Thread: why dish sucks

here it is plain and simple
1. bill increase
2. too cheap to pay for local channels
3. 80% of the time you get a person that cant speak english
4. bogus fees "hd enabling"???? give me a break
5. launched 61.5,72,77,105,110,118.5,119,121,129,148,157
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dish is loosing money because it launched way too many satellites due too poor planning. how many sats do you need??
what makes your bill so expensive is that portion of that goes toward the receivers. people used to buy them and that kept costs low.
if dish wants to stay afloat this is what needs to be done. ALA CARTE people dont want to pay extra for channels they may never watch!
all these bull crap fees! heres what i envision
1. overheat fee
if the ITS in the hd dvr and dvr boxes are warm alot they will send a message via phone line you will be charged $5 a month because the receivers might break sooner
2. if you live in a windy area you get charged 7.99 a month because you dish will blow off course more
3. if you live in a salty area will be charged 4.99 a month because your dish might rust out sooner
4. if you eat greasy food you will be charged a 1.99 a month remote protection fee becuase your remote might wear out sooner
5. you will be charged $50 if the installer gets a flat tire or runs out of gas on the way to your house.
6. if you have hd you will get charged 2.99 hostipal fee bceause you may get a heart attack from watching scarry movies in HD
7. if you have pets you will ne charged a 3.99 pet awareness fee in case it chews up the bill
8. if you have kids you will be charged 4.99 a month spill fee cause one day your kid will spill soda on the receiver
9. if you live in a farming area you will be charged a 2.99 a month dust fee beacuse more dust will get in the receiver
10. if you live in a area that has more lightning strikes per sqaure mile you will be charged a 4.99 lightning fee incase your equipmet gets damaged by lightning!
GET A CLUE charlie this is what you will look like in 10 years at the rate your going

-1 : flamebait

Another inmate has escaped from the directv forum

As a Directv customer, I dont think they suck...But with the price increase they have I think they have eliminated Directv customers from thinking about moving to them

I guess we will see what D has up there sleve with there price increase coming up

Have you told Charlie about all of your great observations and suggestions? I'm sure he is looking for a few good men to help him save his company.

The sad part is, the OP actually thinks he's funny.

Originally Posted by Techfizzle

here it is plain and simple
1. bill increase
2. too cheap to pay for local channels
3. 80% of the time you get a person that cant speak english
4. bogus fees "hd enabling"???? give me a break
5. launched 61.5,72,77,105,110,118.5,119,121,129,148,157

1. yep...very VERY true. But time will see if D* will follow suit

2. Which market(s) are you referring to? E* gives a customer a choice of SAVING $5/month if they choose to not subscribe to their locals

3. A rather huge exaggeration, don't you think? And honestly, every time I've called and I needed an issue "forwarded" to the escalations dept., I was transferred to very American sounding CSR

4. As of Dec. 17th...at least in EA markets, every customer is getting a HD receiver *and* is having their "enabling" fee waved if they choose SD

5. Wasn't aware that E* launched all of those birds. Funny, always felt they were leasing most (if not all?) of them

The funniest part about the post is the guy is wrong on so many things. People can still buy there receivers if they choose. Then hes complaining a satellite company has to many satellites. Well I think Chevy has to many silverados also. With ALA Carte what would happen to all the shopping networks and C-span plus all the PPV?

Originally Posted by hyperguy

. With ALA Carte what would happen to all the shopping networks and C-span plus all the PPV?

The shopping channels and CSpan are free anyway. Too bad we can't get rid of them anyway. They are not in my Favorites list. Are they in yours.