Jim K.
Worst Customer Service Experience Ever
My promotional rate with Dish ends, and they increase my price by $30 a month. I call to see if there is a better deal, and the representative quotes me the Flex package for $75 a month. The package doesn't include the three ESPN channels where most of the college football games are televised. So the rep quotes me $3.50 to add those three ESPN channels. This quote is now $78.50 a month, which is better than the $121 they just increased my rate to, and a little bit better than the $91 promotional rate I had. However, Hulu was only $60 a month for about the same channels, and unlimited TVs with a Roku, Chromecast, or some other streaming device. I told the rep I would have to review my options and get back with them. About 2 days later I call Dish back to sign up for the deal. The new rep tells me there is no add-on package for the 3 ESPN channels at $3.50. Those channels can only be obtain in a package with other channels, that we don't want, for a cost of $12+ per month. The rep also told me that these rates are not locked in for the 2-year contract I had to sign up for. I was locked into the contract for 2-years, but Dish could raise the price any time they wanted, and I couldn't cancel the contract because of the price increase, without having to pay the early cancellation fee. This deal was no longer acceptable. So I told the rep to not do anything, and I ended the call. I immediately started looking at other solutions that would fit my situation better, and I signed up for one. The evening of the new service installation I call Dish back to cancel my service. The rep immediately asked why I was leaving Dish, and I told him that a previous rep mis-quoted me the ESPN channels, the Dish contract was one sided, and their pricing was too high. This explanation was not enough for this rep. He wanted more, and I didn't have any more to give him. I just wanted to cancel my service, but he would not do it until he had more details about my experience with the other reps. I told him I don't have any more details, and I asked him to review the comments on my account if he needed more details. This was not good enough for this rep. He kept pressing me for more information, and he would not cancel my service. He made me so upset that I started yelling at him to cancel my service, but he just kept pressing my buttons making me more angry. I tried not talking to him until he cancelled the service. We sat in silence, and he still wasn't cancelling my service. I finally told him I want to talk to your supervisor. He asked why I wanted to do that, and I responded so I could complain about him. I repeated over, and over again, I want to talk to your supervisor, until he finally started cancelling my service. When it was all done, I had spent 30 stressful minutes with this customer service rep (I have other names for him), and I still owed $71+ when it should have been $0.00. This was the worst customer service experience I have ever had in my life, and I am in my late 50s. Just writing this review makes me angry. By the way, this is the first negative review I have ever written about a company. Needless to say, I will never subscribe to Dish again. Anyone out there looking for TV service, avoid Dish. There are plenty of other options. Also, Direct TV is not one of them. I had a similar issue with them, but that is another story. Sorry for this long story but if I can keep this from happening to another person, than this review was worth writing. Boycott Dish and Direct TV.




