Life Pro Tips

I don’t get why you’re so angry about this, but I’m interested to know what’s so wrong about my tip.

This came from a conversation I had about how back in the day, we were bombarded from all sides with advertising that encouraged us to call and cancel our services, with targeted ads and in-person door-to-door salespeople offering deals if we switched services at least once a year.

It dawned on me that most of us ad block now, and we don’t get the constant reminders about our subscription fees, so we’ve seen shocking levels of price drift. We aren’t prompted to constantly compare our fees with competitors (when was the last time someone came to your door to encourage you to cancel?), and services take advantage of that by hiking prices by a small amount year on year hoping you won’t notice. And many of us don’t.

So I’m your reminder instead. They have discounts they won’t tell you about unless you ask them, and this tip is no different from the reminders we used to get from their competitors, but slightly less in-your-face, and I’m not getting paid for it.

eta: those people working under the boot get paid the same regardless of the call, it’s not like your discount comes from their paycheck. If anything, you’re justifying their job by calling. That’s a really weird argument. I did say be nice and respectful. Don’t be a Karen about it.