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Reviewed April 4, 2016
Unfortunately where I live I have Comcast cable – not only is it ridiculously overpriced but the service is terrible. A few weeks ago I started losing all of my HD channels. I contacted Comcast to report the problem and of course the customer service representative could not figure out the problem and said a technician needed to come to my house. I specifically asked if I was going to be charged for this since it was an issue with the cable and was told that as long as the problem was due to the cable and not the wiring in my house there would be no charge – even though they were attempting to have me add some ridiculous protection plan.
Technician comes out and has to change the boxes again (second time in less than 2 years) and lo and behold I get my bill which has a charge for the technician. Of course I contact Comcast again only to speak to another customer service representative and a supervisor who cannot help me even though they can see that I didn't sign anything stating I would be charged and that they understand I was told I wouldn't be charged but there is nothing they can do about it. The customer service is terrible and apparently no one who works at Comcast is able to provide answers or assistance.
Reviewed April 3, 2016
Xfinity tries to deceive you by their commercials that say you can do all this cool crap with their X1, but it freezes CONSTANTLY! Here's an idea! Don't come out with a product unless it is able to function properly. I have to unplug the box at least once a day just to get it to half a** work again. We pay $150 a month for cable that barely works! I think this company might actually give me a heart attack because my blood literally boils every time this darn thing acts up!
Reviewed April 3, 2016
Having only 2 options to choose from in tv and internet service providers is close to a monopoly... Comcast has the worst possible customer service I've ever experienced, and the other company is not far behind. Comcast isn't even interested in meeting minimal customer service... they are just interested in profits! Look carefully at your monthly bills, Comcast sneaks fees and charges, so beware!! What the tv and wireless industries needs are a few companies who care about their reputation as moral, honorable and socially conscious businesses who give a damn. Anyone out there?
Reviewed April 2, 2016
I have been experience service outages in my area. The worse thing about the situation is that when you call they tell you everything is working and that the problem is with the connections in your home. After several calls they finally admit that there was an outage. This company's DNA consist mainly of lying to their customer.
Reviewed April 2, 2016
I scheduled a service visit because my Comcast internet and phone service is out more than it is working. My house number is clearly displayed and there were two vehicles parked in the front yard. I was waiting and watching for the technician's arrival. The technician arrived at my home - backed into my driveway - and never got out of the vehicle, made no attempt to approach my front door or make contact with anyone in the house. I thought he/she was gathering items and preparing to get out of the vehicle, so I anticipated a knock on the door. After a few minutes I went to the door to check, and the technician began to pull away from the driveway. I ran outside and the technician continued to drive away.
I immediately contacted Comcast to advise of this incident. I spoke with someone in a call center in another state who couldn't help me. There was no supervisor to speak with, no recourse except to reschedule another appointment at my inconvenience! I received a voice message from Comcast stating that because I missed the technician I must reschedule. Customer service from Comcast is non-existent!
Reviewed March 31, 2016
I really cannot stand this company. Signed a contract in March 2015 for 24 months at 109.00 plus taxes and all the other happy **. Well in March of 2016 they raise my base bill $25.00. Explanation by the rep that is policy after a year. Why did I sign a contract for 2 years for? She didn't want hear it. So I filed a complaint with the FCC. Comcast got back with me, the rep said he will look into it and call me back later in the day. A week passed, I called and left a message, no return call. Finally called again and got the rep on the phone. He said he would lower the bill to what it was. My account online does not match what he said. I tried to call back, left a message and still no return call. Is this a way to run big company? I think not. Comcast needs to change their name to Comcrap.
Reviewed March 31, 2016
I am currently a Comcast customer of 36 years and have an internet and TV only package with no contract. I was endeavoring to reduce my package cost and I planned to have Comcast internet service only and installation of a free HDTV antenna. I initially called Comcast on March 19 to ask for a reduced price for internet service only, which they quoted as $66.95. The service rep. (Brandy) offered me a less expensive Triple Play Package (Internet-TV-Home phone) for $109.99 even though I didn't want a phone. I initially agreed to this option because it had no term contract and I had a 30-day period in which to change my mind.
3 days later, I received a flyer in the mail for Xfinity Comcast advertising an internet and TV double package for $89.99 per month for 2 years with a 2-year contract. I called again March 26 and spoke to a Jaybrianna, and asked why I wasn't offered the Double Play for $89.99 as advertised in the flyer, and she agreed to switch me to the new service. However, she couldn't complete the process at that precise moment (because the Triple Play Package hadn't closed out in their system) so she agreed to call me back on Monday, March 28, to verify the transaction. By Wednesday, March 30, I hadn't received the promised return phone call, so I called Comcast to verify that the transaction had been completed.
I asked to speak again to Jaybrianna, the previous customer rep and was informed by the new agent whose name was Bhilib in Customer Solutions (1.800.934.6489) that he couldn't switch the call to a specific agent. I discussed with him the details of what had previously been agreed to and was informed by him that the offer wasn't available in my area and he suggested I go on to the Xfinity website to see what bundles were available. Following his advice, I found the exact advertised bundle for $89.99 as per the flyer. I contacted Comcast again the same day, March 30th, and the agent (her name was Jackie) I spoke with informed me that the "$89.99 bundle was Xfinity Latino and available only to Spanish speaking people but they couldn't put that in the flyer!" I was then offered the same bundle for $99.99 ($10.00 extra because I speak English!!).
This is discriminatory in that the cost of the service varies with ethnicity!!! In fact, this is blatant anti-Americanism for the sake of commercial and financial gain. This is false advertising in that the Xfinity Comcast advertisement flyer is printed completely in English, it contains not one word of Spanish that I could find and must be construed as a bait and switch scam! I.e. a customer is attracted by the offer but is then told it is not available and is vulnerable to being persuaded to purchase another, yet more costly package. Misleading information and contradictory information from representatives of Comcast who seem purposely intent on unscrupulous bait and switch tactics. Once they have discerned that you are persistent in your complaint you are promptly treated as a nuisance.
Although I am annoyed at the manner in which Comcast has behaved, I personally retain the ability to negotiate my way through their unscrupulous tactics. My concern is not only for my present negotiations but for those people who may be more gullible or susceptible to these sales ploys. It is a dishonest and devious tactic that places the unaware or uninformed at financial risk through deceptive practices for commercial profit and gain. I am well aware that large corporations like Comcast can easily dismiss the individual complaint and with very little regard to the individual. Yet I am so deeply concerned about these dubious sales tactics on the uninitiated that I feel compelled to bring it to as many people's attention as possible.
I am forwarding this letter to persons and parties who may find this of deep concern and act accordingly for the benefit of us all, including: Federal Communications Commission, Better Business Bureau, Comcast Facebook page, Village of Bartlett, IL, Local Housing Associations, Chicago Times, Consumer Affairs, AT&T, and other competitors.
Reviewed March 30, 2016
I had Comcast for over 10 yrs. They kept slowly raising my bill, they would do it $5 at a time so it's not real noticeable at first. After calling them and trying to work something out such as "do you have any promotions for existing long term customers", no they didn't. We could not reach a resolution or shall I say they kept giving me the runaround. I dropped them & went to Dish. We had them for over 15 yrs. We then moved from that home and we were approached by a Comcast rep (I have his name, store number and the contract or hand written offer). So the offer was triple play (internet, cable & security) for 24 months for 99.99. I drilled this guy over and over because I knew that was a really good deal. He wrote everything up, assured me & my husband that it was legit and the triple play was for a full 24 months for 99.99. So we agreed to give it a try.
So it was installed Feb 2015, installer was very knowledgeable & showed us the equipment, how to use all of it. From that point on it has been downhill. Internet goes out daily, called & they sent out a repair guy. Again very customer friendly worked on the inside & checked the outside. Off he went, he gave me his phone number said to call if problems. He wasn't gone 20 min and the internet was out again. Called him and he had forgotten to reset something. No problem, he told me how to do it. So off we go. Internet when it is working is very fast however over the course of the next year almost daily if not daily, it was every other day the internet goes out, cable freezes. I had done this so many times I knew how to reset from home, but if it didn't work then I had to call and they sent a signal to my equipment & they could see I wasn't getting signal. Customer service reps are incredibly nice and offer the utmost kindness and seem genuine.
Now fast forward to Feb 2016, received my bill and it is 124.99 not 99.99. So I called again, spoke to 2 different guys. Come to find out my 24-mo contract according to them is only on my security, my cable & internet not so it's now 124.99. I finally got to a "supervisor", spoke to him Gabriel, went through the whole thing again. He told me he couldn't help me. I asked if they had any promotions for existing customers & I was told "no only new customers," so I said "you will offer someone you don't know a promotion but a good paying customer who has never been late or had disconnect notices you cannot help." He said "that is right."
