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Coloken

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Just got done with a nasty call to Direct TV. They burned me for a $158.98 bill this month. Should have been about 59.00. Did get a 48 dollar credit for next bill. They give the free stuff and then you have to cancel it.. Yes, I called before the shutoff date to stop it but they still carried some of it over to January.
Isn't there any thing that can be done to straighten them out. My understanding is Dish Network is just as sneeky and bad.
KennyP
 
My only recommendation is to unplug the phone line from it so nobody can order pay per view without your knowledge. Other than that I always refuse anything that is free if I have to cancel it after the free period is over.
 
Pay-per-view can still be ordered without a phone line. It can be ordered by telephone; it costs more that way, of course.
Unplugging the phone line doesn't by itself prevent ordering....all it does is allow a certain amount to accumulate and it will stay on your receiver. Once it reaches a certain point, it will prevent further ordering.
Unplugging the phone will also eventually prevent you from receiving your local teams' sports channels (such as Fox Sports North or Sports New York, or North East Sports Network). They look to make sure you are still connected and if it goes a while without a phone line will shut off.
 
My Dish and Direct bills are always ZERO, and I intend to keep it that way.

You know what the sure way is to do that!

SURE would hate to give up the DSL 'net, though!
 
I unplugged the phone line the day after I got Direct TV, about 15 years ago. has never been plugged in since. Has never had any effect on any channels. They just tell you you need it in hopes that you might order some thing. Absolutely 100 percent not needed. At least not here .
 
The way I see it is thats what you get when you pay for something you can still get for free. That goes for all of you.
 
Not everyone can get it for free. I checked out what I could get by antenna- about 3 versions of PBS, period. No networks, nothing else. Guess I'll stick with Dish.
 

I started out with Direct TV, but when the box went belly up and they wanted to charge me to fix it, I dumped Direct and went with the Dish. I've been with Dish now for at least 10 years and never had an issue with over-billing or being billed for something I did not subscribe to. Just last summer the receiver box did go belly up, and not only did they replace it free, but they came out and installed it and did an up-grade at the same time. All of it free.
 
How did you check? On-line, or trial and error wiht UHF and VHF antennas?
On-line signal checkers like TVfool.com and antennaweb.org don't tell the whole story.

I put up an antenna in nothern Michigan and am geting many channels that are 120 miles away.

Same here in NY, but here I put up six antennas and several signal amps.
 
Everone had free TV years back. Until they came out with cable and people just had to have it.The cable companys and the CEOs said look at those fools paying for TV when they can get it for free. Well years later this is what you got. I will put my money in the bank and watch 4681359 you guys go ahead and make the fat cats rich not me. And I still drink water out of the fasset to.
 
What did I miss? What did they stick you for? I've had Direct for 13 years and never got billed for anything I didn't order. Do I need to be watching for a scam?
 
***What did I miss? What did they stick you for? I've had Direct for 13 years and never got billed for anything I didn't order. Do I need to be watching for a scam? ***

They called me up and gave me 5 months of Sunday ticket and premier for free. I knew what they were up to. At the end, they would start charging unless you called and canceled it in time. I did cancel and the girl told me I was back to original but the billing stuck me for another month of 109 plus my original. I called on the 13th Dec. and they billed me for January. They do it all the time.
 
Went to the fool.com site.

We're 100 miles from Seattle and Portland, with lots of hills. Had to have an amplifier and rotor when we had antenna, still had problems in bad weather. Kind of a moot point, because only Fox Sports (cable and satellite) have Seattle Mariners baseball. Dish works OK, except breaking up a lot in bad weather lately- I suspect the trees its peeking over have gotten too tall, and I need to elevate the dish.
 
When my sister ordered a dish system for our mother, they told her she could try out the 3 movie channels for 3 months free. She said the channels were not wanted and to not activate them. When the the dish started working, the free channels were there. She called them and said cancel now, she did not order them and did not want them. They did cancel them. Next bill had a $12 cancellation fee for the channels. It took a few months of calling to take the fee back. I wonder how often dish sneaks in small fees like this.
 
TV Fool is conservative, but not as bad as antennaweb.org. I didn't get any TV reception here for 30 years while it was analog. After the digital changeover, I checked with TV Fool and it showed I had the chance of getting only one channel. Well, I now get over 20, crystal clear. Digital broadcasting made a huge difference. All in all, we get much better programs now, but I miss Fox news, which we cannot get over-the-air.
 
If the big cable companies, AT&T, Verizon, etc. get their way, there won't be any free tv.

There is only so much "room" so to speak on the the transmission towers and the companies that charge for their service want it all which would mean absolutely no free tv anywhere.

In east Tx, the tv stations are airing "public service announcements" about this and asking viewers to contact their congressional representatives and senators asking them to vote against it.
 
The only channels the phone line affects are the pay-per-view and regional sports networks.
Everything else works fine without it.
 
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