DirecTV loses a customer

[Phosphorous]

I read this story I think in RD (Reader's Digest) once where some guy was so tired of getting junk mail that what he would do was save up all the junk mail he got each week and then at the end of the week, he would sit down and cut all of the pieces of mail up. He would then add extra thinks like paper clips or heavier objects to beef up the weight a bit of the mail. He would then stuff the companies prepaid postage envelopes with the crap and mail it back to them. It would cost them money and they would get some of his garbage back. LOL

[screwballl]

the previous owner of my house used to get massive amounts of junk mail daily and it took us 5 years to get them removed from sending the stuff here.... I finally learned how to do it right... go to the post office and put in a mail transfer/forward request to their new address if you have it or some strange address you find on the internet. usually those are only good for a year so putting in a second one may be needed if the morons still do not get a clue

[Quakindude]

Originally Posted by Phosphorous

I read this story I think in RD (Reader's Digest) once where some guy was so tired of getting junk mail that what he would do was save up all the junk mail he got each week and then at the end of the week, he would sit down and cut all of the pieces of mail up. He would then add extra thinks like paper clips or heavier objects to beef up the weight a bit of the mail. He would then stuff the companies prepaid postage envelopes with the crap and mail it back to them. It would cost them money and they would get some of his garbage back. LOL

I still actively do this when needed. I rarely get unsolicited junk mail though. After having done this since 1994, the first time I saw Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace seminar, most of those companies have me on their never authorize list I guess.

[PTRMAN]

Originally Posted by screwballl

the previous owner of my house used to get massive amounts of junk mail daily and it took us 5 years to get them removed from sending the stuff here.... I finally learned how to do it right... go to the post office and put in a mail transfer/forward request to their new address if you have it or some strange address you find on the internet. usually those are only good for a year so putting in a second one may be needed if the morons still do not get a clue

OldManGamer - don't get any ideas with my address please!

[oldman_gamer]

Originally Posted by PTRMAN

OldManGamer - don't get any ideas with my address please!

Your screwed!!

.....and the headlines read "we didnt need customers like Capper anyway"


http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/to...customers.aspx

What a fugged up way to run a business.AND then blab it across the nation,to boot!

[Capper]

Yeppers, kinda makes you hope that DirecTV fails miserably. Hopefully, the more people they chase off and a slowing economy will come back and bite them in the ass.......the problem is our f()cked up government will do everything they can to protect businesses like this.

[RA1D]

i have DirecTV and i hate them with a passion

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by Capper

Yeppers, kinda makes you hope that DirecTV fails miserably. Hopefully, the more people they chase off and a slowing economy will come back and bite them in the ass.......the problem is our f()cked up government will do everything they can to protect businesses like this.

Actually Rich I have seen the government at local, state and federal levels lean more towards protecting cable TV. Then too, that alone matters not as I think we can all see that government at any level can easily be bought and sold daily.

You were a victim of not just fine print but fine print combined with their stupidity.

What really pisses me off with all this bullshit is their contracts. Personally I don't feel I should have to pay an attorney to review a friggin contract so I can get CATV or a friggin dish. However, that is damn near what it is about.

Let's see. I sign a contract with tiny print that says somewhere my contract is 2 years (hell pick a number). Now in 2 years following the expiration, my contract will automatically be renewed. If I want the contract renewed I will renew it, I don't want "automatically". Now sometimes in more small print I can provide written notice I choose to opt out of automatically but nobody really knows how. Enter the Opt In or Opt Out concept. Basically by their choice you Opt In and Opting out becomes your problem. They screw up and you still somehow pay for their incompetence. You fight the bastards and they refer you to a collection agency. Poof, that simple.

This bullshit extends well beyond CATV and Dish Networks.

The solution is simple. A mythodical extermination of lobbyist starting on Capitol Hill and working down to state and local levels of government. Now at the same time we begin the same extermination process with Local, State and Federal legislators who choose to be courted by lobbyist.

Now with the swift application of my solution I guarantee rapid change in the consumer's favor.

Though fun I should stop having pipe dreams. Reality sucks.

Ron

[theburan]

Hmm, i work at an internet help desk that provides the over the phone support for a number of isp's from across the country, and it's really disturbing how some of them treat their customers... as for the dish receiver conflicting with the dsl, at least here if we get that sort of situation, where the modem won't sync even though it's all filtered properly, we'll send that stuff out to the local techs to deal with, but I honestly don't if they can fix that sort of thing... alot of the isp's we deal with have the fun habit of not updating us with what they actually do.

But I really hate it when people are given the runaround, because then they wind up calling us at the helpdesk, and yelling at us, even though we don't have any control over their bills or what the local techs do... and some of the isp's we do support for are really bad... (some are awesome though... but some are really bad... and most of them are on the east coast... ugh. )

But I am really glad we have cable internet and tv at my house, through a company called midcontinent, and although the service was a little flaky when we first got it in our area, that's to be expected, and they were really good about making improvements and repairs to the system until it was rock solid. I just want to yell at my dad every time he thinks about switching to dish.

[One4yu2c]

Rich, we want to see pics of your new coffee mug!