I just cut my satellite bill in half!

[MomofFour]

I called Dish Network this morning and threatened to cancel my service. They immediately offered to lower the price of my family package from $19.99 to $9.99 a month for the next 12 months! No commitments either, if I decide to cancel next month, I'm free to do so. Just saved $120 over the course of the next year.

[disneysteve]

Originally Posted by mrw718

My tv and internet cost me 165.00 last month. What a scam!

I don't know why anyone spends that much.

We have Comcast's limited basic service. With tax, it is $11.30/month.

We use Verizon DSL for internet. I think it is $29.95 plus tax.

So our monthly total is about $45.

[MomofFour]

The family package has 40 channels, several cartoon/ kid related channels, animal planet, the science channel, etc. You can go to their website and search family package and it will show you all the channels.
We did have the Top 100 package, then when they raised the rates on it, I downgraded to the family package.
The only complaint I personally have is that I miss HGTV and CNBC (no more Suze for me), but my husband is happy because he has the outdoor channel!!!
I am still in the stone ages with dial up right now, my choices for internet are extremely limited where I live, no cable or DSL here! I am looking into satellite internet, so far the cheapest I've found is $300 installation and around $30 a month. Right now I pay $9.95 a month for dial up.

[DayByDay]

Great deal. We also have the family package, and my DH loves the Outdoor Channel too.

[atomicrc11]

Each person has their own preferences. I pay $116 per month for cable tv with HD-DVR, phone and internet from Comcast. I have a year 2 year contract so they can't change the price and it is worth every penny. My company pays for my mobile phone, buy they do notice if I use a lot of minutes, so it pays to have the land line.

Plus, I have the DVR, so while we only usually watch at most 1 hour of TV per day, we can watch the shows we really want to watch. It all comes down to how you assign value to the services you subscribe to. If you don't like them, cancel them.

[djabloel]

I recently cancelled dish network service. They send boxes to pack the stuff (dvr, remote, etc.) and send it back to dish. However getting the LNBF from the dish is a pain especially when the dish is on the roof of your house.

[mom-from-missouri]

We have called dish numerous times through out the past, and the never lower the price for us. we even switched for awhile to a lower priced service, but they left our area, so we had to go back to dish.