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Last reply Jun 19, 2008 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish Billing issues

Heres the deal. Yesterday was the Forth time, we get an automated call from Dish Network sayin if we don't pay our Bill by the 20th we will be charged a late fee, so my wife goes online to check our account, she sees our check number, and the amount of the Bill and it even says dish Network payment on the banks site, so she calls them and asked what the deal is AGAIN. they say they have not received payment, even thought the bank statement for payment is dated the 4th of June, Dish says to call the bank cuz they don't have it. So My wife calls the Bank, the Bank confirms yes Dish network cashed the check on the 4th of June, my wife calls back irate, and the Dish CSR still says sorry we don't have it call the bank. So needless to say they have to the 20th to find out what they did with our money, or my wife says we are droppin them, becuz this is the 4th time in 5 months that she had to go through this crap.

Its sad if it comes down to droppin Dish becuz they have billing issues, and not becuz of programming, we both love Dish and the HD only pack, and I'm very pizzed becuz of this, any ideas?

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IrishBrewer

Jun 17, 2008

Why don't you try telling them to put their money where their mouth is?

You are certain you've paid and have verified it multiple times. It is up to them to prove otherwise. Propose that they give you 6 months credit if you can prove they are the ones at fault. If they can't offer that, they musn't be too sure that you haven't paid. If they agree, get the bank to make you copies of the cancelled check and send it to them.

This way, there's something in it for you to jump through their hoops.

FCom911

Jun 17, 2008

I for one became extremely distrustful of Dish's billing services. At one point I had them billing my credit card directly. I began to see subtle increases and unauthorized charges. I challenged them and eventually had to ask my credit card company to intervene. When they contacted Dish, Dish admitted they had overcharged my account and place unauthorized charges on my card.

The credit card company placed a chargeback on Dish.

What did Dish do in return... they told me I had to make payments via check or money order for 6 months due to the charge-back! They wouldn't take any of my credit cards!

I called corporate and raised hell and asked them why they wanted to push me to DirecTV? Such arrogance!

In the end, clarified; I'm simply using Dish for HD Only and HBO, MAX ($0.01 p/yr), Starz, SHO (I'm about to drop SHO because there's really no content since its break w/MGM) $51 p/m + tax.

Payments are now drafted off another card exclusively used to monitor abusing merchants.

My suggestion, use your debit payment option through your bank... you scheule your bank to pay via bill-pay services (w/my bank(s), its free). You set, on a reoccurring basis, what the payment should be. Any changes in those billing cycles are challenged immediately by me. They get their regular monthly payments, and for any price changes in billing... they MUST be justified before payments are modified.

BTW, I don't do PPV, so as far as I'm concerned, there should be NO fluctuations in billing.

Good luck!

tinydoughboy

Jun 17, 2008

another option out there is to do what I do.....I have my bill combined with my local phone company. This way when I pay I pay everything at one time. . and I haven't had any problems so far with this. Might want to check with your phone company and see if you qualify for bundled billing, depending on the company and your plan might be a discount in it for you as well... I get 5.00 off each month for bundling.

jerryez

Jun 17, 2008

I had the same problem with Allstate Insurance once. They claimed they did not get a payment and I use online checking. I gave the bank Allstate's phone number and the bank furnished Allstate with proof of payment and I was not in the middle of it. You need online banking with a good bank that will take care of these problems for you. Electronic transfers are the only way to go.

10fthdscreen

Jun 19, 2008

BILLING ISSUES UPDATE: My wife just talked to dish again. They had said via e-mail and via phone that someone would get back within 24 hours to resolve this issue. Thats long over due, so my wife called, and again they told her to contact her financial institution, and again she told them she has all the info on paper in front of her, and she can fax it to them, the CSR said no. So my wife said and I quote," Cancel my F-in account." then the CSR said let me put you through to the supervisor, sorry for the inconvenience, so the supervisor gets on the phone and said its under investigation not to worry we'll let ya know within in 7 days what the outcome is. My wife said, I'll give you til Monday, the super said it may take longer, sorry for the delay. My wife then says, you have till Monday to fix this, or i am calling at 3pm on Monday to cancel my account, the super than says, sorry for the delay we'll try our best

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EarDemon

Oct 13, 2026

If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

WhiteBeard

Oct 13, 2026

EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

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EarDemon

Oct 14, 2026

WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.

harshness

Oct 15, 2026

EarDemon said:
I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.

What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.

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EarDemon

Oct 15, 2026

harshness said:
What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?

Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.

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EarDemon

Oct 15, 2026

I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

harshness

Oct 16, 2026

EarDemon said:
Because it's what I prefer.

I hope you don't believe that makes it wonderful (especially when you're using workarounds for Microsoft's malfeasance).

I use LibreOffice as opposed to Microsoft office (even in Windows) because it's UI is like the Office of old, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in a manner of speaking). The ribbon was one of the worst ideas to come out Redmond.

HipKat

Oct 16, 2026

EarDemon said:
I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

I used to pin the C: drive to the Win Taskbar and it would open in cascading style

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