UPDATED - New Dish Pricing Info!
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For the first receiver, yes. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc, nope... at least not according to the verbiage I posted earlier off my at&t|Dish bill...
HEY THE BEANCOUNTERS RULE
This is like watching a train wreck, you see the disaster coming, but cant do a thing about it other than tell people tyring to warn them, and management is so busy dreaming of $$$ they ignore common sense.
you should never penalize you best customers.
but charlie can look at the brite side, after churn he can again reach 13 million subs. and boast about it............
This is like watching a train wreck, you see the disaster coming, but cant do a thing about it other than tell people tyring to warn them, and management is so busy dreaming of $$$ they ignore common sense.
you should never penalize you best customers.
but charlie can look at the brite side, after churn he can again reach 13 million subs. and boast about it............
If there is any violation of CA law (perhaps even other states) I do hope it is pursued. However, I am very pessimistic about Dish ever really having to face justice as so many AG settlements take a lot of time to gather facts and negotiate with offending companies and result in letting the companies pay a relatively small fine--for a company like Dish, a few million is nothing compared to what they take in during all that time with the new fees (to be explained next)--or a lousy compensation to affected customers such as $10 discounts for a few months or every affected customer gets 2 FREE PPV coupons or something similar all to be hashed out few YEARS later (OK, maybe a year later on the fast track for a settlement).
Meanwhile the settlement allows the company to continue its practice as the lump sum payment and or measly discount to customers that equal LESS than what Dish had taken in all that time amount to a lot of nothing to the individual consumer. The proverbial "slap on the wrist" justice. Only a few rare cases have really resulted in true justice and usually those cases involve deaths and are the result of private parties civil lawsuits and really big jury awards in the courts.
So many companies do get caught by AG's including Direc TV and Dish and just about every well-known company out there has had to pay and dance the dance, but it seems like they have factored it all in the spreadsheet to their advantage.
Also, a lot of AG's aren't really out for justice, they just want to be able to announce a settlement--way too long to prosecute--so they can crow about how great an AG they are looking out for the people of [fill in the state], and they ought to re-elect him, or, in most cases, vote for him in the coming race for Governor. Many of the AG's settlements are almost as bad as the class action suit settlements. We know that's all true. However, maybe justice will really be served. We will wait to see.
Agreed. As I said in an earlier post, I really do believe this is due to Ergan facing up to having to pay TiVo with the imminent ruling. While I believe the original jury verdict was not supported by the relevant facts, I feel very comfortable betting my proverbial "million dollars" on TiVo winning this thing. It will hurt, meaning I don't think Charlie really wanted to raise rates like this, but at least it won't cost him any to pay TiVo, and it is all done and over with. Hey, if Charlie gets really lucky and prevails, don't expect Chuck to reduce the rates as a result.
Hmmmm.... Looks like a $7 a month increase. I may have to take another look at Time Warner. If I go back to cable though I can't stand their DVRs. I'd probably buy a couple of Tivo HD boxes with lifetime service. So it would be quite an investment in up front costs.
It *might* be cheaper to just pay the $7 a month. At first that sounded like a cop-out, but if nobody has a better deal, then even though it's a price increase, it would still be my best option.
I have the same situtation as Lt Disher and actually figure my bill will go up $4 - the $1 mentioned above plus the $3 credit that I have been getting after E* backed off the $8 price increse last year.
Classic Gold 250 With Locals 62.99
Solo Receiver 5.00
Solo Receiver 5.00
HD & Platinum 10.00
TOTAL $ 82.99
Anyone wanna guess what my new bill should be ? I have a 211 with an EHD and 2 311's. All are hooked up to phone lines.
Solo Receiver 5.00
Solo Receiver 5.00
HD & Platinum 10.00
TOTAL $ 82.99
Anyone wanna guess what my new bill should be ? I have a 211 with an EHD and 2 311's. All are hooked up to phone lines.
Well some more bad news. A insider contact reports E management stated a programing increase may come later this year.......
a CSRs are no longer permitted to give out nice monthly discounts.
E is maximizing profit, its likely for sale.
theres more news, and I have heard from multiple E employees........
and no the ceo address has not responded yet......
a CSRs are no longer permitted to give out nice monthly discounts.
E is maximizing profit, its likely for sale.
theres more news, and I have heard from multiple E employees........
and no the ceo address has not responded yet......
Breaking this just in... Black Helicopters are flying over Bob's house.
scott::
yeah MAKE A JOKE ABOUT IT!
I originally thought the 17 buck a month receiver fee was funny too, till it turned out to be real
then add the fee for no phone line connected, ray posted thats true too.
charlie is trying to maximise profits right before selling E.
I HOPE and believe churn will skyrocket
I have sent two emails (second a copy of the first) over the last thirteen days and not a peep from the CEO addresses. It is clear Dish really wants my business...and I've been a customer for over 14 years and always been at the top tier of programming, etc. That is going to change.
:rant:yeah its always best to irritate your best and longest term customers. new ones are so easy to get
espically ones like me, have done every upgrade myself and purchased all equiptement too.
never a freebie anything here........ and scott thnks its funny:rant:
espically ones like me, have done every upgrade myself and purchased all equiptement too.
never a freebie anything here........ and scott thnks its funny:rant:
someone or computer made mistake?
E insider says calls about new pricing? callers told to call back next month
maybe the CEO address doesnt know either.
remember 2 states have been notified of the fee increases. when those subs call they are told to call back next month
If you look at the price list Ray Clum posted, they're already increasing the price on some of the foreign channels. Some of them nearly 50% in fact.
Except RTPi, which is available for free on AMC4. I was surprised to see them offering it a la carte, I would've thought they would've only bundled it with non-free channels.
If we are still in our 24 months will we be able to cancel our contract without harm due to DISH changing prices?
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