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Not as polite as could have been, but that site is a most irritating one. A site devoted to people trying to avoid paying the same price everyone else does for things, quite pathetic actually.

Having read your comments from there Toshni

Thanks mate, just posted a new thread on there, so will sit back and see if anybody comes up with a different strategy.

Seems your plan in posting here was for someone else to offer you a way to get the services cheaper.

I'm really quite astonished that a thread is running devoted to people getting ntl broadband on the cheap, haggling etc.

Just as well I'm not in charge of these things, I'd end up saying (politely) 'This is the price you agreed to pay, this is the price you signed up for, this is the price everyone else pays. Either pay it or go somewhere else'.

Makes you wonder how much profit is actually being made on the services if 'retentions' people have this much discounting power. If retentions can discount everything till it's breakeven or lower I don't really see the point in it being offered. Realistically if with a discount a customer is no longer going to be making money what exactly is the point in having them?

Personally I think discounting until customers aren't profitable anymore is a ridiculous exercise and a poor way for a company to operate (apologies to anyone in retentions but if you're doing this I think you're wrong and wasting your time, if the company wanted to be a charity prices would be stupidly low to begin with).

EDIT: Forgot to put the flame proof suit on.