Finally after several more minutes on the phone he said they could give me back the 24.99 a month but it would be a lump sum beginning in March and I would have to call back quarterly to get this taken care of. They could not take the 24.99 off a month, so April, May, and June I would pay the 124.99 then would have to call them back and rehash all of this again. Ok so not quite what I hoped for but at least it was something 47 minutes later. So my bill gets credited in March and initially when I checked it 48 hrs later it said negative 80.00. I knew that wasn't right either, so I waited another 24 hrs, checked again & there was a balance of approx. $80.00 and some odd cents. So I pay that bill, now here we are and my bill comes in for April, it says I owe $280.00!!! They added the 99.99 back on my bill so it looks like now that I didn't pay my bill last month, well I paid $80 of the 180.
So on 3/28/16 I called them again, spoke to Larry, he can see that Gabriel had credited then put back on, explained it all again. He tells me that he has to talk with his supervisor Keith that this should have never been done this way and wants to make it right but they will need to review. I said "pull the phone records you will see exactly what was said." He said that is what they would do and call me on 3/29/16 after 4pm central time. Here I am 5 hrs later and no call. I would not recommend Comcast to anyone. They do not honor what they sell you, they do not call you back when they say they will, you can't get anyone to help. This is a multimillion dollar company and they are going to lose a good paying customer for 24.99 a month.
Here's the kicker - if cancel the internet and cable (because I'm not on contract according them) then my security doesn't work because it is run off the internet and I still have to pay for the security service that I can't use because I'm under contract with them, or if I don't pay it my credit rating is ruined. I do not know how these people lay their heads down at night knowing they are selling a product that doesn't exist and then taking advantage of good honest people who work and pay their bills. DO NOT USE COMCAST. THEY ARE A FRAUD!
Reviewed March 29, 2016
We (my husband and I) are trying to disconnect our mother's cable TV service due to her new residence in a nursing home. Comcast is anything but helpful in this issue. Our mother can not talk and is paralyzed due to a stroke, which is why she is now in a skilled nursing facility. We have called Comcast a total of 4 times so far and have been told different service discontinuance requirements each time. Twice we were disconnected while our call was being 'transferred'. We could have lied to the service representatives (mom died or I could have pretended to be mom) and they would have shut off her service. Because we opted to be truthful, we can not get her service turned off. First, they wanted a letter from the nursing home declaring residency of our mother. So, I trotted down to the nursing home and had the administrator type up and sign a letter with the date of residency and the residents name.
When I called back to get the fax number (you have acquire a fax number and fax the info while on the line with the representative), I was told I needed a power of attorney letter. When I ask what type of POA form, the representative, Dominque, did not know and became very nasty on the phone. Did she say anything out of line, No, it was all in her one-word answer to my questions and her snippy tone of voice. I ask for her supervisor and she told me she would not transfer me until I sent in the form. I then ask what would happen if we did not pay the bill. Well, it turns out, Comcast will shut off the service. Go figure that!
I am boxing the equipment, which is identifiable by the serial number to customer account number, and dropping it off at the UPS store. Mom's nursing home does not receive cable from Comcast (they do not have service in the area). This did not matter. Lesson learned: Comcast is horrible to deal with! Just try and get a loved one's service shut off for a medical reason...
Reviewed March 29, 2016
Comcast charged me for service that I wasn't able to use. I turned in my boxes on Feb 2 and they billed me until I called back in on Feb 28th after I received a bill that told me that they were still billing me. Let not forget to add that they billed me a 300 early termination fee after I have been a customer for 6 years and never missed a payment. I have paid Comcast over 400 in three months in order to ensure the they don't turn me over to collection when they have over billed me. Unlike most of their customers I value my credit. I have called in for help with my bill over 13 times and no one has been able to help me. Someone please help me!!!
Reviewed March 29, 2016
Horrible! Horrible! Horrible! I have had Comcast for 4 years and I have had nothing but problem after problem. The worst part is they continue to charge me and charge me for sending someone to my house or shipping to send a new box. This is YOUR (Comcast) equipment malfunction, why am I paying for you to fix the issues. I pay for the services. Maybe this is how theyre still in business??? No one is satisfied, maybe they personally make the equipment malfunction so they can charge MORE to have it fixed. When I do have an issue, it's never a quick fix! Either the customer service 'forget' to send me my equipment or 'forget' to write a comment for the next person to review. Nothing but issues and I have been dissatisfied since day one. I will 100% surely be finding another cable and Internet service provider. My last straw has been pulled! I wish I could rate LESS than one star, because that is what they deserve.
Reviewed March 28, 2016
I am so unhappy with Comcast service, because my statement screw up, it not the same they promises before I took Comcast. The other thing my bill due date yesterday March 27, and I made a payment March 28, but the service already block it. What is the meaning that, or your company getting poor so you can't pay your employ, without rip off customer money. This is make me really upset. I need your response about this situation or I can sent this information to BBB. Thanks.
Reviewed March 28, 2016
After Comcast mistakenly applied my payments to a three year old out of state account, four months later it is still unresolved. Every time I try to resolve with proof of payment from bank I am first routed to a call center in India then routed back to the Nashville region. Then I have to provide several different case #'s which the agent always fails to find until I provide. This company that provides internet service will only accept fax as proof of payment. WTF!!! Who has a fax machine in their home these days!!! AS INI!!!
I have even emailed the VP of customer service... Not like he gives a **. No response of course. I just spent 29 minutes on the phone to get a live person. Another five minutes with someone who barely speaks English with a fake English name. Do you think this is by design? Yes of course it is!!! I am setting up a class action lawsuit with my attorneys because to add insult to injury this has impacted my credit for them losing my payments. If anyone else wishes to participate I can be reached. #xfinitysucks #helloAT&T
Reviewed March 28, 2016
I have had Comcast for nearly 18 years. I traveled out of the country to care for an ill family member and missed my payment. Comcast disconnected my service, which was fine. Then, they sent me to collections. They failed to sent me any bills or notifications. Of course, they locked me out of the electronic account so I had no way to even know what was owed or make online payment. Crappy customer service that fails to even communicate with you to give you an opportunity to pay what you owe. Just automatically send to collections, even after they failed to communicate with you when they said they would. Won't ever go back simply because of their crappy treatment of customers, even customers who want to pay what's owed.
Reviewed March 28, 2016
I WOULD HAVE GIVEN NO STAR IF THAT WAS AN OPTION. 9 month billing error and no one can fix it. Pay on time the correct amount and on time EVERY month BUT they turned off my service twice over the discrepancy. I pay the fee to get it turned back on twice and they say they will look into it and they DON'T and keep sending me the wrong bill!!! Still being billed for a service call that never happened 9 months ago!!! Absolute disgrace of a company. Waited on hold 2 hours today for a supervisor and then got disconnected and they didn't call back. I have had it with companies treating people like this. We pay for a service and get nothing but aggravated. Use someone else, spare yourself from dealing with Comcast.
Reviewed March 27, 2016
I finally switched to Comcast, actually just because it saved money. Well it was the worst mistake I have even done in my life. They bill you right off so you pay for your services before you get them, which is alright, but what they don't tell you is you get one bill and then another a few days later, so two bills owed within 30 days. The real kicker is that I upgraded and added a few more channels for the cost of 9.99. Well I got that second bill in the first 30 days that was 360.00 which was minus 109.00 of the first bill. I had to scratch my head again! Okay, I accepted I received a second bill, but that bill was supposed to be 118.00 so I called them, LOL LOL, let the games begin...
They didn't upgrade me with what I ordered of 9.99 because even though I could show confirmation of my order they did not offer that special any more so they ADDED WHAT THEY WANTED! That is not all... I contacted them repeatedly trying to get someone to listen to me and take those charges off. Well they won't, can't and didn't! So I have to laugh my ass off when I had to call them today and tell them I never had the DVR that the package says I should have and haven't all this time. Well guess what! For another 19.95 a month and 19.95 for shipping they will send me one. WTH! I will add -- the internet sucks worse than low signal wifi! I have super speed. Pay extra now lol. Trust me you do not want to deal with this crap, so run as fast as you can to AT&T! That is where I am headed back to:) Do not order Comcast and think you will have customer service because the joke it on you!
Reviewed March 27, 2016
My On Demand hasn't worked for a while. This is a breach of contract - I entered into contract with services outlined. This company has made zero effort to fix this problem, phone calls often loop to the wrong department and everyone refuses to transfer to a supervisor (who half the time is just as horrible anyway). The chat option is just as bad - I told them I was screenshotting our conversations and after the agent insisted my cable was in service, I asked for a supervisor. Repeatedly. I kept asking and informing the agent, "Angela" of the screen shots, so she eventually disconnected my internet, ending our chat.
