Social Feed
Called to order and schedule a Dishin it up upgrade this past Monday... all seemed to go well, scheduled for that Thursday, great!
Thursday comes, I have to take time off for the 12-5 appt window... a little after 4pm i'm anxious and call Dish. My first call, I'm told my appointment was canceled, as I try to find out why the operator's headset begins to malfunction, but he keeps my on for minutes trying to fix it, why he can't switch to to a handset or transfer to another person I don't know, I even ask him to but he asks that I call back, which I do... I then get greeted in Spanish (I never chose Spanish) Eventually I discover nothing, just that it was canceled Wedsneday and she has no reason why or why I wasn't called. She attempted to get me a supervisor but they were busy on another line and I could have to wait a long time...she offers 3 free months of HBO and I re-schedule for this past Saturday, fine, all seems to be fixed.
Saturday comes, the tech for the appt calls and asks what trouble we're having, I'm confused, trouble? Apparently the appt was resceduled for technical reasons, bad signal. What!?!? The tech advises me to call customer service to reschedule myself, he will do what he has to do on his end.
I call Dish again, after a long confusing discussion, the rep only shows that my Dish in it up appt was canceled and that it shows a reschedule for signal loss. Apparently I have to give them my credit card info and go through the sign up process/agreement again, although they have already taken my money and should have everything in my account notes. By this time i'm waiting for a supervisor again, which I finally get. She explains WHY I have to go through the process again, which sounded like alot of BS to me but I go ahead anyhow... then my card is refused, same bank card used before, no changes, nothing in between has happened with that card... She also needs to know again what I want, which receiver i'm getting and which ones i'm replacing... I fume stating this should all be in my note. She finally disappears and reappears saying all is taken care of... Still no reason why original appt was canceled, why my who Dish in it up request disappeared and the strange switch to a technical appt for signal loss....
I'm now rescheduled for Tuesday, offered 3 free months of Starz and 30 bucks off my bill, I mention the 3 free months HBO I was offered before, she doesn't see it! The rep on thursday never initiated it!
So, now I supposedly have an appt Tuesday, another day I have be home, 3 free months HBO and Starz and 30 bucks off my bill... AND A REALLY BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH....
What happened to Dish Customer service? I used to think they were great!!! Are they resting on the laurels of their 90's customer service accolades? Very sad... If i wasn't for my long time committment to Dish and my preference for their programming and equipment I would have left.
Thursday comes, I have to take time off for the 12-5 appt window... a little after 4pm i'm anxious and call Dish. My first call, I'm told my appointment was canceled, as I try to find out why the operator's headset begins to malfunction, but he keeps my on for minutes trying to fix it, why he can't switch to to a handset or transfer to another person I don't know, I even ask him to but he asks that I call back, which I do... I then get greeted in Spanish (I never chose Spanish) Eventually I discover nothing, just that it was canceled Wedsneday and she has no reason why or why I wasn't called. She attempted to get me a supervisor but they were busy on another line and I could have to wait a long time...she offers 3 free months of HBO and I re-schedule for this past Saturday, fine, all seems to be fixed.
Saturday comes, the tech for the appt calls and asks what trouble we're having, I'm confused, trouble? Apparently the appt was resceduled for technical reasons, bad signal. What!?!? The tech advises me to call customer service to reschedule myself, he will do what he has to do on his end.
I call Dish again, after a long confusing discussion, the rep only shows that my Dish in it up appt was canceled and that it shows a reschedule for signal loss. Apparently I have to give them my credit card info and go through the sign up process/agreement again, although they have already taken my money and should have everything in my account notes. By this time i'm waiting for a supervisor again, which I finally get. She explains WHY I have to go through the process again, which sounded like alot of BS to me but I go ahead anyhow... then my card is refused, same bank card used before, no changes, nothing in between has happened with that card... She also needs to know again what I want, which receiver i'm getting and which ones i'm replacing... I fume stating this should all be in my note. She finally disappears and reappears saying all is taken care of... Still no reason why original appt was canceled, why my who Dish in it up request disappeared and the strange switch to a technical appt for signal loss....
I'm now rescheduled for Tuesday, offered 3 free months of Starz and 30 bucks off my bill, I mention the 3 free months HBO I was offered before, she doesn't see it! The rep on thursday never initiated it!
So, now I supposedly have an appt Tuesday, another day I have be home, 3 free months HBO and Starz and 30 bucks off my bill... AND A REALLY BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH....
What happened to Dish Customer service? I used to think they were great!!! Are they resting on the laurels of their 90's customer service accolades? Very sad... If i wasn't for my long time committment to Dish and my preference for their programming and equipment I would have left.
7 Replies
·
2661 views
H
D* your not aloud
I agree E* customer service is the worst. Way worse then my Cell Phone company(ATT). You really have to stay on top of E*. My advise to anyone getting new service . Don't place your order online. Call up the Dishnetwork, or another Dish retailer like Claude, Radio Shack,. That way you know for sure what your paying word for word, $ for $! Placing an order online just leaves your Credit card number flapping in the wind , with a Terms and Agreements acceptence, that no one reads fully because it 50 pages long
. Most times talking to a CSR could get you some other benifits thats not online as well.
Yep , Your aloud.
D* your not aloud
I agree E* customer service is the worst. Way worse then my Cell Phone company(ATT). You really have to stay on top of E*. My advise to anyone getting new service . Don't place your order online. Call up the Dishnetwork, or another Dish retailer like Claude, Radio Shack,. That way you know for sure what your paying word for word, $ for $! Placing an order online just leaves your Credit card number flapping in the wind , with a Terms and Agreements acceptence, that no one reads fully because it 50 pages long
. Most times talking to a CSR could get you some other benifits thats not online as well.
