Has anyone bought the joeys from dish themselves!!! we were qouted 100.00 after what we told them we paid for ours for the joey 4 ( owned not leased ) installed and activated as well.. there pricing seems kinda low for an owned box from what other places want for them... the hopper 3 is cheaper in other places most of the time other than dish...
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I never bought the Joeys but I do know when I bought our 2nd H3 Dish matched the price I was gona pay for it from one it dealers.
Interesting that dish would match the price of the hopper as they would not budge to match prices with dealers pricing they gave us every excuse in the book why they would not match pricing... 100 smackers seems kinda low for the joey 4. that sounds leased to me but who knows!!!
If you buy it confirm that is not leased and you own it. When you activate it also confirm that you own it then get on your equipment page and confirm its says owned . I know it sounds redundant but it's better safe than sorry once they list it as leased it becomes very difficult to switch it back. At least that's how it use to be they may say whatever we don't want it back no matter who owns it.
We have 2 joeys and I called them to return it and they told me to keep.
we agreed to the 2 years but we also got the wheels and deals to so it was a no brainer... dish still would not match the price of the hopper 3 with solid signals price.. they even to want to charge us to install it
that wasn't happening!!! finally we did get someone that knew what we wanting to do 
our boxes do say purchased on our acct. they did ask where purchased and how muchi think i would even go as far to say record the phone call as well.. gotta protect yourself!!!
Well understand that I dealing with loyalty department for years (10+) and even that is sometimes diffrent from person to person I talked too. One told me no other said yes and another said yes and the would match it for 2nd hopper...
Over years I got Original Hopper w sling x2 and 2 joeys upgrades for FREE no charge, and H3 upgrade with 3 joeys 4k for FREE again. At one point I even got dish to give Do 2 hoppers plus and 2 joey 4 to replace the 4k joeys all for free. I was then called a day later buy tech supervisor saying that cant be done something about switch and hub they have wont handle it.
I Still want the hopper plus and 2x joey (4) but I was told that wont even work with 2 hopper 3 system... I know Joey (4) dont need hopper plus to work but they also wont give me them with out hopper plus and I dont feel like calling to deal with get right person to do it for free..
Dealing with normal dish department probably very unlikely for this alot of this happening
NO to both. Had them installed by Dish a few years ago.
If you buy direct from DISH they are always going to quote you their MSRP price, which $100 seems about right for an entry level receiver such as a Joey.
The problem is that there is no more competition among online dealers like there used to. You had dish depot, dishstore, sadoun, gradys, solid signal and ebay. I think dish depot used to sponsor this site? They all competed against each other and kept prices low, Margins may have been thinner back then, but they all made it up in volume.
You can always go on eBay, and if you find a seller with positive feedback I would feel pretty safe about the transaction. However eBay is going to hit the seller for like 18%, and those costs along with shipping fees get passed along to the buyer.
If I was to get dish, I would just lease my equipment and get everything for free. Unless there is a cost advantage on a monthly basis owning a piece of hardware vs purchasing it, I would rather lease it. If you lease, you will always have a warranty if I have any issues.
Sure you can sell your old equipment on ebay. However by the time you get $50 for a Joey, Pay ebay their 18% commission, have to find a box, go to the post office, what did you really gain?
When I had Tivo, that actually made sense, There was no lese fees on the equipment and I had a 6 room system with no additional outlet fees. My Cable and internet bill was $115/mo plus a $10 DVR fee for the Tivo. Times where good with Tivo
Maybe I am missing something, but how can it be no to both leased or owned? Doesn't it have to be one of these options
Funny, that something they charge $7.00 a month a customer just to lease is worth nothing to them. Proves the price charged is bogus. I think DISH should of made the charges a "pay as you go" system and once the customer paid off the cost of the joey, the monthly charges stop. You own the joey. Especially if they don't want the joeys back when you cancel.
The additional charges paid monthly are what makes the cost of having DISH over the top for most people. I used to spend $15.00 for dvr fee on the hopper and then 2 x 7.00 = $14.00 for two joeys. So $29.00 a month in DISH fees before you add programming cost in. Now they did eventually change the policy and charge $2.00 less a joey if you owned them, which I did , but it would of been better if they never charged for them at all since I purchased them outright.
But, but...even though you own rx's they replace them for free if they fail. They won't let you pay less and assume the risk yourself because that increases the chance that you'll cancel once faced with a hefty rx repair or replacement charge.
they should let one pay less as long as there willing to play satellite operator!!! tell people if something breaks there on there own. but that would also discourage people from buying the protection plan as well.. owned boxes do have a one year warranty.. that's what they do with outdoors acct's they won't even touch them though you might get support to help you figure out what's going on but no tech will touch it...
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Were paying $ 10.00 for our hopper 3 and $ 5.00 for each joey.. the fee for the joeys is a mirror fee so we don't have to pay for programming all over again!!! that fee will never go away direct want's a $ 10.00 mirror fee last i looked per box and no more first box included in programming!!! the advantage to owning your own boxes is that you can connect and disconnect boxes anytime you want to perfect for the holidays when family visits plus there's no contract to connect or disconnect boxes if you own em...
Hmmm after doing an internets search.. it's interesting to see everyone else wants anywhere from 135.00 to 150.00 smackers for the joey 4... we paid solid signals rate. funny how they quoted us 100.00 smackers as owned... one would figure the joey 3 would be 100.00 smackers
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