AT&T Directv getting desperate

[dave]

When you add a service or begin service the2t pro-rate your bill until the next billing cycle begins. When you cancel the service, even 1 day into the next billing cycle, they will not pro-rate your bill. Apparently they just revised everyones contract to include this in Jan. 2019.

Heads up to anyone looking to dump them to plan ahead.

 

[WVUCOOPER]

When you add a service or begin servic thet pro-rate your bill until the next billing cycle begins. When you cancel the service, even 1 day into the next billing cycle, they will not pro-rate your bill. Apprently they just revised everyones contract to include this in Jan. 2019.

Heads up to anyone looking to dump them to plan ahead.

I assume you still HAVE that service through the end of the month, no?

 

[countryroads89_rivals]

When you add a service or begin servic thet pro-rate your bill until the next billing cycle begins. When you cancel the service, even 1 day into the next billing cycle, they will not pro-rate your bill. Apprently they just revised everyones contract to include this in Jan. 2019.

Heads up to anyone looking to dump them to plan ahead.

And you call that English? Moron.

 

[dave]

And you call that English? Moron.

Anyone who can afford directv would understand. Try not to destroy every thread on the board with your inferiority complex sugartits.

 

[WVUCOOPER]

And you call that English? Moron.

As a frequent admirer of Dave trying to type things out, which part of this is tripping you up? Seems like one of his better posts, imo.

 

[dave]

As a frequent admirer of Dave trying to type things out, which part of this is tripping you up? Seems like one of his better posts, imo.

I dont have a problem typing anything. Unfortunately I havent typed a post on the board in 3-4 years. You should try this on a tiny keypad.

 

[MichiganHerd]

Another thing I caution you about, if you happen to cancel your service, they have a scam in place, that you must return your equipment within 21 days. The scam they do here is that you have to take your equipment to a UPS store, where it is scanned and then shipped back to the Direct TV fulfillment center. The scam is this: The UPS store tosses your returned equipment in with other clients returning their equipment into one pretty large shipping container, and that large shipment is then delivered to the Direct TV fulfillment center. Once there, it's unloaded onto skids and just sits. Direct TV will then bill you another $200-$250 for not returning your equipment, and you have no way to prove that you returned it, due to the manner in which the UPS store ships it back, because you have no tracking number. They do provide a transaction number, but the folks at Direct TV don't care. When returning your equipment, you must insist that your shipment be sent as a stand alone return, and acquire your tracking number, along with the paper work, and hold onto it for several months. I too, received a full months bill when I dropped my service a couple months back, so prior to returning my equipment, I decided to google issues with returning equipment, just to make sure I wouldn't get screwed twice. You can find this scam online, just like I did.

 

[dave]

Another thing I caution you about, if you happen to cancel your service, they have a scam in place, that you must return your equipment within 21 days. The scam they do here is that you have to take your equipment to a UPS store, where it is scanned and then shipped back to the Direct TV fulfillment center. The scam is this: The UPS store tosses your returned equipment in with other clients returning their equipment into one pretty large shipping container, and that large shipment is then delivered to the Direct TV fulfillment center. Once there, it's unloaded onto skids and just sits. Direct TV will then bill you another $200-$250 for not returning your equipment, and you have no way to prove that you returned it, due to the manner in which the UPS store ships it back, because you have no tracking number. They do provide a transaction number, but the folks at Direct TV don't care. When returning your equipment, you must insist that your shipment be sent as a stand alone return, and acquire your tracking number, along with the paper work, and hold onto it for several months. I too, received a full months bill when I dropped my service a couple months back, so prior to returning my equipment, I decided to google issues with returning equipment, just to make sure I wouldn't get screwed twice. You can find this scam online, just like I did.

Thanks for the heads up. All I was told is that I would receive something to ship back my equipment.

 

[countryroads89_rivals]

Anyone who can afford directv would understand. Try not to destroy every thread on the board with your inferiority complex sugartits.

LMAO! Look at you wanting to compare "status" with your $50k income and the beater everyone knows you drive, with missing hubcaps. LOL!

 

[dave]

LMAO! Look at you wanting to compare "status" with your $50k income and the beater everyone knows you drive, with missing hubcaps. LOL!

What kind of miserable sack would "compare status" with some internet troll. Please do tell me more about my income and vehicles though.....all the while notice that nobody gives a **** about your personal life.

 

[mule_eer]

LMAO! Look at you wanting to compare "status" with your $50k income and the beater everyone knows you drive, with missing hubcaps. LOL!

What's the infatuation with fancy cars? I hold onto vehicles forever as long as they aren't starting to become unreliable or too expensive to maintain. I realize that some folks may have a need based on profession (realtors for example) to drive something newer and higher end. All I need is something that I can trust to get me where I need to go. If it's brand new or 20 years old, it doesn't matter to me.

