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Are you paying too much for cable and internet service? Hey, what's going on? My name's Michael and I run the personal finance website, michaelsaves.com
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And in this video, I'm going to share three ways to help you lower your Comcast bill right away
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The first way to lower your cable and internet bill is to downgrade to limited basic
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Now this isn't the cable package you're used to with more than 100 channels
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In fact, limited basic, you only get your local stations that you would normally get
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with an antenna and maybe a premium channel such as HBO. The benefit of this is that you still get
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your internet service bundled. For some reason, when I called Comcast and said, look, I just want
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internet only, they said it was cheaper for me to keep limited basic and my regular internet service
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So what I did is I added a live TV streaming service because that limited basic really just
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wasn't enough for me. I've reviewed all the live TV streaming services and my favorite is Hulu with
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Live TV, YouTube TV, Sling TV, DirecTV Now, there are a few of the other popular options
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If you tried any of them out, leave a comment below and let me know which one is your favorite
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But while you have your regular cable package, you can take advantage of the free trials for
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all the live TV streaming services and then pick a favorite and downgrade to limited basic cable
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Next, eliminate monthly equipment fees. And what I'm talking about is the $13 a month
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Wireless Gateway Charge. If you have internet with Xfinity, you're probably paying this
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if you rent a modem router combo from Comcast. What you can do is you can go to Comcast's website
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they have a list of approved devices buy your own router modem combo swap it out and then you stop paying a month I just did this recently and it nice to see that a month deducted from my bill The one that I bought
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is a Motorola brand device. It costs only $100. So for $100, a one-time fee, I eliminated that $13
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a month charge. The third and final way to lower your Comcast bill is to contact customer service
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and ask for a lower rate. It's not really asking, it's more of negotiating. And Comcast is used to
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this. They get these calls all the time. What you do is you go online and find a better offer from
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a competitor. I have Comcast, so in my case, the competitor is AT&T. I go to their website and see
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what they're offering for internet and TV service. Then I'll call Comcast 1-800-XFINITY and ask for
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the customer solutions department. That's the retention department. When you're connected to
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them, just present the offer from AT&T and ask them if there's anything they can do to work with
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you on the monthly price because you want to let them know that you're not happy with what you're
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paying and you need to lower your monthly bill. Usually they come back with something and it may
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require that you get a little bit of a slower internet or move to a package that you haven't
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heard of, but you can decide how far you want to take it with them and how long you want to negotiate
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I usually get my rate extended for a year and then mark it on my calendar to call back and start the negotiation all over again the next year
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If this is too much work for you, there's another service called Ask Trim
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They do the work for you, but they take a 33% cut of the savings
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So I think it's worth it for you to give it a try on your own and see what happens
