Dish Network - Echostar EchoStar Communications Corp Unethical and possibly illegal business practices Littleton, Colorado

On Nov. 18, 2009 I went to the Dishnetwork website and after choosing a package I began the online chat to order it.  In the end I was given a price of $78.99 a month for the first year and $93.98 a month for the second year and the service began on Nov 19 2009. In Febuary my credit card was charged $84.99 and the bill for March was once again $84.99. I called Dishnetwork and the person said they could not change it so I told her to end my service. She said there would be $17.00 fee to end the service. I told her I would not pay that so she transfered me to someone else, same story and that person transfered me to their legal dept.   That women told me they have the right to increase fees whenever they want so I told her to refund the $7.00 that I had been overcharged and to end my service. "We do not make refunds." So, they think that they can not honor the agreed upon price and still charge me a (now) $300.00 early termination fee. I told her I would not pay a penny more to them and my service was ended. I saved the online chat in wordpad to my HD so I have proof of what the price had been set at. They terminated the contract by charging my credit card more than the agreed price and then refused to refund the overcharge. I have filed a complaint with the FCC which you can do on line just by going to the FCC website, it only takes a few moments to do and the more info the FCC has the better.

It would be like if you leased a car and after 3 months they charged you 9% more per month on the lease and if you returned the car due to that then they would charge you for returning the car before the lease had expired..I don't think this would hold up in any court in the USA. Dishnetwork already paid out 5.5 million in a class action suit because of not disclosing the termination fees.