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Saturday, February 13th, 2021 7:52 PM

Need answers for what we are being billed for

for nearly four weeks we were waiting on someone to come out and see what was wrong with our directv. When the service person came he told us our receiver was out of date and told us to call a number. Since we’ve been with directv for about 20 years , he said there shouldn’t be a charge for the upgrade. After we called, we received a letter stating it would be $21. So we set up a time for the upgrade. Then after the installation, we received a bill for about $150. We never could get anyone to talk to us about why the cost went up. We went ahead and paid the regular monthly amount as we had been doing even when we didn’t have any tv. A couple of weeks later, we had high winds and the satellite blew down. Since no one would come out to see about that, my husband fixed it. DirectTv said they would send someone to see about it, never happened. We have about half the channels we are supposed to have and we continue to receive a higher and higher bill with no explanation and no one that we can talk to about it. We need some answers now. We’ve always recommended DirectTv to others, but that’s not possible anymore. Someone needs to pay attention to customers and make things right.

Employee

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34K Messages

4 years ago

You were charged because you used the term upgrade instead of an HDSwap which would have been free. Call back and explain you needed an hd swap not an upgrade

New Member

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4 years ago

Can you give me a number that I can speak to a person?

ACE - Expert

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22.9K Messages

4 years ago

Agents do not have direct lines. You call customer support and get the next agent available.

If you had severely outdated MPEG-2/SD-only equipment, then in addition to an upgrade there would have been a complimentary MPEG swap option, depending on what exactly you wanted to do with your setup. Once installed however, you have accepted the order as shown on the confirmation they sent you so cannot back out of an upgrade to an MPEG swap after the fact. You only had until the install was done to modify/replace the order.

But the bill shouldn't keep going higher and higher. If there were new monthly charges then that would have had a partial charge to cover remaining days in the service month in which it was installed and then the full cost going forward after that. I would review the bills for the exact differences and see if there is simply new charges (with a partial from day added), or anything else (one-time charges, discounts ending, etc.).


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