Dish had allowed me to put a 3 month hold on my account, but after 5 weeks of using YTTV we were happy with it. Since I didn't need the whole 3 months Dish had given me, I called to make the break. The transferred me to "the department that handles that." They asked what it would take to keep me. I told them I want keep the same package I have (Top 200)...no dropping down to "save money", I want the lowest offer you can possibly make, and throw in some freebies for wasting my time the past month.
They put me on hold for a couple of minutes then came back with $40 off/mo for 12 months. Sounds good on the surface, but their Top 200 package has increased to $132/month....so $92 would be the offer. That's still $27 more per month than YTTV, so I declined and told them to go ahead and ship me the boxes to return my Hopper. Put me on hold again, came back with $82/month. Told them that was closer, but I'd still be paying them more $200/yr than what I paid for YTTV. He said he'd also include a one time $100 credit on my next bill. I got to cipherin' and with that $100 credit spread over the 12 months, my bill would average out to $73.67/month. I told him if he'd throw in Showtime and a couple of On Demand movies I'd stay with them. He said he could only do Showtime for 6 months, but he'd be willing to give us one free On Demand movie per month for the 12 month offer.
So we're back to Dish. Yeah, it's $8.67 per month more than YTTV, but I get the Longhorn Network, Vice, and AxsTV back...plus the other shit he threw in. I'll have to go through all this shit once again next February, but now I know YTTV is a viable option if Dish calls my bluff.