skol asylum
Footballguy
Nah, i'll make it work. Just annoying that they can't put more thought and effort into a better user interface.
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Ok, so I go through this dance every year like everyone else.
This year however, it was a lot more difficult.
1st call - basically no discount since I'm under contract to Jan 2016 and I've had it free before
2nd call- half price Ticket Max
3rd call- Free
I didn't get better than 1/2 off, however, since I have AT&T they offered me -$10 month off if I combine statements from both.
When I finished with the AT&T guy, He said I'd receive -$10 per month off the phone bill and -$5 monthly off Direct TV.
So net -$15 per month = -$180 and charges of $167. In addition, DTV waived the $3 per month sports fee to save me another $36.
Not as good as others or previous years, but net net no cost !
This year however, it was a lot more difficult.
1st call - basically no discount since I'm under contract to Jan 2016 and I've had it free before
2nd call- half price Ticket Max
3rd call- Free
I didn't get better than 1/2 off, however, since I have AT&T they offered me -$10 month off if I combine statements from both.
When I finished with the AT&T guy, He said I'd receive -$10 per month off the phone bill and -$5 monthly off Direct TV.
So net -$15 per month = -$180 and charges of $167. In addition, DTV waived the $3 per month sports fee to save me another $36.
Not as good as others or previous years, but net net no cost !
ap28.allday
Footballguy
Great success!! Had to make two calls this year, but am very pleased with the outcome. Love direct tv.
1st call: 1/2 Sunday ticket max, half off hbo/showtime/starz for 6 months, $10 off a month for a year - I declined
2nd call: Free Sunday ticket max, half off all movie channels for 6 months, $10 off a month for a year - I accepted
1st call: 1/2 Sunday ticket max, half off hbo/showtime/starz for 6 months, $10 off a month for a year - I declined
2nd call: Free Sunday ticket max, half off all movie channels for 6 months, $10 off a month for a year - I accepted
Horses Mouth
Footballguy
here's what I got. I posted this in the other FFA thread:
Tried a new tactic this year.
I'm 41 years old, 3 kids, 2 businesses, and no more energy to cancel and play the game. Too tired
Told the guy, Tyler, I wanted the Ticket and see what he could do. I had just been charged and auto-paid one month of ST Max @ $60.
Been a customer since 2003. No contract in place.
He came back checking my current programming to see if i was happy. I was.
He said how about $20 off for 12 months? OK.
He said he could offer Free ST and credit back the ST Max $60. I said no I want ST Max. He said he could do ST Max for an additional $17 a month for 6 months or apply my first payment plus $42 one time. I said OK.
So, I got:
ST Max for $102
$20 off for six months
No contract.
I am happy with the deal and with Directv for again making me super excited for the NFL season.
Tried a new tactic this year.
I'm 41 years old, 3 kids, 2 businesses, and no more energy to cancel and play the game. Too tired
Told the guy, Tyler, I wanted the Ticket and see what he could do. I had just been charged and auto-paid one month of ST Max @ $60.
Been a customer since 2003. No contract in place.
He came back checking my current programming to see if i was happy. I was.
He said how about $20 off for 12 months? OK.
He said he could offer Free ST and credit back the ST Max $60. I said no I want ST Max. He said he could do ST Max for an additional $17 a month for 6 months or apply my first payment plus $42 one time. I said OK.
So, I got:
ST Max for $102
$20 off for six months
No contract.
I am happy with the deal and with Directv for again making me super excited for the NFL season.
Direct TV pays the NFL $1.5 Billion dollars every year for exclusive rights in the US. Did you know if you lived in a foreign country (or ahem if your IP lived there) you can pay NFL.com $129 and get Sunday Ticket, Redzone, NFL Network and Rewind? Stop supporting this monopoly so affordable streaming options become available to regular people.
Rushmore
Footballguy
Ok. Told them to go ahead and cancel and set up a date for next week. This was 2 days ago. I haven't been called as of yet. How soon do you guys expect a call to come in ? Thanks again for the advice y'all.
Please reread. The net result of the 3rd call was it was free after credits. I still had to go thru the BS to get the credits to make it free
So basically, it was "3rd call - half price Ticket Max but with $216 in monthly credits."
So your net is a profit.
Great that you're not paying essentially anything, but as you can read from the thread here, many are getting free ST Max in addition to the monthly discounts so the deal is even better.
ragnarok628
Footballguy
is it a contest?
Not a contest, but it's interesting reading what people are getting and what some people are not. Clearly Directv is allowed to give some significant discounts, so if you are persistent enough and ask nicely, you can get some great deals.
