Back when the world was young, I seriously needed a computer. Along comes compuserve, with a four year commitment, and 400 dollars as the reward. The answer to the families problems! Mum signs up with Compuserve, we get a 400 dollar comp (with 50 dollar rebate). All is well until, hell, everyone wanted to use the net. Only one account on at a time, so we had to get AOL (and a second phone line) as well. Bam, 50 bucks a month.