DISHOnline testing legit?

[oldave]

I never requested to join the beta.

Just for grins, I went there and tried to log in....

And it worked.

So much for the "private" beta.

 

[oldave]

Same here. The folks in charge of this beta are obviously none too bright. I'm surprised it works at all for those who took the plunge!

Apparently, it works for those who didn't take the plunge, too. Currently streaming video from the site.

 

[sca]

i received an email over a month ago inviting me to the beta test. it did not ask for account info, and i joined the beta program no problem.

 

[ralfyguy]

I tried to log in, and it didn't work

 

[Lphybred]

Has dish even acknowledged this outside of the apology email?

 

[Doppy]

Anyone know who the girl is on the front page of Dishonline.com is?

(to the right of the network logos).

Lauren Conrad from The Hills.

 

[ryotgz]

Lauren Conrad from The Hills.

Thanks. Some eye candy to look at

 

[harshness]

Has dish even acknowledged this outside of the apology email?

Somewhere back in the posts, someone mentioned seeing a Tweet. The thread search may be your friend.

 

[harshness]

So much for the "private" beta.

According to Scott's post of May 18th, the beta was to test "new features" of DISHOnline.

Similar opportunities were offered for testing Remote Access.

 

[TravelFan1]

I tried to log in, and it didn't work

Likewise - I received the e-mail saying that I had been approved to join the beta testing, but it did not work.

 

[Lphybred]

Somewhere back in the posts, someone mentioned seeing a Tweet. The thread search may be your friend.

If you're getting your official news through Twitter i feel sorry for you. The dish Twitter account is run by employees that don't respond to direct questions asked by someone they know is a customer i.e. Myself being one

 

[harshness]

If you're getting your official news through Twitter i feel sorry for you. The dish Twitter account is run by employees that don't respond to direct questions asked by someone they know is a customer i.e. Myself being one

Regardless of the bile you taste over Twitter and its attendant twits, the question was whether or not there was any secondary support for the beta test e-mail from DISH and the Tweet would seem to qualify as an corroborating source.

 

[Character Zero]

If you're getting your official news through Twitter i feel sorry for you. The dish Twitter account is run by employees that don't respond to direct questions asked by someone they know is a customer i.e. Myself being one

I follow the twitter. Its all just retweets of people praising their customer service who don't know nay better.

 

[Hawk88]

So if you replied to the second email with your account number, your okay?

 

[dijohn76]

I also did not receive the first "Gmail" letter, but received the apology letter. I have not replied to it because it requested my account number and I found that suspicious. I think I will wait to see what happens to people who gave their account number!

 

[Mark A Sparks]

I tried to log in, and it didn't work

Same for me.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yeah the twitter feed is a lot of fluff, with a lots of "Rah Rah's" patting DISH on the back, but what do you expect its run by the PR department.

With that said however sometimes some good info comes from those Tweets, so you need to take the good with the bad.

We normally try to post the good ones to the SatelliteGuys Twitter Feed.

 

[sca]

I also did not receive the first "Gmail" letter, but received the apology letter. I have not replied to it because it requested my account number and I found that suspicious. I think I will wait to see what happens to people who gave their account number!

you'll probably just get a call from direct or att uverse trying to sell you service.

 

[sca]

you'll probably just get a call from direct or att uverse trying to sell you service.

i am pretty sure att collected account numbers from dish when they were partners and is now using that to their advantage. illegal probably, but ive heard some weird stuff from customers about phone calls they get from 'dish' that turn out to be sales agents for att or direct.

 

[DawgDeputy]

Finally got a response back from DIshOnline support yesterday regarding this issue:

Please be assured that the emails you received on June 7, 2010 from a DISH employee on a Gmail account were in fact from DISH Network® in response to your interest to be part of the DISHOnline beta program. We inadvertently sent our response to your inquiry simultaneously with our response to others who had made similar inquiries and mistakenly used a Gmail account rather than our standard DISH e-mail account. Again, we apologize for any confusion.
If you need to speak with someone directly, please do not hesitate to contact Bruce Eisen at dishonlinesupport@dishnetwork.com
Thanks,
The DISHOnline Team