Somehow, my next attempts to logon the chat kept refreshing. I tried the phone again, irate, but swallowing my fury, as this company has trained me so well in doing. My phone attempts were just as stupid, with agents transferring me to the wrong department, presumably purposely. Finally, someone who seemed like she at least received a GED gave me false hopes and pretended to transfer me to a supervisor only to hang up on me. My cable still isn't fixed and every attempt to talk to someone loops me in endless explanations of my problem to wrong departments or leads to disconnected chats.
Reviewed March 26, 2016
Just terrible. Super expensive and the worst service ever. I pay for 72 mbps and I get 28. I call for tech support and they say, "sure we can send someone out to help." He gets here, and can't help. He said they should have never sent him out. Then, they charge for that visit. Back to the internet. Only one side of the house gets service. Their solution... pay for a second internet subscription. They would love that I am sure. Even with both modems and routers I still wouldn't get 72 mbps. Cancelling and NEVER COMING BACK... EVER!
Reviewed March 26, 2016
I just switched to Xfinity from U-verse. The DVR from Xfinity is in one word "terrible" as compared to the DVR from U-verse. The issues that I have discovered about the DVR is: when you record a 30-minute program, it only records 29 minutes. If you record a program that is 60 minutes long it only records 59 minutes. You must go and add in 1 or 5 minutes to record the tail end of a program. U-verse automatically adds on 2 minutes. There is no "STOP" button on the remote just a pause/play button. If you are watching a recorded program and you decide to stop and delete it you have to pause it, go back to the Xfinity button, go to saved programs, select the program highlight, and delete it. Then you have to permanently delete it. Too many steps. U-verse has a stop button and you can delete it immediately.
Another issue I have is that there is no list of programs (series) that you can review from time to time to see if you don't want to record anymore. U-verse has that feature. The reason I canceled U-verse is that they don't honor their year contract policy. My policy year ends in February and by December they had started to raise my rate. Raised it again in January. I kept my end of the deal, but they don't!
Reviewed March 26, 2016
With Xfinity I experience constant outages that their Department cannot fix. They send supervisors over and still no results. Xfinity is terrible. They do not have control of their area and they continue to have outages in Kendall and I'm on contract and when it's over, I'm out of here. This is been happening since day one. I have been on the phone with Xfinity for hours. This is getting so ridiculous that my internet goes off every day and my TV freezes and we can't even watch TV. I do not recommend Xfinity. It's horrible.
Reviewed March 25, 2016
Ok, this is going to be rather long since I have spent roughly 14 total hours on the phone over the past couple weeks dealing with Comcast agent after Comcast Agent to Supervisors, Managers, and as of today Executive Customer Service Members. Comcast is by far the worst company I have ever had the unfortunate displeasure dealing with. The lack of respect, the extreme rudeness, and the way they lie right through their teeth is ridiculous. I mean is Comcast post jobs that require past experience as Lawyers? Let me break down my experience for you all. I also recorded all the calls that I had with them and once I get them compiled I will be posting that somewhere as well. If anyone has a good venue to post those calls that will be more effective against Comcast please share your thoughts and opinions on the matter.
So here it goes. I have used Comcast for a while now, purely for Internet Service. I then received a Promotional Flyer for the "2 Year Fixed Rate Agreement" for Comcast Blast Internet (Which I currently had) and Comcast TV and X1 DVR. The promotion 2 year fixed rate terms according to the flyer was that for $99/mo, I would receive Blast Internet, TV with the X1 DVR included... I talked it over with my wife (same day as the promotion came to the house) and since we were already paying $79/mo just for the Blast Internet alone, we decided that it would be nice to have the DVR and watch some TV every now and then...
I called the number on the flyer and told them that I had the promotion that I was holding in my hand, and they said yes absolutely and I agreed to the terms and all was good. A week later my DVR and TV just go black and I call Comcast to fix the issue. They said that I do not have TV service and that the DVR is not included in the promotion and that the particular promotion I was talking about was no longer being offered. I told the lady that I had already agreed to the terms last week when they came out to do the install and she disregarded what I said completely and told me that if I wanted to have the DVR service that I would have to go through the agreement which was now listed at $109/mo and that she would send out a technician to do the installation.
I had to explain to her once again that we already have the X1 DVR installed in our house, and that the reason I was calling was to have someone fix it because the picture would not show up and the sound would spit out intermittently. This conversation went back and forth for about 3 hours, and finally I had enough and said fine I would agree to the 2 year fixed rate of $109/mo. The lady said she would have a technician out there between a 4 hour window tomorrow morning... Tomorrow morning came then afternoon... I called Comcast once again and spent another 3 hours on the phone with them because they would not listen to what I was telling them.
I told this lady that I was expecting a technician to come out because the picture on my DVR was out and it was spitting out sound randomly, and that I have already gone through this process of trying to send refresh signals to the box, and that it is not the issue and does not resolve anything, which is why the technician was scheduled to come out in the first place. So she decided to ignore what I said, and started sending refresh signals and I told her another time that will not do any good and that the only thing I need is the actual technician to come out and look at the box itself.
I am an IT person and I have a decent understanding of the differences between Software and Hardware issues, and this particular issue is not something that can be handled remotely. She put me on hold while she read her report that she got back from the signal refresh, and to her complete surprise it seemed (and now 3 hours into the call) she said "I think that there might be something with the X1 DVR box itself because the refresh signals are not working..." I was completely blown away... I had repeatedly told her exactly what was going on for the last 3 hours but anyways, she said that she would schedule a technician to come out and I got the confirmation number and waited the next day for the technician to come out... no show.
I called Comcast yet again, and they told me that they had cancelled the technician appointment because one of the agents in the middle of night, reviewed my account, and sent a refresh signal and it said that everything was working, so they cancelled the appointment... I was furious but stayed professional and had to go through yet another round of what's what and why this is not working and why they need to send a technician... At this point I am ready to tell them forget it and just pick the dang thing up, when oh wow, they finally listen to what I have to say and schedule the technician to come out.
The technician finally came out and took one look at the X1 DVR box and said "Yeah here is your problem... You have an outdated X1 DVR and they are not supported anymore (Keep in mind I just ordered the X1 DVR service a matter of days before, and they gave me an unsupported X1 DVR)." Well this technician replaced the DVR and everything was up and running. I was ok, well that was a pain but at least it is over now. WRONG.
I got my bill and they had charged me for the technician that came out and the ones that didn't, plus they were charging me the standard rate of service for both Internet and TV. According to the bill, there was not a promotion rate or agreement applied to my account. Needless to say I was really fed up, and then spent 6 hours on the phone bouncing from one agent to the other, getting bumped to hold, then handed off to another agent and finally got a supervisor.
I explained everything to her and she actually was apologetic and said she would take care of it, and said that my total fixed monthly rate for the 2 year agreement would be $133.20 and it would not be changed. So at this point I was somewhat ok, and checked my account again and it says I had past dues still on the account for a technician and a month of service. I have called many times within the last 2 months to clear this up, and finally got to the point where I just told them flat out that I will pay what I owe, which is the amount that I agreed to of $133.20. I will not pay a single penny more. The issue was then escalated to the "Executive Branch of Customer Service" which is an even bigger joke..
Now we are at present date, I spoke with Eric **, Executive Customer Relations of Comcast Corporate. I told him what had happened and his response to me was that I do owe what they are saying and that the fixed rate agreement isn't a fixed rate agreement and had the audacity to tell me that Comcast has never sent out a promotion with the details that I had been talking about. I was floored, this guy basically called me a liar after all that has been going on. Well needless to say, that comment changed the dynamic of the call, and I finally told them that I have been recording all the calls that I have had with Comcast, I have retained all the emailed correspondence and I still have the "Promotion Flyer" flyer that apparently "NEVER" existed.
He then went to say that he has worked at Comcast for 11 years and that they have never sent out a flyer with those terms and basically said that I would have have to fabricate the flyer myself or someone else did or what not and I was beyond mad already. But then I heard it. This guy had me on speaker in his office and another guy in the office was LAUGHING!!! I had enough. I told Eric that I would be posting all of my experiences with Comcast over the past 3 months online and that I will continue to pay $133.20 as I agreed to, but will not be paying a single cent more, and if they decide to interrupt my services, I will take that as a violation of the agreement and will leave the contract void at which point they would lose me as a client and I would voice my opinion and experience to anyone I come in contact with even thinking about Comcast, and I hung up and am now posting here.
I know that was a long story, but believe me living through it was much longer. I shortened this review up as much as possible without losing the details. Like I said at the beginning I was like a venue for the phone conversations that were recorded if anyone has additional places you are aware of, please let me know and I will post there as well. Something has to be done about Comcast. The monopoly is ridiculous and I know that Fiber Optics are coming soon, and I can't wait because we can finally be free of Comcast/Direct TV/ and Dish which one is no better than the other. They are all terrible. If you by chance want to reach out to Eric ** at Comcast Executive Customer Relations his number is **.
