Dish pay as you go plan question

We have the RV package, you need to own your Dish and reciever, then pay in advance for the first month. You call to activate use while you are out then call to CANCLE service when you return, NOT suspend or pause!! This way you only pay for the days used, you will need to pay for these the next time you wish to activate be it next week or two months down the road.
You can activate with the app or online, but as of a year ago needed to call to cancel. Once canceled you have I believe nine months to reactive.

WARNING if you pause or suspend you will pay a small monthly fee.

We have fulltimed for the last year so haven’t turned off for a year.

ok, i will weigh in. i use the pay as you go every winter, the biggest problem i have is finding someone at dish that understands the pay as you go rv account. you tell them to STOP your service and they credit you for time left. they will try to throw the SUSPEND service at you. do not fall into that trap because they charge you a monthly fee.

Thanks for the info. The service would be for the RV, I have a VIP211 receiver with an external DVR and a Winegard portable dome antenna.

I thought I saw someone in this forum said they were able to turn the service on and off online and the unused number of days were saved. Of course, I may be wrong and that's why I'm asking.

Someone (or more than one) has posted before that they call Dish as soon as they return home and tell them to stop the service, and that they do receive credit for the remaining days left in that month. Seems you had to use the correct term; stop service, terminate service, suspend service, ?????? Don’t remember. Maybe they will respond. I have never tried it.

They credit the acct

gemsworld wrote:
I have been a satisfied long-time Dish customer for many years, but I pulled the plug on Dish a few months ago to take advantage of a smoking hot bundle deal offered by the local cable company for one year.

I'm thinking about signing up for the pay as you go Dish plan, but can't seem to find the "fine print" in the Dish website.

From what I understand, you prepay for 30 days, but I'm not sure if I were to use the service, let's say for only 10 days, if I can suspend service and use the remaining 20 days at a later time. Is this correct, or do I pay for 30 consecutive days, regardless if I don't use the service every day?

would DISH be in the RV or home? AFAIK the PAYG plan is only for RVs. we've been on it for 3-yrs now. before heading out i pre-pay for a month's service. when we return home i just stop paying and the service goes dormant. when i asked sbout partial months i wss told thatt wasn't possble but it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Don't know for sure, but we used that plan for several months last year. I think you just pay for a month, and lose what you don't use. Call Dish and ask is the best way to find out. They might let you do that. If so, post back, as I would like to know. We go out for a week at a time, and I don't want to pay for a whole month if we are not using it.