I was just confused by his post and he told me to please reread.
unckeyherb
Footballguy
Fwiw I canceled and they didn't call or email me once. In fact they sent the return shipping boxes to my house. I called after that and told them I was reconsidering. They threw me a ton of stuff that they basically told me was impossible a week earlier. But for the record, my account was formally canceled.
abishagenaden
Footballguy
After I scheduled my cancellation date when I called in on a Saturday, they tried calling me on Monday but I missed the call because I didn't recognize the number and I was at work (I Googled the number on the caller ID to figure out it was them otherwise I would not have known as they didn't leave a message). They called me again on Tuesday and I picked up then.
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I get it. I was not stating I got a good deal. I've been getting it free each year with the song and dance of leaving. However, since I was under contract they were less receptive this year, offering less discounts.
I still wound up getting it at no cost, just not a lot of additional discounts.
GL to everyone else in dealing with DTV. Let the real season begin !!!!!
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Insoxicated
Everyone i've ever met that doesn't own a television makes sure you know they don't own a television.
I know this may sound odd to some, but I have a proposal that can save someone some money.
I watch Sunday ticket every year, but I do it exclusively through online. I usually know several people that have direct tv, and I just split the bill with them, and then just use their login.
Here comes the odd part. If anyone is interested in doing this, send me a message or email.
cropcord seven six at gmail dot com
I watch Sunday ticket every year, but I do it exclusively through online. I usually know several people that have direct tv, and I just split the bill with them, and then just use their login.
Here comes the odd part. If anyone is interested in doing this, send me a message or email.
cropcord seven six at gmail dot com
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Insoxicated
It's like the crossfit of the entertainment world.
Congrats on jumping off the cliff. Sorry it's not working out as you planned, I guess. I feel no compelling reason to inconvenience myself "so affordable streaming options become available to regular people."
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Rushmore
Footballguy
I see several people saying that you call back a few times to try and get a better offer. When calling back, do you go through the same dance of speaking to the first rep online and telling them you want to cancel, then wait to be transferred to the retention dept., or do you you just ask to speak to the retention department right away? (or do you have a direct number to the retention dept?)
abishagenaden
Footballguy
I wouldn't waste time talking to the first rep you get connected to. Retention is who you want every time. Usually if you tell the first rep you want to cancel you get transferred pretty quickly.
You must have missed the part about my IP address I guess. Not an inconvenience at all, cheaper and I'm not paying a middle man who has a monopoly over the US market.
From my understanding, you can only stream ST on only one device at a time, unless you've figured out a way to do it differently...
They can see all the notes from previous conversations. So I usually do just say "long story short, I've been offered X, but I really feel like you could do better for a loyal customer. Is there perhaps somebody in the retention department that I can speak with?"
skol asylum
Footballguy
Oooh burn.I'm referring to the search feature. When you record that way it doesn't always pick up first run episodes. You have to do as you say find it in the guide first or go through 3-4 additional steps to record correctly. It works but just a stupid setup.
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Didn't do as well this year as usual. Caveat here - I'm getting divorced (although that's worth any deals I'm losing out on, lol), so even though I had been a customer for over 15 years, I had to open a new account last year when I moved out. So they only show me as being a customer for 1 year...I called 3 different times
ST Max - half off (4 payments of $41.99)
$5 off for 6 months
One time $20 credit on my bill
HBO/Cinemax/Showtime free for 3 months
ST Max - half off (4 payments of $41.99)
$5 off for 6 months
One time $20 credit on my bill
HBO/Cinemax/Showtime free for 3 months
ICLight
Footballguy
The call I made with the PIN was directly into customer retention; I specially asked to be transferred to customer retention when they answered, but was told I was already there.
Made my call this morning and told the first person who answered that I needed to check the status of my contract. Was fransferred to a Contract Specialist, or whatever his title is, and came out with a new 2 year contract, including:
Sunday Ticket free this season
$40 / month credits first 12 months off my current bill
(2) new receivers - Genie and Genie Jr (?) to replace (2) non- DVR receivers on the contract.
Fairly happy since I can try SUnday Ticket for free (never have subscribed in the past).
Sunday Ticket free this season
$40 / month credits first 12 months off my current bill
(2) new receivers - Genie and Genie Jr (?) to replace (2) non- DVR receivers on the contract.
Fairly happy since I can try SUnday Ticket for free (never have subscribed in the past).
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NajehHejan
Footballguy
What is best free site to change IP address to foreign location so I can pay nfl.com $129 for all games? Please pm me if it is illegal to post. Would need it for iPad/iPhone/Apple. Thanks!
RideThePigGir
Footballguy
All you should need is a VPN service/client where you can specify a specific country supported for the NFL.com service. CyberGhost, HideMyAss, etc are all pretty cheap for a full year of service - $20 or so.
Anybody try out NFLSundayTicket.TV? I got it for $25/mo for four months at the "student rate", even though I was a former DTV customer and it is still available where I live. I think the regular rate is $200 for the season, but it seems like there must be discounts for that as well somewhere if you poke around or talk to the right people.
