I believe what you are talking about is that some of us have been grandfathered that you pay no receiver fee for the first receiver..I have the same question I asked earlier in this thread about if you are now going to be paying for a service fee.. I'm almost sure that now let's say for example if you just have the one 211k you own that they are going to charge you for the service fee...no more free receiver.. It's just another sneaky way of dish raising fees on non-leased equipment
2021 Dish Prices
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I can see one good thing that may come from these changes, though. Perhaps Dish will finally start letting subscribers lease two Hopper 3's, instead of requiring that one of them be purchased. That way, Dish can collect the higher lease fees from new customers. Meanwhile, the early adopters, who were forced to buy the second Hopper 3, and have been paying the higher fee all along, can finally see some benefit with the new lower fee.
Wow. I would never have expected my monthly fee to go DOWN. I own my own equipment (Hopper 3 and two Joey 3's). I guess my net savings will be $9 per month. This makes me change my mind about dropping Dish in the new year.
LOL I don't know. I wasn't planning on opening the boxes until the installer came out.
But now you've piqued my curiosity...
I did a chat and asked when will the Locals Only core package be available to change to. The answer I got was that it is only available in Covid mandated states and I am not in one. I will try again after 1/14/21. I also notice it is not yet on the Dish web page as a core programming package.
That may be good news for me. The last I heard, Ohio was one of the worst (if not the worst) states in the country as far as new Covid cases. On top of that, the county where I live (Richland County) is the only county in our area color-coded purple, which is the highest severity level. So, maybe this means that I would qualify for the Locals Only package.
I believe the State has to have a shutdown mandate to qualify. Texas is still partially open. I don't know about Ohio.
Well, in any event, Dish shouldn't be listing it in their price chart if it isn't available everywhere. Or at the very least, there should be an asterisk, with more details then provided in the fine print at the bottom of the page. All the listing in the chart is going to do is cause more customers to call Dish to ask about switching to this option, whether it is actually available or not.
Inflation in 2020 was less than 1.5%, yet Dish has raised my package price by 12.5%. Where does Dish think we will get the money to pay these ridiculously high increases. I am already down to the Welcome pack and still missing my CBS and CW channels. We should get a rebate.
Inflation has little to do with the annual package price increases. The retrans contracts typically include annual increases that Dish will be paying, and some of those costs get passed on to us.
Well then, Dish shouldn't agree to those increases, and we shouldn't have any channels left to watch, either.
I have never understood why pay tv providers should have to pay retransmission fees for terrestrial channels since they are public airways.
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I don't like price increases any more than you do, but as long as we have a free enterprise system, we'll be charged whatever the market will bear...
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