The Ref fka Blair Kiel posted:Wisconsinites always have a low center of gravity.
Ah....Houdini.
Dr._Bob posted:The Directv person I talked to in Customer Retention said that starting for the 2017 season there would be the option to order NFL ticket for specific teams. That would be nice.
I would love that option. One thing I am still a little surprised with is that you can't order one game at a time on a pay per view type of format.
They would charge you at least $50 a game if they did that.
GBFAN, you are probably correct on that. But, I think of it this way. I live in an AFC market (near Cincinnati) and there are times when the Bunguls are on CBS and we get the Browns, Steelers, Ravens, or Colts on FOX if they are playing an NFC team.
So I go out to some local watering holes where I get a tiny TV off in a corner while I am surrounded by the local fans (and god help me when it is the Steelers vs. Bengals) so I would be happy to pay $50 because by the time I am done sometimes my tab is $50 and I don't have to be around Steelers fans.
Speaking of the Titans, if you're coming to the game, we are having a tailgate party at the stadium, plus we are having something downtown the night before, hopefully with the Packer road show.
GBFanForLife posted:They would charge you at least $50 a game if they did that.
Personally, that would be fine with me. This past season, I spent full price for the Ticket out here in AZ. All but 1 Packers game was televised on the local channels. So, I would have paid only $50 vs. the entire price of the Ticket.
I just made my annual call looking for Sunday Ticket discounts. The first person I spoke with offered a reduced price of 6 payments of $50.99 as opposed to the regular price of $59.99. This is for Sunday Ticket Max. She also applied a $10/month discount for 6 months. I said this wouldn't be enough for me to keep the NFL package and she transferred me to the retention department.
The woman in the retention department tried to get me to bundle some other services (Internet, cell phone) to save some money but I told her I was happy with what I had. She immediately then offered a $50/month discount for one year off my regular programming price. After asking her if she said $50 or $15 and getting confirmation that it was a $50/month discount, I accepted.
Everyone was very friendly and I never had to make any threats about disconnecting service to get this offer. $714 in discounts over the next 12 months for something that was going to be $360. I'm very pleased with the offer. Also, I've been with DirecTV since 1998 and they brought that up numerous times during my 40 minute call. The entire ordeal was a pleasant surprise.
GBFanForLife posted:and the chaser?
They don't do bloody chasers outside the Midwest. Can't tell you how many times I have been judged as degenerate alcoholic for ordering a beer back. Plus, to add insult to injury, they make you pay full price for it.
My first chaser was a kielbasa.
I was on an overnight train from St. Petersburg to Riga, and after a shot of vodka it was a choice of that or some horrid carbonated beverage. (I'm the freak who doesn't like carbonated beverages.)
My first hangover was also in Russia; that was an interesting experience.
BrainDed posted:GBFanForLife posted:and the chaser?
They don't do bloody chasers outside the Midwest. Can't tell you how many times I have been judged as degenerate alcoholic for ordering a beer back. Plus, to add insult to injury, they make you pay full price for it.
F them.
I not too many years ago I was in Cali and asked for french dressing. The girl looked at me like I was an idot and, yes actually ASKED, why I would put ketchup on my salad.
She didn't get a good tip.
I made my call as I'm no longer under contract and with a competing offer in-hand as well as the carrot of adding high-speed internet to my package. What did they offer in return?
Not a damned thing. They wouldn't even match the price or the gift card with much slower internet speed, no transfer to a retention rep, either. I politely told her what she could do with her service and she just said they have great re-connect offers.
**** DirecTV.
My bill lost discounts this month so it went from $65 a month to $125. I called to disconnect, they restored some of the discounts (down to $95) and gave me free NFL Sunday ticket. I had gone the last two seasons without it....
El-Ka-Bong posted:I'm fascinated by the concept of paying $300 to get free games
maybe they still have landlines and daily newspaper delivery?
