Sling TV

We gave it a try, as we were caught by the respectively cheap price in comparison to YouTube TV. We bought the basic package and added the news channel on Top. SLING has been failing us in each single dimension the WHOLE TIME. Here are some REGULAR Examples YOU WILL FACE:

As an alternative to every increasing cable rates, I switched to Sling recently. Price is $40, with many popular channels. I added the News package for $5, and enjoy far more news channels domestic and foreign. Now the really bad: the service has gone dark several times for times as long as an hour or two, sometimes shorter. Second, the DVR feature doesn't work well. Record a program, and find recording begins halfway through! Or, fails to record it. Disappointing to find a program was never recorded. Third, they insert their own commercials, often ending after the program resumes. Terrible engineering. The engineers need to go to work early and fix Sling.

I fully understand that I'm not paying for their 'ad free' service, but in practice, they insert their ads with no regard to when or where, so they will interrupt newscasts in mid sentence. Their ads are egregious, and in all respects, they're no better than the many free services available through Roku.

I've been getting charge for a subscription I did not receive. Someone else had a subscription with another email using the service but I got billed. Read your statements. This site will not refund me my money for something I had no control over. This is a rip off!!!

I tried giving Sling another chance after my 2016 service plan. I wasn't that impress with it at that time because the content was old shows and lots of ads. It was not as $$ as it is now so I had a little more patience and forgiveness. It was a fairly new company and I figured they needed time to figure out what was working and how to improve.

I subscribed to Sling Blue that included $5 DVR Plus as an extra. I cancelled the $5 DVR Plus feature several days before my new billing period and it said this online and this was something that I checked several times to make sure so that I would not be charged for this on my next bill. However, I was charged for this anyway and contacted customer service to get a refund as this was a problem that was clearly their fault. The customer service rep would not refund the $5 and kept saying that Sling was a prepay service and did not give refund. He seemed a lot more interested in helping me cancel my account. I did cancel after this. Apparently Sling does not give refunds not matter the cause. NO REFUNDS whatsoever! Does not matter if it was their mistake or not. I'm not sure how they keep customers.

I want to reiterate several of the reviews on the website. My experience with Sling was very poor. When we had the service, it hardly worked and it did not work 90% of the time with poor quality. We cancelled the service in October 2021 and somehow it was reactivated without anyone’s permission in Jan/Feb 2022. We called Sling in March 2022 to dispute the charge. They said they would cancel the service: however, 1 month later, we got another charge. We disputed both charges with our credit card and only got money back for one of the charges in April 2022. Sling refuses to give us our money back from the erroneous reactivation. Clearly, we can see a disturbing pattern with this company conning customers.

Sling is so awful, 90% of the time I can't watch what I'm selecting because of technical problems or it takes 4-5 attempts and getting booted out to watch it. Also, it keeps making sign in. It's not my wifi provider because I used to have AT&T now, never had this problem, but they raised my monthly plan to $85/mo. Also, I never have this problem with Netflix or Prime. Sling sucks!!!

The love Sling after Dish started charging me a lot more when I put my account on vacation hold. Cut the cord and try Sling. I got three free days to try it out. I am saving lots of money. I watch CNN, MSNBC, HGTV and even get some local channels. I don't understand some of the bad reviews on here.

The amount of commercials is beyond belief. Sling forgets that we pay for their service but we simply don't exist to them, only the massive amount of advertisers count. Go make a sandwich and come back & the commercials will still be playing! I'm cancelling, suggest you all do as well!