Dish Pay as You Go confusion

hogcard wrote:
So I just bought a new class a and want to get it set up on Dish Pay as You go. I do not use Dish at home.

I was told the deal is that you pay a month in advance and you use it until that moth of time is used up. How does that work? I just called Dish and he said there was no policy in which you use it for a football weekend, then cut it off for 3 month for example and still have 27 days left. I read somewhere to expect the customer service person to explain it that way and you have to get past them, which I never could.

So from your experience, exactly how does it work? Can i truly shut it off after a couple of days of use and still have 28 days left of my prepaid 30 days to use at a later date? What do I need to do on my initial phone call to them and then what is the trick to really only use a little bit at a time?

we've had dish in our MH for about a year now. a few days before we take off I simply pay my bill for one-month. that activates my account. roughly 25-days later I get an e-mail stating that my bill is due. if I want to continue service for another 30-days I pay the bill. if I don't want to continue service I don't pay the bill. at the end of the original 30-day period the account goes dormant. simple. you don't need to call anyone to put the account to sleep, just don't pay the bill.

the minimum amount of time on the PAYG plan is 30-days. AFAIK you cannot pre-pay for 30-days, use it for 3-days, put the account to sleep and have 27-days "in a time bank". I asked about that when I set up the account and was told that was not possible.