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Just tell them you're moving to another state/country. Works for me

Indeed, I used that angle when I called to cancel. It was pretty painless. When they asked me where I was moving to, I just said, "moving" and the rep pursued again, and I said "The moon".

That particular rep left me alone after that. I've received two phone calls since, to which I said, "I live in a yert in manitoba now" and the second call I just hung up. I still 9 months later receive occasion break up letters from comcast, asking me to come back.

Or tell them you got free internet and cable for life from one of their competitors (and if they ask how you got it, tell them you changed jobs and you now work for them). It would be impossible for them to match that offer, so they'll just leave you alone. If they do match that offer, it's still a win!

It has already worked for me more than once (unfortunately, nobody ever tried to offer me free service).

that only works if there IS a comparable competitor in your local market.

Tell them you work for Boeing as an Iridium technician. It's like having free access to the world's most complicated ham radio!

"Oh, you want to transfer your Comcast account to a new home? Tell me your new address and we can start the migration process."

Totally sleezy. No self respecting person would do this. That said, I've dealt with comcast before. After telling them I would cancel due to their arbitrary "end of promotion" I was redirected to their "loyalty department" which miraculously found another promotion for me that would prevent me from paying $80 a month for slow buffering internet.

> Totally sleezy. No self respecting person would do this

If it even occured to them it might be sleezy, they'd rationalize that they do it to please their boss and keep their job, and that it's more important to them than being decent to a random stranger :/

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