I already own it. Its in my collection
I even have on old 721 LOL Been with Dish since 1980
DISH Price Increases
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I even have on old 721 LOL Been with Dish since 1980
The number of customers who will upgrade will be lower than you'd think. Don't base what you read here from users here as typical of Dish customers.
I likely will not upgrade to the newest Hopper for a while. If/when I do, it will only be for the faster processor and Joey 2 replacement. I can count on two hands the number of times we've had tuner conflicts. Our lives here simply don't revolve around TV.
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Wasn't DISH supposed to reveal some new lower priced packs to appeal to the cord cutters at CES? I read that there was speculation that would be announced at CES along with the new hopper3 ,hopper go, etc. Unless DISH's SlingTv was the company that they were talking about.
The reason I asked was that I read an interesting article today online that talked about DISH and their new hopper3. It said that when a company is losing subs to cord cutters etc, there are two ways to attract new subs and retain existing subs. One is lower your FEE prices and programming- smaller more affordable packs or you come out with new cutting edge receivers like the Hopper 3 with all the bells and whistles. They said that DISH chose the new receiver route.
thats pretty good considering Dish didnt start until 1996
Maybe he means Charlie.thats pretty good considering Dish didnt start until 1996
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My bad I am new here :-/thats pretty good considering Dish didnt start until 1996
EchoStar with the C-Band dishes way back in the day.
I would much rather have the better technology, that is what keeps me with Dish, if it would only have meant saving just a little bit of money otherwise. If their DVR wasn't much better than Directv then I would have already switched long ago to get the deals that Directv offers. Makes me wonder what Directv is going to do to counter this.
I would much rather have the better technology, that is what keeps me with Dish, if it would only have meant saving just a little bit of money otherwise. If their DVR wasn't much better than Directv then I would have already switched long ago to get the deals that Directv offers. Makes me wonder what Directv is going to do to counter this.
Nice to know I'm not the only one that remembers those days
Back before the scrambling/decoders.
I was even installing their IRDs back in '93 (summer job during college)
Just an Update.
Dish never mentioned the price increase at all on this month's or last month's bill, But it did show up in the bill, But also my price lock gave it right back.
But I still have to question why Dish can't give you prior notice of a price increase?
I take that as a sign of disrespect to your existing customers.
I'm sure there are many older customers that aren't thinking about surfing the internet to see if someone else knows they are raising rates.
The rate increases announced this year that gave me minimum 30 days notice .
Blue Ridge Cable (broadcast Basic , $27-$29
PPL Electric (Generation increase) pennys
Blue Cross of Arkansas
Increased $58 per month.
Not official notice from Dish except the bill.
So basically 14 days notice.
Thank goodness for Satellite Guys
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Dish never mentioned the price increase at all on this month's or last month's bill, But it did show up in the bill, But also my price lock gave it right back.
But I still have to question why Dish can't give you prior notice of a price increase?
I take that as a sign of disrespect to your existing customers.
I'm sure there are many older customers that aren't thinking about surfing the internet to see if someone else knows they are raising rates.
The rate increases announced this year that gave me minimum 30 days notice .
Blue Ridge Cable (broadcast Basic , $27-$29
PPL Electric (Generation increase) pennys
Blue Cross of Arkansas
Increased $58 per month.
Not official notice from Dish except the bill.
So basically 14 days notice.
Thank goodness for Satellite Guys
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No notification has become more the norm than the exception, at least who I do business with.
My Comcast internet went up $3 a month. I didn't receive anything that told me that was going to happen, that is, until the next bill came in.
Seems to be the way of the future I guess in TV world.
My cable company is privately owned, so I would assume that's why they still pre-warn.
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Yeah, my Comcast bill went up $5/mo this month...no notice. Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw on a Prof's door when I was college 37 years ago: "We're the Bell System. We don't care. We don't have to."
I'm not so sure you couldn't just put several company's names in there and it'd fit just as good as it did 37 years ago...
I'm not so sure you couldn't just put several company's names in there and it'd fit just as good as it did 37 years ago...
Are you thinking of cable companies that are often under franchise agreements with local cities, areas, etc ? They typically require, as part of their agreement, that the cableco notify customers ~30 days in advance. Dish used to notify customers too.... The only "contract" would be the user agreement between Dish and the customer and I just looked through it quickly. No mention of them having to notify in advance.
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Just look up my e-Bill for Comcast dated Dec.21, 2015 and they had all the details of the price increases on pages 3-6.
I went back and looked and you are absolutely correct. It is, indeed, there. I seldom look at the e-bill itself, just the amount to be automatically deducted.
