Comments on: Day 27 of the Dish vs. AMC standoff: Where’s the subscriber revolt?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:42:10 +0000

So first typical annoying dish customer so lets debunk this one at a time there is no package that goes up twenty bucks 15 at the most unless you jumped two packages then it would be a 25 dollar difference and no your bill didn’t go down because you got more than AMC and it was replaced with ASX and if your dish went our at the slightest hint of rain did you just do without untill you dropped the service? No you didn’t same lame complaint that is baseless and news flash football games are subject to NFL programs and contracts you will have the same issue with any other provider more baseless complaints about everything but AMC offshore agents suck your right about that but everything else is hot air

By: DeeDee

DeeDee — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:28:43 +0000

We had upgraded with Dish and paid 20 more a month so we could get AMC and then Dish dropped them. they didn’t lower our bill 20 dollars instead to compensate they gave us 3 months of HBO which we never watched and we had to call in and cancel. We had issues with satelite freeze up we would set our DVR to record something and it would be something different (for example CSI was supposed to be on according to the programming when we went to watch it it was some bad movie) The football games are never correct and God forbid it sprinkles our dish goes out for hours. The customer service agents barely speak english and the ones that do are rude. We dropped Dish like a bad habit. Their programming, inconsistant billing and customer service are the worst!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:21:29 +0000

I’m under contract and completely screwed. I am not a happy Dish customer and I will drop them like a bad habit when my contract is up.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:46:17 +0000

Progamming subject to change without notice its called a contract you signed it live with it.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:41:27 +0000

10/ 20 bucks a month? Increase me then whatever… I’d pay it until my contract was up, then bounce to a more affordable option if one exists. But if your dropping the channels, put some money back in my pocket.

By: tjesse

tjesse — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:39:55 +0000

Dish can’t keep our cost low if every network with a hit show keeps jacking up the prices. Dish is just an outlet for networks to sell ad time. AMC is charging Dish more for providing 14mill+ viewers, it makes no sense. The consumer already pays twice for TV shows, one with our provider and 2nd is with the commercials we watch. It is ultimately AMCs doing. How it should work is AMC pays Dish, and AMC charges advertisers more and TV is free for consumers (just like radio or broadcast TV).

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:59:19 +0000

Same lame complaint programming programming is the same basic networks give or take a few your just yapping to yap

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:44:25 +0000

Me too, Dish sux. nothing but QVC and “Got Pee”, kardashians, the programming is horrible. I’m out as soon as my CONTRACT is up. Also fight monthy for newly added charges. Dish is the biggest rip off out there!

By: Wynne

Wynne — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:56:27 +0000

Thank you Mike W for finding and presenting the facts and numbers of just what AMC was looking for in terms of a rate increase and the excellent reminder that Dish now pockets that enormous subscriber sum for AMC (and has, in fact, gotten quite a raise by default!). I highly doubt they have to pay for whatever it is that replaced it, the Bikinis in HD network, etc.

It’s difficult to compare Dish to other cable and satellite providers because Dish is the only one of these that ihas dropped tremendously popular programming and a number of channels. Although the blackouts and squabbles are becoming more common, the total loss of a set of channels and disregard for what the consumer wants to have the choice to watch is unmatched as far as I know.

I do wonder what will break Dish from the spell of Ergen’s hubris… They’ve patched things over for some existing customers by offering reductions and Roku’s, but that certainly will not continue and the subscriber loss (and the lack of people looking to sign up for Dish) will be too large not to notice eventually. If the Voom lawsuit goes the way that most expect, Dish is looking to lose quite a sum to AMC’s corporations too, and I believe some of those court decisions are coming shortly. It would be nice if the whole thing simply put Dish out of business; a lesson for any company looking to lose programming and keep fees!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:20:45 +0000

Again we ask the stupid question why didn’t Dish drop its rates? Because its a business duh rates don’t go down they never will Direct will not go down Comcast will not go down its pay tv service it Dosent matter what AMC asks for or whom ever your paying for it be smart it’s a cable network it’s not a broadcast network you have to pay if the deal with Dish did not make sense then why would they do it? What all of us should be upset about and complaining about is gas prices electricity rates they go up every year it seems and theres nothing new to look forward to. Do you have to pay for tv no but you do if you want cable networks and your dealing with business this is not a business that you make friends in this business you try to keep the rate low the service on and make the right business decisions