Fees increasing?
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There may be a rush of new customers who try to beat the deadline and get the old price locked in for a year.
So you welcome the increase as part of just doing business?
As far as being the cheapest I don't buy that. New customer promos are the best deal going & require switching providers every couple of years.
I agree, I am now looking for cheaper alternatives. After looking at my Dish bill continue to increase faster than my income, time to send it all back.
My rabbit ears and netflix would say otherwise.
I don't believe there is a price lock. Hardware fees will go up for everyone no matter when you signed up.
They used to be, but now are pretty much a wash with Direct. Dish does have more lower-priced package options, if you are willing to go minimalist.
Agreed. There isn't even a price lock on package prices, just a guaranteed $x discount from the regular prices, which are subject to change.
I thought the $5 increase before the "lock" and the $5 after it made up for the "price lock"?
After Dish already increased rates this year, now I am hit with another $11/month increase for essentially nothing? It is one thing to increase package fees to cover rising programming costs, but how can they justify increasing receiver fees again? My equipment doesn't cost any more to run than it did when I first bought it. This is simply an opportunity to milk everything they can out of their paying customers, primarily their highest-spending customers.
Keep it up Dish. I'm getting REALLY close to just going with my basic Comcast Economy package and getting all my other content online.
The worst part is that I knew this would happen after I signed up for my 2-Hopper setup, but I didn't have much choice with the Hopper only having 3 tuners. I'm sure it was all part of the plan... give customers a receiver with not quite enough tuners, wait for much of the installed base to settle into their 2-Hopper setups, then increase their fees knowing that most people won't drop the 2nd Hopper.
Keep it up Dish. I'm getting REALLY close to just going with my basic Comcast Economy package and getting all my other content online.
The worst part is that I knew this would happen after I signed up for my 2-Hopper setup, but I didn't have much choice with the Hopper only having 3 tuners. I'm sure it was all part of the plan... give customers a receiver with not quite enough tuners, wait for much of the installed base to settle into their 2-Hopper setups, then increase their fees knowing that most people won't drop the 2nd Hopper.
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Yes, fortunately .
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I'm going to cancel PP, drop a Joey, switch from AEP to Top250 w/2 premiums and save 33.00 a month. After that I'll start looking for an alternate programming source.
That is good, and I feel your pain. I have had it happen at home and at my office. No fun either time.
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A lot of folks say let their wallets do the talking,from the reaction to this thread,it seems that is exactly what will happen.If Dish starts losing customers,customers lowering packages,or customers downgrading equipment,in a large enough volume they'll clearly get the message.
Yesterday we had a tech visit due to signal drops. I was considering going from 2x 722k to 1H/3J or 2H/2J. Now that is on hold. I'm glad I sold my X,000 shares of DISH in December!
If the technician corrected the signal drops that might be considered new "Feature" of your equipment. So don't be surprised when your 722k gets higher fees as well.
It's pure GREED!! There's no reason other then that as to why dish needed to increase these fees. I dropped to the 120 to save 10 bucks and now if I drop any lower then I will lose most channels I do watch. Yet the CEO of dish and Charlie can line their pockets with millions of dollars and they couldn't give a crap about their customers! I get a flyer every week and emails from directv begging me to come back and I'm greatly considering it. Dish cannot justify this increase considering their hopper 2.0 wasn't much of an improvement. If anything lower the dvr fees and whole home fees because it's at the point where people are dropping their tv provider and doing Hulu plus or Roku.
I just got my folks to sign with dish and I was considering maybe making a comeback but now I'm not so sure after this :/
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