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I could ask this question of a Bell rep but I still would not be confident of the answer so maybe someone on this forum has already done this. I have 5 SD packages with Bell and HD. HD is 'grandfathered' in that my $10 covers all available HD channels. Question is - if I was to change one of my 5 package SD selection to something else do I then lose my grandfathered HD and have to start paying it by the current payment schedule, or is the HD unaffected and would continue to be grandfathered?
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No it wouldn't affect your HD.
I have the same thing as you and I change my SD theme packs a couple of times a year.
 
I would be careful, I once said OK to a one time 10% discount for a mistake on my monthly bill. Only to find it cost me my 30% discount for a year I had been given just a few months before.
 
It's shoudn't hange your HD package cost...

The agent will only have to remove the themes you want removed and put the new ones you want

In the case that the the agent offers 10% of on everything for a period it is a different story... The agent has to remove everything that the client has when he make the offer and then add each item with the appropiate discount code. Probelm is, when an item is no longer offered (like the HD granfathered package) the option is no longer in the system has a programming option. The agent can therefore not select it and can not offer you the package at the cost it was. If that is the case the agent, according to procedure, must advise you that this would be the case. Unfortunatly in many cases the agent, instead to hear you complaint about it, will volontarly omit to tell you there would be a price difference
 
I wanted to do the same thing a few months ago (change SD themes). The Bell CSR said that any change to the SD theme pack programming meant that I would also lose the old HD package. He said there was no way around it. I dropped the idea at that point.
 
I too had the same reaction, I declined to changed but called back within th ehour, got through and that person allowed me to change my theme packs.

Try another CSR, they are not all trained the same, some actually get it wrong in our favor, most don't.
 
I have made quite a few changes to my SD theme packs (added and removed) since the introduction of the new HD packs and I haven't lost my old HD package. I do however only make changes online or through the self serve option on 188.
 
Often in the same call center 2 supervisors will tell a different answer on the same matter...

I don't see why a client would loose a HD grandfathered package because he changes his SD themes. If, for example you want to change VARIETY 1, let's say for SPORTS 3, all the agent has to do is to open a work order, press - netx to the VARIETY 1, then go in the upper part of her screen, go in the middle box, find SPORTS 3, click enter to be able to select and confirm.

The codes of the old HD package are probably no longer in the system, meanning that if you choose to go with the new package and then call back and say you want to go back to the old one they won't be able to do that, or if you have a retention offer of a % off each month for a period, but in that situation it shoudn't change anything.

I suspect that some agents, when they know their RPC (revenu per call) is low for the month and a client with a HD granfathered package call to make a change that won't change anything for them (like swap 2 themes) tells the client that it would change the HD package and they go ahead and change it to have an upgrade of 5$ (cause they select the 5 themes)
 
The way it was explained to me was that it is not the HD that is grandfathered, rather it is the whole package you are taking so any changes will affect it. IOW even changing receivers would affect my HD. I had trouble believing this but given what I've been reading about Bell and its service policies in this forum I decided to take no chances. I don't need any hassles.
 
i believe it would affect the HD package because possibly one of the themes you are dropping would have an SD version of a channel you are subbing to on HD and sense the way the packages work you have to sub to the SD version of a channel to get the HD version. funny thing about this for me is on my HD package i do not get A&EHD but get A&E in SD
 
The "whole package" is 5 SD themes + the old HD package. Which 5 SD themes makes no difference, they're interchangeable, it's still the same package. I add the "le monde en francais" theme for RDS at the start of hockey season every year, then drop it and add "more movies" when hockey season ends. I used to do it over the phone, now I do it online, and it's never been even suggested that it would affect my HD package.
And I recently upgraded my receiver from a 6100 to a 9242 with no affect on the HD.
 
Correct.

Bell has always taken the stance that any change to your account (receivers or programming - even reducing programming) requires you to go to the non-grandfathered (i.e. current) packages. There are of course exceptions, but this has been the policy as far back as I can remember.
 
Fully agree...I've also changed themes (twice this year) without affecting the original package (5 SD themes + the old HD package)... Always done online.
 
The system must be more flexible than we're led to believe. I had the old HD package put on a month after the new HD packaging was introduced (I think because I sent in a 2 year old coupon for a $90 credit), HD just appeared and they started charging me $10/mnth. After about 6 months of not receiving my credit, I called and was given 10% off for 12 months which just started last month. STILL have the old $10 HD pak.
 
You can interchange your themes and it wont impact your hd selection. i believe you must keep your themes for 30 days and then you can remove them. one of the reasons I made the switch to bell tv was customizing themes as opposed to take a wack of channels.
 
the rep will do its best to have you drop the grandpa hd package... but if you said no, your sd changes will not affect your hd package.. if you make ANY change in your hd package, then yes, you have no choice but to loose it. any changes means even if you want to add an hd channel, the system will boot you out of the old programming in order to place the change... change your SD in confidence.
 
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