You can question it all you want. You can go broke fighting it as well...
You should have gone to law school.Stop payment, make complaint to FCC and FTC, don't know how that could cause one to go broke. Most people are painfully ignorant on the law and companies like DISH prey on that. The only thing worse than an ignorant consumer is an ignorant consumer that thinks they aren't. Breech of contract? That can apply to BOTH parties, not just the consumer.
RobMeyer1 said:These disputes (where local stations ask for obscene price increases and Dish is forced to stop transmitting their signal over satellite) are going to continue until Congress changes the law. They are the ones who created the problem. This happened in my area (Albuquerque-Santa Fe, NM) earlier this year, and it will probably happen to nearly everyone who gets locals from Dish sometime in the next 2 or 3 years. I think everyone in an area where a dispute is occurring should complain (call, email, or other contact) to the 2 Senators from your state and whoever serves your area in the House of Representatives.
Yippie! Just checked, yes, goodie, great! Wonder which one caved? Now Dish needs to update the guide.All channels are restored
Yippie! Just checked, yes, goodie, great! Wonder which one caved? Now Dish needs to update the guide.
RT.
Yes, if Dish gave in, it will be another excuse to raise rates. Never really lost the locals.does it matter? You got your locals back
I kind of thought there was some way to "reload" the guide. Was not sure how. Will do.If the channels are back, do a switch check or a soft reboot to flush the guide
most of the time you'll never know what happened. Just a press release that "we reached an agreement and your locals are back"Yes, if Dish gave in, it will be another excuse to raise rates. Never really lost the locals.
Iceberg said:most of the time you'll never know what happened. Just a press release that "we reached an agreement and your locals are back"
I'm sure both companies made compromises
dsclark said:I question the legality of that clause and if I were in a contract with them, I'd challenge. When you subscribe to DISH, you are in a contract for their service, but what that clause says is that they degrade the service (or even eliminate it, that could be called "a change of service") and you are still locked in. <SNIP>
There is a legal term for this is which escapes me, but I do remember that you can't contract out someone's rights.