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skol asylum
Footballguy
Any tricks to improve the picture quality? I keep messing with all the setting but still seems out of focus/blurry somehow.
RideThePigGir
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Directv itself.
RideThePigGir
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Do you mind giving some details? I tried that, but I didn't have any address to work. Also, what country can I use with hidemyass.com?
I am willing to split a sub with someone, and just use the streaming option. Don't think I will find anyone
cstu
Footballguy
RideThePigGir
Footballguy
I'm not sure if there's an actual address check or not, but if anything, I'd imagine you can just use whatever - Google one and let some stranger get some surprise mail in your name
The only issue I can foresee is that you might run a bit shy of the necessary bandwidth to stream at 1080P, but I'm not sure about NFL's specific offering and what it requires. You can usually see which selection of countries that specific VPNs let you use, so match up one or preferably more with the list of countries that the NFL package is offered in - geographically closer rather than further, and I would recommend South America or a first-world western European country - then connect through the VPN, hit the NFL thing, and enjoy your games. I have to imagine there are at least some specifics about their offering out there if you're willing to search around for them - I've never used their stuff though, so I don't have any more specifics.
Additionally, it depends on where the NFL offering checks the location of your IP. If they only check when you're signing up, although I have to assume that they're not THAT dumb, then it would be much simpler to just use some sort of IP spoofing software/web service. You can find a million of those by Googling, just be a bit careful going to actual websites.
RideThePigGir
Footballguy
I have no issues streaming. I stream it every season for the past 3.I'm not sure if there's an actual address check or not, but if anything, I'd imagine you can just use whatever - Google one and let some stranger get some surprise mail in your name
The only issue I can foresee is that you might run a bit shy of the necessary bandwidth to stream at 1080P, but I'm not sure about NFL's specific offering and what it requires. You can usually see which selection of countries that specific VPNs let you use, so match up one or preferably more with the list of countries that the NFL package is offered in - geographically closer rather than further, and I would recommend South America or a first-world western European country - then connect through the VPN, hit the NFL thing, and enjoy your games. I have to imagine there are at least some specifics about their offering out there if you're willing to search around for them - I've never used their stuff though, so I don't have any more specifics.
Additionally, it depends on where the NFL offering checks the location of your IP. If they only check when you're signing up, although I have to assume that they're not THAT dumb, then it would be much simpler to just use some sort of IP spoofing software/web service. You can find a million of those by Googling, just be a bit careful going to actual websites.
What I usually do is split the sub with a friend. They watch it on their TV, and I watch through via their login. Only problem is that all my friends switched to cable or are not renewing this year.
I am just hoping I can find someone to split it with before Sunday
Private Internet Access, 3$/month. Download the app and connect to the country of your choice. (Some countries are more expensive than others)You need to be connected to that country during sign up and when first logging on and opening a stream.
Of course NFL.com knows people are surcomventing the rules this way, but, what do they care; they fulfill their contract with directv by checking the ip and they are getting more money.
ETA: I'd be wary of Apple mobile devices. You might not be able to get the gamepass app. Apple sux.
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Then why are you whining about " Stop supporting this monopoly so affordable streaming options become available to regular people." if affordable streaming options are already available?
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RideThePigGir
Footballguy
Because those streaming options require us to go out of our way to sign up for/access them?Then why are you whining about " Stop supporting this monopoly so affordable streaming options become available to regular people." if affordable streaming options are already available?
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Insoxicated
But Tonydead said it's "no inconvenience at all!"Because those streaming options require us to go out of our way to sign up for/access them?Then why are you whining about " Stop supporting this monopoly so affordable streaming options become available to regular people." if affordable streaming options are already available?
RideThePigGir
Footballguy
For someone with IT smarts, sure. For your average joe - not hardly.But Tonydead said it's "no inconvenience at all!"Because those streaming options require us to go out of our way to sign up for/access them?Then why are you whining about " Stop supporting this monopoly so affordable streaming options become available to regular people." if affordable streaming options are already available?
I said, and you quoted me correctly, "to regular people". Regular people don't figure out how to spoof nfl.com with a vpn. They end up in expensive contracts with cable companies who've tried to monopolize everything people watch on tv. They end up paying HD fees, equipment rental, installation fees, channels they don't watch, a host of other crap they don't need and then find out their rates have increased at the end of the year if they don't call in a beg for a break.But Tonydead said it's "no inconvenience at all!"Because those streaming options require us to go out of our way to sign up for/access them?Then why are you whining about " Stop supporting this monopoly so affordable streaming options become available to regular people." if affordable streaming options are already available?
The future isn't satellite or cable tv; it's steaming over the internet to whatever device you want at a low affordable a la carte price. The sooner people stop supporting big corporation, who've primarily sucked on the fat hog that is the US customer btw, the sooner that happens.
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