Anonymous
map-marker Tampa, Florida

Setup dish free direct tv

Spent a long time on the phone with tech support and got nowhere. All suggestions failed. Now no tv to watch.
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User's recommendation: Don't waste your time and money on this system

Anonymous

New Format

I and many others I know do not like the new format at all. It is a lot harder to read, among other things.

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Robert D Mrb

140.00 a month for old programming,unless i pay more .BTW this payment doesn't include any premium channels. in to days times there are so meany other ways to watch tv without being bent over !

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I’m sick and tired of Direct TV. It costs a bunch.

I’m retired and get 50 to 60 channels for ads Hispanic no offense to them. It’s a waste and I am figuring out I can pretty much get everything through a satellite Riki Amazon.

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Racist!

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reply icon Replying to comment of Robert D Mrb

Amen to that. They have been gouging their long time customers for years while giving breaks to new customers.

They haven't offered me one perk in years. I hear they may go to internet streaming.

They could give it to me free and I wouldn't use those pirates ever again. Getting rid of them was very liberating to say the least.

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We were with DirectTv for 15 years and were paying over $200 for programming with The Ticket. Finally got fed up and let them shut us off and we now have Hulu and Amazon Prime and LOVE IT! Screw DirectTv

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Not only are these thieves hemorrhaging market share. ; Theyre doing everything they can to alienate the few customers they have left.

Take heart consumers. The market will solve your DirecTv problems.

They're going defunct sooner than later. Ill dance on their putrid grave on that day.

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Service Sucks.... Worst customer service ever.

If you stand up for yourself they harass your service... My guide takes off on its own, running very quickly through every station, over and over... I even pulled out the batteries during this time and it kept running through them. During this virus, we as customers must pay or bill or be disconnected...

Yet, they don't need to answer our calls... Each time I call, I'm on hold for over an hour.... Then they do not fix the problem, because they are the Problem. I've rebooted my system many times...

Problem is customer service trash... They Intentionally mess with your service and deny your calls. I finally changed my number with them.. Now I'm receiving multiple spam messages from Strange companies...

My privacy rights have been violated. This is the Worst service you can ever pay for.. And believe me you will over pay your *** service. Don't waste your time or money on them.

I also have many videos of my service going down because it's sprinkling outside.

Customer service will blatantly lie to you and never have consequences for their actions, at Least not from the company... God See's Everything.

Guest

I hope you are going to change the weather app back so we can access the radar and other features we depend on. What is on there now is totally useless.

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I agree with all of the comments. My wife and I are older and can no longer read the information from our chairs.

She likes to record shows so she can skip commercials if she wants, but can not see how far she is advancing the tv as it is hard to read the numbers for seconds skipped. They need to go back to the way it was.

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I agree. The new setup is terrible. Go back to the way it was.

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Anonymous

New TV guide sucks

Your a bunch of idiots at att directv. AT&T has ruined everything about directv.

With this new guide they should be paying me to watch and use their crap. One more wrong move and I might as well go with the *** local tv spectrum.

It’s a lot cheaper and you get the same crap AT&T has brought to directv. Thanks you morans.

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Guest

AGREED! I have only had problems- weekly!

Guest

Direct TV is a pathetic excuse for a customer service company. They are clueless for sure.

Guest

The service at direct tv is as bad as AT&T , I can not wait till july to cancel this horrible company out of my life , AT&T and Direct are the worse companies in America , Stay clear of them !

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Att has ruined Directv

Hurley Lbu

I worked as CSA many years ago, was assigned to Dell, the center also had Logitech, as well as other companies. When you're speaking to an agent, that individual is in a call center.

Calling to complain will fall on deaf hears. Some 18 year old guy from who knows where is trying their best to follow the instructions for your particular issue that they've been provided with. Try to keep your calm because you're causing the situation to escalate. Instead write/type a letter and send it via snail mail.

Make it certified so that someone at that physical location must sign to receive the document. Emails, calls, and blog posts are all sorted nice and neat in some server that is likely nowhere near the physical location of the company. In summary, be mad at the company, not the CSA.

One other thing about the guide showing title not available or similar, it takes a while to fill because the box has to download a massive amount of data. Not just titles of shows, summaries for the programs must downloaded as well as info on the cast for all these programs.

