Telus Joins Bell In Dissuading Customers From Ordering Skinny TV Bundle
iPhoneincanada.ca has found that Telus is going out of its way so that you can’t find the “Skinny” TV bundle if you wanted to order it:
First and foremost, TELUS makes it very difficult to navigate to the $25 per month ‘skinny’ TV package. After navigating to the Optik TV webpage, you need to click on ‘Combos’, then ‘Basic Combos’, then click on ‘Lite’.
From here, you can’t even see the $25 basic TV price. The $20 Lite price shown first is the bundle price. You need to click the ‘TV only’ tab (which is greyed out) beside ‘In a bundle’ to reveal the $25 per month price:
Wow. That’s pretty sneaky. I’m guessing that they went this route so that if they’re called on it they can say “Look, it’s there. See.” But they’re, not done yet:
There are additional costs if you want to go the ‘skinny’ $25 route with TELUS:
- $15/month PVR rental
- $5/month HD receiver rental
- $100 installation fee.
- If new outlets or jacks are required: $75 for the first one; $25 each for others.
Wow. Talk about getting hosed. Clearly the thought process is that If they can’t make you pay one way, they’ll find another. Not cool. Clearly they’re in the same camp as Bell who won’t even talk about “Skinny” bundles unless you force them to and who force you to take Internet access to get this bundle.
If this is supposed to make me like any Canadian TV provider, I assure you it is having the opposite effect. It simply makes me want to cut the cord even more.
December 1, 2016 at 8:45 am
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