I called last week & got ST Max for free...again with very little resistance.
I do believe it matters which CSR you get. Call back until you get one that helps
This Sunday is Directv's "free preview weekend". They do show all the games or just Max or the red zone? My 2 years is up and I am going to call to see if I can get a deal or cancel if they don't. If they show the games Sunday then I'll wait until Monday to call.
Boris posted:I called last week & got ST Max for free...again with very little resistance.
I do believe it matters which CSR you get. Call back until you get one that helps
Yeah, a retention rep called me back a couple of days later, but I've already taken the Comcastsucks deal, which is okay as they gave me a solid price and have much better internet speeds.
I called last week and they offered me a $50 credit each month for 12 months.
Went on their click to chat site last night. They gave us $25 off the ticket over the next 24 months. Lots of canned responses.
"you're the type of customer that makes my job enjoyable" came over twice.
directv not for pussies.
I canceled 3 years ago and I still get mail from them every other week with offers. They're relentless.
We called to cancel our service in July, as we were doing more streaming any way, and our contract was up. They didnt offer much, a few bucks a month. Went ahead and canceled. Got a call the next day, and they got me. Free max ST, choice package, pay channels free for 6 month, and $200 bucks!
got my first bill with the new plan and discounts, $93.
Their math is a little strange, but I got the same deal as Toofless except no $200 bucks. I was only going to not get 4-5 games as close as I could tell. Now it is much more reasonable (both the standard programming and ST).
I thought of filling my mouth with marbles, calling DTV, and ask for a discount due to a recently suffered stroke.
But that's exactly the kind of thing on Karmas radar. So I decided against it. I don't even own marbles. Leave me alone Karma.
same reason I never lied about a death in the family to get out of work during college year jobs. always married another one off - much more positive and they're glad to see you take off.
Well I just got through with my annual call to them, certainly worth the 30 minutes I spent with them. I got ST Max for 6 payments of $45.99, then they gave me $50 per month off for 12 months and when I pushed a little harder they also gave me another $30 per month off for the next 6 months. Not bad at all.
Yeah, but they gave me a Highlander with a towing package and heated seats.
Just dropped a last minute $240. Make me work on Sundays mother****ers. YOU'LL GET WORK WHEN I SAY SO.
First week is free 
What! I guess I need to call to piss and moan. I got the streaming package for xbox since my old address couldn't get Directv.
Yeah, I got just the games package not the sooper dooper deluxe.
That's encouraging. No ****ing video but they are "working hard to resolve the issue".
Sounds like freebies for me.
God they suck. How can they not have everything working properly?
Called DirecTV today. I demanded free Sunday Ticket, and they offered me a bill credit that they said would have raised my bill by $4 a month after adding Sunday Ticket Max. I already pay $128 a month to these jokers, for mostly garbage. I told them to cancel my service. **** them.
DirecTV called me back this morning to offer me 3 months of HBO and Showtime, and claimed to have no record of our conversation yesterday. Yeah, that will make me stay.
At $128/mo, I pay DirecTV $1,536 a year, even though I rarely watch anything but football and baseball. The plan now is to just buy NFL Game Pass and MLB.tv and watch them with a streaming device like Roku or Chromecast. With a good VPN, you can get all of the games live, regardless of where you live. NFL Game Pass is $199 if you buy it with a Brazilian IP address, and MLB.tv was $110 at the start of this season. Big savings coming my way.
I got another call back from them. My bill is at $84.91 (before taxes) for one year and I got free Sunday Ticket Max. Watching Red Zone right now.
Pack-Man posted:DirecTV called me back this morning to offer me 3 months of HBO and Showtime, and claimed to have no record of our conversation yesterday. Yeah, that will make me stay.
Walk away like I did. They will give you shares in the company.
Watching Sunday Ticket FREE, free HBO, Starz and Showtime..., $44 bucks off my bill every month and they will send me a $200 gift card to boot.