king3pj said:I understand the reasons for contracts in the satellite industry. I even said I am fine with them as long as they hold up their end too. The point of my post was to argue two of Tampa's points in his post. He said if we were allowed to cancel when Dish dropped channels Dish would start raising our prices every time they add a channel. He also said we would lose promotional pricing if we were allowed to break our contract after channel removals. I used cable as an example to show that neither of these points are true. In most cases Cable doesn't have contracts, they don't change the monthly billing every time they remove a channel, and they still offer promo pricing. That means the market that doesn't require contracts doesn't agree with his points.
I don't agree with is the fact that they can change basically anything they want mid-contract but we aren't allowed to leave after channels are pulled. I didn't say we should do away with contracts or that people should be able to cancel them anytime they want to. I just think that channel removals are enough of a change from what we originally signed up for that we should have the option to switch within a reasonable time frame of a channel removal if we want to without penalty.
Sorry about that. I shouldn't reply while I'm sitting at my desk on hold. It gets me riled up after a while.
I still don't agree with being able to get out contracts over loss of channels. You are signing up to have satellite service delivered to your home. The content of that service is subject to change. People don't complain when channels are added or change packages. Perhaps Dish should not authorize any new channels on a subscribers package until their contract is finished and only add channels if one is dropped.
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