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I had kind of a weird incident and am wondering if anyone else experienced anything similar.

After unsuccessfully trying to diagnose a reception problem with tech support, they decided to send a local tech to my house, a Dish employee. It was the same guy that fixed my dish about 6 months ago... the wind blew it out of position. He thought he diagnosed the problem - the HDMI port (on my 722). He left with the understanding that I was going to get an external drive to back up my events and then personally come back and swap receivers. He gave me his direct number as well as about 5 other extensions in case I couldn't reach him. The rationale behind him coming back personally was in case it wasn't the HDMI port, he would do further tests. His rationale, not mine.

I ended up calling the technician several times and several of the extensions he left and always got voicemail. The calls were made during business hours. No one ever returned a call. I ended up calling back tech support and they're shipping another receiver.

This was the Totowa, NJ office. Just curious if this whole thing sounds strange.
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You got his voicemail because he was working. You can't easily talk on the phone while standing on the top of a ladder holding tools, or while you're on the phone activating receivers, or educating the customer you just installed on how to use their equipment. Installers have very, very little free time during the day. Most of the time, if they can't respond during the day, they'll give you a call in the evening.

Of course, he could also have had a day off and not wanted to be bothered. A lot of installers work 6 days a week, so having to answer calls on the 7th day gets old.

Anyway, at least you tried to call him. At some point, all you can do is what you did: call Dish directly.
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