Getting miles with Cable TV?
 

Good day! Has anyone ever heard of a cable TV, or satelite, provider that gives miles for signing up? Sure would be nice!

I thought that Delta SkyMiles was doing something with DirectTV? Anyone have more. I tossed the info since i already have it and it was for new subscribers, etc. I might have been wrong - of course they all taken those credit cards so some miles is better than none.

Has anyone gotten Time Warner to take automatic payments by credit card?

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Middle_Seat

I believe Delta has had offers with Direct TV, but they did not apply to exising Direct TV customers. Look in the glossy coupons that come with your SkyMiles statement.

Sort of. It's definitely an option to have recurring payments to charged to credit card. I've been making my payments over the phone using a "manual" but single payment each time process and that has worked just fine.

Cablevision accepts one-time credit card payments as well. You can pay at their walk-in centers, at The Wiz retail stores or, I believe, on the phone.

A while ago TCI used to offer points every month whihc could be converted to miles - I received a few thousand United miles once. But they terminated the program.

I pay my Comcast cable bill each month with a mileage earning card.

DirecTV also has auto-payment by credit card, so I pay with my miles earning VISA.

I did--no problem charging to my card my cable TV & modem service.

Add Comcast (at least in PHL) to those that will automatically charge a credit card for the cable bill. Even forgetting any bonus ($$/miles) earned by the card, being able to consolidate multiple bills (am also able to do cell phone, newspaper, and some utilities) onto one more centralized bill, not having to make make separate payments (typically a check + a stamp) is reason enough to do this.

Jeff

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I also use Time Warners PayXpress to pay the bill by cc. Easy to sign up.

AT&T Broadband allows automatic payments with a credit card for almost all of their products (long-distance, digital phone, wireless, cable/digital cable, and high-speed internet).

Not so for the AT&T digital phone service here in dallas. They don't take credit cards.

Anybody get Southwestern Bell to accept credit card payments for telephone service?

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Middle_Seat

SW Bell used to have a branded Visa Card, and they let you use it to pay your phone bill. If I remember correctly, I received a 2% kickback, er uh, I mean rebate when I used the Visa to pay my phone bill.

Very short lived program. SWB or SBC whatever it is this week got in a little hot water over the whole thing and had to discontinue the credit card and the rebate. I seem to remember some regulators had some problems with them issuing a credit card and the rebate program on using the card for the phone bill. I got the card just for the rebate and somewhere in a drawer somewhere is a Visa card with a bell logo on it. Maybe it will be worth something on Ebay one of these days.

They do have a pay by phone or pay online service but I think they only do direct-withdrawel from your checking account. I'll let Southwestern Hell get their grubby little hands on a visa card, but the thought of them accessing my checking account is way, way too frightening.