Daily Archives: December 13, 2007

Urgh, Charter Communication Junk Mail in Long Beach

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It’s been three years since we have asked Charter Communications to stop sending us fliers every week without success. We still receive one weekly telling us how great the company is and what a steal their bundle is. A steal for them, alright. And now, a little bit of bantering…

The problem. Charter is not a good company by any stretch of the imagination. If they can’t oblige a simple request from a potential client to stop annoying them, what would it be if I was a client? We were clients once and after being deceived through introductory rates with final astronomical rates, we left them. I trust that company very little. Do a google search for anything negative on Charter Communication and you will see plenty of results. It rates very poorly.

Mostly however, we don’t have TV. So we don’t need their “cheery” TV bundles. Pay $50 for commercials every 6 to 10 minutes is just ridiculous. Paying close to $90 for telephone, TV and Internet when Europe gets the same with faster Internet for roughly $45 is truly a rip off. And Japan gets even better rates!

I don’t get companies like these. They clearly have no respect for clients and don’t know how to handle prospective ones. I will send a certified letter to Eric Smit, the CEO and ask him to stop pestering us. My mailbox is small and I don’t want to be part of this whole happy-killing tree marketing thing. It’s complete idiocy when I don’t have TV, use my cell phone as my primary phone and have DSL with the other monopoly.

Funny thing is I hear my neighbors are about as ticked off with that company as I am, and they are clients… Sadly, we have no choice in cable. It’s satellite or Charter. Let me know if you would like to send your mail back to them also.

Self Discovery And Self Awareness, Long Beach

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My greatest priority and fear is self discovery and self awareness.

It is not a fear in the sense of discovering something that will scare me but the contrary, forgetting to discover and sleeping through life. I have no worse fear than to go through a life belonging to a group and blindly following what I am being told. Must be something from a past life :)

The two greatest achievements for anyone in their life time is self discovery and self awareness. Once you have those two powerful tools, you are in control of the greatest tool of them all, yourself. Knowing yourself helps you understand what is you and what is being imposed on you.

When I see commercials or advertisings I see a company trying to sell you a product. Sometimes the product is great but sometimes it isn’t that valuable. Worse yet, sometimes it is pushed on you by making you feel you shouldn’t go without it for no good reasons. There is something funny about marketing firms trying to get you to think you are not complete without a product. Don’t they believe in their products? Usually that tactic works on people who are not aware of themselves, their needs and priorities.

Once you have a better understanding of who you are and how you go about being yourself, you make conscious decisions. You can then consciously go and buy any products you see advertised because you understand why you want it. But you won’t buy it because it is being pushed on you. You are aware of what you want and need.

It takes time and a little know how. I spent most of my life with that quest and I can say I am in a great place where I know what I want, when I want it. It feels great knowing myself. I can work with you on that also.