DISH Network
Reviews and Complaints

Hello,
I was supposed to be getting a Free To Air antenna installed yesterday 9/24/18 between the time of 12:00 - 5:00. I took 5 hours off work losing about $200.00 in pay to sit and wait for the installer to show up. When it turned 5:00 I finally called Dish and listened to a recording that the installer was expected to be here between 6:30 and 7:45. Are you kidding me? I had to cancel because my daughter had a volleyball game I needed to attend. So now I'm out the money and no equipment. Very dissatisfied and disappointed. I've been a Dish customer for a long time but this makes me think it might be time for a change.

Regards,
Mike

I had Dish Network for 9 years, was never late on my bill, once. I moved in July of 2016 and put a hold on my service. I actually called to disconnect and they convinced me to keep my service and to put it on hold. Once I moved I found there were trees in my view for the satellites so I could not get service. My service was only on hold for 9 months so they started billing me for service I didn't receive. I called to disconnect and once again they put my service on hold. Now I have a bill for 239.17 for service I never received. I've called and called and I only get someone that barley speaks English and I was told they would credit my account and they put my service back on hold. I found the outstanding amount on my perfect credit score today. I called and they told me to pay the bill and that was the end of the conversation. I'm being charged for service I never received. F*ck Dish Network! After 35 years of perfect credit Dish has ruin my credit score for service not received.

I had to call 5-6 times to get the information correct! We had to schedule 2 seperate times. The technician showed up early every time we had an appointment! The last time I had to get a family member to run out to my house to let the technician in or they would have canceled again! Obviously no one was home at the time he came because that wasn't our scheduled appointment! Dish needs to redo how they book service calls because it's crappy the way they do it! People work not just sit around and wait on dish to come out!

I upgraded to the Hopper System and was told my bill was not going to be any Higher. So the technician came out and installed the equipment. He cracked my Tv screen when he was connecting my surround sound equipment that we purchased from dish. We did not ask him to pay for the damage we felt bad for the contractor. Then after a couple of days my fathers bedroom has a seperate receiver to his room. We had that receiver added January of 2016 when a dish technician came out and installed that equipment and nothing was ever said about a additional charge. Now with the recent upgrade my fathers receiver was disconnected and customer service is stating that now I have to pay for a additional service. I am so put out with this decision when my father is 93 yrs old a veteran and all he had to do is watch tv which now he has none. I have had service with Dish for 14 Yrs and this is truly the worst business decision I have ever heard of in my life. Also I was told that if i decided I did not want the hopper system I had 30 days to cancel. Now It is a different story I am told now. It is really sad when you have a on time paying customer for that long and they treat you like you are a criminal.

Hello,
I decided to cancel DISH but the customer service guy told me there would be cancelation fees, so I told him okay, don't cancel, can you reduce the bill to less than $20 a month, he said $29.55 is the lowest and they mailed me a box to return equipment. Since I was returning two boxes, I decided to return the third box as well and paid UPS $7 for a larger box and shipped backed all their equipment. On receipt of their equipment they without my permission and unilaterally canceled my account and are now billing me $320 cancellation fees. The fee should be $300 at $20 for the remaining 15 months they won't budge. However their contract does not state that they will unilaterally cancel your account if you return all their equipment.

I am at my wits ends, our politicians do nothing to help us with these deceptive practices, they force you to pay for boxes that you don't ask for, so you pay for a service that you CANNOT use unless you rent their boxes, so in essence we are prisoners of these companies.

I do hope there will be solutions to all these money making rackets. Most of us don't watch TV except for a few hours each evening, the money they charge us is ridiculous. They shove all the shopping channels, adult channels, sports channels 80% of the channels are USELESS and not desirable...so when will this racket end?

Explain to me why it is taking you guys so long to figure out a deal and get NBC and CBS back on dish in Minnesota. Figure it out. The only thing I want to watch on your stupid provider is football, and I can't even watch prime time games on big channels.
I will cancel my subscription if this does not end soon. Because I am sick and tired of paying for a horrible and un organized company. Get your crap together!

