How long do you have to be off the DTV reservation?

[sbuck143]

............before you will be considered a new subscriber again?

Here's the deal. We currently have DTV in two rooms, one of those is a 3 yr old DTV Tivo DVR. We want to upgrade to HD (including our DVR) and add two more rooms (one HD enabled, one not)

DTV/subcontractors would do this for free if we were new subscribers, but since we are current subscribers we are hosed. Nice incentive for being early adopters.

Call me amoral, but I think that blows, and I know I'm not the first guy to think of this, but I want to cancel my whole DTV service and start it back up as quickly as possible so i can be a higher class citizen in DirecTV's eyes again. lol

So my question is how best to pull this off? How long do I have to be off DirecTV? How smart is their system? Can I quit one day, and then have my wife call the next and set up the account in her name?

Thanks,
Steve Buckley

[shadough]

I'm afraid your branded for life. your only option is to re-open the account in some other name, perhaps your wifes? w/ her maiden name?

[sbuck143]

How soon between me canceling the account and the wife starting up new service? :) 1 day? Two?

[mtm2649]

Dude, call directv and ask them to connect you with the retention center. Tell them that you are going to cancel your directv service and they will hook you up. When they ask why you want to switch tell them cable offers you cheaper options for High Definition. Don't accept the first offer because they will always offer more.