Call and threaten to cancel your subscription services once a year; their retention department will give you a better rate

This only works by phone. Be nice, but firm. Don’t be satisfied with their first answer – make them escalate you to the retention department. They’re often authorised to give much larger discounts because it’s cheaper for them to retain customers than to recruit new ones.

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Better tip: cancel it all and pirate everything.
- Sure, but that doesn’t work so well with ISPs or cell service.
  
  If you're not grandfathered into a sweet rate on a major mobile carrier you can potentially save a ton of money by going pre-paid. I've been using www.usmobile.com which is $30/mo for 35gb of prioritized verizon or t-mobile data ($25/mo with multiple lines). If you don't use much data you can do $10/mo for 2gb.
  
  NAS, Jellyfin and Tailscale.
  
  Yeah so just increase call center volume so you can have a discount because you feel like you deserve one I guess. Surely the subscription giants will just take this in stride and not use this as ammo to raise prices.
  Makes sense.
I've done this with SiriusXM. I bought a car, and I got a 6 month free trial. I kind of liked it, but not $24.95 a month worth. I called to cancel, and they gave me a much better price for 6 months. I went on my calendar, went forward 6 months, backed up 1 day, and put an entry to remind me to call back. 6 months later I called to cancel and got an even better price for a year. Did the same thing a year later, and got the same rate. The last time I called, they gave me a rate of just over $6 a month for good, so I don't have to keep calling and negotiating. I know people hate on SiriusXM, but I absolutely get $6 worth of listening out of it every month.
Plan to do this soon with my only credit card that has an annual fee.
Who knew this was actually Karen protips

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