The local retailers should be able to offer the same exact deal!
The issue with the Pentagon channel is the same thing as if you wanted to order KBS World which is a Korean channel as part of the Top 100 channel package...
Korean Channel
DISH Network -- Channels
Pentagon channel
DISH Network -- Channels
Notice where it says "Additional fees may apply" where they mention the 2nd Dish on the website...
Yes, its available but you need the correct Dish to pick it up which is not part of a standard installation, even if you go directly through DISH Network.
To complicate things even further you got another issue because your looking at 5 orbital Locations with the configuration you want
119 - Core
110 - Core
118 - HD Locals from St. Louis
129 - Regional Sports Network
61.5 - Pentagon Channel
Your either going to have to give up 129 or 61.5, since a standard installation will not let you switch the cable like me and you discussed last week.
Even if I where to sell this through the Dishstore, the question would be how would I even write it up in the system. I can put an international channel on the account to force a 61.5 install, but there is nothing that is a stand alone subscription on 129 that would force a 129 install.
If a retailer really wanted to they could give you the other Dish for Free, but its just going to eat into their bottom line. Dish can't re-imburse us for the 2nd Dish in these situations because of the potential of retailer fraud. Think about it, you do a standard DISH 1000.2 install for an HD customer. You say your installing the pentagon channel for the customer and need 61.5, and now they are re-imbursing the dealer $99 for a 2nd Dish and $175 for a DPP44 Switch for a total of $275.
If that was the case I would sell the pentagon channel to everyone and not install the 2nd Dish, and the customer wouldn't know better because in all my years and signing up over several thousand customers, I only had one customer call me and request the pentagon channel.
When you go to a subscription channel like international programming, the proof that you actually installed the Dish is the customer paying for the additional programming. No customer is going to pay for programming they cannot get, and if for some reason they pay for the channel and they do not get it they will then call into Dish and complain and they know something is up with the installation