So as you can see from the second quote here. The customer signs this on the contract, giving dish the authorization to make the charges.
Now that that has been clarified, The customer did state he was not in a contract, having been a customer for 3 years. Unless of course he upgraded and signed a DIU contract. Even with not being in a contract, the equipment still has to be returned within 30 days of cancellation or you are charged for it.
I'm not saying I agree with what happened in the least, but your statement does not hold up in this scenario.
Except that IS NOT the agreement back over 10 years ago.... I have it.... all it says is that you agree to a 1 year contract .... IN FACT..... the card used at that time was with ANOTHER BANK and ACCOUNT ... I proved not an early termination, proved the equipment was mine .... so, where does that leave you ... and since when does over 1400.00 come up to early termination or equipment total that much...... AND as it shows in you quote, this has NO bearing on monthly billing .... only termination and equipment!!!!!!!! I had changed banks 2 years after the contract, and just after that, about 6 months, the drained all they could get..... .and I CAN PROVE they attacked my account on a daily basis by $2.... to see if they got a response... If they did, then the records show they would try a large amount, if that was rejected, they would cut that amount in half and try again. .. .. .. .They did this in one day and DRAINED MY ENTIRE ACCOUNT WITH 7 Transactions in the one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY ENTIRE BI-Monthly pay was taken in one day ..... AND, it was 3 days after I received a letter from a collection agency saying they had the account. .... then DISH drained the account.. How can they supposed sell the account for collections AND take what they say owed at the same time.... Letter date June 30th ..... They drained the account July 3rd.
AND if you would have read further... you would have seen I purchased the equipment paid over $300.00 and the ONLY signature they EVER got from me was signing the purchase of the equipment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also proved this and the supposed customer agreement signed fit on a cash register receipt that is exactly 2.5 " x 4"..... VERY little area, and it was on the BACK of the actual receipt ......
Also should be noted ... the ONLY way they got the number was going into my account and taking the new number due to my making a ONE TIME payment using it!!!!!!!!!!!!!