IS this true, or not for Dish?

[Rich]

Is it true that if you pay yearly to Dish that they will not refund the remaining balance of programming cost if you cancel? I think this is true, but just want to verify. I think I am jumping to DTV due to ongoing dishplayer annoyances. I have a SA tivo and it doesn't work well with the dishplayer. :nono2:

Can anyone tell me this - after the last dishplayer upgrade, it starts on the homepage 9 of 10 times after the nightly download. How is anybody recording anything? after the screensaver kicks in, it takes one keystroke to kill the screensaver and the 'go' button to activate full screen, then the channel to tune to the desired program, so I record a lot of channel 1! :mad:

Anyway, any information would be helpful.

Thanks,

Rich

[JohnH]

The no refund would seem to be correct, since it was discounted for the yearly rate.

You might actually have to record on the DISH Player instead. :)

[TNGTony]

Dish will not give back any cash voluntarily. If push comes to shove, they have been known to refund the amount remaining of a MONTHLY subscription. What I mean by this is that if you have a yearly subscription for $330 but the package would sell at $360 a year if you were to pay monthly, you get the refund of the amount remaining as if you had been paing the monthly price. So if you were to quit on the 11th month of the yearly subscription, you get nothing because you would have paid $330 for 11 month's service and you did not honor your commitment to stay a year (which is the reason for the discount in the first place).

Did that make any sense? :D

See ya
Tony

[Rich]

thanks for the replies. I thought I was probably screwed without throwing a huge complaint. I guess I will stick with it till the service agreement is compelted, then move on.

Rich

[Mike123abc]

They do credit you back for prepaid yearly subscription when you change your packages around. I went from yearly prepaid to the AEP monthly, I did it a few weeks early and they credited the number of days to my bill and started to bill for the new package.

[ksb]

I had the same experience as Mike123abc. I went from yearly AT100 to monthly AEP and they turned the unused portion of my yearly fee into a credit. I suspect that if I canceled now they'd return the funds. However, since the only alternative is Comcast, hell would have to freeze over before I'd make that switch.

[Jacob S]

When you prepay you pay for credit on your account and it is used up over time one way or another. Whatever is not used generally sits in the account. They have offered me refunds and more than once on the extra balance I had on the account but I declined because I did not want to have to resend it back in later plus I wanted extra on the account in case something had to be ordered or the bill got a little behind to prevent problems.