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Negotiating Bell home phone

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Negotiating Bell home phone

Has anyone done this with success?

I have a Bell phone line with call display, the price is kind of high, around $30+ tax, I was thinking of calling in and negotiate to get a few bucks off, if it works.

I'm planning to switch to TekSavvy DSL so I need to have my landline.

I don't have any other Bell services, so I'm not sure if I have much bargaining power, except to lie and say I'll switch to Rogers Home Phone and get a bundle discount with our cable.
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call in and say you want to cancel because rogers called you and offered to give you the same plan you have for$XX.XX (make up a price).

I'm sure they'll do something, when I actually wanted to cancel bell satellite they wouldn't let me get off the phone.
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Hairball wrote: Has anyone done this with success?

I have a Bell phone line with call display, the price is kind of high, around $30+ tax, I was thinking of calling in and negotiate to get a few bucks off, if it works.

I'm planning to switch to TekSavvy DSL so I need to have my landline.

I don't have any other Bell services, so I'm not sure if I have much bargaining power, except to lie and say I'll switch to Rogers Home Phone and get a bundle discount with our cable.
Just use Teksavvy home phone , is same as bell
is a lot cheaper
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Keigotw wrote: Just use Teksavvy home phone , is same as bell
is a lot cheaper
That's a consideration, but I am just signing up for DSL with them, I'm just trying to do it one step at a time, and it'd be easier just to use Bell for now. I have this feeling that getting both at once is a recipe for a disaster.
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Keigotw wrote: Just use Teksavvy home phone , is same as bell
is a lot cheaper
1. You don't need to subscribe to home phone service to get DSL. Do some research on "dry loop" DSL.

2. IMO, there is absolutely ZERO reason to use Bell Home Phone service unless you need to have a blocked name and number. Teksavvy is otherwise the same thing for a lot less money. But if you are switching, be sure to read here first!! Be ready for a fight. Bell invests energy into only two things: 1) Screwing their customer, and 2) Animated Beavers.
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Jucius Maximus wrote: 1. You don't need to subscribe to home phone service to get DSL. Do some research on "dry loop" DSL.

2. IMO, there is absolutely ZERO reason to use Bell Home Phone service unless you need to have a blocked name and number. Teksavvy is otherwise the same thing for a lot less money. But if you are switching, be sure to read here first!! Be ready for a fight. Bell invests energy into only two things: 1) Screwing their customer, and 2) Animated Beavers.
I know you don't "need" to have home phone service, but dry loop is about $10 more a month, plus I'd need another VOIP service, I might as well just get a landline. Of course I'm not a fan of Bell, so I might switch to TekSavvy and save a few bucks on call display.

Oh and they also don't have the beavers anymore.
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Hairball wrote: That's a consideration, but I am just signing up for DSL with them, I'm just trying to do it one step at a time, and it'd be easier just to use Bell for now. I have this feeling that getting both at once is a recipe for a disaster.
I switched both to Teksavvy at the same time and had zero issues. You will be fine.

The home phone service is literally Bell service, even with the voicemail when I check my messages it says welcome to Bell Voice Messaging system or whatever....
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tomtomtom wrote: Does OP really need a caller ID?

I have finally decided to cut caller ID to save 7 bucks per month. :lol:
Mainly my mom likes it, so I'm trying to find a way to get it for less.

I know TekSavvy has pretty much the exact same service as Bell, but I'm just a little concerned that doing both DSL and transferring the phone line at the same time would be a potential nightmare.

If I can extort a lower price for call display from Bell, that would be "safer" I guess.
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tomtomtom wrote: Does OP really need a caller ID?

I have finally decided to cut caller ID to save 7 bucks per month. :lol:
Caller ID is $3.00/mo from TekSavvy.
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Gee wrote: Is Teksavvy reselling Bell phone services? Or is their phone service VoIP?
They resell Bell landline home phone service. It is not VoIP.
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Hairball wrote: Mainly my mom likes it, so I'm trying to find a way to get it for less.

I know TekSavvy has pretty much the exact same service as Bell, but I'm just a little concerned that doing both DSL and transferring the phone line at the same time would be a potential nightmare.

If I can extort a lower price for call display from Bell, that would be "safer" I guess.
You can tell bell to price match Teksavvy on Call ID
I did that @ 1st, but the basic phone line still cost more than teksavvy, so I cancelled bell and went with teksavvy
I have dsl with teksavvy as well
no problem at all
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Keigotw wrote: You can tell bell to price match Teksavvy on Call ID
I did that @ 1st, but the basic phone line still cost more than teksavvy, so I cancelled bell and went with teksavvy
I have dsl with teksavvy as well
no problem at all
Hey-I'm thinking of canceling my bell dsl/bell phone land line too for TSavvy but there is a dry loop fee that they charges ~$10/mth that takes away from this deal....not sure if it's still worth it or am I missing something. Also looking at vonage's options too as I can transfer my phone#...
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jibbler wrote: Hey-I'm thinking of canceling my bell dsl/bell phone land line too for TSavvy but there is a dry loop fee that they charges ~$10/mth that takes away from this deal....not sure if it's still worth it or am I missing something. Also looking at vonage's options too as I can transfer my phone#...
Yes, the dry loop fee if you have no landline is about $8-10. So in that sense I'm not sure if you really save anything by getting rid of a landline because your replacement VoIP service still costs money.
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Hairball wrote: Yes, the dry loop fee if you have no landline is about $8-10. So in that sense I'm not sure if you really save anything by getting rid of a landline because your replacement VoIP service still costs money.
ok thnx-what about keeping my bell dsl and canceling bell landline for vonage(once I test that vonage has acceptable service) as there is no dryloop charge from Bell.... this seems like a good alternative..... I'm just looking at all the variables :)
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When I was thinking of switching from Bell home phone to Rogers, I called Bell and said, "Rogers is offering me this, I was wondering what you can do". They offered me nothing that was comparable.

I switched and now they keep calling saying they would like me back as a customer. I told them that I gave them one more chance (which was electronically documented on their system) and it was not worthwhile for me to stay.
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