was moving house and it just so happened that they got a chance to meet the folks who were moving out. After a friendly conversation, OP learned that the kind folks had paid their cable TV bill for that month, leaving OP with 3 weeks of free cable TV to enjoy, which they did.
But after 3 weeks, OP decided to do things right by the cable company and called them about formalizing the service and bills to make the cable TV experience legit. And you’d think the process would be smooth given that the company just needed to switch ownership of what was already set up and ready to go on the premises.
A quick back and forth determined an interesting turn of events—according to the cable company, OP did not have cable.. OP wasn’t willing to pay the $100 fee, and sinceBut a month later, they still had cable. Without paying anything. It still worked. But they gave the company another call, toclarify things. Nope, the same thing happened. Still $100. Still not technically a customer. Oh well, thenthey didn’t have cableNo joke, this went on for 4 years. That’s $1,440 worth of cable TV.