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I had a two year contract with Comcast. Ended up needing to move a year into it- of course they didn’t offer service where I was moving to. I didn’t even want to do the contact to start with, but the cost to not be in a contact was insane. They are absolutely predatory. It’s been five years, so I could be misremembering, but I don’t think there was a shorter contract period than the two years.

Anyways, after a couple hours on the phone, I was able to get out of paying the early cancellation fee- which was very steep and was based on the amount of money I had ‘saved’ by being in a contract. A few months later I got a bill for it and had to spend another couple hours on the phone convincing them that they had let me out of it. I hope to never live within their service area again.




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