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Originally Posted by Stephen
Eh? It is free in the sense that what you contracted for, eg 30 or 50mb and you pay the fee for that. However you will be paying the same monthly fee but getting double the speed. That is double your connection at no extra cost which is a free upgrade.
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As I said, we're debating that not everyone strictly sees it as "free" as the money for the upgrade came from monthy fees - the difference is that Virgin has decided to upgrade everyone rather than pocket it. I'm simply saying that it's not strictly absolutely free, but it is worth praising Virgin for doing it.
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Originally Posted by Nopanic
So would you, using that logic, say that should I get a car and in three years the dealer gives me four new tyres for "free", they are in fact not free because I bought the car ?
So if you buy a house .. and VM give you free services, they're not free .. because you bought the house  |
That is correct and as I said before, by Virgin's own rules they're
complimentary to your purchases. The point I'm making isn't that something is or isn't free, it's that not everyone uses the same definition of "free". Due to that earlier comment of "Free by
anyone's definition".
Here's a good example of what I'm talking about - tesco does this thing all the time and it really annoys me - they'll have an offer on like a BOGOF, except they'll jack up the price of the item so you end up paying about the same as you would for two of them the week before. Is the second item free? Well, sure, it's free all right but at the same time it's not really free. Now that's not meant to be in any way analogous as to what Virgin is doing, merely showing that "free" isn't always "free".