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I wanted and a little info for further clarification. All that info is being downloaded by air.

Remember dialup modems? I started out with a 33k dialup modem, then eventually upgraded to the 56k modem. The 56k modem was faster but a 3 minute song encoded as an mp3 was about 3mb and it would take maybe an hour or so for 1 song!

This was back in the late '90s. Anything you did on a computer took FOREVER, we all survived that.

Guest

*** is correct! My guide was working perfectly until 8/5/2019. Now they updated, and the search future listings is not working right.

Guest

I called Direct TV customer service last winter about the sudden loss of local channel 10 (WBPN). The rep said they were working on a resolution.

It's now August and now Direct TV has also dropped 2 more channels! (20) WBGH, and 40 (FOX/WICZ). Typical *** from cable tv companies. I am looking for alternatives to DROP Direct TV and tell them to go "F" themselves.

These channels are primary sports channels, Syracuse Basketball, Yankees baseball, US Open golf, etc. Direct TV thinks that adding this EPIX movie channel is suppose to make up for it? NOPE ...

I've had it ... Neil Vestal, New York 13850

Caswell Xfs

I totally agree with good markhor,but its been more than 20 yrs for me.now dtv is all about raising prices,searching the site for info and at&t trying to get you to buy their product.poor customer service.charging you for a receiver,and another charge for hd.its Crazy!!!!!!imstill searching for the DAM channel updates.I think itstimei disconnected from this insanity......

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I gave up on DTV too. Not missing it at all.

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Anonymous

New guide disaster!

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This is company is a daily ad for other tv companies! Why would you change your guide so that the background and small writing make it almost impossible to read!

If I didn’t know the channel numbers by heart, I certainly wouldn’t know what I wanted because you cannot tell, and when you select something you still don’t know what you have chosen, ID channel, Lifetime etc, because it does not say anything to let you know what channel it is other than the number! Someone should be fired over this!! Also we are still getting audio, video, and slow remote problems!! 2 months ago when called about the first two things the said they knew about this, as they were working on fixing the problem, after letting me explain the problem for 20 mins,!

The remote is a recent problem since the guide change. Changing to cable!!

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Guest

Today August 18 - FIX YOUR SOFTWARE. Yes, you can't read a thing it's so tiny, you click on a picture to see a recording and it gives you the list of recordings, so you have to find it anyway. And now, you can't fast forward or stop or back, UGH, you make us pay so much, I won't be using you much longer.

Guest

When paging down through the guide, if it stops on one of the highlighted movie ads, it locks up and takes a couple of minutes to start moving again. Anyone else experiencing this problem?

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Same here

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Hate hate hate DTV guide do much I will change providers when contract is up.

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I also hate DTV the channel guide is the NOT user friendly at all . I believe they did this for some sinister reason . HATE HATE DTV.

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I agree

Maylani Rix

This is what has happened since At&T got a hold of directv. Been a customer for more than 20 years, and am fed up.

What is wrong with your Engineers?

That stupid vertical line you have on the guide is ridiculous to say the least. Going to lose a lot of faithful customers very soon, unless you make drastic changes to the system.

Donita Psn
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Since AT&T took over it’s went to ***

Guest

I have had recurring issues with Direct TV also along the lines of this comment. I don't have an option for cable as I live out of any normal service and local broadcast results in snow. Wish they would get their act together.

Guest

Did you clowns try to change it again only to make it worse? Great merger!

Remember when you would call customer service and get assistance ? And not a mouthy 2 bit manilla ***

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skurno
map-marker Reston, Virginia

SEND YOUR DIRECT TV COMPLAINTS DIRECTLY TO THE VP

There is power in numbers. Send your Direct TV complaints directly to:

Ms. Ellen Filipiak

SR VP, Customer Care

2230 E Imperial Highway

El Segundo, CA 90245

Email: Ellen.Filipiak@***.com

Consumers, UNITE! There IS power in numbers. Bombard, innundate Ms. Filipiak's office with your concerns and complaints. If there are as many as I believe there are, they will not be able to ignore them.

Additionally, I urge you to contact your Better Business Bureau (again, if they get enough complaints, they CAN do something about it) and contact your County Consumer Affairs office (contact name and address can be found on your local County website).

