too much money for all american

[voodooevil]

hello....
i have dish everything with BB and protection plan with hopper and joey. i pay like $170 with tax every month.
I have been with dish for 15 years. Why cant dish give a promotional rate like every five years just to say thanks. I am disturbed to see promotional prices for new customers. I am so ready to commit to DTV for the same package with a two year rate of 119.98 per month. Can someone tell me why I shouldn't do this? I have called dish and all they gave me for being a loyal customer is $5 off BB for 6 month. I jumped ship with sprint for my cell phone for similar reasons (a 14 year customer). I even payed for 2 early termination fees just to prove my point. Just needed to vent a little...thanks.
joe

 

[Mojo Jojo]

Have you tried chatting online and asking for the Loyalty Department?
Or/and
Have you considered which channels you want or need in terms of possibly downgrading your package?

 

[Bobby]

I bet, when you were new, you got some bennies. You still can, you just need to ask....

 

[Deadlocked]

Drop protection, bb and AEP to 250. Then add any prems you care about


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[ChadT41]

Call and ask for loyalty. The last offer I got, before switching everything back how I had it, was 3 prem freex3month, HBO 1/2 price 6months, $25 for 6 months, and blockbuster free three months. If you get to loyalty, as long as your account has been in good standing, and you haven't been sucking up promotional offers, over the last few years, this should be no problem to get. Tell them you want something similar to this or you're gone. Most loyalty agents won't even bat an eye at a long standing customer that produces the company money. Should be relatively simple.

 

[ChadT41]

And yes, ddrop pro plan. You can always add it back later if you need it, no harm no foul.

 

[navychop]

No.

Please, switch to DirecTV.

And stay there.


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[acostapimps]

No.

Please, switch to DirecTV.

And stay there.


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Are you serious or being sarcastic? I would call first and see what they can do to cut his bill a bit,

And if they don't after several tries then maybe consider a switch, But being a long time customer they at least should give credits and possibly free or reduced upgrades.

Of course sometimes being a long time customer doesn't mean anything.

 

[ChadT41]

It's all going to come down to whether or not you produce revenue for them. If you are a long time customer, that costs to much money, then they'll let mike white have you. If you want to play the game, wait till the last 2 weeks of Q4 and they will give you the world.

 

[Tampa8]

As for Direct TV make sure that rate is for two years, not one year. The contract is for two years.

At the level you are at in programming DISH will give you a discount. If you are looking for anything similar to what a new customer gets, then you have to become a new customer somewhere. You could actually do that every two years and get the new customer rates. There must be something like a trillion posts on this site on new customer promotions visa a vis existing customers.

 

[iadubber]

Alot of people I know go back and forth every two years or so between DTV and DISH just to get promo pricing as a new customer.

 

[Blackloz]

Same here. Lots of friends of ours do it like clockwork every 2 years. Our household couldn't be bothered to switch every 2 years as we have lots of stuff on the HDD & setting up lots of timers all over again every 2 years, relearning channel #'s.


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[Scherrman]

The OPs complaint is the same complaint that every sub has with their pay TV provider. They see the ads for new customers and get upset about but they forget that they received an offer when they signed up too. I do have to say that if it's a very long time customer then chances are that they did not get a promotion and probably paid for the equipment and put it in themselves.

I say there are two options, get a hold of Dish and tell them you are going to cancel unless they are able to get your price to a more affordable range. If their offer doesn't meet your demands then quit and switch to DirecTV. Pretty simple actually.

 

[dwarren2]

Take a look at what you actually watch. Do you actually watch programming from all the premium channels. What can you live without, I have the 250 + multi sport, 2 Hoppers and 3 Joeys and pay about $117/mo

 

[harshness]

As someone who has AEP, I'm a little bothered when DISH throws everyone else a bone on a free preview or some channel I have that is part of a package that I want for other channels. Back in the day, they would at least add Playboy as a substantially discounted fifth premium movie channel.

Then there's the people who either switch biennially or complain bitterly and incessantly about their $80 bills.

 

[dare2be]

$80 is my threshhold. Not that I can't afford it, it's just I'm not willing to pay more than that for TV.

 

[Scherrman]

As someone who has AEP, I'm a little bothered when DISH throws everyone else a bone on a free preview or some channel I have that is part of a package that I want for other channels. Back in the day, they would at least add Playboy as a substantially discounted fifth premium movie channel.

Then there's the people who either switch biennially or complain bitterly and incessantly about their $80 bills.

This is why I dropped the AEP. The movie channels have free previews and I record a bunch of movies then and occasionally they offer them to me for free. I'm got enough movies recorded that I haven't watched yet that I don't need to pay for them.

 

[tobsandmags]

Drop AEP....you don't save anything. In fact, if you have BB, you are double paying for several channels. I just dropped to AT200 (we don't watch any of additional channels in AT250). You can then add the movie channels as you want and take advantage of 1/2 price deals when they are offered.


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[KazooGuy]

hello.... I am so ready to commit to DTV for the same package with a two year rate of 119.98 per month. Can someone tell me why I shouldn't do this?

Well. I doubt you are being given a two year rate. Any time I have looked into Direct it is ONLY the first 12 months that the promo price is good for. Plus, as you go along you begin losing other little credits along the way too, so by the time you are into the last year of the contract you will be considerably higher than when you started out. If you look on their website, and you really have to search, at least the last time I was on their site, you can get the price for each month displayed for the entire two years. You might be amazed at what you will be paying by the time you are in the second year. Are you sure you need all the programing you are paying for? I think if you sat down and really went through all the channels you really watch you could make do with a lower package.

 

[ChadT41]

But the salesman told him something else. And they don't ever lie to make a commission.