Sunday Ticket Discounts
Nema
Senior Member
It is that time and I wondered if anyone has called and found out what they are offering this year? I know this will be my 19th year and it has gotten tougher to get much from Directv. Generally there are some great stories from past experiences, and it all has depended on which rep answers our calls to what is given.
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Not because of this but I've been thinking of Century links Bundle Package (Fire Optics has hit my hood) for some time to check out the prices because DirectV is getting very expensive and I'm tried of spending $2500/$3000 a year for TV and when flipping throught channels I watch maybe 20 channels at most and that's inclucding HBO and Showtime.
PS: I'm passing on the NFL package this year they show plently of football included in my overall package and that's why I stopped the college football years ago because I get plenty of great games.
Some will do better then others so good luck. I also cancelled my auto renewal for the NBA season and also mention other company's are starting to catch up with Directv and I really don't think she gives a shit. Really don't think so But I do see a lot of trucks in my hood changing to Century Link-Prism TV
When I said $5 or $9 what I meant was the price of the NFL package $252 isn't bad. The days of 1/2 price and Free are gone. I remember a few years back not long ago I got in two years the NFL package twice for free and the NBA package once for free. "Those were the days my friend we thought they never end"
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My loyalty discounts add up to $43 a month with about 6 months left and the reason I called was my pet peeve is new customers are getting the premium package for 89.99 and I pay 129.99 but mine includes all the fox sports channels and that's one of the reasons I don't need the CFB package I get just about every game I want. Just about. Anyway the girl added a few dollars more but told me just for the 6 months matching the other discounts which was fine. I told I won't be buying the NFL package really not interested in the NFL like I use to be. Between the 3 games on Sunday the Thursday game and the Monday it's plenty of NFL for me but I did thank her for the small added discount and told her I will be calling for the NBA.
Yea Bucky that was like last year they couldn't do anything with the NBA package but he gave me $15 off the bill for 15 months and after you added it up I got the NBA package for free. They seem to move the money around and show it else where then on the sports package. There still the best around as far as I'm concerned. Will see with the AT&T taking over. I asked her how things were going and of course the conversation being recorded she not stupid but reading between the line it seems there will be possibly some small changes to future discount. But I'm also a 20+ year customer and not going anywhere.
They gave me the Sunday Ticket for free for this season. It's not the Max version of it, and if i want to upgrade to Max, I have to pay the difference, but I don't really need anything that Max offers so I'm fine (I like having the Red Zone sometimes during the 1:00 games, but I've got 4 TVs going and usually just keep 3 of them on one game and create my own Red Zone channel by flipping between the other games on my 4th TV). They also gave me $30 in bill credits for each month for the next 12 months. And this came with a 1 year agreement to stay with DTV, so I'm all set until I make the call again next year.
So, for taking about 15 minutes to make the phone call and threaten to leave them, I got about $610 in savings (250 for the ticket + 360 for the bill credits).
Tommy, thanks for this update. Although, I'd called a short time ago (see earlier post in this thread) I called again today, and at the suggestion of a friend, asked for the "loyalty" dept, not the customer retention dept. I don't know if there's actually any difference between the two, but I was able to get an additional $113 off per month for the next 4 months and another $65 per month for the next 8 months after that. These were the total monthly discounts for my NFL Sun Ticket Max (Sun ticket was for free but I pay for the RedZone upgrade), my premium package, sports pack, and some other HD stuff. A total savings of around $900. I've been a DirecTV customer for 20+ years, and while I dislike the fact that I should even have to call each year to optimize my account value, it's certainly worth the time/effort to put in a call.
Solid move
I also received information that At&T as you know bought them but they will remain separate so things at directv should stay the same for now. I went through that when MGM bought out Wynn in 2001 if I remember correctly and nothing changed for a few years and then little by little the guys at the top were replaced (Most anyway) with MGM people. So were good with directv for a while.
edit: Yes the NFL is the max version
What I have not seem discussed is the Dish HD feed is so much better than Direct TV, it was like getting a new 4k TV, at least in middle US.