DISH TV payment question....
My wife and I have been thinking about buying the Tailgater setup from DISH to use while camping. We are not DISH customers, so this would be our only account with them. I talked to two account ...
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lryrob9301 wrote:Lantley wrote:
I have a pay as you go account. You have 30 days of service use it or loose it.
I agree I don't want to pay for service I don't use however, I don't full time so I will never use a full months service. If I can get 2-3 weeks or even 2-3 weekends per month of use I'm OK.
Truth is I don't/won't use the RV an entire 30 days per month, But I'm Ok with paying/maintaining it for the entire month.
You need to use the correct wording when you stop your service to receive a unused credit to apply to your next re-start.
DISH PAY-AS-YOU-GO
When you wish to stop your service you call DISH and tell the C/S person you want to "DISCONNECT" your service. When you do this any unused funds will remain in your account as a credit against your pre-pay amount when you re-start. Do not use terms like suspend, stop, pause, ONLY USE THE TERM "DISCONNECT".
I suggest you register your account on mydish to make restarting easier and to keep track of your unused funds.
My experience has been similar to what Kiwi posted above. 30 day windows only. I will say there is confusion do to the fact many Dish customer service people have no idea what a pay as you go plan is.
It's the classic scenario of getting a different answer depending on who you talk to.
Not sure why, maybe I'm doing less remote camping these days but I have not used the satellite in quite awhile.
My destinations have either had cable or decent over the air reception. My service is there for 30 day periods if I need it, but I just haven't needed it
