Price increases in February 2014 (UPDATED!)

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I don't think Directv offer package without locals. Did you talk with Directv reps directly or sales people at Best Buy or other electronic store?

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I know Directv have locals near the ch 400's, I'm not sure if those required waivers, I think there east and west coast locals.

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Thanks. Was just deciding if I was going to keep it or not now that the increase has taken effect. Half price will keep me for another 6 months.
 
Just dropped DPP online. Including my $5 a month for 18 months that drops my bill by $12 which equals my increase. Now when they increase next year, after the $5 credit drops it will seem like a double whammy.
 
Well, Dish's increase pushed me to drop my tier of programming again. This time to 120. Ironically, I have not missed any of the channels, and no one else in the house seems to have noticed. I got my bill back under $100, down to $97. Were it not for HBO and HBO Go, I'd be much cheaper. I so wish HBO would let us just sub to HBO Go without having HBO on the tv. I'd pay $10 a month for that.
 
I got mine back under $130. I will be looking into the virtual Joey at some point to see if I might be able to replace 2 Joeys with 1 Virtual. Will have to see how reports in the field pan out. A VJ shared on 2 lesser used TVs might become a reality to save me $7 a month if it works out.
 
I just about had it with the increases and was ready to cancel. They offered me the Welcome Pack and I have the DVR fee, so it's $26.99 a month plus taxes.
 
There's so much of this that just sucks about the whole cable/sat tv industry, anyway. I can't get what I want. I have to buy stuff I don't want and pay more, just to get the few things I do want. That's terrible. That's the consumer getting screwed, just because that's the way it's always been and it's the same no matter what provider you're hooked into. I look at something like the DA Silver package and think, ok, that's a pretty good package of channels (if it only had AMC, for us, anyway), but it's 36 channels for $60. That's incredible and just way too expensive for what you get, IMO. You knock $12-15 /month off the DA Silver price (and hopefully add AMC, but that's not a deal breaker) and I'm a customer for a long, long time. As it is, we're thinking about chucking the whole thing, because the lower tiers of programming really don't have the channels we want to watch.
 
Huntr said:
There's so much of this that just sucks about the whole cable/sat tv industry, anyway. I can't get what I want. I have to buy stuff I don't want and pay more, just to get the few things I do want. That's terrible. That's the consumer getting screwed, just because that's the way it's always been and it's the same no matter what provider you're hooked into. I look at something like the DA Silver package and think, ok, that's a pretty good package of channels (if it only had AMC, for us, anyway), but it's 36 channels for $60. That's incredible and just way too expensive for what you get, IMO. You knock $12-15 /month off the DA Silver price (and hopefully add AMC, but that's not a deal breaker) and I'm a customer for a long, long time. As it is, we're thinking about chucking the whole thing, because the lower tiers of programming really don't have the channels we want to watch.
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I could have written the same words. We have Dish now, but cord cutting is becoming more likely as time goes by.

Sat/cable sells nothing but "broken" products.
 
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Well, I called to cancel today as I recently resigned my position at Dish and no longer receive the employee discount. After much back and forth and several polite no thank you's, they offered me a $45x12 discount and the standard free premiums for 3 months. No contract, I end up with 120+ instead of 250, and keep my 2hws/2j set up. I also have 4 referrals on the account and the 5x18 for the second hopper, so my out the door is about $30/month. It's better than I could have done as a new customer by quite a bit, and seems like a more than fair deal.
 
satnewb said:
Well, I called to cancel today as I recently resigned my position at Dish and no longer receive the employee discount. After much back and forth and several polite no thank you's, they offered me a $45x12 discount and the standard free premiums for 3 months. No contract, I end up with 120+ instead of 250, and keep my 2hws/2j set up. I also have 4 referrals on the account and the 5x18 for the second hopper, so my out the door is about $30/month. It's better than I could have done as a new customer by quite a bit, and seems like a more than fair deal.
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Now that's what I call retention.I'd say definitely more than fair.
 

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