DishNetwork and.....

Equifax.  MAJOR HATE!!! 


Tried to sign-up tonight - I get phone calls about a 'problem' creating my account.  I'm on hold for several minutes before they even know what the problem is.  I verify all of my information three times over - then they tell me its the credit report from Equifax.  But its not even credit related - seems they have my date of birth incorrect by 20-something years.

Then they tell me I have to call Equifax to fix it before they can create my account - I tell them how foolish they are being and to cancel the order.  Then I call Equifax anyway - go through the verification process again, before they tell me that my report is outsourced to another vendor, CSC, and I would have to contact them to have anything changed.

Well, seems CSC doesn't even take phone calls, everything tells me to go to their web site - which then tells me everything must be submitted by mail and I have to wait 30-45 days to get anything changed.

Meanwhile, because of the most basic and stupid error by some *fudge*ed up company - and a jacked up policy by DishNetwork - I cannot get service from them.  I'm calling a local reseller tomorrow to see if they can help me out - otherwise I'm going to DirectTv.  If I have the same issue there, ...well, I may blow an artery - ambulances standing by.


Jeesh - I can get a home mortgage, car loans, but when it comes to satellite service I'm outta luck???   WTF!!!!!

HATE! 


(this all JUST happened so its a raw nerve right now  )

I'm so pissed right now, Col. Jessup would back away slowly and say 'very sorry to have bothered you sir, can I get you a drink?'

Not to mention, Dish is $15 less per month than Direct - but thanks for rubbing it in 

no such thing on dish right now.

well , i got my info from wikipedia ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_Network

according to wikipedia (which i assume was up to date) they are not full mpeg4 yet.  i haven't been on avsforum much lately, so if they have gone 100% mpeg4, good for them.  i assume they are still downressing and bitstarving their mpeg4s more than directv though, so they can achieve more channels/transponder and hence keep up the 'more channels' claim.

feel free to point me to some better info. i don't like spouting wrong info. 

Oh, thats just cold.








 

The resellers have to go through the same process.

So, problem solved..............

I just spent a week in the Catskill backwoods in a cabin that had no phone, no intergoogle, no radio reception, but it did have Directv.  

Given that I have Dish at home, and was considering ditching the Dish as a protest for their brazen dropping of the Voom HD programming, this was exceptionally good fortune.  I calculate that the probably that I'm the only person on the planet who can directly compare the channel surfing modality of the two satellite superpowers is approximately 0.999999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
999999999999999999999999999999999 give or take 10E9 decimal points.

I can conclude with similar confidence that the Directv channel surfing ergonometrics blow tom tom turkey phallus wrt that available to loyal but extremely pissed off Dish customers.  

It is not even a close call in this regard.

If you are the sort of tv viewer who's scores a 9.8 or higher on the Rickie scale of channel surfing proclivity propensity (the scale is log based) and value, as I do, the ease by which channels can be scanned for entertaining programming at a speed that is only limited by your ability to perceive and quickly digest information (my own information processing rate, if I am not too unmodest, operates on the millisecond time scale), then I cannot in good conscience fail to warn you that Dish is your best alternative between the two, by a hugely large margin, irrespective of a difference in HD picture quality that is, for all practical, imperceptible to everyone but those who think they can tell a difference because they read about it in some obscure trade/aficionado organ.

YMMV