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Old 15-12-2011, 00:15   #22
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Re: New Customer Vs Existing Customers.

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Originally Posted by Skie View Post
To be fair, they do it when they want *more* money :p

If VM had any sense, they would have a small team of staff checking customer accounts and calling them up offering to change them to the cheaper price for the same package if they re-up for another year. That would get them a lot of good will from customers, and obviously guarantee the income for another 12 months when the customer may have left or got a better deal via retentions. Wouldn't have to do it to all customers, but they could target the soon to be infinitied areas for some quick wins.
But that would be madness. Those same customers might be perfectly happy to pay the higher rate for many years without re-contracting so why would they voluntarily reduce how much they get from customers?

It may be a bit immoral and dishonest but its the way most companies do business. Until more companies decide to have an "honest conversation" [to quote the recent British Gas campaign] on price then I doubt this is going to change.
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