Reviewed March 25, 2016
To say that I despise Comcast would be the biggest understatement I have ever made. This company who I actually liked at one time have been so completely worthless over the last 8 months yes 8 months trying to resolve multiple billing errors it is beyond belief and I will never give them a penny as long as I live. I ended my service last Aug. yet they continued to bill me thru Oct which I finally cut them off and blocked my credit card as well as reversed the charges. I made my first call about this error the first day I got the bill in Sept. 12 calls and 8 months later still no resolution. And get this they have now sent me to collections and it is showing up on my credit report. Each time on the call they begged forgiveness and promised that they would 100% take care of this. I have been promised this by a few of the following:
Lucky 10-6-15. Zee 12-29-15. Karen 12-29-15 and she even gave me a confirmation # of ** that we were done. Ashley 12-30-16 finally I think it is done. Nope I then got my next collection notice on 1/20/16 but I am in Europe so I can’t respond. Next I got to talk to 2-8-16 Jasmine. 2-8-16 Christine. 2-8-16 Joy who promised that Comcast would in fact call me back by end of business, of course that never happened. I just got back from a love trip to Europe and Asia and what do I find in my mailbox, another collection notice.
So today 3-25-16 I talk to Pamala who transfers me to a supervisor Aaron. He informs me that they had made huge errors and they he will finally take care of it all. And oh by the way they still want me to pay $60.62 that they say should have been the final bill. So I asked him what the probably 20 hours of time I have spent on the phone is worth and he said "that is unfortunate but you had service and you owe Comcast." No apology just you owe Comcast. Then I asked about the credit reporting and he said that is automatic. We will see if anything actually happens.
All I can say is that this company took a loyal customer and turned me into a zealot to tell every single person who will listen to never do business with them ever again. The fact that I am taking the time from my very busy day to write this would give you a clue how bad this entire mess has been. All I can say is NEVER EVER consider COMCAST for your cable. I got DirecTV at one of my houses and AT&T at the other and so far all is well.
Reviewed March 25, 2016
Worst ISP available. Intermittent signals with the absolute worst telephone service I have personally ever experienced. When I say intermittent signal, my internet will randomly go out. The best part is, however, I can yell into the "security camera" aimed inside my house to turn the signal back on, and it works! Big brother? Is that you?
Reviewed March 24, 2016
I have only lived in Florida for 7 months and we wanted U-verse as that was by far the best in St. Louis! I have heard nothing but horror stories about U-verse down in Florida. Well I have to say that Comcast is not the worst, but I don't like how very often you get the time to restart your box message. In all the years I had U-verse, not once other than every now and then you needed to sit and be patient as the system would need to reboot, but we're talking once every 4-5 months! Also it's very strange how there is a delay when you change channels. Not sure what any of this means but when I move back to GOOD OLD ST. LOUIS, the first thing I'm doing is going back to AT&T U-verse for a better viewing experience w/better channels too!
Reviewed March 24, 2016
Hi All, Comcast Xfinity... Big fat liars. Comcast charged me $10.00 every month for the equipment they have not provided. When I realized that they over charging me every month, I reached out to Comcast. They said they are sorry and said they will refund me money back in 4 to 6 weeks. After 6 weeks they call me and says I owe them 30 plus dollars. Now I am chatting with them and they say they charged me for the equipment. I was given only setup TV box. They were also charging me for Modem which they never provided me.
Reviewed March 24, 2016
I had their service for many frustrating years. My last experience with them is that three months ago I moved to another state and turned my equipment in. They never turned the service off and want 590.00 for the last three months after I closed the account and sold my house. I talked to their customer service person whose voice was almost not audible in Panama. He said he would take care of it but again I got another bill asking me to pay for someone else's bill! Frustrating to deal with them.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
I made a call to Comcast because of a payment I made that it was wrong due to us writing one amount on the check and actually wrote on the writing part of the check the right amount then Comcast go by the amount that we wrote not the other amount. Our bank said to call Comcast and they may fix the problem, but from the moment I called to fix the problem with Comcast the cust serv was unprofessional and rude. They said nothing they can do that we would have to pay the difference and if I put a stop on the check I would get a fee of $25 and that's not counting what my bank would charge me so I left alone but then I wanted to see if I was to save some money. Yes. When I called last month because I wanted to see if I saved then they switch me to another amount, no contract but the difference with my equipment was a saving of $15 in which I'm not satisfied.
I wished there were other cable company I can transfer to but on my area Comcast are the only one. This rude unprofessional Customer Service Gerry kept reminding we have been on the phone 45 min or 1 hr. "This would only would have taken 30 min to me". He sound it angry the entire conversation and just wanted to end up conversation even though we talked about other ways to save money, but in the long run I'm not saving too much and I'm not happy with this particular customer service by the name of Gerry and I didn't get a call back like it was promised 30 minutes after because I told him he was going to get rated very low. I guess they can get away with it. Right now I wish I can cancel but no other cable company on my area beside Satellite services I don't like but that would be my second option.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
Customer service is terrible! I shouldn't be required to pay a $50 installation fee for a set top box swap when the install took 5 hours. There was no service to the home due to exterior wires being cut so you had to come out for the outage. One tech worked for 3 hours, and had to call another to assist. I couldn't have done this on my own. I've been a customer for years paying $250 monthly. I wouldn't recommend Comcast to anyone just because of customer service or lack thereof.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
I wish I did not sign a 2-year contract with this company. I do not know how they stay in business besides lack of competition. I waited over an hour to speak to a representative. Could not get them to send me my bill for 6 months after calling repeatedly. They raised the price after a couple months because the promotional price ends, which I was never informed of. I got quoted a priced and after I complained about my bill being much higher I was informed it was because that was an estimate. I should have read the fine print. Make sure you read every single detail of any contract they try to lock you into. They also charged me 15$ for HBO after I was given it free and asked for it to be removed. Check your bill over and over. If government cable regulations change and a company has to charge you more, I would expect a notification. Of course that thought did not occur with this company. Please do some research before choosing Comcast.
Reviewed March 23, 2016
Cable Removal for Construction -- Mr. Tom Karinshak my name is David ** and I'm in Jacksonville Florida. I have been trying for three weeks. Do you have someone in the residential service to disconnect your cable line from an electrical in order for me to have the electrical remove the pole in order for me to build a new home. The first day I called which one is three weeks ago. A gentleman by the name of Pete came out looked at it and said it had to go to another department and they will be in touch with me within 24 hours. That never happened. I called again and spoke with these people in one phone call, Jasman, Shanail, Julie. I was told it had to go to residential services and that someone would call me on Saturday morning March 19. Guess what? That never happened either. I called on Monday the 21st and no returned my call then.
On the 22nd I spoke with James and then a young lady by the name of Janet. She told me that the job was set up on them to take the line down 3-28-2016. I let her know that would not work. I need to demo the house. I asked for her supervisor. When I did that she found this funny and chuckled on the phone, said "hold on a minute." After waiting another five minutes to get back on the phone and said he was not available and he will call me back within two hours. It was 2:30 Eastern time. She said his name was German **. Guess what? It is now 7:30 Eastern time and I have yet to receive his phone call. And need someone that has another authority do you contact me to remove your wire this week. I have never been forced to work with any company as incompetent as Comcast. The first work order I was given was **. Nobody with your organization can tell me what happened with that.
The new work order number is **. I need someone to respond with a reasonable date to come and take your line down. My contact information is David ** or I can be reached by email at **. Now I have spent close to 7 hours between phone calls and now I have spare close to 7 hours between phone calls and this letter. Not to count the 45 minute drive to meet Pete the first day then a 45 minute drive back to my office. If you have anybody in your organization that is competent enough to do that I would appreciate them contacting me.
Reviewed March 22, 2016
I have been a subscriber to your internet services since Feb 15, 2016. I contacted to you add a digital TV service on March 3, asking for a package that includes news channels. Round 1: The agent over the phone assured me that the proposed package would include news channels. He informed me that I would have the service in 72 hours, with the set-top box delivered.
Round 2: I called again after 5 days (March 7) and nothing happening, to find out that my order got lost. After a very long phone call I agreed with another agent that I order the package the price of which went up (from 64 to 69 dollars). I had to wait 72 hours and the service would work. Later I received two obsolete set-top boxes (I asked for one box, presuming all boxes are HDMI-enabled). When I put the system together, I found no news channels.
Round 3: I chatted online. In the end I was reassured in writing by Juvy Lyn ** Comcast customer care specialist on March 9 that the Preferred Double Play with Blast 150 Mbps speed for $89.99/month for 12 months promotion has been successfully added on my account. Notice the price hike. I sent back the two obsolete set-top boxes.