Stop these people from stealing our money and providing abominable service.

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Presten Tvb

I have been a customer for over 15 years and can never get good customer help I have called three times today to try to get a technician at my location one person hang up on me customer service was supposed to call me back a supervisor representatives don’t document the account of the complaints and the rudeness from the represent her

Liam Rex

Very disappointed that you are dropping OAN!!!!

Robie Unh

This is the worst service I have ever seen. 5 service cancellations from direct tv by them.

The last one we were assured was scheduled. It was not.

Their service is a health issue because they really don’t care or their automated service stinks. I am paying the $110 to stop the contract and going with the dish network.

Guest

I would like to know what has happened to living faith network we were watching the promise land even though it is advertising that it comes on at a certain time it does not can you give me an explanation why it’s not on the time it says on the schedule.

Guest

I wish to tell you that I feel you are not providing the service that I'm being billed for. I know you rebroadcast the programming--but tonight I tried to watch a movie--the programming volume required the sound level of about 70% to hear the audio.

When commercial came on it was deafening, about 20% for the same volume of audio as the programming. I know this is correctable as I was a tech with the real AT&T and dealt with volume issues with toll calls as part of my job.

Please spend the money to save customers this type of aggravation or you may not have enough customers to pay your salary. Have the type of day you cause your customers to have.

Palestine Ozo

I am sick of paying for channels I can not watch and the price for direct TV gets higher. I pay for 54 Spanish channels I do not want or understand.

I hate I going to miss my programs with NBC over their problem not mine. Get it fixed

Guest

I am assuming that we will all be getting a discount for the time that we lost with the CBS channel. This is my favorite go-to channel and I’m frustrated every day that it’s not there.

Please come to terms and restore a channel that I’m paying you for.

After all there are other cable companies that are not having a dispute with CBS and I’ll be looking into them. Carolyn

Guest

I am very unhappy that we lost channel 5 KSDK. I’ve had direct tv for a long time.

But this is it, if we do not get it back real soon. I will get rid of direct tv for good.

Guest

I have been paying for NBC channel for years this a local channel in my area and now I don’t have it. This is where I can get my local weather and news.

You have already taken away the DYI channel that I have also been paying for.

I would like to know when my channel NBC will be back in. If it is not on with in the next few days I will cancel with direct tv and go to another provider that will give me the channels that I want!!!!!!

Guest

In the past I have paid for the NFL package and was a super fan of the NFL but now their disrespect and hate for this nation us unacceptable. I WILL NEVER WATCH THE NFL AGAIN!!!!!!!

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Told to cancel on Monday when called, and Monday was first day of biling cycle

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DIRECTV - Told to cancel on Monday when called, and Monday was first day of biling cycle

When calling to cancel, we were told to call back on Monday, after the weekend. We called on Monday, the 29th, to ensure cancellation.

They took our notice.

So Happened that Monday was the first day of a new billing cycle.

Now they want their $200 for their services for a month that I cancelled and will not offer any comments except "that is our Policy".

We used their services for years paying over $200 a month for it. Our equipment was so old that they didn't want it back and told us to recycle it.

We feel that even though we were a loyal customer, paid our bill on time, lived through blackouts during cloudy days, and stuck with them, they worked us when we called to cancel just to get another month out of us.

When you want to leave their services, they will work to take as much money from you as they can, due to their Policy.

It is a real shame that they stoop to this level of service over $202.10

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Pros:
  • Then you get petty
  • Service is ok until cancellation

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Do not do business with them

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Submitting a Claim

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DIRECTV - Submitting a Claim
I submitted a claim for damages from a roof leak after a dish install. It's been approximately 4 weeks with absolutely no contact. Have tried calling multiple numbers and sending emails to not get a reply nor a call back. Voice messages have been left and still no call back or accountability. DEFINITELY NOT A RECOMMENDED COMPANY and can't wait for them to fold.
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Loss:
$800
Cons:
  • Terrible service

Preferred solution: Claims refund

User's recommendation: EXTREMELY UNRELIABLE COMPANY

Dennisse Dkw
map-marker San Juan, San Juan Municipio

Connection

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DIRECTV - Connection
Estoy tratando de llamar después que me obligaron a llenar ununa ONUaboleta para que especialmentelicara el problema que tengoye No puedoh comunicahabitacióny si quee es los dos teléfonos que él me llamó salen ocupandos...
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Resolved: 771 error for many channels since yesterday morning

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771 error for channels we watch since yesterday morning. Tried to call and couldn't reach a real person
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Misuse of my credit card by Direct TV

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Original review Mar 04, 2024

In early December I contacted Direct TV to pay my brothers Dec. bill as a Xmas present.

