First of all, it's KristEn.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.
And secondly, I have never in my life had DISH tv, which makes it a little odd to ask me to come back.
Interestingly enough, they haven't just sent me one letter. I've gotten something like 4-5 of them in the last few weeks.
$19.99 isn't a bad deal, to be sure, but I prefer our Netflix/Roku setup simply because it gives us fewer TV-watching options. More options would almost certainly equal more time spent watching TV.
We get these regularly, too, and there is no way to opt out of them! Most of ours come addressed to "The Resident At" followed by our address, so we can't remove our name from their mailing list. What a waste of time and money since we have no plans of ever signing up for their services...
Oddly enough, I've only started getting these recently. Maybe there's some big marketing push going on?
We get these, and we don't even own a TV! Well, at least the envelopes come in handy to file our bills. 🙂
My dad took this $19.99 deal and it was not the true amount. He tried to cancel within the time he was suppose to be able to--30 days. He had had it 4 days when the bill came. He sent it all back, refused to pay, was sent to a collection agency by the company, hurt his perfect credit score. After six years of trying to fix this , a television team (called Action 9 in our area) that shines light on these kinds of issues went to the company, explained what happened on a news cast and finally problem solved.
I get at least one or two of these each week and have been for several years. I have called twice to request to be removed from their mailing list. I also submitted a request online. They assured me I was removed from their list but also let me know that there are independent contractors for dish and would still receive mailings from different sources. The waste of resources by this company is appalling and their advertising campaign feels like harassment to me. Has anyone managed to get them off your back?
I think you'd be surprised by how frequently there is actually nothing to watch on cable/satellite TV. My parents have cable TV and I can honestly say that in the last few years I haven't once found anything that I wanted to watch on it. We have AmazonPrime and used to have Netflix and it's much much easier to find something to watch. For us having Netflix/AmazonPrime equals more options and more time spent watching TV.
Cable is the one thing I've had to compromise on budget wise with my wife. I'd be much happier with just Netflix, Amazon Prime and Crunchyroll but for some reason she likes a lot of shows on cable.
Dish is probably suffering from poor sales so they've gotten your address somehow and are trying to lure you in. But, that's not what caught my attention in this post!
It's funny how they've spelled your name with an "i" as opposed to an "e." I spell mine with an "i" and it is 99.9% of the time spelled incorrectly by everyone on the planet, along with other misspelled variations, e.g. Christian (nope sorry, I'm not a boy!) Too funny so just had to share. 🙂
That's funny! Maybe spelling it with an E is more common.
I'm just grateful my parents didn't go with something like Krysten or Chrysten because people usually do assume that it starts with Kri.
I am an "I-N" too, and I am almost always given "E-N", too, I was going to comment on that as well! 🙂
I hate it when people misspell my name, too!
I'm with ya on the tv viewing ... my not-so-glamorous but accurate observation is that the more tv I watch, the wider I become ...
My response to junk mail is to mail their pre-paid envelope, having stuffing all the paper (except that with my name) back in to increase the cost to the junk mailer.
WilliamB, I do the same thing! Sometimes, I send them coupons that I won't be using. 🙂
We have a jillion channels (it's part of our package so my husband can watch Arizona basketball) and more often than not, I just end up watching reruns of Friends. The perk to that is I know everything that's going to happen, so it's mostly just background noise. But I guess what I'm saying is just because you have all of the channels doesn't mean there's anything to watch.
Sloan this made me laugh because I'm a Friends rerun watcher, too! Ha ha I also love I Love Lucy ( and I have all my life) and a handful of others. I love these so much more than any of the current offerings on TV!
I used to work for them and since we bought a house we only have cable that is way cheaper.Although we don't get all the channels we used to have but we're happy to watch local and some sports channels (for my husband).I thought we would never make it without DVR (recorder) but so far we're doing okay.Normally Dish and DirecTV run these promotions ($19.99 for a month) but wait until you read the disclosures,you have to lock in for 2 years and the cancellation fee is $240,I think.
I wish I could encourage my husband to give up TV completely.
It simply boggles my mind how much "junk" mail comes to my
address and on our hardwire and cell phones !
Hi,
We used to be faithful direct tv customers but cut the satellite cord several years ago and are perfectly happy with our choice.All of the satellite and cable companies are pressing hard for new customers as they just lost over 300,000 customers in the last year. The reason we canceled our service was that we were soooooo tired of subsidizing all of the garbage tv - there is so very much of it - ugh! 🙁
Like several of the other commenters, I've tried and tried to get off their mailing list. Sooo frustrating!
I have a love hate relationship with Dish. They are a million times better than any cable company (and I've tried them all) but shew that bill.
The best though is when you get the come back to us emails in your name and you have the service in your husbands name.