I’ve done comics before about what lengths Verizon has gone to in order to get me to sign up for FiOS. Also similarly I’ve done the same for Cablevision. Well, in my comics I joked that a person was sent directly to me to get me to sign up. Lo and behold they ACTUALLY DID IT. When I got home yesterday there was a Verizon FiOS salesman who looked like he was packing up his stuff, but apparently he had been there for a while. It’s getting crazy how aggressively Verizon wants people to sign up for FiOS.
Also the dumbest things about their commercials are how they tout the crystal clear picture quality which I doubt is much different if different at all from cable or even my over the air HD (when there’s no interference). I guess it’s because only real nerds care about the super fast internet and the average internet user doesn’t really need FiOS speeds unless they do a lot of streaming video, on demand and stuff.
Kinda funny how they work on you….
They didn’t need to do anything with us. We signed up immediately after spotting and talking with the fiber tech on our street (2005?). And we’ve been annuity cable subscribers since 1983….
Verizon’s network is great, but their service and people (marketing) are very bad. My response to their recent letter asked bluntly if he wanted the fios ONT (optical interface) shipped to his office.
Verizon is now my second most hated company – and they’re moving up fast. My advice to prospects – fios probably is not worth the squeeze. You are inviting in moneygrubbing cockroaches when you sign up, and they really don’t “get” how bad their service truly is.