 

[MichiganHerd]

Thanks for the heads up. All I was told is that I would receive something to ship back my equipment.

They send you a form, along with a box that supposedly you can fit all of your equipment into the slots they provide. It won't fit, unless you're good at solving the rubic's cube. The UPS store still does what they were instructed to do, and tosses everything into another box, mixing it up with other client's returns. They pissed me off so bad with all their greedy BS, I told them to come take their dish out of my yard, and they refused, saying I should keep it in case I want to change back to them. I ended up unassembling the dish, and took a hacksaw to the pole, and tossed it away in a local dumpster. I wouldn't recommend DTV to anybody, even if I was paid $1,000 for a referral. I don't see them being around at some point within the next 10 years. Hopefully sooner than that. NFL deal is the only thing keeping them afloat.

 

[dave]

What's the infatuation with fancy cars? I hold onto vehicles forever as long as they aren't starting to become unreliable or too expensive to maintain. I realize that some folks may have a need based on profession (realtors for example) to drive something newer and higher end. All I need is something that I can trust to get me where I need to go. If it's brand new or 20 years old, it doesn't matter to me.

My wife has a nice car because I dont want her broke down on the road while I am out of town. I drive a gas friendly car for work because I drive 500 miles a week. I despise car payments so I pay them off and drive them until they die.

 

[dave]

They send you a form, along with a box that supposedly you can fit all of your equipment into the slots they provide. It won't fit, unless you're good at solving the rubic's cube. The UPS store still does what they were instructed to do, and tosses everything into another box, mixing it up with other client's returns. They pissed me off so bad with all their greedy BS, I told them to come take their dish out of my yard, and they refused, saying I should keep it in case I want to change back to them. I ended up unassembling the dish, and took a hacksaw to the pole, and tossed it away in a local dumpster. I wouldn't recommend DTV to anybody, even if I was paid $1,000 for a referral. I don't see them being around at some point within the next 10 years. Hopefully sooner than that. NFL deal is the only thing keeping them afloat.

I only have one main box and 4 of the tiny boxes. If I have to I will ship it directly to them in a box.

 

[countryroads89_rivals]

What's the infatuation with fancy cars? I hold onto vehicles forever as long as they aren't starting to become unreliable or too expensive to maintain. I realize that some folks may have a need based on profession (realtors for example) to drive something newer and higher end. All I need is something that I can trust to get me where I need to go. If it's brand new or 20 years old, it doesn't matter to me.

I honestly don't give a **** about people's cars. ***** dave was trying to be cute insinuating I couldn't afford DirectTV when I make 5 times what he makes and he drives a piece of **** car. That's all.

 

[dave]

I honestly don't give a **** about people's cars. ***** dave was trying to be cute insinuating I couldn't afford DirectTV when I make 5 times what he makes and he drives a piece of **** car. That's all.

You honestly dont care and yet this is the 10th time youve mentioned this. Its ok to be poor kkk. Nobody judges you.

 

[WVUCOOPER]

Another thing I caution you about, if you happen to cancel your service, they have a scam in place, that you must return your equipment within 21 days. The scam they do here is that you have to take your equipment to a UPS store, where it is scanned and then shipped back to the Direct TV fulfillment center. The scam is this: The UPS store tosses your returned equipment in with other clients returning their equipment into one pretty large shipping container, and that large shipment is then delivered to the Direct TV fulfillment center. Once there, it's unloaded onto skids and just sits. Direct TV will then bill you another $200-$250 for not returning your equipment, and you have no way to prove that you returned it, due to the manner in which the UPS store ships it back, because you have no tracking number. They do provide a transaction number, but the folks at Direct TV don't care. When returning your equipment, you must insist that your shipment be sent as a stand alone return, and acquire your tracking number, along with the paper work, and hold onto it for several months. I too, received a full months bill when I dropped my service a couple months back, so prior to returning my equipment, I decided to google issues with returning equipment, just to make sure I wouldn't get screwed twice. You can find this scam online, just like I did.

:joy::joy::joy::joy::joy::joy:

 

[wvu2007]

@countryroads89 getting absolutely shredded in this thread. LOL just another day on the OT board.

 

[atlkvb]

I honestly don't give a **** about people's cars. ***** dave was trying to be cute insinuating I couldn't afford DirectTV when I make 5 times what he makes and he drives a piece of **** car. That's all.

You maybe earned 5 times Dave's earnings in 2018, however at least he was smart enough to itemize his charitiable contributions to the needy and pay less on his tax liablity than YOU paid on your 250K income with zero tax deductible contributions to the less fortunate.

