We've been DishTV subscribers for over 5 years and paying for 'Protection' and a receiver fee. One button on the remote doesn't work well (yes the batteries are new and in the correct way). When I contacted customer service I got the speel about reprogramming the remote, and when asked if anything had changed, including the weather, I replied that the remote was 5 years old. When I finally got through that ONLY one button didn't work well , I was told that they can send a new remote for $20.00!!!!????? It's like having a life insurance policy that won't pay upon death.
When I asked for clarification that even though the equipment was lea$ed and we paid the PROTECTION fee, we still had to BUY a new remote, the answer was yes.
So here I am. Has anyone purchased their satellite receiver equipment (for Dish or DirecTv) to get away from the lease and protection fees?
I understand that I still need to pay to subscribe but I'd like to do what I did with my cable mode. I bought my own and gave theirs back and the break even was 10 months later. I can buy a new modem every year (but I'm not) and still be ahead of the game.
I understand that if a tree falls on the dish, the receiver fries or one of my grandkids dumps OJ in the receiver, it's my problem. However, in the 10 years we've had satellite TV, NOTHING has ever happened so we're on the wrong side of a break even analysis.
250 channels and hardly anything to watch. The DishTV solution is to throw good money after bad. If it weren't for my wife, I wouldn't have either DirecTV or Dish, it'd be the lowest tier cable, DVDs, FTA (need to get it aligned) and Roku; maybe even books! Thanks to the Digital over the air signal mandate, we can't even get one channel off the air.
Thanks for any good advice. : -)
When I asked for clarification that even though the equipment was lea$ed and we paid the PROTECTION fee, we still had to BUY a new remote, the answer was yes.
So here I am. Has anyone purchased their satellite receiver equipment (for Dish or DirecTv) to get away from the lease and protection fees?
I understand that I still need to pay to subscribe but I'd like to do what I did with my cable mode. I bought my own and gave theirs back and the break even was 10 months later. I can buy a new modem every year (but I'm not) and still be ahead of the game.
I understand that if a tree falls on the dish, the receiver fries or one of my grandkids dumps OJ in the receiver, it's my problem. However, in the 10 years we've had satellite TV, NOTHING has ever happened so we're on the wrong side of a break even analysis.
250 channels and hardly anything to watch. The DishTV solution is to throw good money after bad. If it weren't for my wife, I wouldn't have either DirecTV or Dish, it'd be the lowest tier cable, DVDs, FTA (need to get it aligned) and Roku; maybe even books! Thanks to the Digital over the air signal mandate, we can't even get one channel off the air.
Thanks for any good advice. : -)