They were told this was just to get his bill to $0 for Dec. and that he will get his regular bill in January. I do not have Direct TV. I live in a different part of the state.

I gave Direct TV my credit card # to pay for his Dec. bill. In mid February I see a Direct TV charge on my credit card $412.88 and ANOTHER charge later in February for $268.26. I immediately called them and my credit card company to reverse these charges.

My credit card company has 2 disputes with them now to resolve these charges. Whoever I talked to the first time to make a one time payment for my brothers Xmas present, supposedly put my credit card in their system to pay further bills. I DID NOT give any permission for this. In several conversations with them I repeatedly asked them to delete my credit card from their system with no result and was disconnected.

When I spoke to my brother he claimed he paid the Jan-Feb bill which means that Direct TV received over $800 for a 2 month bill. My credit card is now blocked and getting a new one will not solve this problem because my credit card company told me Direct TV can link the information to the new card.

This is a reprehensible situation by a big cable company that should have immediately resolved the issue simply. I will now be forced if no resolution to contact the Attorney General and the CEO of Direct TV.

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  • Dealing with any of their people

Preferred solution: after the disputes from my credit card are resolved, full refunds

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Resolved: Need US customer service support

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Philippine call centers dont seem to understand my needs for installation of international channels. I need to have someone in the US who comprehends. Ive tried different numbers yet, I always end up with a Philippine call center. I even tried ordering the channels I want, online, but it isnt being delivered properly.
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Pros:
  • Nice channel selection
Cons:
  • Call centers are in philippines
  • You apparently need to speak tagalog

Preferred solution: A native-English speaking representative

User's recommendation: Check for the possibility of other providers in your area before settling for DirecTV

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Unfair practices

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I had DirecTv for 23 years ending in 2023. The last three years was a constant fight because every three months my cost would go up. I would be told a promotion ended even though I wasnt under a promotion deal. I continued the service with the understanding my cost wouldnt go up anymore. Three months later my cost went up because according to DirecTV my promotion ended even though I wasnt under a promotion deal. After this happening numerous times I canceled my service and got YouTube Tv for less then 1/2 the cost. The reps with DirecTV are nothing but scammers
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Pros:
  • Good channel lineup
Cons:
  • Very expensive

Preferred solution: Nothing

User's recommendation: I will never recommend this company

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Payment arrangement

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DIRECTV - Payment arrangement
I made payment arrangement to which even direct TV agrees I did. Turned off service in spite of this. They say nothing they can do. Have to pay amnt due before it can be turned back on. I don't understand why they won't honor the agreement they made but it shows the company no longer cares about the customer.
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Pros:
  • Programming
Cons:
  • Not honoring word

Preferred solution: I want them to honor my payment arrangement and turn my cable back on

User's recommendation: Don't use direct TV

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Resolved: Cable installation

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It was resolved, and Im not a pissed consumer, maybe contacting you again to see if I can have my picture full screen some are and some arent!!!
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Pros:
  • Good customer service

Preferred solution: N/A

User's recommendation: Communication

Phil H Jrn

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ABC network is not carried due to legal issues

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For months now I have been paying for the ABC network. And, for months now Directv has not been carrying this network. I could understand a contract dispute that should last weeks. This issue has caused disappointment, lost opportunities to watch important-to-me programming and having ti turn friends away from sports and oscar parties that I would normally hold.be warybe wary
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After canceling they didn't. The next month the bill went up 29.00 and was very rude

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The customer service Rey. would cut me off each time I said all I wanted was to end service. The after I ask to speak to someone in charge that could help Rey hung up om me. Very bad customer service.Do not go with Direc
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Loss:
$129
Cons:
  • Bad communication

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Do nt go with direc

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