I was once a dish employee and the reason why I lost my job was because I wasn't able to sell at dishes desired money amount I'm not happy with this because every other company that deals with cable or satellite does not have a satellite technician sell their products DirecTV doesn't do it AT&T doesn't do it neither does Comcast it's terrible that you going to someone's home and try to push your products for profit on them and force your employees to do so at risk of their job it is downright despicable the job description for that is satellite technician not salesman if anyone were to ever ask me if they should work for Dish I would tell them to go to any other cable company

I have been a DISH customer since 2015. After installation I could never get a signal in 1 room that had a wireless joey. Multiple telephone calls failed to correct problem. DISH said I needed a technician to come out. That visit occurred in June 2017. The technician found the initial setup was wrong, and reconnected the equipment. I had never needed the wireless joey unit I had been paying for.

I am now trying to cancel and DISH is saying that technician visit constituted a 2 year renewal because their "notes" indicate I received new equipment.

I have explained to DISH twice that-I have actually paid for years for equipment that never worked-I did not receive any new equipment in 2017-they just fixed my setup. I remember the DISH technician saying during the visit that if he did not report some new equipment DISH would charge me for fixing their own problem-I have no idea what the technician reported.

What I DO KNOW is that I have had the same number of receivers for 3+ years-they only started working correctly 1 year ago. I had NO IDEA this service call to fix DISH's problem which I have OVERPAID for for years would constitute a 2 YEAR RENEWAL.

I am not being charged $200 to terminate service and $30 to return equipment.

I have asked for the documents to show where and how I authorized a renewal-because I know I had NO IDEA I WAS DOING SO.

SHAME ON YOU DISH for your rude, self serving customer service people who just want to repeat WHY THE CUSTOMER IS WRONG RATHER THAN LISTENING OR RESEARCHING ANYTHING.

My name is Ramesh Patel. I am a customer of Dish Tv from more than 10 years. I have decided to stop service from Dish TV on Sep.07.2018 5.30 pm.
I do not have any contract with Dish TV. But they are trying, Not to let me go.
So, they are threatening me to charge $ 200 for termination Fee.
But I do not have any contract. And ask them to produce a contract with my signature. They are not able to produce it. But going to collect $ 200 from my credit card. This is a legal notice, not to collect money without my approval. This is a Harassment case. I need a justice. I have given them Auto pay, But not the unlimited amount They want and when they want. I have not given them a blank check. Once I have Requested to close my account and they agreed, all terms are void. Still I am agreed to pay $ 8.71 for the service they have provided. What should I do to stop payment from my credit card.

Hello, this is Fidel Magana. when you sent one of your workers to adjust the dish satellite. They/ He made holes on the roof that caused the house to leak when it rained. This has been a problem for 3 years and no one has came to fix it. we have contacted you before prier to this. In addition, we are told to pay for damages from the apartment; when your workers had caused it. Please contact me to this email or phone number below.

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Traveling in rv, we were told to call in with new zip code wherever we are. Every thing working fine till the state of Washington covered in smoke, we were getting Seattle stations in Cle Elum, we thought maybe we need to use Cle elum zip, well we have service but not anything we signed up for, the folder, channel guide does not coincide with our TV now, and of course your agent says we can't go back to the same one we have been since end of April. We have looked, cant find 60% of what we want. Every agent gives us different stories, I cant wait for contract to end

DISH Network has HLN forced to override when TV is turned on. No matter what channel we had on when TV was turned off. So HLN channel is on when TV is started, after being off more than 2 hours. This started after one of the updates. We do not watch HLN or CNN and have removed HLN from my list. Yet HLN channel is showing each time TV is turned on.They are doing this as a sign of their politics. So just like the NFL kneeing player, Goodbye. Contract up 24 OCT 2018.

I was scammed by your sales representative
Recently upgraded 3 of my TVs to 4 k smart
Called dish to complain of poor hd reception

Was told by sales that I needed to upgrade from my old 720 equipment to the 4K hopper
Told them that I only had 3 smart TVs but she told me it would not be an issue that the hopper would accommodate these TVs and my old 4th one would operate independently from the 4K

In other words I could still operate the old tv in my kitchen with no add ons etc

Not the case I lost that tv and everyone I have talked to is telling me it will cost me another 7.00 a month to get it up and running

Dish is making plenty of money
Why do you want to scam this old retired man
I cannot afford anymore since I am budgeted

All I want is my old tv working like she told me it would

Ken Oakley
Lebanon Tn
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We have had dish four over 15 years we were on auto pay along time until their accounting system was changed and they tried to run it thru our bank three times before money came in! Then was in overdraft! Granted they paid for one of the overdrafts! Long story short our bill was running 97 a month five months ago i was told by the loyality department if i paid 97 for three months then our bill will go down to 76.86. Now 5 1/2 months later still 97 a month they responded to me today I dont know why you are relying on what you have been told! I stated they are your employees not mine ! No help! I have called every month for 2 years to have our due date on the third which i was told it was but no im charged late fees and extension fees cuz will be disconned on the 28 of every month! So much for caring for your customers they lie ! Trust me i know! My reccomemedation dont use dish as i was told sept 3 2018 dont rely on what they say!

