08-23-2024, 02:30 AM
(08-16-2024, 02:45 PM)CCoburn Wrote: Direct TV had some shady business practices. They'd push their contracts and when you cancel there'd be a several hundred-dollar penalty, and there wasn't any negotiation, they had your banking info, and they would just clean you out without so much as a word.
It never happened to me, but it's well documented.
I left DirecTV years ago after my contract was up. They hounded me for about 6 months to come back. I didn't get wrapped up in any penalties or anything but I've heard about what you are talking about as well.
Their satellite service isn't bad, but you need to get boxes that don't crash. They initially gave me those "genie" things and the boxes would drop out, reboot, malfunction, and just do all kinds of weird stuff pretty regularly. At the time, they were introducing the streaming services alongside the satellite and man, their streaming service was extremely unreliable as well.
The last subscription "TV" service I had was PhiloTV. Wasn't a bad deal at the time. I cancelled it when the weather warmed up and never got any TV service again. I did used to have an antenna on the side of my house pointed at the hill and got about 110 channels(digital) off the local towers, but barely watched it.