Not even the United Negro College Fund got one penny of your alms, and you claim to care so much about people of color who vote in their own best interests. [eyeroll]

Apparently they are not one of yours, particularly when it comes to your selfishness, greed, indifference and lack of concern for those who are victims of the very Capitist system you exploited to amass all of your evil riches.

 

[dave]

You maybe earned 5 times Dave's earnings in 2018, however at least he was smart enough to itemize his charitiable contributions to the needy and pay less on his tax liablity than YOU paid on your 250K income with zero tax deductible contributions to the less fortunate.

Not even the United Negro College Fund got one penny of your alms, and you claim to care so much about people of color who vote in their own best interests. [eyeroll]

Apparently they are not one of yours, particularly when it comes to your selfishness, greed, indifference and lack of concern for those who are victims of the very Capitist system you exploited to amass all of your evil riches.

I hope he made 5 times what I make but since he already chose to go with 250k for his gubment job salary its not quite 5 times.

 

[atlkvb]

I hope he made 5 times what I make but since he already chose to go with 250k for his gubment job salary its not quite 5 times.

I'm not sure it was even that much. I do know people in need saw very little of it.

 

[dave]

I'm not sure it was even that much. I do know people in need saw very little of it.

It was a lie so why bother?

 

[atlkvb]

What's the infatuation with fancy cars? I hold onto vehicles forever as long as they aren't starting to become unreliable or too expensive to maintain. I realize that some folks may have a need based on profession (realtors for example) to drive something newer and higher end. All I need is something that I can trust to get me where I need to go. If it's brand new or 20 years old, it doesn't matter to me.

In sales one of the first techniques we are drilled on is linking the customer's purchase choice to their emotions. For better or worse, folks tie their emotional stability or image to the type of vehicle they own.

So the theory goes, if you can link the buyer's identity to the vehicle and make an emotional connection, then offering a product that appeals to their emotional validations as well as their service needs for reliable, comfortable, safe and stylish transportation....the vehicle sells itself!

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just the way it is...the way we are wired. Obviously for a guy such as yourself, your emotional stability is tied to the longevity and reliability of the service you get from your chosen vehicle. However would you feel that same sense of pride for it if it was a Yugo or a '71 Vega?

 

[countryroads89_rivals]

your emotional stability is tied to the longevity and reliability of the service you get from your chosen vehicle.

You think his emotional stability has something to do with his vehicle?

JFC!

 

[dave]

In sales one of the first techniques we are drilled on is linking the customer's purchase choice to their emotions. For better or worse, folks tie their emotional stability or image to the type of vehicle they own.

So the theory goes, if you can link the buyer's identity to the vehicle and make an emotional connection, then offering a product that appeals to their emotional validations as well as their service needs for reliable, comfortable, safe and stylish transportation....the vehicle sells itself!

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just the way it is...the way we are wired. Obviously for a guy such as yourself, your emotional stability is tied to the longevity and reliability of the service you get from your chosen vehicle. However would feel that same sense of pride for it if it was a Yugo or a a '71 Vega?

Does it start?
Does it drive?
Is it safe enough?
Let me aee the same thing in your cheaper model.

 

[dave]

You think his emotional stability has something to do with his vehicle?

JFC!

Emotional stability is a staple of your existance.

 

[atlkvb]

You think his emotional stability has something to do with his vehicle?

JFC!

No, I'm saying he derives emotional satisfaction from the longevity and service reliability of the vehicle he chose. Emotions drive our purchase decisions, and we seek validation of those emotional factors in what we choose to drive.

If a particular model or color didn't matter, we'd all drive olive green Yugos.

 

[countryroads89_rivals]

No, I'm saying he derives emotional satisfaction from the longevity and service reliability of the vehicle he chose. Emotions drive our purchase decisions, and we seek validation of those emotional factors in what we choose to drive.

If a particular model or color didn't matter, we'd all drive olive green Yugos.

No, I quoted exactly what you said.

 

[atlkvb]

No, I quoted exactly what you said.

Ask him why he chose the particular model and the color he did and how satisfied he is with his purchase? What were the factors involved in his initial decision for the particular model he's still driving and why is it still satisfying those desires considered when he made his initial purchase choice?

 

[atlkvb]

No, I quoted exactly what you said.

You read what I typed but completely misunderstood it!

Look at it this way. Two people, a guy and a gal, of same age and income levels go to make a transportation purchase. They both want something stylish, comfortable, fuel efficient, reliable, and appealing. Price is no object.

Do they make the same choice, given those common factors? What separates their preferences then?

Now do you understand?

 

[atlkvb]

Hey @countryroads89 you claim you earn in excess of a quarter million dollars annually correct? That's enough to drive a Lamborghini Bugatti! Why don't you drive one?

