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Also, if you haven't already seen a zillion ads in the backs of various magazines or clicked, check out the price of a generic, 5 year warranted cable box using Google. $300 dollars is a LITTLE over the going price.

My advice to those flood victims who didn't have the 'foresight' to insure their cable boxes...DirecTV ($145 for the whole setup at Wal Mart when I bought mine) or a $60 to $80 dollar generic box fron an hardware dealer you trust. Screw Time Warner. If the SEC FINDS anything in the course of their investigation, you'll be twice as angry for having shelled out the $300.

There's nothing like adding insult to injury to make a consumer REALLY mad...just remember, in a free market system, there ARE alternatives.

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I don't own a cable box, since we have fiber optic cable in our area. So I really have never had to deal with the cable company over boxes.

AOL/Time Warner may just have bit the hand that feeds them this time. Every other month, our cable bill goes up, with no change in our selections, except maybe for the Food Channel or something stupid. I only watch TV when I have to.

There are plenty of ways that companies have of bilking their customers, and this just goes to show you that they are no different from the rest. Greed will get you nowhere. They could have chosen the right path, even if it was not the norm; however, they chose wrongly and unwisely. Oh well for them...eventually, what goes around comes around.

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$300 dollars is a LITTLE over the going price.

I would be shocked if TW paid more than 20-30 dollars each for them.