December 18th Dish Retailer Chat Recap

[MikeD-C05]

What would be my pricing for top 250 dvr advantage + gold hd pack + one 722 dvr additional receiver fee? I would love it if someone could explain that one to me. I am totally lost.

[carlosnindy]

Somebody want to explain to me what the additional outlet fee is for a 622/722 receiver? IT shows 12.00 with a savings of 98 cents. So are they saying that if you have another receiver it will cost you now 12.00 to keep it on your account? So instead of 7.00 for an additional receiver fee it will cost you 12.00?

$7.00 for the receiver and $5.98 for the DVR service for that receiver is the current pricing. It will be a combined $12.00 now, thus the $0.98 savings.

[carlosnindy]

What would be my pricing for top 250 dvr advantage + gold hd pack + one 722 dvr additional receiver fee? I would love it if someone could explain that one to me. I am totally lost.

Dish DVR Advantage: $57.99
Additional 722: $12.00
2 Premiums (HD Gold and 250 Bonus Pack): $22.00

Total of $91.99 Plus Tax.

This is exactly what I have. I will be dropping down to the DDA Turbo Gold Package when it is available to existing customers and save $20 a month.

[RandallA]

What will the price be for premium channels (HBO, Starz, etc) if you have a DVR Advantage package and just one package? Currently is at $10.00 per premium but I see that HBO is going up.

If you have two packages is going up $2.00 but what if you only have one of them.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/attachme...0&d=1229699893

[theoak]

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I will be dropping down to the Turbo Package when it is available to existing customers.

I have budgeted myself $60 for satellite.

I had:
$40 Bronze DVRAdvantage
$10 Bronze HD
$10 Platinum HD

I just switched to:
$50 Silver DVRAdvantage
$10 Silver HD

I essentially dropped the Platinum HD

Come Feb 09 when these packages kick in:

$60 Gold DVRAdvantage TurboHD

[jayn_j]

I find this "classic" designation interesting for the TopXXX packages. "Classic" is often seen as added value. In addition, "classic" paves the way for a new package group in the near future.

I wouldn't worry too much about the funky names. These things tend to have a pretty short life, and I bet they are changed again by summer.

[rjruby]

Now all new customers who live in an Eastern Arc Market MUST be installed with a Dish 1000.4 and all MPEG4 equipment no matter if they are a SD or HD customer. However if a customer is getting DishLatino, Dish Mexico or foriegn language programming they should be installed on the Western Arc.

I'm an existing customer living in Nazareth, PA and subscribe to the Arabic language package which I'm currently receiving from 61.5.

Does this statement indicate that I will eventually be receiving them from 118.7?

Thanks.

[Hall]

Pushing up prices before delivering anything is a bad idea...

What price increase ? There's no price increase (yet). The plan is to have add'l channels added by the time the increase takes effect.

Then having the audacity to tell us that it is to increase their margin? What about my margin?

Remember, this was a retailer chat, not a customer one. When they say "increase their margin", they mean Dish's and their partners.

[Hall]

What happens to the HD absolute folks?

I was told we're "locked" into this package for as long as we keep it. And locked is the key word: No price increases but also no additional channels .

[Hall]

...how does this affect people locked into a contract? If I signed up for the 2 year contract, do I get a price lock for those 2 years? Or come next year, am I, too, also going to see a $5 hike in price?

If you read your contract, it contains the answers to your questions.