People who Hate High Service Charges

People. They're lazy, idiotic, or both. They don't generally change their provider when it comes to phones, broadband, banks or amenities. The services providers know this, and exploit it. They dare to charge you eye-watering fees. And you bend down and take it, being bereft of the willpower required to stand straight, pull your trousers up, and walk away.

A proportion of the resulting immense profits that they make goes on subsidising offers, which serve to entice people into the web of self-imposed doom. You know the score. The first year is ridiculously cheap. Thereon, the fake, happy, caring persona melts away and you're whacked with high fees.

I'm one of the tiny proportion of people who change provider every year. It's a bit of effort, I'll admit, but compared to the alternative of effectively donating my earnings to large corporations, it's something I don't regret. Yet here's the crunch: If everyone did the same as me, profits would be tighter. Consequently, those corporations wouldn't ably afford to subsidise their enticing offers. Nor would they have an incentive to: If people weren't likely to be loyal, then where's the point? They'll only leave after the first year anyway.

So long live you gullible morons, and long live you shameless companies with your deceptive schemes. If it weren't for your symbiotic relationship, I wouldn't get the great prices each year that I succeed in getting.