Round 4: I did not receive anything in 5 days. I called and a very helpful agent named Chris informed me that the sending of the HD set-top box was put on hold and my order to change the service to include news channels was lost. He proceeded to clean up the mess for me. After a phone call that lasted about an hour, he subscribed me to Starter Double Play (price hiked to 98 dollars) and set the HD set-top box on route. I was expected to get the service working by March 21.
Round 5: On March 21, after setup, my TV displayed only that this set-top box is no longer active. I chatted online with an agent who solved the problem, but with the picture, two other problems surfaced: no sound whatsoever and the news channels missing. These channels are missing even though the previous day I had received email confirmation that I was now a subscriber to the Starter Double Play package, which includes Digital Starter, a compilation with news channels.
Round 6: Today upon turning on the TV all I could see was the “This set-top box is no longer active.” message, despite yesterday’s troubleshooting. I have lost my patience with you. This should be a simple business: I order the service, you deliver, I pay for it. As things stand, I order the service, you don’t deliver, I pay more and more for it. At each contact with you, I had to explain all my Comcast issues from the start. Each phone call and chat lasted at least half an hour.
At each conversation, I ask you to correct the misspelling of my first name. Each time you promise. It is still misspelled. Under normal circumstances, I would have quit Comcast already. As you have monopoly in my building, I cannot do it. But I expect some sort of a compensation for this lack of professionalism, the wasted hours over the phone and chatting, and the distress it caused. The least you can do is to send a professional to my home and have the system set up perfectly and without any further cost to me. I am looking forward to your reply. My next step is filing a complaint with the US customer protection body.
Reviewed March 21, 2016
Called Comcast Friday, February 18, 2016 at 5:00. Was on the phone with them for about 55 minutes telling the customer service rep that I wanted to cancel my basic cable service. He made an attempt to try to get me to bundle my internet and cable telling me it would be cheaper. It told him I don't need the cable since I get anything I need using an HD antennae. After several attempts at trying to get me to not cancel, he put me on hold and never came back. My guess is he didn't want this cancellation on his name so he hung up on me.
Reviewed March 21, 2016
On today a tech came out which from the jump I could tell was a rookie... He states my apartment needs rewiring and I can't have that done until Saturday... and top it all off dude steals my tv remote. Upon making several calls to his phone which he just previously called me from he won't answer nor return my calls... so now I have no cable nor can I watch Netflix... I hate a theft!!!
Reviewed March 19, 2016
This company changes the channels to get you frustrated so you have to pay for upgrades in the service. They remove your favorite channel and replace it for the worse one possible. Their intention is to force you to get upgrades. This changes happened several times with my service. They recently removed History channel from my service which is one of my family's favorite. We used to watch it together and enjoy fantastic story telling and the great knowledge from instructional programs that it offered. Well they replaced it with "Vice". Vice is a channel where all you see is people doing drugs, partying and getting wasted. Unbelievable! I wonder what kind of people can take decisions like this and live happy with themselves.
Reviewed March 19, 2016
My experience with Comcast was like something out of a horror movie. First they was late, real late, then they left without hooking up all my services, then I call back only to hear them tell me a technician would be back until the next day. I don't recommend this company.
Reviewed March 17, 2016
When I signed up for the 2 year contract I was told on the phone that my bill would not change for 2 years. That is a lie. After a year, my bill went up by $20.00. I was told that I was getting a discount for the equipment, but that discount was only for one year, not the two years that I was sold. When I asked the Comcast rep over the phone where that information was in writing, it turns out there is nothing in writing that he could provide to me. I plan to write Comcast and have them tell me that in writing.
Reviewed March 16, 2016
Shory story: Xfinity has horrible customer service, logistics, and they are happy that way. Run or your wallet become the Xfinity ATM; meanwhile you will wonder why your rear hurts. Long story: I should have known Xfinity was a bad idea when they couldn't get my order right. Then entered it twice, so I had two shipments of boxes and parts, some of which weren't even part of my package. They charged me for all of it even though I rejected the boxes that weren't part of my cable package as soon as they arrived. I had to argue with customer service over the course of weeks to clear that up.
They tried to charge me a monthly fee for using a router that was not part of my order. Then tried to charge me for using my own router. That was another week of disputes until I sent them the receipt of purchase. The router doesn't even look like the one they use. Then, include the random billing. Apparently, if paying through the "convenient" app, paying the full amount of the bill isn't really the full amount of the bill. My bill jumped quite a bit, when I called in, they informed me that I did not pay the full bill amount. What? Apparently they can add amounts after the fact. The math didn't add up, but as the customer, you are pretty much ** up as far as they are concerned.
Reviewed March 15, 2016
I am receiving billing for charges I have already paid. When I go to log in for further information they say that my log in and password are not valid even though I had just established one. This is confusing and raises doubts as to their record keeping. I would choose another server, but I still have time on my contract. So I'm stuck and unable to get answers from XFINITY.
Reviewed March 15, 2016
I just recently moved to the place I am now and request Comcast service due to the reason this is the cheaper cable company around here. It was the worst decision ever. The cable is literally a basic local channel antenna with no good channels at all. All the cable channels are blocked, the only channels you can see are the same ones you can see with an antenna, and the WiFi is the worst - the signal doesn't even arrive to my bedroom, you need to literally be next to the modem to get a good signal... sometimes. I'm just going to cancel this crap and look for another company.
Reviewed March 15, 2016
I spoke to a representative with whom was given my contact information. It took her 2 days just to get me a price. When I agreed to the price she said she would call me right back with an installation date. It's 5 days later and no call from her. I was connected with another rep who told me if I paid a $100 deposit on Thursday I would be guaranteed service on Saturday. Since I have 2 children who need internet to do homework I paid the deposit. No call from Comcast by Saturday so I called the rep back, he told me to give him until 11 am that day and he would have a time for me.
I called at 11 am, as requested and as of the following Tuesday I still had not heard back from the rep. I had received a call from Comcast that Monday saying someone would be there on Tuesday AM to do install. I had to have someone at my house waiting since I had to work. The tech showed up, stayed about 20 minutes and told the girl waiting that the install could not be done. I then called the rep who guaranteed service by Saturday and he again went back and forth with me, along with his supervisor. I was told by his supervisor that she would call me by 6 pm that same Tuesday and I would have install that night.
I never received a call and I had been told they would send me instructions immediately on how to log onto the HotSpot in my area, to which I still have not received information. I went back and forth with several reps with your company and was constantly transferred from person to person, and in many cases right back to the first automated system. It took me until the following Monday to get someone competent on the line who had installation set up for the following day. I was told many times by the 2nd rep who had guaranteed service on that Saturday the because of all the problems I would be credited back the $100 deposit, that the $50 installation fee would be waived and that the $150 installation fee was not going to be due.
I still have no credit to my debit card, and I see no installation fees removed from my bill, which was sent to me several days before I even had service. I would not recommend this service to anyone. Worst company I have ever dealt with. There is no excuse for so many incompetent people or being referred back to the beginning of automated system or sent to the wrong department. Not only do I have 2 children who need internet for school work, I run businesses from my home and was forced to use additional data from my cell phone line to make up for Comcast errors.
Reviewed March 13, 2016
Houston has 2 internet providers - AT&T and Comcast. Both are horrendous, unreliable, and have terrible customer support. Being forced to choose one over the other makes question if we're really a democracy. I've wasted sooo much time and money trying to get decent, reliable service that if I was getting paid to wrestle with Comcast, I'd be a millionaire.
Reviewed March 13, 2016
If you have any choice do not use Comcast. The technician who set up our service was not knowledgeable and the company switched our package to a lower one without our knowledge. The service technician also broke our sound bar and Comcast is doing nothing to fix it or replace it. Overall an awful experience and we plan to cancel service asap.
Reviewed March 12, 2016
When there was an issue with speed (MBPS), Comcast reps told me to buy their router for 10$ a month. That didn't fix it and I lost the salvage value of my own high-quality router from Best Buy, and am now paying another 10$ a month in addition to those damages incurred to me (and others, so I hear) by Comcast. After this didn't fix the issue, they wouldn't provide recourse and then required that I upgrade for about another 40$ a month to get my service working. These are bait and switch sales practices and are easy regulations. The company can be doing this to many people from the sampling obtained so far, and they will be paying millions. Attorneys, take note. If you don't see this in the news quickly, you better gobble it up for your firms. We're in the process of filing promptly to incentive them to stop doing this to their clients, not to exclude antitrust problems.
