Satellite police

[tallfence]

Customers

September 1996 I had an independent dealer come to the house. He checked line of site and said it was good. So I gave him a down payment and he ordered the equipment including a 4000 receiver. Two weeks later he came back and installed it.
When I ordered it there were only 12 or 13 channels on the satellite. Two weeks later I was excited they added four more including Cartoon Channel.
I'm still with DishNetwork.

 

[slow_poke_pete]

Directv set ups were sold at Best Buy and Circuit City back then, not sure of DISH.

dish was sold at our local costo and sears and radio shack at that time

 

[slow_poke_pete]

Customers had to do their own installs back in 1996?

i paid an installer

 

[Foxbat]

I did my Dish installation myself over 30(!) years ago. June 1996, I forgot to have a party this year…

 

[Jimbo]

I did my Dish installation myself over 30(!) years ago. June 1996, I forgot to have a party this year…

Same here, back in the day late 90's I set up mine and my Parents and Friends.

 

[That American Girl]

Directv set ups were sold at Best Buy and Circuit City back then, not sure of DISH.

Hh Gregg here in the Midwest. I did many installs for them here in Columbus, as well as selling/ installing Home Theater.

Many fond memories.

Also many terrifying memories of...nightmare installs and dealing with freaking idiots.

 

[telstar_1]

Another company that doesn't trust or help the customer .... another great reason to NOT have thier service.

What ever happened to helping the sub and using COMMON Sense .... If I am home and have a Cottage, I can't have service?
Your going to turn me off because I can't give you numbers from the cottage ????

Here's what happened in a nutshell. Dish spurned the proprieties of the established C-band dealers who were their previous customers for C-band gear to lure all manner of scammers to activate DiSH accounts to run up #s to show the programmers to get reductions in per-sub charges. This of course and as intended attracted copious scammers to goose DiSH out to the public without any cares for its satisfaction. We the dealers could only watch in abject dismay as this played out. Then of course Dish figured out they'd been burned by their own greed and enacted a long series of clampdowns on anyone's abilities to remain in business to serve local viewers. Everyone was now a crook to them, dealers, customers, even distributors. But they made that bed themselves from the start. They used their heft to torpedo the local dealer.

All the while gaslighting with their annual "retailer summits". Their aim was never the good of the home that they purported to "put a dish in every". (Mod edit: political part deleted)

All they had to do was to take the incredible goodwill they entered with and just maintain that through a little bit of public empathy. In past generations there would have been no question as to the propriety toward customers and their communities. To Charlie, we were all sheep for the fleecing

 

[MikeD-C05]

Here's what happened in a nutshell. Dish spurned the proprieties of the established C-band dealers who were their previous customers for C-band gear to lure all manner of scammers to activate DiSH accounts to run up #s to show the programmers to get reductions in per-sub charges. This of course and as intended attracted copious scammers to goose DiSH out to the public without any cares for its satisfaction. We the dealers could only watch in abject dismay as this played out. Then of course Dish figured out they'd been burned by their own greed and enacted a long series of clampdowns on anyone's abilities to remain in business to serve local viewers. Everyone was now a crook to them, dealers, customers, even distributors. But they made that bed themselves from the start. They used their heft to torpedo the local dealer.

All the while gaslighting with their annual "retailer summits". Their aim was never the good of the home that they purported to "put a dish in every". (Mod edit: political part deleted)

All they had to do was to take the incredible goodwill they entered with and just maintain that through a little bit of public empathy. In past generations there would have been no question as to the propriety toward customers and their communities. To Charlie, we were all sheep for the fleecing

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[JSheridan]

Current Dish Retailer here and have been since the very beginning in 1996. It's been a journey with it's ups and downs, but overall it has been very positive. We've had to be dynamic and change with the rest of the world, but that's life, adapt or die.