Good deal for hopper and some questions

david in texas

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Okay.... I finally bit the bullet and called Dish about upgrading. I've been a customer with Dish for literally 12 years and been contract free for a while now. For the last several years we've "gotten by" with two 622's. With the top 180(?) package and HBO been paying about 114.00/month.

I called to cancel and he immediately offered me 10/month savings for 12 months. Then asked about hardware upgrades and he mentioned the Hopper/Joey system. Said I could get it for free with free install and my payment would then only go up 1.00 (after already coming down 10.00). I agreed to it and he then said since I've been a loyal customer he'd go ahead and give me a 20.00 credit per month thereby still lowering by bill. Plus he threw in 3 months of the premium channels.

Guess my question is, is that a good deal or should I have played harder ball?

Also, I guess I'm really needing two hoppers. So any idea what they might charge for that?

And I guess finally, whats the general consensus of the new system? I'm sure it has some bugs but is it impressive? I'm looking forward to PPV again since I don't have a landline. Oh, and also, the rep stated to plan on the install taking all day. Is that the norm?

Thanks
David
 
Install should not take a whole day but it does take awhile figure roughly an hour per room. If you do not have internet a lot of its functions such as on demand will not work which is the same with any dish equipment. I'd strongly suggest getting 2 hoppers even though last I checked the second Hopper runs around $200 but allows for 6 tuners instead of only 3.
 
Install should not take a whole day but it does take awhile figure roughly an hour per room. If you do not have internet a lot of its functions such as on demand will not work which is the same with any dish equipment. I'd strongly suggest getting 2 hoppers even though last I checked the second Hopper runs around $200 but allows for 6 tuners instead of only 3.

As of 8/16/2012, 2nd Hopper with AT120 new customer deal could be $99. This was posted all over this site on Monday.
 
Call back and insist on the 2nd hopper like new customers get. Tell them Directv can get you their whole house DVR system for the same price as what the 2 hoppers would cost you if you were a new customer.
 
With the second hopper can all room still share the same recorded programs? I'm thinking not but wondering anyway.
 
Well based on the advice here called back and added a second Joey. I'm looking forward to the system. Based on what I'm reading here sounds like Dish really hit a home run with this, aside from a few bugs.
 
Okay.... I finally bit the bullet and called Dish about upgrading. I've been a customer with Dish for literally 12 years and been contract free for a while now. For the last several years we've "gotten by" with two 622's. With the top 180(?) package and HBO been paying about 114.00/month.

I called to cancel and he immediately offered me 10/month savings for 12 months. Then asked about hardware upgrades and he mentioned the Hopper/Joey system. Said I could get it for free with free install and my payment would then only go up 1.00 (after already coming down 10.00). I agreed to it and he then said since I've been a loyal customer he'd go ahead and give me a 20.00 credit per month thereby still lowering by bill. Plus he threw in 3 months of the premium channels.

Guess my question is, is that a good deal or should I have played harder ball?

Also, I guess I'm really needing two hoppers. So any idea what they might charge for that?

And I guess finally, whats the general consensus of the new system? I'm sure it has some bugs but is it impressive? I'm looking forward to PPV again since I don't have a landline. Oh, and also, the rep stated to plan on the install taking all day. Is that the norm?

Thanks
David

Is that a good deal?

Hey, could you negotiate with Dish for me? :up :up
 
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