My intent is to ride out Voom until the end and so last Friday I ordered Va Va Voom and I have been enjoying it even if it is costing me another $42 a month. Since Voom is going on like nothing is happening I decided to go for another antenna upgrade to get my NBC local that I don't get with my SquareShooter and is 58 miles away.
I just got off the phone with the installer and he will come out, but claims a new antenna will not work, that it will have to be bigger than I would want and would cause interference with my other locals. He basically tried to get me to go with Dish where he said I would get all of my locals. He said that I was an oldtimer in this area (western Wisconsin) with Voom (since May) and that most of his installs cancel after 3 weeks because they cannot get all of the locals that Voom has promised them. This installer says that Voom only pays him $45 for a call and the the original antennas they provide are such junk that Voom does not even want them back when they do not work because they are only worth about $8. He claimed that an antenna to replace my SquareShooter would cost $145 and that if it needed a rotor that would run another $85 and I would have to turn the antenna everytime I wanted to watch the NBC station that I currently do not get.
This installer tried to tell me that Dish bought Voom and all of its programming. I know way, way more than he does by regularly reading this forum along with AVS for the past 3 weeks and many past months. So this Voom installer is taking the opportunity to talk me out of staying with Voom and to switch to Dish. It is no wonder even with all of its other troubles that Voom is having problems with installers like that, but also, according to this guy, Voom is not good about paying them and because Voom will not provide a good antenna the first time the installer needs to return multiple times to get it right.
So I am all set to have an installer come out on Monday to upgrade my antenna and it appears he is determined to prove to me that it will not work. Frankly, I don't know if it is worth the hassle to fail. If I could get this station, then I could drop cable and save $13 per month. Although if and when Voom goes under I may switch to Charter's hd cable even if it is only 8 channels with HBO and Showtime until the satellite thing get sorted out. But I did learn that you cannot depend on learning anything of value from an installer since they may just be ignorant or uninformed, have other agendas, or are just looking out for themselves.
Given the circumstances on how Voom is keeping us uninformed, I don't know if I blame an installer for looking out for himself.
In the end I would think this entire keeping us in the dark for going on 3 weeks now by Voom would be a PR mistake if but for that fact that most people don't know about it and your average Joe tv watcher does not care. Voom has not cost me anything other than the subcription, but I would be reluctant in the future to spend anything other than that on Voom given the shakiness of its future and its reluctance to keep its subscribers and supporter informed. All of the rumors and speculation are getting very, very old.
I just got off the phone with the installer and he will come out, but claims a new antenna will not work, that it will have to be bigger than I would want and would cause interference with my other locals. He basically tried to get me to go with Dish where he said I would get all of my locals. He said that I was an oldtimer in this area (western Wisconsin) with Voom (since May) and that most of his installs cancel after 3 weeks because they cannot get all of the locals that Voom has promised them. This installer says that Voom only pays him $45 for a call and the the original antennas they provide are such junk that Voom does not even want them back when they do not work because they are only worth about $8. He claimed that an antenna to replace my SquareShooter would cost $145 and that if it needed a rotor that would run another $85 and I would have to turn the antenna everytime I wanted to watch the NBC station that I currently do not get.
This installer tried to tell me that Dish bought Voom and all of its programming. I know way, way more than he does by regularly reading this forum along with AVS for the past 3 weeks and many past months. So this Voom installer is taking the opportunity to talk me out of staying with Voom and to switch to Dish. It is no wonder even with all of its other troubles that Voom is having problems with installers like that, but also, according to this guy, Voom is not good about paying them and because Voom will not provide a good antenna the first time the installer needs to return multiple times to get it right.
So I am all set to have an installer come out on Monday to upgrade my antenna and it appears he is determined to prove to me that it will not work. Frankly, I don't know if it is worth the hassle to fail. If I could get this station, then I could drop cable and save $13 per month. Although if and when Voom goes under I may switch to Charter's hd cable even if it is only 8 channels with HBO and Showtime until the satellite thing get sorted out. But I did learn that you cannot depend on learning anything of value from an installer since they may just be ignorant or uninformed, have other agendas, or are just looking out for themselves.
Given the circumstances on how Voom is keeping us uninformed, I don't know if I blame an installer for looking out for himself.
In the end I would think this entire keeping us in the dark for going on 3 weeks now by Voom would be a PR mistake if but for that fact that most people don't know about it and your average Joe tv watcher does not care. Voom has not cost me anything other than the subcription, but I would be reluctant in the future to spend anything other than that on Voom given the shakiness of its future and its reluctance to keep its subscribers and supporter informed. All of the rumors and speculation are getting very, very old.