Note " stay with D* ". The implication is that changing is not due to any particular dissatisfaction with his TV service, it is due to the two years finishing, allowing the collection of more freebies.
Since it has been 7 years since he had Dish, then he must have had Comcast for 5 years in between. Thus, he already knows what each service is like, and it is "who can give me the biggest engagement ring this time" ?
I am just going from what has been posted - perhaps the situation is quite different. But there are certainly people out there who rotate through all three providers, every time their commitment period ends
Yep, that is what I am doing, I finished my contract with D* and shopped around what the next best deal I could get, that is the American way.
I never tried to get out of my deal with D*, I knew when I signed up that I was stuck with them for 2 years and never had a problem with that, paid my bill on time and was happy with their service.
When I left E* for Comcast 7 years ago all they said to me was when do I want to cancel, a month later I received a call from them offering me something like $20.00 off for six months( which still would have been more expensive then what I was paying to Comcast at the time) , I said no thanks and never heard anything again and I am fine with that, if they don't want me back they have that right, just like I have the right to shop around.
The reason I decided to leave D* was because I wanted to upgrade my equipment, I have one HD DVR and two standard boxes to another HD DVR and trade in my standard boxes for the 2 HD Boxes( the non DVRs), so a total of 4 boxes, when I called D* to see all much it would cost to upgrade they wanted $300.00 and my bill would go up another $30.00 a month(to $115.00 a month), so I decided to shop around.
With that, I have decided to go with Comcast, they are giving me 2 HD DVRs and 2 HD Receivers with all the non premium channels and HBO, home phone and broadband for $150.00 a month for 2 years and no contract, I live in a rebuilt Comcast area so they have plenty of HD channels, and based on their channel chart they have all the HD channels I watch regularly anyways.
So I called D* to cancel, they then offer me the boxes I wanted for $99.00 and my bill would only go up $10.00 a month(because they offered a $20.00 credit for one year) which I said no thanks because added together with net and phone from Comcast and TV from D* my bill would be $180.00 the first year and $200.00 the second year not including the one time charge of $99.00 from D* to bring the boxes to my house.
(and probably rotate through Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in the same way).
Yep I would that also, but how Verizon keeps me on, after about a year and a half I get the offers to trade up my phone( either free or very little charge) with a new 2 year agreement, that is how they keep me, Satellite and Cable should look to that business model, that might help to cut down the churn, why wait for someone to cancel then offer them a better deal, be preemptive, for example, if D* called me up and offered me to upgrade my boxes with no charge and a new 2 year deal I would of jumped on it, they would not even had to give me the $20.00 off a month because that would of prevented me from the chance to shop around, instead of the free pay per view movie they gave me as a anniversary present ( which I would never use).