Reviewed March 12, 2016
So about 6 months ago last summer a door to door salesman for Comcast basically trapped me outside while doing the yard work and convinced me to switch from DirecTV to Comcast just to try it out. He stated that Comcast no longer has any contracts that they use with new service. He also stated that I would get a $250 (of which I only got $100 gift card) and I only had to stay with the company for 3 months to be able to get the gift card. After the three-month period I was supposed to be able to cancel with no extra cost.
However I tried Comcast for about 6 months. I went to try and cancel my Comcast today as I wanted to go back to DirecTV because the service I was getting was horrible. When I cancelled I was then told there was going to be $150 cancellation fee for my contract. I informed the lady on the phone that I did not have a contract, however she stated I approved a contract and there was no way to override it. I argued with her and with her supervisor for about an hour. The supervisor stated that if I would have contacted them after I received the email stating that my services were turned on and at the very bottom I guess it said that it was on a term contract. However because I was told by the agent of Comcast that there was no more contracts I didn't read any further to see if I was in a contract.
So now what I'm trying to do is first he told me to go to the store and return my equipment and see if they would help me get my hundred and $150 removed from my account. Or if that didn't work I am supposed to send a snail mail letter to Comcast. Unbelievably Comcast corporate offices do not have phone numbers or email addresses that consumers can contact them with. We are to send a snail mail letter and hope someone calls us back.
It's not about the money to me. What I'm upset about is I was lied to and this isn't right. And I wonder how many other people he lied to to get them to sign up for Comcast. And how many of these people don't know yet that they're under a two-year contract that they have no idea they're under. I did tell him that I wanted someone to check into the person who did this to me and that I wanted the company I guess a third party company to contact me and tell me if this is integrity issue. Which I'm guessing it is because it happened to me. It had to happen to someone else from the same guy.
I will be going to the store front hopefully next week and I will update you on what happens. I am just so annoyed that an agent of a company can lie to you and not get in trouble for it. The supervisor said I should have read the entire contract before I signed it. I'm sure there are people that do this but most of us trust the person who is signing us up for a service and feel I'm sure that if they lie the company will fix it. And the service by the way was horrendous. I had probably 20 if not more disruptions in service in the six months that I had it than I did in the 15 years that I had DirecTV before that. Also Comcast charges for most of its on demand products. They either say you can rent them or purchase them. Whereas DirecTV has mostly free on demand. You have to pay for some of their movies but most of their TV shows are free.
I'm hoping that this will help at least one person not get Comcast. If you want a good company go to DirecTV. Comcast is horrible and I don't know why I even tried it for the three months let alone 6 months that I did. I figure they were a big company and they would be able to fix the problems. Yet they sent out technicians and the problems did not get fixed and now I find out they lied to me. So I will be coming back after I go talk to someone in the store and let you know if I got anything resolved or if I had to write that snail mail letter and then see if someone calls me back. So basically do not under any circumstances sign up for Comcast unless you have a lawyer. Read your contract ahead of time. Or you'll get screwed.
Reviewed March 10, 2016
Comcast or Xfinity, whatever it's called it's a piece of **! THEY PROMISE THAT after I make a payment of 303.09 they would put cable. Well I made the payment now I'm stuck with no money and no cable!!! And I told my kids I was going to put cable. Now how do I look at their faces and tell them that I'm not putting cable!!! Comcast only worries about money and that's it!!! I HATE COMCAST.
Reviewed March 10, 2016
I've called Comcast many times and have been disappointed many times. The customer service reps are trained to NOT compromise with their customers and tell you, "You're wrong, you MUST pay the entire bill." Even when you threaten to leave their company they still don't care. At one point they accidently created 2 accounts for me because one of the reps misspelled my first name on a bill. Instead of fixing the problem, they told me I owed BOTH bills and refused to fix the issue. I ended up canceling their service, and they sent their harassing debt collectors after me for a measly 50 bucks! After threatening to mess with my credit score I ended up just paying the 50.00 that I didn't even owe. Terrible, terrible customer service. I'd recommend anyone but them.
Reviewed March 10, 2016
1st - I have had to go through this painful process of resetting my password over 6 times when I have never had to do this more than once on any other website. You have to actually have a chat message to solve the problem. I think something is wrong with their website. 2nd - I have over 4 conversations about getting a refund from Comcast for over 7 months which still has been useless. Almost every time I get a new story. 3rd - Comcast hits me every 6 months with a new internet plan that costs more in which I have to call and have them switch. Please avoid this company. I would give -5 stars if possible.
Reviewed March 9, 2016
I got Comcast July 2015, it is now March 2016, the service is being spotty. I had issues with service down and I had techs coming to my house 6 time until now. The latest was on Feb 2016. The service was down a Wednesday morning. I called and they sent a tech on Saturday. He found 'no issues', but he said that the connection outside my house was loose. The service was up for a couple of hours after the tech was gone but went down abruptly. I called again and they send somebody next Monday. He checked and declared that there was a faulty splitter inside the house. He replaced it, the service came back on, but he said that the wiring was set up wrong with splitters in wrong place and said that the company would redo it BUT with a fee.
A week went by with service (wow!!), but next Saturday morning - what a surprise - the service was down again. FYI: By the term SERVICE I mean everything. TV, internet. I called. As usual I went through the trivial, identification, plug, unplug (stuff that I already done), ping, trying to downgrade the importance of the outage. They scheduled a new tech appointment for the coming Monday. Another day off work for me. The tech this time finds that the problem is at the pole outside my house. A box worn out (he showed to me - I could see it almost in pieces) hanging. He said that the pole techs would come and replace it. And they did. I have service since. The same spotty, down at times but it's there.
The story does not end here though. They gave me $20 credit for all those days that I had no service. I was pleasantly surprised. Then I received the email with my upcoming bill. To my (not pleasant) surprise they had added a $70 fee for one of the tech appointments. I called again (March 1, I started keep logs of all communications). 1 more hour of my day. I talk with a CS rep and after a long conversation and explanations that the issue was on their end (Comcast) he assure me that he would submit an escalation ticket (#CR565104731) to his supervisor to waive the charge. I thanked him and waited for the confirmation.
When it came I realized that they only waived half the amount. Called again (March 4 - my birthday). Rep named Daphne told me that this was the company policy and she would not waive the rest of the charge. I was trying to explain that the issue was not in my end but outside the house at the pole, but she said it did not matter. I should pay. If I did not want to pay in the future I should buy a protection plan. Protection from whom? The same company that I pay for my service, apparently. She also tried to get rid of me stating that the issue has been resolved. Again and again.
I demanded for a supervisor and refused to hang up. I also stated that I was the customer with the issue and I knew that it was not resolved as she wanted me to admit. Stayed on the phone for more than 1 (one) hour asking for a supervisor, while she was saying that there is no one available. (Me being in the same business - IT - I knew that this is impossible.) After approx 1 (one) hour she brought on the phone somebody (name Avis) as a supervisor. I doubt that she was one. She tried to get rid of me the same way. I again did not give up and demanded a supervisor (of the supervisor).
Finally a supervisor (name Jon) came up after having me waiting (and listening to their misleading commercials) for 15' and he told me that he would waive the rest of the fee FOR THIS TIME ONLY. I have the email with the confirmation. I am waiting for the actual bill to see it happening. Stay tuned. The moral of the whole thing is that Comcast customers need to buy protection plan to protect themselves from Comcast. If not they will be charged for Comcast issues. When there is no competition for a business anything can happen. I have never in my life been treated like that from a company. Much more from a huge one like Comcast. In any case this is life. As my ancient ancestor Socrates used to say 'I get old while I learn'. Thanks for your attention, be careful who you are dealing with and do not give up. If we all raise our voice these things will not happen.
Reviewed March 8, 2016
Had Comcast out Fri. They rewired the line outside. Monday the line falls down over my driveway, laying on roof garage, and laying across 3-4 lines coming into, and out of my house. I call Comcast, they say they won't be able to come fix it until Thurs. This could be a fire hazard, and I told customer service this. Said they would call me tomorrow to discuss this. Well it's tomorrow, and I still haven't heard a word from Comcast.
Reviewed March 7, 2016
I dumped Comcast for AT&T U-verse a few years ago, and they almost lured me back with one of their promotional packages. I signed up online and they gave me the option of a self-install kit, but after I took that option I realized that the cable was going to need some attention and I needed a technician. So I contacted them, they sent me a confirmation e-mail for the installation date, and even gave me a confirmation phone call for the date.
The day of the install arrives and I heard nothing from them within an hour of the installation window, so I checked the status of the appointment online - and it said there was no appointment scheduled. I called them and they confirmed the same. Irritated as hell, I told them to just cancel the account; the customer service representative told me "It's already been cancelled". I was so angry I just hung up before I bothered to ask who authorized terminating the account because it certainly wasn't me!
