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Switching Long-Distance Phone Companies

So I get this offer in the mail - 
	"Switch to Sprint and get $35 credit on your next phone bill"

I figure, "Why not?  $35 is good money for a phone call."
So I call Sprint and make the switch.

Two weeks later I get an offer from AT&T -

	"We want you back - switch and get $25 credit"
Thinking, "Sure, why not", I put the offer aside, but forget to follow up.

A week later a $75 check arrives from AT&T -

	"Endorse and cash this check, and we switch you back" Can't
argue with that. So I cash it and we're back with AT&T.

Another two weeks pass and I get a call from Sprint -

	Sprint Lady: "We want you back at Sprint"
	Me: "What incentive are you offering"
	Sprint Lady: "Better service and prices than AT&T"
	Me: "But AT&T just paid me $75"
	Sprint Lady: "I can't give you any money, but listen,
	
	SWITCH BACK TO SPRINT NOW AND THEN AT&T WILL SEND YOU
	ANOTHER $75 - THEN GO BACK TO AT&T!   WE'RE HAPPY TO
	HAVE AT&T SPEND THEIR MONEY ON YOU."

Really, that's what she said.  I gave her full points for creative
marketing and agreed to go back to Sprint.

Sure enough, yesterday a check arrives from AT&T - but only for $25.
Then that night I get a "please switch back" call from AT&T.

	Me: "I got your $25 check today - what's the best you can offer me?"
	AT&T Guy: "The screen says I can offer $75"
	Me: "Make it a hundred and you've got a deal"
	AT$T Guy: "I can't go over $75, but I'll tell you what -

	GO AHEAD AND CASH THE $25 CHECK ANYWAY AND I'LL ALSO
	SEND YOU $75 IN CREDIT CERTIFICATES"

Really, that's what he said.  So, you guessed it, we're back with
AT&T.

So I'm thinking, this is a great business.  Why not install a few
dozen phone lines and earn a living just swapping long distance
carriers?  On average I could probably net $50 per line per month.

But why stop there?  How about starting a company that handles long
distance company switching for the public?  I could sign people up
giving me discretion of which LD company to use, and take 20% of the
incentive fee, passing 80% back to the consumer.  Of course, then some
enterprising soul will start a competing company and offer my
switchers an incentive to switch to his switching company ...

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