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05:10 - Sunday, Nov. 05, 2006
tee vee provider shenanagans!!!
happy sunday (hot fudge, or strawberry?)

well, last night was instant decision time here at the offices of who did it and ran, ink!! as a cost cutting measure, at 8 pm last night, since there was really nothing of importance on the tee vee, it was decided by the committee:


the committee

and upon approval by the king, who conferred and agreed with the president:


the king and the president agreeing upon the spur of the moment decision

it was then decided that the switch back to the dish will be made, and that the comcastic comcast bill will be slashed by 3/4!!!

for 48 bux a month on the dish, i get basically the same channels on the dish as on comcast, and then some!!

i been paying 140 a month to comcast for combined innernet services and tee vee!!!

i paid for the new carpet in the comcast office, so now its time to switch back to dish!!

simple conversion ya think? just call dish, and tell em to reinstate the service, since i never took down the dish, and the reciever was sitting in the closet, growing dust.

well, folks, this is ME we talking about here! nothing ever goes smoothly like this for me, doncha know!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the entire process took four (4) hours!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so i owed them a measly $8.08!! i was told at first that i would have to pay not only that, but, in addition, a 25 buck restart fee, PLUS 2 months in advance!!! of which was immediately questioned!!! (i forgot what idiots they were)

so, after some questioning, and some good ole haggling on my part, (or so i thought) they told me that the 25 buck fee would be waived, and i wont pay the 2 months in advance to turn the service back on. i was doing all this communicating with them by online chat at the dish network website. so they sent me the link, and i went to pay the 8.08.

well the website would not let me pay JUST the 8.08, it wanted an additional 25 bux "reinstatement fee".

after being assured that i neednt worry about this, that i wont be charged the 25 bux, it will be waived, i went ahead and paid 33.08 so the system would reinstate me.

chaos ensued!!!

they lied to me. i was charged 33.08 out of my bank account, and when i challenged them on this, they assured me that the 25 bux would be credited to my next bill. well this is not what was agreed to!!! and when i threatened them with charging them with electronic wire fraud, they tryed to placate me with a "free month of HBO" i told them to stick the HBO up they ass, i want my 25 bucks back, NOW!!
after an hour of wrangling, they told me that the 33.08 has not posted yet. i told them, yes, it will post on midnight sunday. after some more innernet shouting by me, they agreed to refund my 25 bux when the 33.08 posts on sunday night at midnight. and that my service will be turned back on. (americas top 120, plus local channels, for 44.99 a month, still far less cheaper than comcast).

round two

so, i go then to disconnect the comcast box, and reconnect the dish box to the tee vee. after which, i turned everything on, and guess what?

NO CHANNELS!!!!

so, this time, i call the 800 number, and after 20 minutes got a dumbass who asked stoopid questions: "is the reciever turned on?" i went ballistic!! i informed the idiot that i am not stoopid like her, that I AM NOT GETTING ANY CHANNELS, SO STOP WASTING TIME AND GET THIS FIXED!!!

she then instructed me to goto the setup screen and read back to her the software version, which turns out was outdated, what i had to do now, was turn off the reciever for 30 minutes so the software can update, and then all will be well. so i did this.

round three

so, 30 minutes later, i turn on the reciever and guess what?

NO CHANNELS!!!!

so, i call them back, and holding my mouth, i explain what has happened so far, since they are too stoopid to read the progress notes. then, i was asked if the reciever was plugged in, and at that point i told the fool to STOP READING OUT OF THE BOOK, AND WASTING MY TIME!!!
what kind of "technician" reads out of a book to troubleshoot???

so now, i was told to goto the dish signal test, and after running thru that, the channels started to appear, and i was told that after an additional 15 minutes, i will be getting all my channels.

start time, about 8 pm, time i got everything completed, midnight.


welcome to dish network!!!

well, aggravation aside, it IS cheeper than comcast! next project, cancelling comcast cable tee vee WITHOUT cancelling the innernet access!!!


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so, whatta ya say? dont delay, join the rowdies today!!! i am now a tournament director, and later on this afternoon, i will be hosting my 1st tourney in lottso!!! click here to join the rowdies, its free!!!

well, thats all i have, hava happy sunday!!!!


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