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  1. HanoverPretzel

    What Do Directv Customers Really Pay?

    Set up an install with TV for Comcast. They have me by the balls on Internet in that region and they knew it. Shoved a huge install fee down my throat. Not due to a credit check or anything, because they could. But, in the end TV is only adding $15 a month to my bill for a pretty nice...
  2. HanoverPretzel

    What Do Directv Customers Really Pay?

    Been without a pay television for a couple months in preparation for an oft-delayed move that looks like it's finally happening in a few days (Was a Dish customer prior). The plan was to give Comcast a try because they are the only Internet provider where I am going (Except satellite Internet...
  3. HanoverPretzel

    Will dish not have the Disney channels come September?

    I'm missing a lot of Orioles games right now (Due to currently being without a television service provider), but I'm not paying to miss a lot of Orioles games right now. :) There's a big difference for me. I agree life goes on, and I think there is a local radio affiliate that carries games...
  4. HanoverPretzel

    Will dish not have the Disney channels come September?

    I think any television provider losing all the ABC-Disney channels long-term is a potential corporation-killer. That's because they have properties that cut across a large swath of viewing interests. First, you have sports fans for whom ESPN and ESPN2 are must haves, and for whom ESPNU and...
  5. HanoverPretzel

    Dish Customer Service Appalling-Glad I left

    Except that this is a relatively new charge. The contracts most people leaving signed were signed before there was such a charge, so they could have read every line of their initial agreement and it wouldn't have been in there. Granted, it legally would be covered by "Terms and conditions...
  6. HanoverPretzel

    Dish Customer Service Appalling-Glad I left

    I think it's legitimate to point out when a company charges a fee that other companies don't. Directv and most cable companies don't charge you to ship their equipment back if you cancel. In Directv's case, it's an apples to apples comparison- both satellite companies, both want you to ship...
  7. HanoverPretzel

    Moving and Cancelling Service

    Thanks! PM sent. That would make a difference. I usually do try to listen carefully for whether something is supposed to take simply "days" or "business days" and I am pretty sure the phone rep simply said "days", but that could have been a mistake on her end, or I may not be remembering...
  8. HanoverPretzel

    Moving and Cancelling Service

    I'm ready to do it. I just need to know which DIRT member to contact. Maybe a list of their hours would be a good site suggestion for the future so people can refer to the list and know who to say hi to? Alternately, one would be welcome to PM me and I'll send them my phone number for...
  9. HanoverPretzel

    Moving and Cancelling Service

    Should I just pick a DIRT person at random from the thread to message, or are there certain ones "on call" at different times? I did have service turned off immediately. It's been 10 days. They told me 7-10 days. I just want the labels and box to return their equipment to them. I don't...
  10. HanoverPretzel

    Moving and Cancelling Service

    Well, it's been 10 days (The phone rep said I should expect the box or return label in 7-10 days). No box or return label has arrived. I did, however, get another unsolicited envelope full of those "Refer your friends" things today. What's up?
  11. HanoverPretzel

    Moving and Cancelling Service

    Hi guys, Just to update everyone, I wound up cancelling via telephone, and they said the credits I was owed for the remaining time in my billing cycle were greater than the shipping fee, so they'd just deduct the fee from my credit when I sent the stuff back. I should be here long enough to...
  12. HanoverPretzel

    Moving and Cancelling Service

    Thanks. Any way to cancel online, or does it have to be via telephone? If I were to order shipping labels, would I be charged for them immediately or only when I actually ship back the boxes? Is there really no way to get a return shipping fee waived? I've got bigger fish to fry right...
  13. HanoverPretzel

    Moving and Cancelling Service

    I am likely moving within days, or three weeks on the outside. I may be moving several times in rapid succession (including a possible roommate situation or two), so Dish mover isn't really an option. My once marginally acceptable neighborhood has turned into something like out of one of those...
  14. HanoverPretzel

    Cancel just for a free upgrade?

    If available in your area, why not sign up for cable for a few months to fill the gap? I noticed the cable company that operates in my area offers 6-month new customer promos with no contract. So, when you are eligible and ready to go back to Dish and collect your new equipment and new...
  15. HanoverPretzel

    Dish Anywhere for Android

    Okay. Thanks. Doesn't sound like my thing, but not Dish's fault, I just had the wrong impression. :) Good to know now so I can just uninstall instead of fiddling around for a few weeks trying to get it to cough up my MSNBC. ;) I'm sure it's a good app for people who have Sling players, order...
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    Dish Anywhere for Android

    1. Are the new live streams of MSNBC and NBC Network available on the Android app? I don't see MSNBC under the list of networks on it, and it doesn't come up in "search", but maybe I am missing it. Actually, almost everything appears "locked" on the Android app, but MSNBC doesn't appear at all...
  17. HanoverPretzel

    Being the Star Wars fan I am, Dish had better keep the Disney stations this September.

    Well, if the Republicans would stop trying to do the things you mentioned at the end of the second sentence, maybe we wouldn't need a party to campaign against it. ;) Can't get your local MLB teams on MLB's Internet package, it's blacked out by zip code. Four teams actually claim my zip code...
  18. HanoverPretzel

    Being the Star Wars fan I am, Dish had better keep the Disney stations this September.

    Modern athletes do basically work year round. The games themselves don't take place year round, but there are a lot of mandatory and voluntarily-mandatory (i.e. You can't be cut specifically for not attending the ones in the "voluntary" category, but it influences your chances of holding on to...
  19. HanoverPretzel

    Live NBC Networks on DISHANYWHERE.COM

    MSNBC is starting to beat CNN in the ratings, especially in key advertising demos. So, if your logic holds true, MSNBC should replace CNN in AT120 and AT120+ soon, right? :)
  20. HanoverPretzel

    Being the Star Wars fan I am, Dish had better keep the Disney stations this September.

    Actually, I think you should have representation and leverage and be able to negotiate over terms of employment with your boss. A lot of workers used to have that, in the form of unions, and unions are why businesses had to start providing living wages, paid vacations, health and pension...
  21. HanoverPretzel

    DISH Makes offer to buy Sprint (Rescinded)

    As a customer of one of their cheaper prepaid brands who can barely avoid it, I vote for lowering prices with Softbank, if that's the choice. ;) However, I am not sure it's a question of directly lowering prices with Softbank versus offering more features with Dish. I think it's a question...
  22. HanoverPretzel

    Live NBC Networks on DISHANYWHERE.COM

    You're thinking of FOX News, which seems to waffle between unintentional comedy and being so offensive and misleading that my blood pressure shoots through the roof within five minutes of turning it on. I seriously had to stop even flipping to FNC for even a couple minutes while channel surfing...
  23. HanoverPretzel

    DISH Makes offer to buy Sprint (Rescinded)

    Them having to go to such lengths to get the money does not bode well for them being able to discontinue making improvements to the network itself and to buy the spectrum needed. People who have phones on the Sprint network (including pre-paid brands and such) would be better off with Softbank...
  24. HanoverPretzel

    Live NBC Networks on DISHANYWHERE.COM

    No extra charge for subscribers who have programming packages that include the channels carried? Might be useful for the very rare occasions when I'm out of town overnight. MSNBC is my favorite news channel, and you can't always count on it being carried where ever one is staying (It usually...
  25. HanoverPretzel

    Lightning Strike

    I think in theory it's $95 without the protection plan and $15 with. In reality, I've had Dish folks out here twice for free, and I don't have a protection plan. When I called up and spoke with a CSR and they offered to send people out, I just said "That's free, right?" and they said yes each...