About gaines_wright

@GabeU wrote: @gaines_wright wrote: I wouldn't be suprised, with so much deceptive marketing going on, that so many people are canceling satellite ISP contracts without paying an ETF, that the lenders are just ignoring it.    Neither lenders, nor credit rating agencies, ignore someone having a debt placed into collections.  As well, neither cares what the debt collection is for.  When it's present it affects, and will continue to do so for quite some time.  Unless someone has a legitimate excuse and successfully fights to have it removed from the record, which is both time consuming and emotionally draining, it affects their credit for years.     No offence intended, but do you have any first hand experience with this happening?  You seem so sure about it.      I certainly didn't find it so.forty years ago,  when lenders, looked at the details of the causes of a bad credit rating, and acted accordingly.  At least my lender did with my credit rating, which at the time the collection agencies were doing their best to try to destroy.  I financed a new truck at that time with no problems.     All this makes me want to cancel Hughes, not pay the ETF, and then finance a new truck.  :>)>  Just kidding.    Anybody want to bet that I wouldn't be successful?    I'm suprised no one caught the original point of my post, which is that satellite ISPs are using predatory and misleading tactics to lure in new suscribers, and then they the hold the boogie man of an ETF over their heads to try to keep them.     IMO this is not wise marketing, and I don't think it's going to be successful in the long run   I know one person who didn't pay the Hughes ETF with no repercussions.  I await the result of poor lamb doing the same with Viasat.     ... View more

@MarkJFine wrote: Cancellng cards or any refusal to pay will also put them into 'collections' and usually results in a bad mark in one's credit rating.    That seems to be the general consensus.  But does anyone actually know anyone to who this actually happened? I know one person who didn't pay the ETF, and  had no repercussions.      I wouldn't be suprised, with so much deceptive marketing going on, that so many people are canceling satellite ISP contracts without paying an ETF, that the lenders are just ignoring it.  Similar to 40 years ago when medical labs and xray places would collect from your insurance, and then try to collect the full amount from you also.      I actually had fun when a collection agency would call, after talking to me one time they wouldn't call back again.  Especially, after talking to my Credit Union who told me:  " Oh, we know that stuff is going on.  We won't even consider it when looking at your credit."    Of course, at lot of things have changed in the last 40 years.    ... View more

@MrBuster wrote: Wow -- that was quick! I don't want to ruffle any feathers by asking, but what did he dislike so much in such a short period of time?     Well, he was talked into getting Viasat in the first place by what was IMO deceptive marketing.  I.E. telling him that he was going to be able to get rid of his satellite TV bill with a 10 gig data plan.  This guy has zero interest in the internet other wise.      ... View more

    I talked to the poor lamb yesterday.  He cancelled his debit card, and then called Viasat and told them to come and get their equipment. ... View more

@BirdDog wrote: ................. I'm still waiting for the check from my man in Nigeria.   I already got mine.  It bounced though.  :>)> ... View more

@Reggie wrote: ............ Why does everyone on this community fell it is ok to kick those that are down.  Maybe it's time you give them a hand up not a kick in the teeth.    Ah, a starry eyed idealist.  :>)    I think it's caused by  "The weak chicken syndrome".  I don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard that if one of their number gets weak, the rest of a chicken flock will peck it to death.   I don't think it's reached that point here though.         ... View more

@maratsade wrote: No Get Out of Jail Free card for naivete.     Darn it,  where is that quote!  Something like "There is only one penalty for ignorance:  death.  And it's alway applied by nature without pity." ... View more

@GabeU wrote: I see four possible outcomes, with the second and fourth being the most likely...   1.  Allowed to cancel with no ETF.  2.  Has to pay ETF in order to be free of it.  3.  Refuses to pay and has credit screwed up as a result.  4.  Keeps the service and learns a lesson about knowing what you're buying.          I do know one person that canceled with no ETF.  He more or less told them that he would return their equipment, but he was not going to pay them another cent.       BTW these two people know each other.  Obviously they didn't talk before he did all of this.  So the guy in question will probably try for number one.       He also operates strictly under the table, and certainly doesn't give a darn about his credit, so number three is also a possibility.  He's a good painter and pressure washer though.  I hire him once a year to pressure wash my house and gutters.     I get the feeling that the landscape is littered with broken satellite internet contracts, especially with the misleading marketing that's going on.   ... View more

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@Reggie wrote:  Me thinks this might apply to yhis thread.  LOL   LOL  Me?  I mever nake mistakes.. ... View more

@maratsade wrote: Please have someone teach you some very basic manners.     *I am not a Hughesnet employee or representative. This is a customer-to-customer tech support community, and I am a customer.   Feeling rather testy today?  :>)>   * Disclaimer: I am a HughesNet customer and also a stealth want to be HughesNet employee. All of my comments are my own, but I try to stand up for HughesNet in every way. ... View more

@StellaS119 wrote: My problem - the survey.  THIS NONSENSE was the first question:    Do you remember contacting HughesNet Customer Support on when case was created? ^^^^     Perhaps I'm illiterate also, but I don't see anything wrong with the grammer.  One could argue that the word "the" should be before the word "case".  It also makes perfect sense to me, and only requires a yes or no answer.   A rather silly question though, unless the purpose of the survey  is to find out how many of your customers have dementia.   "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" William Shakespeare         ... View more

@Damian wrote: Hello Brett,   Thanks for posting and welcome to the community! In this case, even if you download the movies and they are saved locally, the moment you connect to the HughesNet router and start casting, it will use data since it is being transferred using HughesNet service.     I'm confused!  Maybe I'm not understanding the meaning of the word "casting" in this context.   Or is Hughes charging for data that only goes through the WIFI,  and does not go through the satellite?      Darn it!  What did I do with that old Linksys wireless router?  :>)> ... View more

@BrettL wrote: I have a Kindle Fire as well as a Fire TV. I have downloaded movies onto my Kindle Fire. If I use my HughesNet wireless router to allow those two devices to communicate so I can "cast" a movie onto my TV, will it use up my precious, limited bandwidth?   I doubt that it would, but I don't have either device to test this.     First shut down anything else that could be using data  Then go to My Account, Usage at the top of this page.  Record the data used, and then do the "cast" and then run Usage again.  Might be a good idea to do this in the bonus period, just to be safe.      I you do this, let us know what happens, I'm always on the look out for data leeches.  I'd be suprised if we found one here though.   :>)> ... View more