Dish Network pay as you go.
Anyone use Dish Networks pay as you go. DW wants to watch tv when we go on our next 3 week trip. Camping World has a receiver on sale and she wants to get one. After reading many many negative reviews...
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Question - for those who ONLY have a satellite receiver in their RV on pay as you go-- what does it cost for the utmost basic service, and then switching it on and off as needed, for say, maybe one week a month at a time?
Reason I ask - I want to drop dish like a bad habit, but they're one of only 2 games in town for RV satellite TV, and DirectTV wants a fortune for their self-pointing HD setup.
I have a 722 receiver on Dish at home, another 211 receiver and dish at my beach house, and the 211+tailgater in my TC.
I've had Dish service since 2004. I hate them. Can't stand being treated like an idiot whenever I call in for ANYTHING...even to re-authorize my 211 in my TC. I am an Electrical Engineer in the communications field, dealing with beamwidths, azimuths, tilts, dB's and gains every frickin day, and these kids can't even read from the script in front of them half the time. And when they do read from the script, they don't even listen to the answer you gave them unless you repeat it yelling at the top of your lungs 14 times. -- and all the while I already know exactly what I need done, but they won't do it until they make you go through the whole script. If I hear Can you please unplug your receiver and plug it back in" one more time, they can come sweep up the parts left from their equipment off my driveway.
My phone number has been 'hot flagged', meaning, anytime I call, I get a US, real on-shore person every time. Threaten to cancel the next time you get an oversees call rep and they will hot-flag your number.
But even at that, I can't stand calling them. I have Comcast internet at home, I want to bundle tv and internet, and just drop my dish at the beach all together. There is a real, brick and mortar customer service center for Comcast not 5 minutes from my house where I can look someone in the eye, and I've never had any problems going there with the few internet problems I've had.
Sorry.
I now step off my soap box...
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Reason I ask - I want to drop dish like a bad habit, but they're one of only 2 games in town for RV satellite TV, and DirectTV wants a fortune for their self-pointing HD setup.
I have a 722 receiver on Dish at home, another 211 receiver and dish at my beach house, and the 211+tailgater in my TC.
I've had Dish service since 2004. I hate them. Can't stand being treated like an idiot whenever I call in for ANYTHING...even to re-authorize my 211 in my TC. I am an Electrical Engineer in the communications field, dealing with beamwidths, azimuths, tilts, dB's and gains every frickin day, and these kids can't even read from the script in front of them half the time. And when they do read from the script, they don't even listen to the answer you gave them unless you repeat it yelling at the top of your lungs 14 times. -- and all the while I already know exactly what I need done, but they won't do it until they make you go through the whole script. If I hear Can you please unplug your receiver and plug it back in" one more time, they can come sweep up the parts left from their equipment off my driveway.
My phone number has been 'hot flagged', meaning, anytime I call, I get a US, real on-shore person every time. Threaten to cancel the next time you get an oversees call rep and they will hot-flag your number.
But even at that, I can't stand calling them. I have Comcast internet at home, I want to bundle tv and internet, and just drop my dish at the beach all together. There is a real, brick and mortar customer service center for Comcast not 5 minutes from my house where I can look someone in the eye, and I've never had any problems going there with the few internet problems I've had.
Sorry.
I now step off my soap box...
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