I doubt at that income level you drive a '94 Corolla either!

Am I correct?

So what are the factors behind what you do drive? Cost? Style? Mechanical reliability? Utility? What?

Or are you already complying with the "new green initiative" and you're riding a bicycle to reduce your personal carbon footprint? [eyeroll]

 

[mule_eer]

In sales one of the first techniques we are drilled on is linking the customer's purchase choice to their emotions. For better or worse, folks tie their emotional stability or image to the type of vehicle they own.

So the theory goes, if you can link the buyer's identity to the vehicle and make an emotional connection, then offering a product that appeals to their emotional validations as well as their service needs for reliable, comfortable, safe and stylish transportation....the vehicle sells itself!

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just the way it is...the way we are wired. Obviously for a guy such as yourself, your emotional stability is tied to the longevity and reliability of the service you get from your chosen vehicle. However would feel that same sense of pride for it if it was a Yugo or a a '71 Vega?

Reliability and Yugo are not synonymous. I've never had the emotional connection to a vehicle, and that tactic has failed several salesmen when I was at the dealership. When I'm buying, price and practicality are at the top. The thing that throws most of them is that I want a manual transmission, and that's getting much harder to find these days. Maybe that's my emotional issue.

I'm not knocking the sales tactic. I think it has a lot of merit for the market in general. I know a lot of people who want to drive something new. I know some people who feel like every car has to be an upgrade in status from the previous car. That's fine for them. I'm cheap, and, no offense, I hate the car buying process.

 

[atlkvb]

Reliability and Yugo are not synonymous. I've never had the emotional connection to a vehicle, and that tactic has failed several salesmen when I was at the dealership. When I'm buying, price and practicality are at the top. The thing that throws most of them is that I want a manual transmission, and that's getting much harder to find these days. Maybe that's my emotional issue.

I'm not knocking the sales tactic. I think it has a lot of merit for the market in general. I know a lot of people who want to drive something new. I know some people who feel like every car has to be an upgrade in status from the previous car. That's fine for them. I'm cheap, and, no offense, I hate the car buying process.

That's fine. However when you select the five speed manual you eventually settle on if all the choices were banana yellow with plastic seats and no radio would you still buy one?

 

[mule_eer]

That's fine. However when you select the five speed manual you eventually settle on if all the choices were banana yellow with plastic seats and no radio would you still buy one?

I can buy seat covers and install a radio. Plus, banana yellow is easy to find in a parking lot.

 

[dave]

Reliability and Yugo are not synonymous. I've never had the emotional connection to a vehicle, and that tactic has failed several salesmen when I was at the dealership. When I'm buying, price and practicality are at the top. The thing that throws most of them is that I want a manual transmission, and that's getting much harder to find these days. Maybe that's my emotional issue.

I'm not knocking the sales tactic. I think it has a lot of merit for the market in general. I know a lot of people who want to drive something new. I know some people who feel like every car has to be an upgrade in status from the previous car. That's fine for them. I'm cheap, and, no offense, I hate the car buying process.

This is something we share here. My wife loves Jeeps. I love cheap reliable transportation.

 

[atlkvb]

I can buy seat covers and install a radio. Plus, banana yellow is easy to find in a parking lot.

So model or color doesn't matter to you? Options? Comfort? Resale value? Just something that runs?

 

[mule_eer]

This is something we share here. My wife loves Jeeps. I love cheap reliable transportation.

The idea that each car had to be a status upgrade from the previous one was from my ex-wife. Luckily that split occurred shortly after she upgraded from a VW to a Volvo. Then she upgraded from me and my regular cab Tacoma.

 

[dave]

That's fine. However when you select the five speed manual you eventually settle on if all the choices were banana yellow with plastic seats and no radio would you still buy one?

I bought a kia after walking onto the lot and telling them to show them the cheapest new car on the lot. They told me Id hate 5-speed manual and Id need AC. I laughed at them. I needed it to drive me 8 miles round trip every day and not break down. 9,999 and I have put over 100k miles on it.

 

[WVUCOOPER]

I can buy seat covers and install a radio. Plus, banana yellow is easy to find in a parking lot.

You're putting off a real Buffalo Bill vibe, ITT.

 

[atlkvb]

I can buy seat covers and install a radio. Plus, banana yellow is easy to find in a parking lot.

How many different models and colors did you go through in your search for the vehicle you eventually settled on? Or did you just purchase the first thing you saw with a five speed manual transmission?

Nissan makes a very nice manual. So does Hyundai. So does Toyota. Between those three nameplates, what's your choice if they're all priced within 1K of each other?

Nissan Versa

Hyundai Accent

Toyota Yaris