Whadayall think about all these dish dealers on the internet still selling the 942 for 600 bones without a disclaimer, not a word that they will be obsolete in two weeks.
1) It will NOT be obsolete in two weeksdownriver said:Whadayall think about all these dish dealers on the internet still selling the 942 for 600 bones without a disclaimer, not a word that they will be obsolete in two weeks.
StevenD said:1) It will NOT be obsolete in two weeks
2) Its up to the consumer to do his research and make an informed buying decision BEFORE actually plopping down $700 on piece of hardware.
downriver said:It WILL be obsolete in two weeks and the average consumer does little to protect themselves from unethical and unscrupulous companies. Echostar should have pulled em' off the market after the announcement. Instead they are still selling them to a mostly uninformed and unsuspecting clientile.
downriver said:It WILL be obsolete in two weeks and the average consumer does little to protect themselves from unethical and unscrupulous companies. Echostar should have pulled em' off the market after the announcement. Instead they are still selling them to a mostly uninformed and unsuspecting clientile.
The folks who bought these things did not suspect that they would soon be unable to receive new programming. In that respect it is different than PC upgrades, etc. Remember we are talking AFTER the announcement, amazingly two weeks AFTER Christmas.
I dunno, I'll bet Tony Soprano would be mighty pissed if Christopher hijacks a truck of 942's!! Now who would be the bigger crook here??
BrianMis said:Did you buy one?
Absolutely! However, E* is going to screw their retailers-->retailer is going to screw customers-->E* is going to screw both retailers and customers-->customer get screwed by both E* and retailer.downriver said:Yes I bought one. But I purchased mine before the announcement and I bought it more for the dual tuner capability than the HD, though I admit the HD has sucked me in and now I am a little ticked that I won't be able to upgrade to HD network programming on 129 without MPEG4.
The 942 is the best receiver I've had that's manufatured by echostar, not counting the old c-band. I went through two 625's in two weeks. one hard drive failure and and the other with a toslink problem.
BUT that is not the question. The question is are Dish and it agents acting responsibly and ethically by continuing to sell 942's at this date, after the announcement, without a disclaimer?
I think not. I think Dish should purchase back the 942'S from it's reselling agents so they don't need to pawn them off on an unsuspecting public. $.02