Dish Network Sucks Worse
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Yep. They nailed me too. Bought right into it, hook, line and sinker. People considering Dish, This is laid out step by step, of what you're getting into, no matter what they promise you. The scam goes like this. Pretty full page glossy color insert in your standard Sunday Paper. GET DISH NOW $19.99 A MONTH. NOT A PROMOTIONAL OFFER--EVERYDAY LOW PRICE FREE INSTALLATION Called the 800. Well it's $85 dollars, but you get $50 back, as a rebate, taken off your first few bills. $19.99 monthly after that. Not bad. Directly paid them over the phone, through my account. And scheduled the installation.. Pretty cheap. How can they do that? Well they don't really care about the equipment after all. They will give you $50 just to get their gear to your house. I assumed the remaining $35 goes to the contractor who came to my house to make my roof look like an aircraft carrier. They are not in the hardware business. They are in the service business. Like a cell phone. My cell was $80 but I got a rebate, that actually came, for $50. That means I paid eventually $30 for the phone. Verizon wants to keep you as a customer for the SERVICE. America , gotta love it. We'll give you the plate, heck, just eat our meals off it. For 18 months. Sign a contract. No big deal. Well here's my first bill. $46 dollars, not $19.99 And obviously no rebate form. Understand from my prospective, I've had dish for two weeks, and I'll have given them 85 and 46. - already out $131 dollars. In my rural area, with my basic package, that's what I was paying for three months of basic cable. Well I just got off the phone with them, the first time I was on hold, for a manager, but eventually they just disconnected me. Called a second time, at least this guy spoke English. Here's the cold hard facts, as relayed by this second associate. The rebate? , Well they simply added a $50 charge to the bill as a connection fee , then they credit you. So there you have it, no rebate. OHH but ya got one, see? The $46 new charge? Well, you pay two months in advance, according to them. However, in the same sentence the rep adds I will be receiving another bill in 30 days. Something wrong there. Something that was never fully explained to me, because on the planet I live on, we use the solar movement of the sun to calculate days. I've kinda noticed that for the last 47 years. hence, two months payment pays for 60 days, not 30. Is it possible the $46 dollars IS for two months? Then it probably IS 19.99 times two, with a little tax. But nobody acknowledges that. And I haven't submitted the mysterious rebate form. Are they being nice and crediting me in advance? More than likely, it's theory two....that they are ripping me off. Plus I discovered they took the liberty of having direct billing withdrawal out of my account without my authorization. Had that stopped. Allegedly. After reading some stories about Dish's greedy hands, I may have to blacklist them at the bank. Some Dish victims are finding cash withdrawls even several months after the contract was terminated. And I'm supposed to pay $19.99 a month after I get this form, which actually is handled by a mysterious third party. Whenever I eventually get the form, send it back, I can expect eight to twelve weeks before I see that reflected on my bill. And the $19.99 monthly fee will then only apply for ten months. After that, the bill is somewhere between $29.99 and $46.00. I still have no idea. I'm bound by a 16 month contract, so basically they can charge me whatever they want. They already are now. So yeah $19.99 is the everyday low price .....for a limited time, if it ever gets off the ground at all. I call that a promotional offer. Personally I expect to have ?every days? after 10 months. Maybe they are telling the truth, and in 10 months, the receiver will explode, and kill me at that time. The price will go up that time, but I will be dead. Although I summise they will still bill me. At least then they would be telling the truth, whereas $19.99 would then, indeed, have been my everyday low price. My son says if that happens, he will re-locate the dish to the top of my tombstone. A testament to the almighty dish legacy. They may also be telling the truth, if its' literally an "everyday" price because it's $19.99 every day. It's a "low price" because it's posted at the bottom of the bill. I already did the math, the ?$10 a month rebate for ten months, if I actually see it at all, is actually my own $100 that I was robbed in the first place. And in the end, I paid the exact same amount I was paying for cable. But most likely more. Don?t let this scam happen to you.
Posted by Scott at 02:57:23