The savings were tempting enough for me to consider giving them another chance, but my previous experience with getting service installed and working should have kept me from considering them on any level ever again. My first round with them included two service calls they didn't bother showing up for - without telling me they'd cancelled them - because the field techs pinged the cable and decided there was nothing wrong. Twice. Never mind the fact that the issue was a bad modem and that I had no internet or phone service - and was sitting at home waiting for them both times! Stay clear of them, and don't be lured into being their victim with promotional packages. Probably the best thing they could do for me was screw up the install today; otherwise I'd have been stuck with them for 2 years.
Reviewed March 7, 2016
Comcast has been the worst. Their billing system has tons of errors showing payments are due even after you've made a payment, which resulted in a fiasco of confusion and unnecessary additional payments, stop payments, and issues with customer service. The last customer care rep I spoke with was argumentative, laughed at me when I expressed my frustration and condescending. I wish my community allowed another service provider.
Reviewed March 6, 2016
Unable to obtain any contact either through phone, Facebook, or website to let a customer service rep know that the internet and cable have been out for nearly 13 hours.
Reviewed March 5, 2016
I have only had this service for 6 months and it has been an absolute nightmare since the day I signed up for it. Their customer service is terrible, they bill me for a DVR that I don't have and when I called to talk to someone about it they told me supervisor would call me in an hour after reviewing my issues, but no call. Not surprised about that at all because it's how they do business. I am convinced they only want your money as the bill is the only thing that is consistently on time, they never forget to charge you for service you may or may not have. Xfinity sucks my ** and I'm going back to Dish Network.
Reviewed March 5, 2016
I have been on the phone with customer service for 1 hr & 20 min. I am now waiting for account verification. This company is a disaster! I don't know how they survive. Because I live in an area where I cannot use AT&T or DirecTV I am forced to deal with this incompetence. I was quoted a promotion rate which I now learned was through a telemarketing firm. Since I had to reschedule my install, I thought I would call and confirm what I had been quoted. (I just don't trust them to do what they say they will do)
Just as I expected a foreign speaking rep said she could not find the promotional rate so they had to rework and offer to mirror what I had been promised which was not nearly as good as the promotional rate (mind you I spent 45 min with the telemarketer). I think this is a deliberate bait and switch process because it has happened before with other Comcast situations.
I have now been waiting for 3rd party verification another 20 min! Of course when I go through the verification process I was not offered the same as customer service promised! They tried to force me into a contract when I was told there would not be a contract. I have been going through this process for 3 hours and I still do not have a confirmed appointment!! This company is HORRIBLE, PAINFUL and FRUSTRATING! HONESTLY I WOULD RATHER FIND A STRAY BULLET THAN DEAL WITH THIS MADNESS. They could care less about customer service! I pray that technology will continue to advance so that Apple and other streaming vehicles develop technology so that companies like Comcast will be forced out of business and we will not have to deal with such a ** performance anymore!
Reviewed March 4, 2016
I needed to call Comcast to speak with someone about my billing, as my husband's business was paying $70.00 less per month for the exact same services. I used to call Comcast and get whatever help or info I needed... Now it is all menu-driven and I had to look to Google for blogging help as to how to get a human being on the line. It took me 1 1/2 hours to find someone who would adjust the billing... The 1st person took over 10 minutes just to find me the Comcast business phone number I needed (because Comcast residential does not have the contact number for Comcast business?) and then she could not transfer me so I started all over again. Now, after that 1 1/2 hour stint, waiting on hold and speaking to 3 people, I am supposed to receive an email contract in order to lower my bill, but I have not received it. This is nonsense. I will have to go through it again. They have no customer service.
Reviewed March 3, 2016
We met a Comcast representative at a trade show and agreed to meet with him in the afternoon the next day. He was a no show but did call at 5:30 to say that he was unable to make the tentative appointment. Two days later I received a message from Comcast confirming an appointment for the next day. I did not make the appointment so extended to them the courtesy of canceling in. I was placed on hold twice. Spoke to two representatives and explained that I had not made the appointment I was cancelling. Both made me verify my credentials two different ways and asked me to explain why I was canceling the appointment. At 8:20 pm the same night I received another call verifying my appointment. I think I know why our bills are so high -- too much service.
Reviewed March 3, 2016
After many years with Verizon FIOS, I decided to switch over to Comcast because they honestly did offer me more channels for less money than Verizon did. However, it was a terrible mistake. First (this is not actually a big deal, but it does bother me), for some reason Comcast does not offer the same HD movie channels that Verizon does. For the premium channels, only the main channels are offered in HD. This means that HBO is in HD; however HBO2, HBOW, HBO Family, etc are only in SD. Same goes for Showtime, Starz, and all the premium channels. I talked to Comcast about it and he basically tried convincing me that Verizon does not offer those either. I have already switched back to Verizon and I assure you, all the premium channels are offered in HD.
Now for my real complaint: After having Comcast for about 3 months, my internet and cable went down one day. I thought ok, no big deal, this happens sometimes. After a day I gave them a call and they sent a technician to come check it out. The technician says the problem is not in our house and there is an issue with the wiring outside in my neighborhood. He said he was not qualified to fix this so said a technician who deals with those issues will come and fix it in a couple hours. So later in the day, I noticed a Comcast truck doing work on my street and assumed they were trying to fix this problem. However, they left eventually without stopping by to check if it worked. It still did not work and now I had no idea what the plan was to fix this. So I called Comcast back. They were like "Oh that's weird" and sent a technician again 2 days later (this is my 4th day with no internet or cable).
Literally the same exact thing happened. Tech came in the house, said problem was outside. Comcast truck came and left and nothing was solved. Called a third time. Person I spoke with said they promised it would get fixed the next day. They did not show up for another 2 days and the same exact thing happened again. I literally told the workers outside to let me know before they leave so we can check it. Nothing, they just left with nothing solved.
Throughout this process, I spoke with several "Supervisors" in the customer service as I was getting very angry. One supervisor gave me the number and email of another supervisor that was supposed to help me out. I called this number every day and left a voicemail for about a week and heard no response. I also talked to another supervisor that was going to check on some things and assured me repeatedly that she would call me back later that day at 5 PM to check on things and to help out more. I obviously was skeptical and told her all my concerns because they seemed to never respond or want to help me. She continued to promise that she would call me at 5 and she apologized repeatedly and said she could not control what other agents were doing and was like it won't happen with me.
Finally I said ok and anticipated her call. Of course, never got contacted again. After 2.5 weeks of no internet, cable, or any inclination of the problem being solved in the future, I canceled my service and switched back to Verizon. I had always heard rumors about how Comcast customer service is horrible but I never imagined it could be as bad as my experience was.
Reviewed March 3, 2016
I move and transfer service. Instead of moving your service Comcast train their staff to lock you in a new contract without you knowing even if you have service for the last 5 years with them. My bill was 2300 from when I move in December 18 until Feb 1. I receive a bill for 2300 that's overprice stealing from customer tricking them that the bill is 150. A month from when I start to 320 for cable I did not even have HBO are and premium channel. What am I been charge for this is a rip-off.
Comcast is only want money from customer but lack service. Even the internet speed they turn down very slow, must be for retarded people. Watching your bill Comcast charge overcharge for channel that should be free. They also force you to sign a contract when transfer service without you knowing. They just prey on customers for money and all you get is reruns. If you have to pay for rerun just sign up for Netflix, you get what you pay for. Do not sign up for Comcast because out of 60 channels only 3 or 4 is any good. It's a waste and a shame Comcast steal from their customer. What you pay for you never get. Comcast rob me.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
I signed up last August for the triple deal and was given over the phone a great price so I switched from Verizon. Big mistake. Not only did it take them 5 times to get it working, they have been back almost every month for something. Do you have the time to be home for them to fix it and not to mention the hours on the phone. I have not paid the same bill twice. It always going up and when I called now they say I have a two year agreement not 12 months. I talked to a guy Michael to account and he had such an attitude. Like what your problem?
Reviewed March 2, 2016
Endless hold time, outright lying - it's never their problem. If you want a case study of what NOT to do, look at Xfinity. But since they bought up all the other providers, they have a legal monopoly - would LOVE to cut their cord but need internet access. They hold you over a barrel, insanely high fees, endless surcharges, bad service. They regularly throttle down the service, then deny it. I have the logs from my benchmarking - at least 4 times a week they throttle back. Piss poor. They rape the user. Down at least 3 times a week - then they deny it. Wish to hell Cox operated here.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
No cost effective options to lower cable prices, less channels. Who really watches the golf station?? Cant' fast forward on most on-demand shows...too many commercials. Too many stupid channels. I can't speak Spanish, I don't watch Golf channel (why is there more than one??), excessive sports channels, awful choices... no PBS on demand. Why can't I choose my own stations that actually suit my household? Why can't I drop my landline to save money??
