This is what happens when you have a continuing strategy to GOUGE your customers with made up FEES and Outrageous additional receiver fees, just because you can. The $17.00 additional receiver cost for a vip dual tuner dvr is ridiculous. To top it off they took all their made up fees, like the tv 2 connection fee and the dvr fee, that they say they aren't charging but one time on the account, and rolled them into one monster additional receiver fee. So you still are paying the $5.00 tv 2 connection fee if you have more than one dual tuner dvr on your account. You pay a $5.98 or higher dvr fee in the price of the additional receiver fees along with the tv 2 fee along with a $5.00 additional recevier fee included for a whopping $17.00 for one extra dual tuner dvr on your account. Now DIRECTV is only charging a $6.00 fee PER extra receiver and ONE dvr fee per account. DISH lies and rolls all their fees into one big fee and says we too only charge one dvr fee per account.
This all started years ago when they started adding a dvr fee to their receivers. One of the biggest growth spurts for DISH was back in the early part of the last decade and they introduced the 501/508/721/921 PVRS with NO Monthly fee and advertised this fact relentlessly. Directv used to charge $9.00 a month on their dvrs and the pressure from DISH 's NO Monthly dvr fee campaign helped to force DIRECTV to lower their dvr fees down to $5.00 per account. Then DISH decided all that growth and demand for the dvrs , why not charge a fee? Then it was why not charge a dvr fee on EACH dvr on the account? Then this seemed to be too much so they introduced the new ADDITIONAL receiver fees that I already described above.
People aren't that STUPID Charlie! They can see through your attempts to gouge them and churn accordingly. I have been a supporter of DISH for years and I love their dvrs equipment and even the discussion forums talking about them, BUT I also have to tell it like it is. DISH has lost it's way and will continue to lose subs every quarter , unless they turn away from their never ending monthly" made up because we can charge it "fees . It is time to return to the basic premise of this company: Good value for your customers at reasonable rates. IT does no good to have low priced monthly programming if you tack on made up fees to hike the average customer cost to over $100.00 a month. DISH is higher in some comparisons than DIRECTV when you add the extra cost of the monthly fees for additional receivers, etc.
What makes more sense for long term viability for a company: More subs all paying reasonable price for programming and good word of mouth that attracts more subs OR fewer subs paying ever increasing amount of monthly FEES on receivers and extras to get your profits up, but your churn is ever increasing every quarter ? A company can not survive long term if the amount of subs keeps dropping every quarter. It is not sustainable as a company model.
I say quit with all the short term freebies that you throw us like Starz and actually lower your prices AND or cut out all the extra made up fees. IF DISH ever wants to have networked receivers like DIRECTV's multi-room viewing capability , they will have to find a way to lower your additional receiver fees and make them more in line with the competition. Other wise get used to seeing the continuing drops in subs every quarter till there is NO more DISH NETWORK.
This all started years ago when they started adding a dvr fee to their receivers. One of the biggest growth spurts for DISH was back in the early part of the last decade and they introduced the 501/508/721/921 PVRS with NO Monthly fee and advertised this fact relentlessly. Directv used to charge $9.00 a month on their dvrs and the pressure from DISH 's NO Monthly dvr fee campaign helped to force DIRECTV to lower their dvr fees down to $5.00 per account. Then DISH decided all that growth and demand for the dvrs , why not charge a fee? Then it was why not charge a dvr fee on EACH dvr on the account? Then this seemed to be too much so they introduced the new ADDITIONAL receiver fees that I already described above.
People aren't that STUPID Charlie! They can see through your attempts to gouge them and churn accordingly. I have been a supporter of DISH for years and I love their dvrs equipment and even the discussion forums talking about them, BUT I also have to tell it like it is. DISH has lost it's way and will continue to lose subs every quarter , unless they turn away from their never ending monthly" made up because we can charge it "fees . It is time to return to the basic premise of this company: Good value for your customers at reasonable rates. IT does no good to have low priced monthly programming if you tack on made up fees to hike the average customer cost to over $100.00 a month. DISH is higher in some comparisons than DIRECTV when you add the extra cost of the monthly fees for additional receivers, etc.
What makes more sense for long term viability for a company: More subs all paying reasonable price for programming and good word of mouth that attracts more subs OR fewer subs paying ever increasing amount of monthly FEES on receivers and extras to get your profits up, but your churn is ever increasing every quarter ? A company can not survive long term if the amount of subs keeps dropping every quarter. It is not sustainable as a company model.
I say quit with all the short term freebies that you throw us like Starz and actually lower your prices AND or cut out all the extra made up fees. IF DISH ever wants to have networked receivers like DIRECTV's multi-room viewing capability , they will have to find a way to lower your additional receiver fees and make them more in line with the competition. Other wise get used to seeing the continuing drops in subs every quarter till there is NO more DISH NETWORK.
