Directv really starting to feel the cord cutting?

Three years ago I called to cancel and they took $50 off my bill for a year so I stayed. I called two years ago when it was up to cancel and they offered to take $20 off my bill. I cancelled.

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Comes back with a 50/month credit for a 12 month contract

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Exact same thing happened to me last year. It's almost time to call again.

the bullshite charges for extra cable boxes is the biggest scam going.

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I'm tired of having the fricking cable box and can just use my parents HBO and Starz password and get more room near my three tv's in my living room, which has an Xbox One and a PS4 already there taking up a shite ton of space.

I get everything I could ever wants for $44 or something like that w/ PSVue including local stations and FSSW.

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Lol grow up

Lol no?

If my parents are dumb enough to keep paying for everything I'm not gonna complain. Worry about your own shite.

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If my parents are dumb enough to keep paying for everything I'm not gonna complain. Worry about your own shite.

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Whatcha gonna do when they quit paying for unlimited data, Chad?

No, it should have said monthly. I felt like the gif I linked when I was writing my response so it was an honest mistake. I have calmed down now but I feel my blood pressure getting back up since I joined this thread again.

I work for a Dish contractor and we've been getting a lot of their customers ever since AT&T bought them out. Customers were telling me there bill was different every month with no explanation, and this even happened to new customers who were supposed to have a fixed priced.

Dish is a little smarter. They've seen how people are watching tv so they've put out stripped down packages and built in Netflix and YouTube into their newer receivers.

We also install satellite internet in the area, which for a while is terrible if you're trying to do streaming, but they're about to launch a new Jupiter satellite which is supposed to be able to keep up with streaming. We'll see. That will help us stay in business long term.

I even heard dish was beta testing solar panels somewhere out west.

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I just called in and got $45 off for 12 months and free hbo for 6 months

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They don't do free hbo for 6 months.

They do it for 3 months. that's it.

When I moved a year and a half ago, I wasn't in a contract, but was with directv for 12 years. Cox said they'd give me all the movie channels for a year for free. I told the directv people what Cox was offering, and if they could match it i'd stick with them, so they said they'd match it. I made sure to specifically ask "so you're going to give me HBO, Cinemax, Starz and Showtime for free, for a year?" they said yes. So I let them come install it, and the guy that installed it did a piss poor job b/c he was lazy.
3 months later I'm getting charged for the movie channels. explain to them the scenario and they said we don't do it for a year, just 3 months. I said I know that, which is why I asked specifically before I agreed to you installing your service at my new house that this was for 1 year. I'm pretty sure they can go back and listen to that conversation. I knew the exact date it happened.
They didnt' budge. I told them to go frick themselves. They tried charging me the cancellation fees and what not. I sent them back all the equipment and now i'm disputing the bullshite cancellation charges on my credit report, which i'm pretty sure have gone away b/c I did not see it on my credit report recently.
frick AT&shite. that would have never happened 3-4 years ago before AT&shite bought DTV.

I switched from AT&shite to Verizon this week as well. I will at no point pay another dime for anything that has anything to do with that company ever again. I'd rather not have internet if they were the sole internet provider in my neighborhood.