So now we have a whole house dvr fee of $14.00 from the $10.00 it is now and if you have a second hopper on your account $14.00 from $7.00 where it is now. So I would see an increase of $11.00 over what I am paying now. So if I drop the 2nd joey off and drop back down to top 200 , I would save $17.00 a month. So I guess I can afford the increase and come out $6.00 more a month in my wallet.
At this rate I don't guess I will ever be able to subscribe to more than top 120 or top 200, if it doesn't go up much more. I only had HBO because it was 1/2 price at $9.00. I will have to cut that out early ,unless I want to pay even more a month. I can remember over 16 years ago, when I was paying $19.99 a month for programming and $4.99 for an extra receiver. I don't really know how much longer I can keep cutting out programming and changing out receivers in order to stay with DISH. I remember the increase in 2010 on the VIP receivers and I thought that was outrageous. I had two 722s back then and a 622 dvr. I had to trade in one of my 722s and my 622 for 211s to keep my extra receiver fees down to $7.00 each. I also paid the $40.00 for the dvr software to turn them into dvrs.
I realize that DISH is trying to buy Sprint or T-mobile or Clearwire or whoever this week that will have them, but I don't think it is right to do it on the backs of the ever dwindling DISH sub base of customers. Add to that the whole bait and switch thing with pricing and it really burns my ass. This is why I said that I wish that they would of made a 6 tuner dvr from the start. But everyone said that having two hoppers was better because of redundancy and extra backup etc. DISH purposely kept their hoppers 3 tuners because this was the plan all along. Get people hooked on the features and offer the second one for only $7.00 ,same as a joey and then lower the BOOM... PRICE HIKE TIME!!!!!! This is going to bite them in the butt. They had finally started to recover subs and go back up to 14 million subs. They had reached this total once and dropped down to 13 million and stayed there for a good many years. This is why they will soon drop back down again. Factor in the newest generations of kids that will never pay for cable or satellite tv and you see why they are hiking equipment fees. They need more profits and revenue to finance their buyout/merger with Sprint ,so they can stay relevant. Add to that the older subs who are literally dieing out and you see why this move makes them look even more desperate.
Mark my words: By the end of this decade ,if not sooner, satellite tv will be losing more subs than they can replace , and if they keep on trying to make it back by increasing the profits by hiking their every increasing FEES , they will go under. It is only a matter of time......