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Show J &J Dk:1 I- "j Li DM Dear Sam, I don't pay for my electricity, electric-ity, gas, sewer, water, or garbage in advance, but ' Town TV wants us to pay for TV in advance. If I want to pay in advance this should be my decision, not theirs. . In the repair business I have never asked for money in advance before the job was completed why should we pay in advance for TV, as poor as it is? Town TV would have us believe be-lieve they are doing us 'a favor by billing us bimonthly, bimonth-ly, payable one month in advance, because most of their subscribers prefer to pay ahead. This is a bit ambiguous without any facts or figures to substantiate it. As a matter of fact they are so sure I will save money mon-ey by paying in advance, that they insult my intelligence by telling me twice in the same letter. Let us analyze the money' savings situation with some simple uncomputerized arithmetic. arith-metic. I am now paying $7.50 a month, 50 cents deducted if paid before the 10th, which amounts to $84 a year. By their new savings plan I can now pay one full year in advance and deduct 5 Let's see: $7.50 times 12 months equals $90 less '5 equals $85.50. That's strange, $1.50 mors than I'm paying now. Payable Pay-able on their bimonthly basis I will pay $6.00 more per year than I now pay. This is a savings? In their letter they wrote "This represents quite a savings sa-vings for those that (sic) wish to pay yearly." I don't know who programmed program-med their computer Someone must have punched the wrong key. Maybe it's time to have a county owned TV company where the proceeds could help the tax coffers. No, Town TV, you didn't make any mistakes in my name, address or account balance, but you sure fouled up my savings account. Richard Paul Hammer 343' Opal Ave. |