Hello, my name is 2BarRiff and I am an accountant.
So much so that I get the Australian Financial Review home delivered so I can read it at work with my first coffee.
Now it's not often that I find something in the AFR that horrifies me, aside from paying $2.70 for 56 pages, or the appalling website. But today on page 6 there was an article titled "Watching pay TV gets more expensive".
Within, I found that normal, basic, Foxtel was going up $1 per month to $31.95 per month. That's not so bad. What was shocking was finding out out that more than 40% of Foxtel's subscribers take the platinum package - now $105.95 per month. Eh?????
Now, granted that's 150 channels but at least 148 of them are crap most days. And the other 2 are usually some obscure sports show or reruns of Hey Dad.
To put it in perspective, for that price you could pay our monthly private health insurance, or my life insurance - yes, Madame2Bar becomes a millionaire if I kick the bucket. It also pays nearly 3 semesters of the Princess' school fees or 2 month's worth of 'Thin Review' home deliveries.
And at least those are tax deductible.
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We have the platinum package, more out of laziness than anything else... got upgraded and never bothered downgrading it.
We don't even use the FBO stuff and I hardly watch it at all, but we like having it.
Its nicer when Conans on... get to go to bed and watch him and its nice.
You gotta love life insurance!
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