Echo Star/Dish Network has an interest in improving its image following extensive billing and sales misrepresentation problems that resulted in a settlement with the attorneys general of several states.
http://www.ago.state.co.us/press_detail.cfm?pressID=231File a BBB complaint. That will get to a person in a different part of the company. Make clear the repeated problems with getting your system working again, and the length of time you had no service as a result. Although the CSRs are probably told to hang onto every dollar once it gets in their hands, at the top they probably don't want a resumption of AG attention. They are a BBB member, and appear to respond to BBB complaints. In fact, as a BBB member, they must respond to each complaint.