09-10-2024, 09:25 AM
(08-17-2024, 09:31 AM)Waterglass Wrote: Yep. They tried to push that shit on me but I got them. They told me that I was under a two year contract but I never was so I could cancel at any time without penalty. So I did. They told me no need to send any equipment back so I kept it and 90 days later they billed be $100 for not returning the equipment back.
So I wrote an email to the FTC and FTC forced them to give me directions as to how to return the equipment. I took equipment to UPS, they boxed it and I took pictures of what was returned. I got my money back. F them as they are sleaze balls
Oh they also pulled other stunts
Oh the stories I could tell you about dealing with cable and satellite providers! We had DTV for a while and they couldn't keep their shit working, so I told them to come get it. Well, that was a big fight (which I won). They never did come pick up their junk. I wound up tossing it in our dumpster. Then we got Dish. They wanted to hook up to our phone line. Nope! Another big fight (I won again). Dish's problem was, they couldn't keep their hands out of my wallet. Throughout all of this we were using Hughesnet for internet service. The Hughesnet stuff worked okkay, but there was a lot of latency which was a major problem if we were working on a remote host. I could type almost a whole sentence before it would show up.
Decided to take a gamble on Starlink and was pleasantly surprised to find it blows Hughesnet completely away (speed, bandwidth, cost, etc.). It's pretty trippy dealing with the Starlink people though. In fact, I'm not sure if there even are ANY people. It's like dealing with a black hole. I knew this going in, so no surprise, but it was still pretty crazy. You send them a gob of money, and they send you this anonymous box of stuff. No instructions, and no number to call. You have to figure everything out yourself. Fortunately, we'd kept our Hughesnet account open so we found some sources online to explain stuff (but ironically NOT from Starlink, but rather U-toob and Reddit).
Then Dish pushed the wrong button in my personal "launch" sequence. Told Dish to come get their shit. Big fight. Big win. (I don't play nice) Dish wouldn't come get their stuff either. Cancelled Hughesnet too. So, now I had a pile of satellite dishes in my yard. Dish asked (nicely) if I'd send their LNB back, so because they asked nicely I went out an unbolted it off the dish and sent it to them. They didn't want any of the rest of their stuff (i.e. the dish itself, (2) indoor boxes and about (7) remotes). I thought about using them to make a massive space laser or something, but opted for the dumpster instead.
No more cable! YAY!!
After my wife successfully completed her total mental nervous breakdown over not having TV (she's an addict), I showed her how to stream stuff for free (huge mistake). Haven't seen her since. One day I snuck into the living room and lifted the 65" TV off the wall and was about ready to launch it out into the middle of the front yard when I heard this booming, godlike, voice say..."STOP!!...........OR DIE!!"
It was good to know my wife was still around. But I was Sooooooooo close!! Oh well.
So, that's some of my more recent stories about cable and satellite. I've got a whole collection of them from various places around the globe. I think I could probably write a book about them.
