"Martin Eastburn" wrote in message
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I've replaced for free three Direct TV receivers - all made in China.
The US made ones last and last. The tech said he only saw the Chinese
made units fail. The card that is put in with the ID code that IC
melts. I think it was a cooling design or power supply design that did it.
The bad ones were scrapped by myself. An old version that I had
in the shop went back. It could be rebuilt.

Dish was here when we bought the house, the seller thought it was about
to go under. Maybe the local company - which did. I had an offer from
a newspaper add and called that number - they dispatched a person from
120 miles away at the time. Now service people come 20 or so miles here.
Their area is decreasing as more people switch.

Martin

I did a search on "dish network sucks" and found a lot of people that were
happy with dish network until they needed customer service, that's my
situation. I wasn't interested in increasing my monthly payment of changing
to a different plan, I just wanted to replace my receiver for a reasonable
charge. I would have liked it replaced for free with commitment but a $25
or $50 one time fee and no commitment would have been OK.

RogerN