Rant: Pay your money, take your choice
Mark Footer
Thank you for supplying me with television shows. I am writing to inform you I can no longer pay money for all of them. In order to ensure your continued profitability I will make up the shortfall with bananas picked from my garden.
Please feel free to call me on 1234 5678 - a number that will never be answered by a real person - for any inquiries."
Would that work, do you think?
No, I don't think so, either - but why not? If in the first paragraph you replace "pay money for" with "supply"; "profitability" with "enjoyment"; and "bananas …" with "a channel you expressed no interest in having", that would be essentially what I was told by my broadband provider recently; that because it could no longer offer ITV Choice, I'd be given Syfy instead.