RE: [UC] AOL's little secret

2005-01-13 Thread Dubin, Elisabeth
@list.purple.com Subject: [UC] AOL's little secret A friend of mine at work is on AOL. For 4 years she had been paying $23.95 per month for her service. She was having the $23.95 taken out of her credit card. AOL never mentioned that she could have paid $17.95 per month for the SAME service if she committed

RE: [UC] AOL's little secret

2005-01-13 Thread Dubin, Elisabeth
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:21 AM To: Dubin, Elisabeth Cc: Mark Krull; UnivCity@list.purple.com Subject: Re: [UC] AOL's little secret Actually the same also goes in terms of DSL speeds. When Verizon increased their DSL upload/download speeds then didn't bother to upgrade

Re: [UC] AOL's little secret

2005-01-13 Thread William H. Magill
On 13 Jan, 2005, at 09:13, Mark Krull wrote: A friend of mine at work is on AOL. For 4 years she had been paying $23.95 per month for her service. She was having the $23.95 taken out of her credit card. AOL never mentioned that she could have paid $17.95 per month for the SAME service if she

Re: [UC] AOL's little secret

2005-01-13 Thread William H. Magill
On 13 Jan, 2005, at 10:19, Dubin, Elisabeth wrote: I think it's less of an ignoring of existing customers and more of a business strategy. Correct-o-mundo -- it's called disintermediation. This is a technical term from the financial community: Withdrawal of funds from intermediary financial