Price increases causing me to "restructure"

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The latest price increases, and the fact that the Virtual Joey price is the same as the regular Joey has me "restructuring". To off set the new prices, today I dropped from Americas top 250 to Americas top 200, for a $10 savings. And I am going to mirror a Hopper and drop a Joey for an additional $7 savings. Originally I was going to "downgrade" my son's Joey to a virtual Joey, but the fact that it would be the same price has me changing my strategy, so instead I plan to eliminate one Joey and mirror to my daughters room and the kitchen.


I am just curious if anyone else is also "restructuring" due to the recent price increases?
 
darrengs said:
The latest price increases, and the fact that the Virtual Joey price is the same as the regular Joey has me "restructuring". To off set the new prices, today I dropped from Americas top 250 to Americas top 200, for a $10 savings. And I am going to mirror a Hopper and drop a Joey for an additional $7 savings. Originally I was going to "downgrade" my son's Joey to a virtual Joey, but the fact that it would be the same price has me changing my strategy, so instead I plan to eliminate one Joey and mirror to my daughters room and the kitchen.


I am just curious if anyone else is also "restructuring" due to the recent price increases?
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I may downgrade from the AT250 to the AT200 at some point. Right now my bill has gone down quite a bit since I have 4 referral credits working and I just dropped my HBO now that the half price promo is over.
 
If I didn't have a dishscriber credit I would no doubt drop down to the 120+ package and get rid of all premiums. The only reason I would even keep 120+ is for my RSN during baseball season.
 
I dropped back down to top 200 -savings of $10.00, cut out any blockbuster -savings of $10.00 and dropped a joey-savings of $7.00. Got 17 more months to decide if I will cut out 2nd hopper ,when my $5.00 a month credit stops. I am actually paying less than before the price hike: $27.00 savings - $5.00 increase on programming and $2.00 on dvr fee = $20.00 savings a month still. THanks DISH.
 
We dropped for the AEP to Top 120. Got HBO and Blockbuster going at half off. We always liked having the premiums but with the $20 increase for the AEP the last two years it was time to drop down. We have a Redbox real close so getting movies that way will be much cheaper. I will go back up to top 200 when college football starts.

We are really considering doing the Dish pause starting in June and pausing through the summer. That will save us some $ and it helps offset whatever Dish wants to throw at us in fee and programming increases.
 
Put a fork in me, Im done.

Looking to drop Dish all together.... This is madness.... Prices first year are what it is really worth... just cant justify it anymore for the handful of channels I watch! Will sling from time to time from a friends setup....Not much more I can do to save $?
 
AZ. said:
Looking to drop Dish all together.... This is madness.... Prices first year are what it is really worth... just cant justify it anymore for the handful of channels I watch! Will sling from time to time from a friends setup....Not much more I can do to save $?
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I would consider this as well if not for MLB. After doing some research, the MLB.tv package is still subject to local blackouts, which I didn't realize. Makes sense though.

Buying a Roku and Amazon Prime would get me most everything else we watch, maybe with some delay, at a fraction of the price. Locals I can get with OTA, or Aereo if I wanted the dvr option.
 
You bet.
Dropped the Joey, plan to drop the $7 insurance.
Already at 120 and can't find a way to go any lower without loosing what we actually watch.
the prime time hiatus during the Olympics gave us a chance to catch up on our recordings and some movies.
With two 5/18 my bill is actually about $10 less than before the increase.
i am also looking at a Roku but have some time now to ruminate before I decide.
 
You can always add the PP back on if you ever need a tech visit. You have to keep it for 120 days, then drop it again. Better to pay the 28 bucks at that point then potentially $84/yr and never use it. The CSR's are actually pretty good about doing that as well.
 
I did last year. I went from 6 receivers to 5 and don't have one on my big screen in the basement. (Used more for video games than TV) I also swapped out a 622 for a 612. I went down to the Top 200 and removed Blockbuster at Home and Sports Pack. This year with AT&T saving me about $100 a month with their new plan helps me so that I have actually added back Top 250 and Blockbuster at Home. I love movies and these give me a lot of movies. Also, in the process of refinancing my mortgage which could save me a bunch of money.

When the kids move out, I am going to just put Roku's on any TV that is not being used much and probably get the Hopper then.
 
I'm thinking about going with a cable bundle, telephone, HDTV, & internet, for a considerable savings overall; about 1/3 off my current bill.

Dish is just pricing themselves out of the market!
 
I also will most likely drop HBO and SHO once my discounts are done in June, that will be another $23/month. So all in all it will end up being a $40 drop when all is said and done.

I see via DishAnywhere that my guide has already updated to reflect the drop in programming. :)
 
For some reason, even though this is not the first increase in rates I have lived through, it seemed to sting much harder. Best explanation I can give to describe how I feel. Been a customer since 1999. I don't care to vacate from Dish to another provider - just don't know.....don't know....
 
satnewb said:
I would consider this as well if not for MLB. After doing some research, the MLB.tv package is still subject to local blackouts, which I didn't realize. Makes sense though.

Buying a Roku and Amazon Prime would get me most everything else we watch, maybe with some delay, at a fraction of the price. Locals I can get with OTA, or Aereo if I wanted the dvr option.
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This was my hangup too. Getting the Tigers on FS Detroit was the only thing that kept me paying for Dish as long as I did. There are solutions though. Similar to "moving" with Dish, you can use a VPN or one of the location hider services to get around the MLB blackouts. I am paying $5 per month for unblock us so I can watch the Tigers in Michigan and still get my full internet speeds. There are free alternatives but most of them will decrease your speeds and show the wrong location for every service you use. I only want to hide my location for MLB.tv so I am willing to pay $5 a month.

I canceled Dish a few weeks ago but I wouldn't have been able to do it if I didn't know I would be able to watch the Tigers.
 
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