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How to Money · Monday, August 10, 2026

Podcast Hosts Discuss Rising Internet Prices and Haggling Tactics

The hosts of How to Money discussed how their office internet bill unexpectedly increased from $44 to $79 per month. Joel contacted their provider and successfully negotiated the rate down to $49 per month for the next year, saving them money.

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And then then the bill hit hit seventy nine dollars, and I was like, that's just absurd. Cannot do this. This is offending my how to money host sensibility.
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So place the phone call. Pretty quickly. They they were like, Okay, here's what we can do for you. We can lock it in for this for the next year. At I believe it's down to forty nine, so it's not as good as forty five.
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But I was trying to get it back down to the twenty but they were like, yeah, that doesn't exist anymore, sir.
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Heard on How to Money — “Ask HTM – Investing or Parking Cash, Ignoring Family Money Advice, & When Rates are Low Enough for a Refi #1177, published Monday, August 10, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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