I started hating Dish Network a few years ago when I ran a small business. I had three phone lines and Dish flooded my lines with pre-recorded sales pitches. I got probably ten of their calls a week. I never got a single call from DirecTv. Dish was really desperate for sales. Recently I heard that Dish was rated as one of the worst companies in the US to work for.
Today a young man came to my front door and claimed that he represented both Dish Network and DirecTv. Considering DirecTv's current vitriolic advertising campaign against Dish, I found this hard to believe. The man was wearing a shirt that said "Dish" in big red letters and he had an ID badge from Dish Network. The only sign that he might be from DirecTv was a lanyard with that company's logo.
The salesman started to give me a sales pitch but I cut him off by saying that we already had DirecTv. I thought that would be enough to send him on his way.instead, he asked if we had the DVR and when I said yes, he asked if I knew they were charging extra per month for that. He asked about some other feature and pointed out once again that we were paying extra for that, too.
About then I started to smell a rat. Why would a salesmen from DirecTv disparage his company's product? Unless, he really does not represent DirecTv. It was pretty clear from the conversation that what he wanted to do was to get me to drop DirecTv and sign up for Dish. How desparate is Dish Network when it has to go door-to-door pretending to be someone else? I slammed the door in his face.
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