Jim Henderson wrote:

> Quantity discount.  My DSL line is provided by Covad, even though the 
> telco to the house is Qwest.  My DSL service is actually cheaper than 
> Qwest's DSL service.
> 
> Makes perfect sense to shop around.

Now, see, that makes absolutely no sense at all.

That's like those telephone providers where you dail a special prefix 
and then the number you actually want to call. They direct your call 
from the UK, across the Atlantic to the USA, route the call, and direct 
it back to the UK, and *this* works out cheaper than BT? WTF?!? o_O

Similarly, when I looked into this, several places online could sell me 
an Apple Mac. It turns out the most expensive place to buy one is... 
from Apple. WHAT?? It's more expensive to buy it from the manufacturer 
than from some middle-man who has a whole bunch of extra costs and 
overheads to cover?

Reality doesn't make sense to me...

Anyway, you get your DSL cheaper, but what if it breaks? If it's 
actually a Qwest DSL line, presumably only Qwest can actually fix it if 
it breaks. And that means that if it breaks, you have to spend 3 hours 
on the phone to Covad to convince them that it's broken, and then they 
have to spend 3 hours on the phone to Qwest, and then *maybe* somebody 
will fix it?

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