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Asking questions of Dish is like writing your Congressman. All replys are form letter BS!

Before SHIVA was passed, Dish said, "Write your Congressman. We will IMMEDIATELY provide distant HD Nets to those areas without local HD."

Now they mumble something about three years.

I wrote and asked for clarification. The answer was, "Yada, yada, no info, yada, yada, thank you, yada, yada, HD leader, yada, yada, etc., etc."

It's a damn simple question. Is the FCC holding this up; or is it Dish?

I don't need anymore "Yada,yada." :-(

I certainly understand your frustration, but if someone sent me an email like that, it would be deleted immediately, the sender blocked, and a terse reply sent back to you telling you to feel free to go to D* or back to cable. One can a point without being insulting and condescending.

I agree clapple, I thought we would get the networks in HD real quick if our locals didn't provide us with a digital signal.

minnow said:

I certainly understand your frustration, but if someone sent me an email like that, it would be deleted immediately, the sender blocked, and a terse reply sent back to you telling you to feel free to go to D* or back to cable. One can a point without being insulting and condescending.

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Think about this, I've sent Dish Network several e-mails, I've called them on several different issues with just my 811 over the past nine months, and I've been very nice, simply asking or stating that my receiver started doing this, or it stopped doing this, or what ever, and the response that I got back from e-mail, at least, NEVER answered any of the questions that I had. On the phone, on one particular situation I called three different times about the same issue, and each time the CSR gave me a different response, and each time the CSR told me that should take care of it, and one or two days later it would come up again and I would have to call again, how much patience am I supposed to give these people, am I supposed to tell them "your service is the best in the world" when time after time they let me down. And one other thing, when I would call their Customer support and stuff like that above would happen, I would e-mail ceo@dishnetwork.com and their regular customer support e-mail telling them what happened in a very nice way, simply stating that I was unable to get the answer I needed from their customer support, and guess what, I wouldn't receive any response back. Then I come here and dbstalk.com and I read post from other people that had the same problem, and so they called Customer support, and were told, "we don't have any records of that problem"!

And what in my e-mail was so bad, I am unhappy with them, and there is no sense in not telling them that I am unhappy. If they don't hear from their customers, they will never know if what they are doing is good or bad. They even said it in their e-mail, "both negative and positive." If Dish Network does something right I will and have e-mailed them and told them so. For instance when they were having their Viacom dispute, I e-mailed them, saying I supported them 100%, and I would continue being their customer. But if after what I've been through in the last nine months isn't enough for me to tell them how frustrated I am with them, then when is it enough. It is fine if you would tell me to go to hell, but that isn't any way to run a business. And to say the least about Dish Network, they don't run business like that either. I vented to them, whether or not it will do any good, who knows, but I've said my peace, and only time will tell.

And as far as Charlie Chats go, I've called in in the past asking different questions, and it seems to me, that a year or more ago CC's would make you feel more apart of the show. They would give useful info, and they actually addressed customers concerns. Now, it seems, they don't answer any real question, they don't talk about anything that is of use by us. They didn't even talk about the MPEG 4 issue until someone got through and asked them about it, and even then they were light on info. I mean, how long before they implement MPEG 4, what happens to all of the current receivers, and etc. were never touched. I understand not letting your eggs out of the basket before the hatch, but a few words to calm the waters would have been nice. A brief explanation on why they were going back on previous statements. (NBR, etc...) But, talking about the year ahead, even from a rumor point of view would have been nice, where do they plan on going, what would they like to see happen, how will SHIVA affect us, and etc. would have been ok too.

The main reason I posted that e-mail here is so that other people could read something from Dish Network that says, they care about their customers concerns. Everyone that is a 921,811,721, 508, etc.. owner on this board are pissed, and perhaps rightfully so, at Dish Network. Some are saying that Dish doesn't care about us, (their customers) and I wanted to post something that said the opposite. As far as posting my e-mail, that was because it didn't make a lot of sense posting something from Dish, without posting why they said what they said.

As far as going back to Directv or cable is concerned: Firstly, cable is not in my area. And as far as Direct goes, I've already done that, I was a Directv customer for seven years, and I got tired of their lack of additional channels and their price for those channels. That is why I pointed out in my e-mail that programming to price is very good with Dish, but it is things that shouldn't be a problem that they are loosing me on. (buggy equipment, lack of support, and etc...) When I call with an issue I'd like help, not something that they think up. And like I said I would call and simply say something like: I was wondering why my 811 won't download SW version 281, it starts, but then it freezes? Do you see anything "condescending" in that question? Or should I not bother them with my questions, should I just fork out money and never expect answers to questions that I might have?

I've tried to be nice, and it took this e-mail to actually get a response, I've tried the nice route and I never and I mean never got any response let alone a yada, yada response. And by the way, this response actually made me happy, just the fact that they responded back to me alleviated most of my frustration. So whether or not you agree with me, my e-mail got the response I was looking for. Read it, they talk about caring about their customers, and will try harder in the future. (forwarding it to the proper channels, is at least a start in the right direction) And another thing, I actually e-mailed them back thanking them for their response.

stormchaser3003 said:

I think that the Charlie Chat people were trying to have a little bit of fun on the show since it was their last show of the year. I thought it was kind of funny myself.

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I agree that they were just trying to have fun, and I don't have a problem with that, but they could have spent a few more minutes being serious.