Can you help me figure out how I am still receiving this premium cable channel subscription?
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My daughter has been telling me she is logging on to a premium cable channel, and I asked her who’s paying for it, and she’s said she just uses the password that’s on her computer.
I used to subscribe to it through the cable company, but got rid of it about a year ago, in order to reduce my monthly cable bill.
Today, we’re planning to watch a movie together, and the movie is on the premium cable channel. I told her I’d try to log on from my computer. My computer, which is pretty new, preloaded the password from my account and it logged me in to the premium cable channel. If the computer didn’t preload the password, I have it written down from when I subscribed, so I was going to try to access it that way.
I looked at my credit card statement and I am not paying for it there. I use that credit card for the majority of my transactions, even though I have another which usually has a zero balance. I then checked Amazon, to see if by chance I’m paying for the subscription to the channel through my Prime account, and I’m not. I know I am not subscribing through my cable company, because I just went over my cable bill a few weeks ago with the cable representative, in order to reduce my services and my monthly bill.
How or why would we be able to access this premium cable channel, even though I don’t subscribe and pay for it through the cable company, or credit card, or Amazon?
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My cable company, Spectrum is switching over to streaming from a “cable box”, they have added Disney+, Paramount+ (CBS) and MAX+ (HBO) – - – - No charge!
I can’t give you an answer or even a guess, but thought you’d appreciate this:
In my last apt, HBO was acccessible but I was never charged. I had it for a year and a half free. When I finally spoke with the cable company they said the last tenant had forgotten to stop payments. HA!
Back in the day when we had some sort of cable (LOOOONG time ago) on occasion we would downgrade our plan and they either never removed the premium channels or just took forever to do it. That was a “hack” to get better service than you were paying for. Go back even further and they would have to dispatch a technician to remove the filters that unscrambled the channels. That either took forever or never happened a lot also. I think cable companies had an antiquated subscriber system on the backend and it was probably cheaper to let some things slide than upgrade the system to a modern database with a front end. Sometimes they would offer a free weekend of HBO or some other channel and never deactivate it. I’m convinced that was to get special pricing from the top level providers by having a certain number of “subscribers” on the books.
To further complicate things, and a funny addition, is I was just looking at my email and I got an email from the premium channel that is titled “find out what you’re missing.” This is the same email that is my login for the channel’s website, so it’s funny and a bit confusing lol.
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