Dumping Dish Notwork

[Dinny Bossa Nova]

For the last 8 months, Dish Notwork has been giving us fits. When we change the channel we get an error message "searching for sattelite signal". After a few reboots, up and down channel button and you are required to pay for this channel, it would function again.

Today it would not come back around at all.

After 3 hours on the phone with Haji, he informed me the "only" option was to have a tech come out. When I told him there WAS another option called Direct TV, and we wanted our service disconnected, he said he was transferring us to a customer relations representative. Then he hung up on us.

Direct TV will be installed Thursday. I have 6 years experience with them in the past. They were less than perfect, but the last 8 months of Dish Notwork has been un****ingbelievable.

My head hurts. I think I need a pill.

Dinny

[Dinny Bossa Nova]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

If you are going to want HD I'd go ahead and get it while you are switching. They will give you an HD dish and DVR I think. Once you're an established customer neither company will give you shit.

They will give us standard or HD receivers for free as a new customer. But they want an additional $9.99 a month for each HD receiver. If we want to upgrade to an HD receiver later, it will cost $99 and we own it. We are not ready to buy the HD TV right now, so the extra 20 bucks a month on the bill didn't seem justified.

When we do buy a new TV, we will just upgrade one of the receivers, and decided $99 at that time would be acceptable. At least the fockin thing will work.

Nobody rides for free.

Dinny

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by Dinny Blues

They will give us standard or HD receivers for free as a new customer. But they want an additional $9.99 a month for each HD receiver. If we want to upgrade to an HD receiver later, it will cost $99 and we own it. We are not ready to buy the HD TV right now, so the extra 20 bucks a month on the bill didn't seem justified.

When we do buy a new TV, we will just upgrade one of the receivers, and decided $99 at that time would be acceptable. At least the fockin thing will work.

Nobody rides for free.

Dinny

I quit doing satellite TV 6 months ago so things may have changed. But at that time there was no way you could own a dvr even if you "bought" it from Best Buy. Also, it was $9.99 per household, not per receiver.

[Dinny Bossa Nova]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

I quit doing satellite TV 6 months ago so things may have changed. But at that time there was no way you could own a dvr even if you "bought" it from Best Buy. Also, it was $9.99 per household, not per receiver.

No, we're not getting DVRs, just receivers. Trying to avoid time on the phone with Haji. A DVR sounds like just one more potential problem.

If it were only $9.99 per household for the HD receivers, we probably would have went for it. But it was definitely per receiver. No dice.

Dinny

[SLAG]

I had Dish Network - No problems ... I dumped them
I had ATT Uverse - No Problems - Still have U-Verse Internet.... I dumped the TV


We have been TV Free for almost 2 months - We watch DVD's sometimes, and the kids get to have an Hr of DVD time in the evenings - Its awesome

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by Dinny Blues

No, we're not getting DVRs, just receivers. Trying to avoid time on the phone with Haji. A DVR sounds like just one more potential problem.

If it were only $9.99 per household for the HD receivers, we probably would have went for it. But it was definitely per receiver. No dice.

Dinny

It looks like they have changed things. Good. The needed to.