jedi76 said:
You all make me lol do any of you even care what you do to the stocks of a company when you take advantage of the offers the company makes for a retention offer by threat of disconnecting if you do not get the offer you hear from non official website such as this one? When you know you have no real intentions of disconnecting cause you know you already have the best service there is for you out there.
Well, I never told D* that I would disconnect to get my deal. I merely said told them that I am one of their best customers. I keep the Total Choice Premiere package. I have never missed or been late on a payment to them. I am if anything consistently about two weeks early on my payments. I told them I am aware of others getting deals, and I want the deal too. I negotiated for my deal from there.
jedi76 said:
Do you even know how much it cost to provide the technology and how much the company has to pay for the contractors that do the installs for the equipment that most of you should never even have qualified for, In the first place.
No I do not know any of this nor do I care. DirecTV is a big company and if they agree to deals which hurt them in the long run it is not my problem. I am soley in business to profit myself and my immediate family. I'm not in business to protect D*'s interests. That is their problem from my perspective. Most of the contract installers I've ever encountered from DirecTV have been the most clueless, down and out, bummy looking people I've ever encountered. DirecTech which services my area is about as useless as a company as well you know.
jedi76 said:
If i was directv i would let each and almost every one of you disconnect your accounts and loose any offers they do make you. and then when you call back to get the services because you realize that it was the best services you could possibly have. that you do not get squat.
D* is definitely not the best service out there and unless their proprietary DVR is really good and I'm waiting to hear from Fish Man on that, they will eventually lose me as a customer to whatever provider can give me the best actual DVR with TIVO software in it that I can get. The rest of your diatribe doesn't really apply to me as I never threatened to disconnect.
jedi76 said:
They make those offers for a reason and it is to reward Long term customers with a special offer that no one else qualifies for.
I am a long term customer who has been with D* since the early 1990s. Although I encourage anyone to get this offer if they can, because in my opinion, the more HD DVRs that are out there with actual TIVO software in them the better. This just means the proprietary NDS DVR will be held to a higher standard when it is available to be reviewed and more people will be aware of the benefits of actual TIVO software over a DVR without TIVO software.
jedi76 said:
Do any of you even know how much it probaly cost the company to get one new customer?
They pay for the advertiments, the technology (satellites, launching the satellites) Equipment, Labor to install it, Negotiate with the television providers people like viacom, espn to provide tv for thier customers at the best lowest rate.
heck directv has only had 4 price adjustments in 11 years. Thats pretty damn good.
So when you all see your prices sky rocket for programing just remember you only have your selfs to blame for taking advantage of a companies kindness.
heck when a company gives you an offer that you do not qualify for I hope you all take that to heart when you see the changes the company has to make to make up the loss in cost.
Again... none of this is my problem I'm willing to pay whatever prices I have to get the programming and service(s) I want. If D* cannot provide that to me, they lose me to who can. If I can get what I want from a cheaper provider, then they lose me anyway. It really does not matter to me.
I'm pretty much apathetic to their plight. They are merely a service provider to me and currently the one I choose to do business with. Service providers are a dime a dozen and as time goes by, they may or may not be replaced in my household depending on changing circumstances and how television providers evolve their service(s) in my area.