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Sunday, December 15th, 2024 4:08 PM

DTV Protection Plan

On my latest bill, there was Protection Plan adjustments and under DIRECTV Protection Plan, it states Upgrades in 30 days: $20.99. I see that Protection Plan Premier is $20.99 but that's not stated on my bill. There is nothing about Premier. I never asked for the upgrade from DTV Protection Plan to DTV Protection Plan Premier, which I assumed happened since Premier is @$20.99 a month. Why was there a change?

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254.5K Messages

3 days ago

Hi, @ClaudieH. We're sorry for the confusion regarding the charges of your DIRECTV Protection Plan. We have a specialist available to help you with your post. We'll send you a DM to get more details. Veilka, DIRECTV Community Specialist

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2 days ago

If you had a tech visit in the last month or so, or possibly spoke to support, someone made the change in error. It is suspected some techs do this to get an on-site upsell on their stats, but there is no way to know if accidental or on purpose.

Either through the DM you get from official support, or calling, remove it. The 1st 30 days are a no charge/no claim period so allows you to back out before being responsible for the charge.

As a note without the base protection plan you had before, the one time costs are: Service Call $99; Delivery of replacement box $19.95; Remote $15 (though cheaper through other retailers, possibly they got bulk discount); still get free upgrades of equipment if it has been over 2 years since your last upgrade with account in good standing (doesn't guarantee something better is out yet as satellite tech doesn't advance that quickly).

For those reasons I say people pay WAY more over the years than the one-time costs. If you use it constantly to where the plan is cheaper, you have a bigger problem.


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