DishNetwork 2 Year Contract

[Zildjian8987]

After a quick search, I could not find anything in reference to this:

I am looking at getting Dish Network because I am fed up with getting bent over by Comcast. I will only need it for a year, then I will be moving and who knows what happens at that point because I don't know where I'll be or what I'll be doing, so I want to cover myself.

From what I can see, the two-year contract termination fee is $12.50/month left in my contract, so that would be 12.50 x 12 = $150. After working out the pricing, even with the contract breakage fee, it is significantly cheaper to sign a two year commitment and break it than to opt out of the two year contract and pay full price on everything. Just the activation fee alone is $100....

Either the folks at DishNetwork don't like to add, or I am missing something significant. Has anyone had any experience with this?

Thanks in advance guys, I apologize if I missed it somewhere in the search.

[Awohar]

the commitment has value to dish as it keeps you paying monthly for services with an expected return on investment so its worth it to them to load a contract offer. going non-contract basically means dish is just a seller of equipment that you MIGHT use. Although dish sells receivers, its not their main business. Their main business is selling you a service so getting a guarantee that you'll buy that service is what's valuable to them.

switching providers is also a big deal. think about how much thought you are putting in to dropping your current service. its not like deciding to go to a different restaurant. having you as a customer for a long time means you are less likely to switch after a certain amount of time.

[Zildjian8987]

I guess that makes sense. I just couldn't stop looking for the catch, it just seems like there should have been some huge fee somewhere.


Thanks again.

[KAB]

Unless there has been a change, you can pay the upfront $99.00 activation fee and be without contract.

[gasman882001]

I was in a contract at the time about 4 years or so ago and used the Dishmover service for my new location and continued my service. No extra fees were tacked on because at the time I was a "good customer".