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Customer complaints not allowed

By Scott Dodson, 17 Jan 2008 | Country: United States
I had a really bad experience with Dish when I moved my service to a new house. I won't go into the details, but it took 4 tries for them to get things working - for no good reason. I called to make sure that I would not be billed for the week that my service was unavailable. I was told that the bill would be the same as it is always is. I asked how this could be possible, and then the operator said that I wasn't charged for the move, so it all kind of worked out anyway! I pointed out that it was his company's policy to allow one free move a year, and I asked him to explain why that would have anything to do with paying for service that I did not receive. He had no reasonable explanation but I was going to be billed anyway.

I then asked if I could be transferred to someone to register a complaint. He asked if everything was working properly at this point in time, and I said yes - it is now. Then he said "well there's really nothing to complain about then, right?". At that point, I hung up. After missing work so many days and going through so many calls to be told this by the agent on the phone is simply unbelievable. When a company does not even want to hear about a customer's negative experiences, I know there will be more of them to come. I know compared to others, I'm getting off easy, however, I'm very much looking forward to the end of my contract.
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Rating: 0 tj - 17 Jan 2008
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=231

File 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.
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