I tried to cancel my contract with Dish due to the problem y'all no longer have Univision as a provider. When we intailly got Dish we asked for those channels since that's basically all we watch at home. I'm upset due to the fact y'all will not fullimemt on yalls ends and no longer have those channels., all me to get out of my contract with out making me pay for the cancellation fee. It's not out fault y'all no longer have them.

Nearly a year ago I called DISH to lower my bill for satellite TV. Dish is very expensive, over $100 per month for me without many add on channels. They offered me two monthly credits for 12 months if I signed up for another two years. I agreed.

I was told the credits would not be immediate. After two months I called, went through the usual wait, and talked to someone that said there was a computer problem that did not complete the transaction. I was to receive a follow-up call. It did not come. Several weeks later I called again and again at the end of 45 minutes nothing was resolved.

After each call I would wait to see if DISH magically fixed things and if my credit was on my bill. It never was. Several weeks later I tried a new approach, the online chat service. The person on the other end was very helpful but after about 45 minutes I was told that they could not help, someone would call me the following week. No one called.

Now, nearly a year later, I called to cancel my account. Dealing with DISH is very stressful and I can't do it anymore. Just the stress of being on the phone with someone that doesn't seem to want to help would keep me from calling for weeks, just hoping that credit would show up.

Yesterday, Aug 26, 2018, I made the call. I was on hold for about 15 minutes and then talked to someone for about 10 minutes. He said that I was under contract and could not cancel my account. I explained the last year I have had and that I just wanted to be done with DISH. I no longer want any credits that I was never given, it has been too stressful to deal with DISH Customer Service.

I was then transferred to another department. I waited as usual and then attempted to explain my last year and that I wanted to cancel. This person would hear nothing of it. He said it was computer error and I would have to go through another department. I hung up.

I am not fighting this fight anymore. DISH can take my money and I will cancel DISH the second that I can. Until then I will post this message in a different forum every day to highlight my plight and to alert others.

DISH advised of free upgrade to Hopper and I could retain all current timers. The apt was scheduled, rec'd three texts that day changing the apt time three times. Upon arrival, tech advised a 90 minute job. He left just shy of 4 hours. I was told he could not do the requested timer transfer as an 8 hour job and the apt needed to be rescheduled. Why was he sent to do a work order he could not do?! ...and, read the fine print because I have now made a 2 year commitment to stay with Dish or pay $400 to cancel the Hopper.

I was recently informed about a failure to come to agreement with my local channel KWWL in Iowa. I simply wanted to voice my opinion in this matter and if KWWL is not a channel that I will be able to receive because of this I will be dropping my service with dish. My opinion is that Dish does this type of thing all the time is simply trying to bully the smaller services. That disgusts me especially when people like myself are paying ALOT of money for your services. Dish is greedy...

Today Dish Network STOPPED my service.

While it is true that I am about 10 days behind in my payments, you would have thought that they would have sent an email, letter, text or phone call to warn you that you had to submit payment by a certain date before service was suspended.

But NO, not THIS company! Not only is the reception TERRIBLE --- the system goes DOWN whenever it rains, during thunderstorms, and even when a large plane flies over!

Also, the PROGRAMMING SUCKS! Unlike other companies, where the basic package contains all cable news channels and ESPN, THIS Dish package has NEITHER!

My vc no [protected] switch off date is 12/8/18 I off my TV 7/8/18 but co man talking me from [protected] on 21/8/18 at 22.23 to pay me upto 15/8 /18 3day extra which I never demanded.I want to change my plan in 209 but he says first you recharge with old plan of 299 that's very wrong.he disconnect my phone without setisfying me .this is very wrong policies please change and simlyfy your policy.please get action early as possible Thanks