Dish Network – Lowering my monthly bill by $21

Dish Network Customers –

I made a quick phone call and saved $21 off of our Dish Network monthly fee:

Removed the warranty…………………..$5.95
Removed the ‘Platinum HD Pkg’……….$10.00
Removed the $5 monthly phone fee…..$5.00

The warranty doesn’t really do much for us. If anything large breaks, we are not locked into a contract, and I would simply cancel our service.

We found we were being charged for a Platinum HD pkg, which we never signed up for. It sounds like they split our original HD pkg into two separate packages and we were being charged $10 for the Platinum package which includes programs like HD Fishing that we never watch (or even knew we were being charged extra for).

Finally, we are charged $5 a month because we don’t have our Dish Receiver hooked up to a phone line. I explained that we don’t have a home phone (only cell phones) and they were nice enough to permanently remove the monthly fee.

If you use Dish Satellite, it’s worth a quick call to possibly lower your monthly bill by up to $21.

Non-Dish Network Customers -

If you are not using Dish Satellite, I believe they offer the cheapest solution for HD programming and DVR. I often contact Time Warner and Direct TV to compare, and they usually average about $20-30 more per month for their similar service.

My only complaint about Dish Network is that they do not have High Def locals in the Rochester area – only Standard Def locals. However, I use my ClearStream4 HD Antenna to pick them up for free. My HD Antenna cable plugs right into my Dish Network receiver so the HD locals show up right in the programming guide.

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