[AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Tue Sep 1 16:16:32 PDT 2015


Steve,  I threatened to leave Dish Network off and on for years
and they would never do anything to help me.  I called and
asked for some new equipment and they refused to supply that.
I was there customer for probably 20 years or close to it myself.
Finally they sent me a letter telling me they were changing their
satellites and my equipment wouldn't work any longer.  I called them
and told them the only way I would agree to their changes was if they
did something about the amount of money I was paying them. It had
gone up over the years from about 70 bucks to over 100.  They kept wanting
to come and put in new equipment.  I refused unless they would cut the
price down to something close to what they were offering to new customers.
They wouldn't budge.  Finally the day came when channels started not 
working.
I called them up and cancelled my service.  They begged me to stay but never
would offer to lower the price.  After I cut them off they started trying to
induce me to come back.

I was going to switch to Direct TV for a couple of years but now with AT&T 
buying them
out I'm not sure I want to go there either.   I've got access to fiber optic 
cable but
for what I had with Dish Network on Cable would cost me over $150.00 a month 
and I still
wouldn't be watching more than about 20 channels.  They structure their 
"packages" so that
you can't get all of what you want in a certain category without buying a 
high end package.
It's ridiculous.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Steve W.
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 6:18 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

charlie hill wrote:
> I've recently dropped Dish Network for the same reason.
> My problem is, the few stations I do want to watch are only
> available on satellite or cable and some of them aren't even
> on our local cable.
>
> Charlie

Many shows are available online as well.

I have Dish here but hardly watch it I was all set to cancel it but told
the wife it was up to her as she watches a few shows. She called to
cancel and shocked the company, "You've been with Dish for over 20
years"!!  We can't let you go, how about we drop the price by $30.00 a
month...

I've switched to watching shows online. Fewer commercials and you can
pause it when you wish.

I just started watching Downton Abbey. Great show IF you know some
history. It follows an English aristocratic family from just prior to
WWI as they deal with the changes around them.

LOTS of other shows out there as well as entire networks

-- 
Steve W.
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