Class Action Lawsuit

[seanb]

This may sound a bit over the top (especially since it's my first post) but has anyone considered a class action against DISH to get out of their current contracts? The reason I searched out this forum was because I am so ticked off about the HD situation, and I've noticed numerous postings from people here who are "locked in" to contracts like I am. Well, we were promised services (x number of HD channels by the end of the year.. 2007) that have not been provided.. hence a reason for termination of contracts.

If I hire a guy to take care of my lawn and he only edges and never mows (because his lawnmower is always broke) I wouldn't keep paying him.. why should this be any different?

 

[gdarwin]

This may sound a bit over the top (especially since it's my first post) but has anyone considered a class action against DISH to get out of their current contracts? The reason I searched out this forum was because I am so ticked off about the HD situation, and I've noticed numerous postings from people here who are "locked in" to contracts like I am. Well, we were promised services (x number of HD channels by the end of the year.. 2007) that have not been provided.. hence a reason for termination of contracts.

If I hire a guy to take care of my lawn and he only edges and never mows (because his lawnmower is always broke) I wouldn't keep paying him.. why should this be any different?

Read the contract.... And..

 

[Claude Greiner]

First of all you where never "Promised" any more HD services than you currently have right now. I have been selling DISH Network for over 10 years now and Never have we promised customers additional channels. The situation has always been here is what we offer today, and here is the price your going to pay, take it or leave it.

Never has a customer been signed up for service by the assumption that they will add a certain channel by a certain date unless it was spelled out in a press release!

If you want to cancel and switch to Directv, nobody is holding a gun to your head. Go ahead and cancel and pay your cancellation fee for breaking your contract!

Finally if history has not proven its self here before, you will never win a lawsuit with DISH Network.

Besides that, before the thing even gets filed to go to court DISH Network will probably be carrying the HD channels your bitching then not having by then anyways!

 

[jeremysilvey]

get out of ur contract

dish is the same as direct, call em up and tell em you were just notified you are going to be deployed in active duty and will not be around for 12 months, they will put it on military vacation with a zero balance per month. Here is the kicker, while your on vacation, your contract continues to run. You get to the point were the contracts run out, you call em back, reactivate your service, call em back the next day and cancel.

 

[jeremysilvey]

lol

only idiots pay cancellation fees

 

[DishDave]

only idiots pay cancellation fees

Oh yeh tell me how then smarty to get out of my contract.

 

[Pepper]

He just did.

By the way, the contract also says that they may remove or change channels at any time. The contract gives you no legal right to any specific channels at all, just whatever happens to be in the packages you have.

 

[vegassatellite]

Written contracts supersede verbal ones. So someone could have promised you 2,000 channels of HD but if the contract limits it to their current offering, your SOL. It's called Buyer Beware, or Caveat Emptor.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

There is no grounds for a lawsuit, you are getting what you are paying for. Any additional services given to you are gravey.

 

[Buzzdar]

If you dont like the company then leave. Like someone said they promised you say 2000 channels and all i can say its your own fault if you beleived that.

 

[Hemi 6.1]

dish is the same as direct, call em up and tell em you were just notified you are going to be deployed in active duty and will not be around for 12 months, they will put it on military vacation with a zero balance per month. Here is the kicker, while your on vacation, your contract continues to run. You get to the point were the contracts run out, you call em back, reactivate your service, call em back the next day and cancel.

This really works?

 

[jrp]

dish is the same as direct, call em up and tell em you were just notified you are going to be deployed in active duty and will not be around for 12 months, they will put it on military vacation with a zero balance per month. Here is the kicker, while your on vacation, your contract continues to run. You get to the point were the contracts run out, you call em back, reactivate your service, call em back the next day and cancel.

Unless you ARE on active duty and are being deployed this approach has moral and ethical questions. Our flags in Iowa are at half staff again today for another soldier killed in Iraq. If you aren't taking the same risk as that man, claiming you are just to get of a few months' contract is pretty low.

 

[navychop]

dish is the same as direct, call em up and tell em you were just notified you are going to be deployed in active duty and will not be around for 12 months, they will put it on military vacation with a zero balance per month. Here is the kicker, while your on vacation, your contract continues to run. You get to the point were the contracts run out, you call em back, reactivate your service, call em back the next day and cancel.

This really works?

I doubt it. I believe it's been posted here that the time on the contract stops too. So without that clock ticking, you'd just be putting off the inevitable.

Would you keep swapping from one provider to another every quarter or every year, as they leapfrog each other?

Contracts are there because it might take a couple of years for a satco to recover their investment/up front costs in you.

 

[VaberMan]

Chill-lax dude. Enjoy all the channels we have. HD will be here soon enough. I hope not one forum reader would claim active duty to get out a contract. Thats just plain wrong.

 

[azdevil]

only idiots pay cancellation fees

nah...i'd rather pay the fee and keep my integrity.

hey, you should keep the option open of robbing little old ladies to pay your cancel fee. I hear they fall over real easy when you push them.

 

[gjh3260]

Chill-lax dude. Enjoy all the channels we have. HD will be here soon enough. I hope not one forum reader would claim active duty to get out a contract. Thats just plain wrong.

:up

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

Chill-lax dude. Enjoy all the channels we have. HD will be here soon enough. I hope not one forum reader would claim active duty to get out a contract. Thats just plain wrong.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. You hear this all the time it seems nowdays. Just pay the $50 and dont have a contract! Simple!!!

But each time some contract holder cries out like Dish wronged them for doing what the paper they signed says.

 

[mikew]

I think it's time for Goalie Bob to open a can of whip-ass...

 

[duckydan]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. You hear this all the time it seems nowdays. Just pay the $50 and dont have a contract! Simple!!!

But each time some contract holder cries out like Dish wronged them for doing what the paper they signed says.

I agree. When me and my wife switched from comcast to E* we opted to let them "keep" the $50 activation fee in exchange for no contract. It's been a year and while we are still customers we have the option to leave at any time (just nothing else is as financially viable as E* for what we are getting)

 

[nmoulton]

You might want to sue D* while you're at it. They widely advertised 100 HD channels by year end 2007, and they did not get to that number. Granted, we're talking ridicules here, but in that case they named a hard date and a specific number, seems like an open and shut case to me.