
I’m certainly not getting dressed and leaving my home, where i have lots of breakfast options, just to go to a restaurant. I only choose to wear out for lunch and dinner.
My notes to myself are all too often illegible, to the point at which I can’t tell whether they make sense or not.
And sometimes they’re just a phone number; possibly legible but with no other info attached. Whose number is this? Was I supposed to call them back? Was it from a voicemail that turned out to be spam when I heard more of it? Was it from three months ago and too late to bother?
Same here, although I would very rarely consider shopping to have stuff in my hotel room. That’s what room service is for. I voted for Saturday though, since that’s the last time my wife and I went out for breakfast. We were already out for my early morning MRI, and I was hungry afterwards.
I used to sometimes pick up breakfast on the way to work. But i don’t think I’ve ever gone to a sit down place for breakfast after sleeping in my own bed.
I have google docs full of notes I write to myself as future RPG adventure seeds or elements/ideas for RPG campaigns.
Sometimes I can’t make heads or tails of them.
Years ago I had two cousins who played professional NFL football. One played for the Washington Redskins (Gus Frerotte) and the other for the Seattle Seahawks (Mitch Frerotte).
My family used to rent a bus and travel to DC to watch Gus play.
I was never interested in it even then and less so now.
Just not my thing but I understand its popularity.
Enjoy it if you love it!
I played some Football in college and used to go with my Dad to Baseball games etc.
Then I found out how corrupt and venal pro-sports are. Even College sports are getting that way. This makes me sad.
But I do record it and watch the commercials. My wife likes the half-time show also.
(gives secret DM handshake)
On the weekends all the breakfast places are packed. I usually just have cereal, but sometimes when I go out for lunch, I get breakfast style food instead. I like steak and eggs.
I watch the whole Super Bowl every year. Even though I’m not the world’s biggest NFL fan, I do enjoy watching football, so I’m certainly going to watch the championship game.
Unfortunately, though, every single game in the last two playoff rounds went the opposite way I was hoping, and thus I have no rooting interest whatsoever in this one.
I’ll still watch, including the commercials and halftime show. My wife loves Bad Bunny and I don’t mind him.
Some folks are oddly smug about avoiding large pop-cultural touchstones, as if they’re above it all. I am not one of those people.