I agree !!! All of my calls in up in either India or the Philippines.
Pub Member / Supporter
I collect and play vinyl records regularly. A friend of mine told me about a record stash located inside an antique mall. So naturally I had to go go check it out.
0 Replies
·
3 views
Staff member
HERE TO HELP YOU!
Cutting Edge
Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
68604 Replies
·
2677721 views
Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
6632 Replies
·
379959 views
Breakfast Quesadillas. Grilled flour tortilla filled with scrambled eggs, hash browns, chopped green chile, cheddar & Jack cheese and bacon. Coffee.
Pub Member / Supporter
America’s Fastest-Growing EV State Isn’t California—Not by a Long Shot
New data shows electric vehicle adoption is increasingly driven by state policies, electricity prices and charging access—not federal incentives
www.autoweek.com
The number-one US state for EV growth, according to the June 22 Yardi report?
Oklahoma.
It has no ZEV mandates and "minimal" incentives, Yardi says, but also has cheap electricity, high multi-car household rates (so, for example, a non-Lightning Ford F-150 pulls their trailers), and a consumer base willing to switch.
116 Replies
·
1038 views
tomwellborn3rd (@wellborn.net)
This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in.
bsky.app
Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
US EV sales are rising again. Here’s why the recovery is set to last.
Even though sales tanked last year after the end of federal incentives, the American EV sector is on the mend as drivers face sky-high gasoline prices.
www.canarymedia.com
GM Is Coming for Tesla, Rivian, and China, on Your Phone and in the Car
GM’s latest tech preview details autonomous highway driving plans, AI-powered OnStar features, and new LMR batteries for future EVs.
GM said its next-generation vehicle architecture will provide 40 times more computing power and 30 percent less wiring than before and will expand from the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ to its high-volume SUVs, trucks, crossovers, and fourth-generation EVs, which will be powered by lithium manganese-rich (LMR) prismatic batteries
Despite the politicization and perceived consumer pivot away from EVs in America, GM needs to remain globally competitive, so it's doubling down on its fourth generation EVs, with energy-dense, cheaper-to-manufacture LMR batteries, more efficient motors, and state-of-the-art centralized computing architecture. With a stated goal of cutting the traditional four- to five-year concept-to-production time in half, GM is clearly challenging the concept of "China speed," which in the Chinese automotive industry can be as quick as 18 months from design to start of production. In the AI space, GM is smartly collapsing all of its marque-specific apps under the familiar OnStar brand, while providing more features—both on the phone and in the car—than it ever has before.
T
That's how Ford did it- vertical integration. He even set up a rubber plantation in S. Americatomwellborn3rd (@wellborn.net)
This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are signed in.
Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
Pub Member / Supporter
Lifetime Supporter
Love this guy's channel. Looks like Walmart has thrown in the towel when it comes to conventional car batteries.
I bought a new AGM battery from Walmart about a year ago, it is already needing replacing. I thought about just buying a regular battery but from what I've read, that might not be a smart move. Might check my Forscan program and see if I can change the battery type from AGM.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awe7kY5nvdU
I bought a new AGM battery from Walmart about a year ago, it is already needing replacing. I thought about just buying a regular battery but from what I've read, that might not be a smart move. Might check my Forscan program and see if I can change the battery type from AGM.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awe7kY5nvdU
14 Replies
·
102 views
The guy in the Video, REALLY needs to TAKE a Breath ...
If he'd Slow down, you could figure out What he's testing and on what.
If he'd Slow down, you could figure out What he's testing and on what.
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ss1UyXltsvw
Direct YouTube Link - Cryptographic Certificate Flaw Triggers Cleanup Bigger Than Heartbleed #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ss1UyXltsvw
Direct YouTube Link - Cryptographic Certificate Flaw Triggers Cleanup Bigger Than Heartbleed #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
0 Replies
·
5 views
Supporting Founder
Pub Member / Supporter
Apple Fall Hardware Event takes place today, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. It marks the debut of new CEO John Ternus and the expected reveal of Apple's first foldable phone.
129 Replies
·
1399 views
It seems the phone gets locked into Sat mode. A software patch is coming to avoid that pitfall, but it comes too late for those who already fell in.
Apple confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T cellular issues, affected devices require hardware replacement - 9to5Mac
Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular...
9to5mac.com
Daisy Ridley to Star in New Take on 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' at Paramount+
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
8 Replies
·
148 views
Pub Member / Supporter
Lifetime Supporter
Now right up front....this is NOT intended to devolve into a "pot is good" vs "pot is bad" thread. The whole point is to make you aware of a potential problem that a person can develop when they start smoking pot at a young age. Not that they WILL, but CAN. Kinda like getting lung cancer from smoking cigs....some do, some don't. The purpose of posting this news story is to keep anyone from paying an outrageous emergency room bill......knowledge is power.
While this may not affect you, you might run into someone who is experiencing these symptoms and can share the info. Fortunately, it looks like stopping smoking is the cure and isn't a permanent condition.
www.dailymail.com
While this may not affect you, you might run into someone who is experiencing these symptoms and can share the info. Fortunately, it looks like stopping smoking is the cure and isn't a permanent condition.
Woman's health in ruins after she began doing cannabis aged just 15
A Michigan teenager who began using cannabis at 15 has been hospitalized twice after developing a debilitating illness that causes uncontrollable vomiting and agonizing stomach pains.
1 Replies
·
27 views
Season 2 order already in hand:
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1
I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.
90 Replies
·
3641 views
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home thoughI don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ...
For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ...
