Comments for Comcast Merges With Thrifty Liquor

Comcast Merges With Thrifty Liquor

2008-09-19T20:57:48Z

That would certainly explain some things.

Comment from xillip on 2008-09-22

2008-09-22T06:47:59Z

Yes, this is a liquor store that accepts payments for all kind of utilities. They are just up the street from me. You would not believe the number of people that pay extra for this "service" because they do not trust the USPS. The store spends so much time collecting payments it is sometimes impossible to get your liquor.

Comment from gStein_|bringing starpipe back| on 2008-09-20

2008-09-20T10:23:26Z

@Bladefist: adreed. you used to be able to skip to 15-minute marks easily with the directional arrows on the remote, not any more. wasn't a big deal, until we recorded the olympics... 8-hour blocks, mo way to skip to the 4-hour mark without fast-forwarding for 15 minutes.

Comment from loueloui on 2008-09-20

2008-09-20T08:38:03Z

I actually called this number. (Okay so working from home plus free long distance equals cheap thrills) They said they're actually a comcast in a grocery store. She was kinda vague about that though. I asked her if it was thrifty liquors, and she said some other name I couldn't recognize.

Comment from Invective on 2008-09-19

2008-09-20T04:14:10Z

I don't find it funny. This is a tactic used by Microsoft owned utility companies. They can send you to a 'convenient payment center', but don't have any actual live representatives you can talk with. This effectively allows utilities like power to use extortion techniques. PUCs are more and more being bought off so they rubber stamp ideas like this, since they have no clue and don't care what the utilities are up to. From there they move on to back door deals without public comment and eventually the customer is cut completely out. Avista utilities does this. Microsoft's predatory practices coming to a utility company near you. Chuckle if you like, I call it fraud. IF you own a company, it damn well better do business as a company, otherwise it's fraud. Especially since most utilities are needed and not just a luxury item. 'High Speed' Internet has moved into this category really. I won't go into why people put up with the false market power is, or why it's legal to buy up Fuel Cell Companies and then burn them, or repackage them as backup appliances. [www.fuelcells.org] (I have nothing to do with any of these companies.) Cable is a bad thing anyway. Satellite cuts out the middle person...

Comment from Caduceus on 2008-09-19

2008-09-20T01:40:57Z

Man, the jokes write themselves.

Comment from Preyfar on 2008-09-19

2008-09-20T01:23:13Z

@mythago:
Yeah, but with the Comcast Vodka Plus Plan, you're limited to consuming no more than 250 liquid milligrams of content per month or they send you a letter telling you to cut back.

Comment from mythago on 2008-09-19

2008-09-20T01:09:44Z

I am now rethinking my previous anti-Comcast stance. Maybe I'll call them up today and order their voice, data and cable plan PLUS a case of vodka!

Comment from mrkniceguy on 2008-09-19

2008-09-20T00:57:12Z

@DangerousLiberal: +1 for using "intertubes." Love it!

Comment from DangerousLiberal on 2008-09-19

2008-09-20T00:12:43Z

Comcast was going to put the payment center in the adult bookstore next door until they realized that it would cut into broadband sales. The upside: more people would go unashamedly go into a building marked "XXX Videos" than would go into a building marked "Comcast."

As soon as Comcast and TWC figure out how to deliver liquor through the intertubes, they will kick the liquor stores to the curb.

Comment from dmuth on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T23:01:49Z

Well, that would make the bill easier to deal with. Especially if Comcast threw in a bottle of rum for every 250 GB downloaded.

Comment from am84 on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T22:56:34Z

I agree - the new Comcast DVR software sucks.

Comment from steveliv on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T22:22:51Z

i was on live chat, and they gave the address and phone number for Party Dollar!

Comment from Oranges w/ Cheese on the move on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T22:15:22Z

Yeah, there's a Brighthouse payment center inside a Shell station here.. along with a Church's Chicken and a Subway...

Comment from testsicles on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T22:13:39Z

Comcast now offers broadband hard liquors but it caps you at 250mL.

Comment from PinkBox on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T22:13:22Z

The closest Post Office where I live is located INSIDE of an Ace Hardware store, so I wouldn't be surprised if Thrifty Liquor is an actual payment center for Comcast.

Still a little odd that they'd put one there.

Comment from tmed on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:49:04Z

mmmmmmmmmm......Liquor

Comment from Notsewfast on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:48:00Z

@Triborough:
I believe its actually the Sheinhardt Wig Company.

"Everybody looks good in a Sheinhardt"

Comment from mike on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:31:56Z

Grocery stores and most western unions can now accept payments for most utilities.

Not sure how the funding all works but I'm pretty sure the Thrifty Liquor was legit.

Comment from Belabras ate my dingo! on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:29:23Z

I can't resist.

It's Comcastic! Or maybe even Comcastaholic!

Comment from xkaluv on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:24:22Z

I'm going to guess that she looked up payment centers instead... I bet Thrifty Liquor is a place you can pay.

Comment from Geblah187 on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:22:31Z

I *KNEW* it!

For years, i've been saying "Comcast have to be totally smashed, there's no way they are that stupid."

Now we have proof!

Comment from lalaland13 on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:15:39Z

I used to go to Shreveport fairly often, so this cracks me up. At least they didn't tell you to go to the Horseshoe Casino or something "since you're going to lose your money anyway."

Comment from Bladefist on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:09:05Z

Comcast probably assumed it would be better for you to just get drunk and forget about it - cuz, it just ain't gonna happen.

Timewarner did the same thing to my DVR. The new software is horrid. The old one, flawless.

Comment from Triborough on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:08:55Z

Perhaps Thrifty Liquor is the parent company of Comcast. That would explain a lot.

Comment from British Benzene on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:08:44Z

Customer Service for cable companies and liquor?

BRILLIANT!

Comment from wattznext on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:08:30Z

The liquor part makes sense. However, the words thrifty and Comcast should never appear in the same sentence...

Comment from WEGGLES90 on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T21:07:32Z

Good thing you blocked the first phone number.. but not the other 2 :P