[AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Wed Sep 2 07:18:47 PDT 2015


Tell me how to get Fox News and News Max on a roof top antenna and
I'll be a happy camper too.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:50 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

As I said before Charlie, I recently cut the cord, and couldn't be
happier. I have a roof top antennae, ($40) , and I have have Netflix and
Hulu, each $8.00 per month. We have not run out of stuff to watch, and
were quite frankly getting sick of the PC crap the networks were
cramming down our throats. My wife gets up early for work, and by the
time we get evening chores done, we have about 1 hour for TV. It will be
years before we run out of content, if ever. It saved me about $1000 per
year, that's  a nice tractor implement each year. :)

Mike M

On 9/1/2015 7:16 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> 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
>

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