Sling TV

Worthless. Free, and pay money. Waste of time and hard earned money. Two thumbs down then you make me check a box saying this is my honest opinion yes. Honest opinion is you suck as streaming service. Garbage! Unchecked the box at the bottom. Can't finish the review unless I click the button. You need a scape goat to click the box at the bottom! I'll check the box, only way this review will make it to you crusty $#*!s. Really! All around a highly disappointing time. I'll take the hit. Guaranteed, I'm not the only one to leave a review like this.

Cancelled subscription, didn't take my card off file, restarted service without my authorization. Wouldn't give me a refund, no security measures, no escalations, customer service rude as f. I would advise you to stream elsewhere. The service sucks, prices and add ons are way too high for what's offered. Frequent price increases and again customer service is anally rude.

This statement on their website made me subscribe:
"So, you've decided that Sling TV isn't right for you. And you're wondering how to cancel the service, maybe even before your free trial period has run out. Canceling the cable replacement service is simple. Just follow these steps. Jul 14,2017
How to Cancel Sling TV - Tom's Guide
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-cancel-sling-tv,news-*******.html"
I cancelled my service two days after but slick tv won't refund me, thieves! Run from sling tv

Sling TV is a good idea to give former cable customers a reasonable option to enjoy the most-preferred channels, but it is poorly executed, with the inability to record programs on certain channels, sports contests that exceed their time allotment cut off prematurely at the top of the hour, 5 seconds of frozen air at the top and bottom of every hour, and outages without being willing to give customers credits. Most consumers want to purchase their channels a la carte, and while Sling has gotten closer to that than cable ever did, its business model is ultimately flawed once media production companies start selling subscriptions directly. Until then, viewers shouldn't have to put up with Sling's poor execution of service.

TV is decent but their policies are awful. They will draft your account monthly without any notifications. I'm fairly certain I canceled my account then realized months later had been being charged. Called and while I told them I cancelled and they could see i had not used the service they would still not refund my money. They said i would have to provide the six month old email they sent confirming my cancelation. I don't keep emails from six months ago and I doubt many others do. Shady business practices. Anywhere legit would send an email every time your account was drafted.

I got this app to watch FIFA and most games weren't recorded and many times the games were recorded dates after the game was already played. Also, during the games the time would jump forward making me miss a lot of the game. Awful experience. Spend your money somewhere else.

It just doesn't work reliably, and their help pages don't help. We have a very-consistent 150 Mbps connection and Sling drops out regularly. When it's working, it's good, but we seem to have an issue just about every single day we use it. Sometimes the dropout goes away on its own, and other times we just have to give up watching TV. Speed tests reveal no problem when this happens, and often times we aren't even using any other bandwidth when it happens. It's just bad software imo. I constantly hope the next update will fix everything, but nothing has changed so far...

Ive had it for a few months to give it a try. The service has slow downloads that your programs will stop every 10 mins. Its like being on the internet back in 1996 with the buffering. It also has problems streaming video to cromecast between the audio and video. Its like watching a very bad dubbed movie. Customer service will give you the run around and all kinds of excuses but with an IT background I saw the BS they where shoveling. In addition my directv, cbs, Netflix and Hulu all stream just fine. Terrible service and the customer service was no help.

Had sling tv, then prices went up.
Most of the programing you are paying for are re runs for tv shows, that were on the air 40 or more years ago. Most shows I had seen originally and have seen the re-runs numberous times for free. Now these people want you to pay them to see them again? Bad programing. You are basically paying for what you saw for free years ago. They have a few shows, like CNN and FOX. But those shows aren't worth paying 40.00 just to watch them. I cancelled, but kept the free down load, but every time I turn on Sling, I have to go through a screen asking if I want to re prescribe. Tired of that. Going to unload the program all together.

Also was charged $80 for a PPV fight that myself or my husband did not make. I had assumed that my two-year-old son had accidentally made the purchase. However, after reading the previous review, I wonder if sling is engaged in shady business. They would not refund or cancel the charge, even though it was billed yesterday and the fight doesn't take place until tomorrow. I filed a complaint with my credit card company and canceled my service.

I pay for the Orange and Blue packages on Sling so we can watch NFL games but today I find I can't get them. I called & they said they are blacked out! What? Why? Isn't this why I pay to watch? The Cardinals game is on free TV but not on Sling! I have been able to watch all the games before but today no!

I asked about next week's games but they can't tell me if I will be able to see them. This is the whole reason I am paying for Sling. I used to do the Hulu live. They didn't show all the games but I got to see some.

I signed up for the 7-day trial to evaluate the service. Cancelled the trial on the seventh day (Sunday to Sunday). Unfortunately, I guess Sling counts the minutes for the trial period because I cancelled a few hours too late. I noticed that when I cancelled, it said I could use the service for another 30 days. Apparently I was already charged for the next month. When I contacted customer service, I was told that they would not refund my money since I already signed in once during the trial. Even though I cancelled a few hours after the trial was p and never used the service, they were not accommodating at all. Just bad customer service. I fell for it. These free trials are just a way for these companies to get at least one month of fees out of people if they happen to forget to cancel. Never again. And shame on Sling for not refunding money for services that will not be used. They could have easily shut down my account and refunded my money.

I received a gift card for Sling for $25, which covers the first month of service. However, when I went to redeem the gift card, Sling automatically took the promotion away. Apparently, even though my mom purchased one month of service for me for $25 in the form of a card, Sling will not honor the $20 first month promotion. They force you to spend another $20-25 dollars, effectively making double on the fact that you purchased the gift card! This is disingenuous and fraud. I spoke with agents over chat and they informed me that it was not possible to allow me to use the gift card with a promotional offer. They also informed me that they could not refund me for the amount of the gift card.

Signed up for 7-day trial. On the last day I tried to log in to cancel, but the website wasn't working. I called. I was told that my trial had expired at 2:11 that afternoon and that I'd been charged and nothing could be done about it. I then talked to a supervisor, who also said nothing could be done. Plus the service is bad. The image froze often while streaming and even went black sometimes. Friends had signed up to watch the NBA finals, but were unable to watch the first game because of an issue with ESPN3 - but there was no message on the website or on the company voice mail.