It's Comcast over Ticketmaster in 'worst company' poll
Comcast beats Ticketmaster in the Consumerist's tongue-in-cheek "Worst Company" poll.
It's Comcast over Ticketmaster in 'worst company' poll
No time for a long post today, but since I mentioned Consumerist's "Worst Company in America" championship round in a blog post last week, I thought I'd bring you up to date: Comcast outlasted Ticketmaster, 5,469 to 3,787.
Significance? Probably not much. But you can be the judge.
Meanwhile, I should also mention my colleague Bob Fernandez's great piece on how the NBC show 30 Rock may be testing the limits of Comcast's sense of humor.
Consumerist is, too, as its pre-championship posting demonstrated:
Hide your children and gird your loins, because just like The Highlander, there can be only one. From the depths of the stinking swamps of mergepocalypse, come our two ignoble contenders. First, the dread pirate Comcast, known throughout the land for gobbling up all companies that are foolish enough to sail through its treacherous waters. Second, Ticketmaster, Lord of Tickets, Duke of fees, Master of... tickets. After forming an unholy alliance with LiveNation, Lord Ticketmaster has united the forces of darkness in a quest to force all people of this good land to pay $2.50 for the use of their own printers.
Kabletown might have taken them both.
Comments (32)
Comcast has ripped off consumers far, far more than any company I can name in Philly. I don't understand why no one has been indicted yet.— feudi- I've spent time doing consulting at Comcast. Its pretty high on the list of terrible places to work. My WORST was Merck. Zombies man, zombies. Really really unhappy people work in all these places. GSK, Lincoln Financial, Campbell Soup, Blue Cross, United Health Group, they are all the same, awful places to have a career. Now heres the clincher: This misery exists only in the East ! The West Coast is a GREAT place to work. Real positive, people actually help each other, you look forward to contributing, no backstabbing BS. Its magnitudes better in terms of a healthy mental environment. Theres something about the East. . . .— Umaguma
- CSN is Verizon FiOS channel 99 - would NEVER go back to Comcast— Penn92
- Man, it's pretty hard to be a worse company for consumers than Ticketmaster. But I gotta agree Comcast has them pinned down. And I just hate Ticketmaster, tickets have been a total scam forever, you can't get the best seats even while being extorted for their unconscionable fees. Ticketron, Ticketmaster, Live Nation, doesn't matter, we're screwed and no one cares.— PhillySubsMac
- Aegis10, if you desire, I would like to talk with you about Cigna and the recent Congressional testimony of Wendell Potter. Do you have a contact?— Slim Customer
- Comcast is by far the worst company in Philadelphia— Rantanplan
- This is why they invented a new name for themselves Xfinity. They're trying to ditch their evil empire reputation. I'm not surprised they won this poll. Their charges have about tripled in the last decade. I used to get a cable modem and above basic cable for about $55 a month. Now the cable modem alone is around $55 and basic digital is around $75. Whatever the breakdown is my bill went from $55 to $130 for basically the same service. Also their not know for good customer service so a lot of people hate them.— Jangocat
- I got let go by the "c word" over a year ago. I guess my pittance of a salary went towards brian robert's 27 million a year paycheck.— denyll
- I work for Fedex Office and cant afford concerts or cable. I live in a cave— Cindybear
- I work for Fedex Office and cant afford concerts or cable. I live in a cave— Cindybear
- Has anyone ever lost all channels from 0-400 on comcast? If so, how did you fix it?— SPRUI02
I live in Richmond, VA now and I have Direct Tv and love it...though I don't get the CSNPhily, I do receive CSNWashington. I love getting the Ticket to see the Birds play, and I catch Phillies and Flyers games as much as I can on other networks until I visit home. Why does CSN from other markets work on Direct TV but not Philly? Scam...— cange30- Or if your apartment building has a contract with Comcast that only allows you to use them for cable and internet— intelliwoman
- Verizon Fios Cable service gives you twice as many channels for less cost. Somehow Comcast just doesn't get it. It tries to hold customers through exclusive programming, such as the Comcast channel. Has anyone noticed, more Phillies games are on the Comcast channel this year, because the other cable companies do not include it in their package?— RunningTheBases
- Comcast is a disgrace my 82 year old mom who loved the Phillies and was on a fixed income was told she would have to pay full price for cable if she wanted CSN I will not give comcast a dime of my money by that I mean I will not support or go to any events involving the sixers or flyers at the wachovia center— bobg1812
- i switched to FIOS ever since Comcast attempted to play games with me regarding my bill and the other usage charges that kept increasing without any explanation. Verizon FIOS is close in costs, but the quality and customer service are worth it. Comcast sucks!— tkearney609
- I can't wait till I can get Fios. I had it in Dallas and can't get it here yet, I miss it so much! Please, Verizon...we're begging you...put the wires in faster!— mel97
- I have Verizon and would never ever go back to comcast. Not a single outage in 2 years, not a single on. I have internet and cell too. Everything works great, you can speak on phone or chat on-line with the very helpful customer service reps. I dont really care if it cost more, the service is OUTSTANDING. Comcast was just flat out arrogant for years— Mottz
I'm surprised it was that close. There is no worse company in America than Comcast.— ej610- VIOS was a God send. I will NEVER EVER go with Comcast. The worst at everything they do.— walnut82
- VIOS was a God send. I will NEVER EVER go with Comcast. The worst at everything they do.— walnut82
Comment removed.- you think comcast is bad....try working at CIGNA......everything bad you hear about corporate America all roled up into one nightmare of a place to work.....— Aegis10
- ... and my current bill shows another two dollar increase.— Catch22
- Agree with "short changed" -- Sears is absolutely the worst! I had 3 cancelled appts, one at 5:45 that evening (after the day had elapsed!)— charlie1978
- No need to miss anymore games, Verizon carries CNP now - it's channel 99 in South Jersey.— dstew26
- I have to admit, everytime I have had a problem with Comcast, I have been able to speak to someone on the phone and when they said they were going to come out, they did within the window of time they said they would. I can't say the same about Sears service who gave me a window of 9am-5pm twice and both times canceled at 4:30 pm.— short changed
- They're the worst company to work for too. Spent the longest 8 months of my life working at Comcast Business Services recently. When I left I felt like Tim Robbins did after he crawled through 500 yards of sewer to escape Shawshank. The most toxic, back-stabbing, fear-based, reactionary, dysfunctional company I've ever come across in a far reaching 20 year career that included Verizon. My boss actually shared annual ratings of everyone working for him with ALL of his direct reports! Everyone knew how everyone else was rated. Nice move!— robusto839
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- or if you live in an apartment building and can't have a satellite dish and live in an area where Fios hasn't been wired for yet, you can't escape Comcast.— brob1900
- or if you do choose to aviod comtrash and go with satellite like i have done for the past 8 years you miss all of the Phillies and Flyers games on CSN. So unless you are stubborn like me they are hard to avoid.— robsophila
- The problem is, you can avoid Comcast (by getting satellite dish, Verizon, etc.) a lot easier than avoiding Ticketmaster...if you want certain concerts, events, you pretty much have to go to Ticketmaster and pay their ridiculous fees.— J H
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