DVR For Your Life
Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 12:39 pm
As many know, and almost as many are frustrated by, Dish Network charges a $5.99 per month DVR fee to operate your DVR equipment. It doesn't matter if you own or lease the equipment, if it's not a VCR and you got it from them, you pay the fee. I never liked that, so I built my own DVR.
That didn't keep me from getting charged a "DVR fee." No, they aren't going to charge me to record shows. However, they are charging $10 per month to pause my account (they consider it a service, and call it DishPause. That's right, I'll be without an apartment for 3 months, and they'll be getting a $10/mo. DVR fee in order to pause that account. It makes me wonder if I can skip commercials next time I call them, or fast-forward through my hold time (or at least the music).
Well next time you're on hold, keep track of how long it is...when you finally get a hold of someone, inform them that you charge a $5 per minute hold time fee. When they protest or say that's ridiculous, I think you already have enough of their ridiculous ideas to throw back at them :) It would be funny, at the very least.
Rachel
Jun. 3, 2007 at 4:28 pm