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Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award
ISoldat53 writes "The Consumerist has awarded Comcast the Golden Poo award for the worst company in America. From the article: 'After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory — it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010.'"
I have dealt with several different cable and internet companies and I have to agree that IMO Comcast is by far the worst. Their prices are outrages when looking at what you get compared to what you pay. On top of that their tech support has been severly lacking. Honestly I am paying $110 for half of the services I was getting from Verizon FIOS and I was paying only $90 from VZ. The only reason I have comcast again is because unfortunately when i moved FIOS wasn't available for my Apartment Complex. Those who defend Comcast really need to look at the price comparisons and customer service reviews between them, FIOS, DirectTV, and hell even Dish network. Now I know a lot of people have local companies that they go through as well FYI I used to have Adelphia before comcast bought them. So in the end YES COMCAST DESERVES THIS AWARD.
There's no problem with Comcast at all, as long as your internet activities don't reach beyond e-mail and browsing a few web pages every day.
Comcast Here Is My List of Ideas to be better.
Lower your prices not that much a but a little bit (The box rent part is the real bad part)
Don't mess up csn chicago with the nbc take over. But keep up with VS takeing our feed in the playoffs. Also can we get nhl extra in HD next year?
also open CSN / bears VOD to dish, directv , wow. rcn, and u-verse.
VS ALT HD ALL SYSTEMS
Put CSN + back on the DTA's. Why not use INFO SD mirror of INFO HD / CSN + HD and make CLTV full time?
WOW can have CSN, CSN + and CSN + 2 on analog so why not on a DTA on comcast?
Good job with letting others have CLTV
add CLTV HD or at least put in on INFO HD / CSN + HD
NEXT TIME CSN + 2 HD and not just make it sd only
Put speed in starter for the full Chicago area why is part in starter and part in sports pack?
also why is fox movie in the sports pack?
Let all other systems have the Chicago Wolves games that are cocmast only at this time.
have a guild that does not look like crap on a HD tv.
Mirror the HD channels to the same number as SD.
and one last thing LAY OFF ON THE HD compression!
For their fight against Net Neutrality alone they deserve the worst company in America award. Anyone that fights against a principal freedom, and takes that freedom away from the public deserves to be held in contempt. No amount of customer service friendliness can ever undo that damage, and that's what Comcast just doesn't get.
So Comcast which rips off people and doesn't try to hide it gets this award? How about the banks that ripped people off, demanded bailouts, and continue ripping people off and bonusing themselves to this day? They're fifty times worse, but no one seems to care since they don't hinder us from watching Sunday Night Football.
Only when the creature comforts like entertainment are affected does someone really seem to notice or care... Golden Poo Award needs to be splattered over the Consumerist's face.
i'm not disputing how evil comcast is or isn't, but why are you talking like it's some evil conspiracy for them to stop serving non-paying customers?
both dish and echostar will disconnect you. also any cell phone carrier, ISP, the electric or gas company. good luck getting groceries or clothes w/o paying for them.
Please explain how the Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to make bad loans. Go ahead, I'll wait. See, the thing the right wing liars forget, is that all this information is out there and easily available on the Internet, so the lies are incredibly easy to refute.
The CRA does not give the government powers to force banks to make bad loans, sorry to burst your bubble.
I am here to keep you honest, too. And I'm doing a far better job of it than you are, my friend. You won't win in that regard, because you see, I already keep myself honest, while you, evidently, do not. I do not live in a right wing echo chamber where bald faced lies are amplified and repeated until the entire cult thinks that black is white.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I would have thought most Wall Street companies and financial services would win the award easy. Comcast maybe the single worst company but the combined criminals at Wall Street and financial companies would be worst than Comcast by far.
Agreed,
I've had DirecTV since '96 ... why would ever need customer service?
(I say this in jest, but the truth is, outside of getting them to send me newer versions of boxes, and when I move ... I never have to talk to them. Because it actually works)
I'm sorry, but that's absolutely wrong.
There was never a law that forced any bank to give a bad loan. The reason the standards for loans kept going down and more and more obviously bad loans were given is because there was an insatiable demand for those loans on the secondary mortgage market.
The investment banks were making so much money repackaging loans that they put enormous pressure on mortgage brokers and banks to make more and more loans, and the loan officers were getting bonuses because of all the "product" being sold. Things like no income-verification loans, and totally doc-free loans, "liar" loans, etc were completely a reaction to the overheated secondary market.
Despite what you hear from right-wing media, the community reinvestment act had absolutely nothing to do with the explosion of the number of bad loans being made. The law didn't in any way say a bank had to give loans to people who couldn't repay. All the law said was that if two people had the same credit profile and assets, you couldn't deny one borrower over the other on the basis of redlining or race.
If every single sub-prime loan had failed (and they did not) it would have been little more than a blip on the economy. The total losses would have been in the tens of billions of dollars. However, when the credit-default swap bubble burst, the losses were over a trillion dollars.
There is no way to honestly claim that mortgage crash had anything at all to do with the government or the Community Reinvestment Act. It is simply not so, and the people who claim that it is are just trying to divert blame for the economic meltdown onto a president who left office 7 years before the meltdown happened.
I'm sorry I can't post this under my UID because I've already moderated in this thread. But I hear this erroneous meme repeated a lot by conservative talkers and it can easily be disproved by talking to anyone who worked in the mortgage business during the decade when the groundwork for this catastrophe was laid.
The blame for a few billions worth of bad loans causing an economic meltdown falls squarely on banks that decided that getting rich by being banks wasn't as good as getting rich by becoming investment houses. So they invented increasingly obtuse financial instruments that took the risk which is inherent in a mortgage and multiplied it by 100 times. Then, as we are now learning, once they created these instruments that were bound to fail, they bet heavily on those instruments failing, which instead of ameliorating the risk, exploded the risk across other sectors of the investment community. The people who invented these labyrinthine instruments were paid huge bonuses, which led them to come up with even more risky plays. They got way to cute, and then it all blew up.
P.R.