Reviewed March 2, 2016
Deceptive, bait and switch... always want an add-on. I only want internet and basic cable. Usually good reception, but get unexpected downtime on internet at strange hours. Far overpriced for the internet services. For shows, when you are retired, you only watch news. Do not like to pay for all the other garbage channels even on basic. Get better reception on digital antenna for local news. At least, it does not fade out when it rains. They force you to rent their boxes monthly for reception in other rooms. This adds up on the bill. The average retired household only watches one or two news channels, Fox and local news. Women will like the Hallmark channel.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
In a word, lousy. Even when we signed up, they would not give us the cable box we ordered (with dvr) and told us it was their policy to just give what is on hand. The services offered, I don't have much of a problems with, save the price for what we get. Far too expensive a service. Higher speeds is an even higher premium. They should offer outstanding customer service at an affordable price, the kind of service one gets when one isn't served by a monopoly.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
It usually takes a very long time to get someone on the phone & when we do get someone...they don't speak English and don't understand the problem. The problem is usually not resolved until a day or two later after the "cable box" or "internet modem" has been "reset" several times after several calls back. T.V. is usually fine. Internet speeds are variable and often very slow. Also, the cable provider opted us "in" to providing a free hotspot for the general public (at least for other XFINITY subscribers). That made our internet crawl! The installation process was very easy for cable. We tried to also have the phone installed, but it was too difficult so we had to stop that subscription. The internet was a self-setup. Each of our services goes down without warning at various times during the day in all kinds of weather. We're never given an explanation or a credit, even though it happens all the time.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
They present well but deliver poorly. My DVR died. Called support, determined a replacement was needed, and it was to be mailed to me. Received replacement, replacement did not work. Called again, they told me they would send a repairman out & would CHARGE ME! I cancelled service. Had to return equipment to a local store of theirs. Waited in their store with over 200 people & 1 service person working behind thick plexiglass. One person working!! Waited close to 2 hrs before my number was called. Poor. The costs are too high, their equipment is old, software interface is poor. Service (getting a picture/programs) was reliable, the equipment was not. Quit taking advantage of your subscribers by delivering outdated software, hardware, poor customer service and equipment.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
Pathetic. They don't know their own product. We pay up the yin yang and yet every time we want to watch a show we don't have it. A lot of channels used to be included in a package but it seems now that all those channels want individual subscriptions. It's a real rip-off. We get nothing basically for a lot of money. If we could ditch it we would but antennas don't work in this area. The internet is slower than time even though we pay top dollar for the top tier. It also just freezes up often throughout the day. Movies stop throughout their viewing saying not enough bandwidth is available. I think Xfinity purposely clamps down on speed and bandwidth. We don't game so it's really unfair. We are in no way hogging the net. Waiting for something better to be available in our area. Reliable? HA! RiDICKulous is more like it. Xfinity is a scam operation and the feds do nothing about it. Criminals.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
For answers, they read off of a computer screen and have no idea what they are saying. X1 box is very slow. Cable and internet is way too expensive for what they provide. DVR doesn't work at times, can't delete programs. I hate Comcast, Xfinity, whatever they call themselves. Rates are constantly going up for no reason, programming sucks, DVR should be a lot faster than it is. Even Comcast says that it is VERY slow!!!
Reviewed March 2, 2016
For 10 years I have paid bills online. Now I am locked out of my account and the Comcast/XFINITY office and customer support is also locked out. And why? Because I do not use the assigned email address for comcast.net. No complaints with the quality of the cable or the internet just the company and their underhanded ways. Every year the cost doubles and you have to go to the retention department to find an affordable "package" even if you don't want a "package". Few instances of downtime in the 10 or 15 years. To force someone to use another email address is ridiculous, and to refuse online service because a customer does not want yet another email address that terminates with the cable service is unethical.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
It's fine. Haven't had to call recently. However when we do, I have to have my husband call because his name is on the bill. BUT I PAY THE BILLS! So it's irritating. The only problem I have with the quality is that when cable goes out, it's usually out longer than Verizon land-line phone service ever is. The cost of cable TV is ridiculously high. The business model is totally for these companies & the networks and not for consumers at all. Networks get paid by advertisers then by cable companies. The cable companies get paid to provide us with the networks.
And what does the consumer get? Gouged by cable and advertised to death by the networks. If the networks weren't so greedy, everything would cost less. If I already pay to see a network, I shouldn't have to also see advertising on that network. In other words, I'm paying to be advertised to. I hate it. Why do they have an absolute right to solicit me but I don't have any right to not be solicited? Also, all tv should be HD w/o added costs and no commercials should be included when watching shows on demand.
Reviewed March 2, 2016
Xfinity's X1 DVR system has a serious flaw in that it tends to cut off the ends of programs. I had DirecTV for 3 years prior to switching back to Comcast for cost reasons. DirecTV's system records a couple of minutes beyond the scheduled end of a program thus not risking the loss of the end of the program content. I'm not referring to upcoming episodes of the program at the end of the show, but actual missing current program content. Although I would like to see the previews for the next episode also, which is lost. The X1 system also contains less information than the DirecTV system in their guide. For instance they don't list the guests on a talk show. You have to take extra steps to find it if it exists.
Reviewed Feb. 29, 2016
Not at all happy with the service I am getting. Raised a complaint but never received any response from them. Over the call they told there is no service fee but when I get the bill I see service fee added… Just disgusting.
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2016
I started a business contract with Comcast back in December of 2015. When I started the contract I was informed that my home phone, internet and cable will become one bundle that would give me one bill versus me having to 2 bills. Who in their right mind wants to have to cable bill, both of them are $106 and $0.13 a month. They are highway robbery. They tell you one thing and do another. When I asked for a bundle deal I ask for a bundle. The bottle of that I was told that I will ask you receive is the cable internet and phone for 3 years for $94. My total bill for the whole three years of $106.13 plus the taxes. That's not what's really happening so today I had to experience me having no service because of their mishaps.
Reviewed Feb. 26, 2016
I recently relocated and set up internet and cable through Comcast/Xfinity. I had no issues getting my account established over the phone. I went to the Xfinity store to pick up my equipment in order to do a self-installation of my services. I own an internet router/modem and took it with me to the store (in the original box) to see if it would be compatible with the Comcast/Xfinity internet. The rep at the store was friendly and personable and said he "added the router/modem" to the list of compatible routers and that I shouldn't have any issues.
Once I got home, I got everything connected and called the self-install number. I was on the phone for almost an hour and they could not get my router to pick up a signal. I eventually was transferred to a technician and after talking with him for 20 minutes, he said I needed to go get another router. I was incredibly frustrated at this point, as the guy at the store said that I should have no issues getting it to connect. I drove back to the store (a 30-minute drive) to rent a router. They did not compensate me at all for the inconvenience.
When I called back to try to activate my services again, I ended up being on the phone for another HOUR. The woman did not know how to troubleshoot why my internet was not connecting and ended up having to transfer me to another technician. After the internet was connected, I then had to be transferred back to someone to help me activate my cable. I told him that I had connected my tv box to the TV with an HDMI cord and he said that HD was not included in my package!! I told him that I explained to the lady who set up my account that I had an HD tv. He said he would not charge me for the HD activation (thank goodness)!
After getting off the phone with them, I realized they did not help me set up my DVR. I called back and another lady told me that someone had deleted the DVR off my account and that the tv box they had given me was not equipped with the DVR feature and that in order to have that set up, I would have to take my current box back to the store and pick up a new one and then go through activation again. I told them to forget it due to the inconveniences I had had throughout the day. Once turning my TV on, I realized the channels are SO limited and even some of the major/common channels are not included. For close to $80 a month, I feel like I should be getting more for my money. I am glad Comcast/Xfinity doesn't have contract associated with it because I was very disappointed in their customer service, the package that I bought and the disorganization across the board. I would NOT recommend this company.
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2016
We changed from a different provider to Comcast with the conditions that they were going to provide the similar features that make our company run smoothly. They promised everything, as well as a smooth transition for installation (we are in the middle of moving to a new location once the construction is finalized). However, since our move in Oct, we have had problems with our fax line (which I finally narrowed it down to pinpointing that the Comcast lines are digital, even though they say it's analog). It's a digital line that "technically has the same features as an analog line" (I have sporadic service where I cannot count on faxing, so I have changed to emailing everything).
I have also been having problems with the internet, where we are constantly being kicked out of the programs that run online (OUTLOOK, something so basic that we rely on: emails). When the program is offline, I keep receiving pop-up messages in regards to enter my passwords, etc. because I keep being kicked out the programs. FINALLY BUT DEF not the LEAST, my phones have the worst service. Calls come in, we answer and no one can hear us, or other callers receive messages that our phones are disconnected, or they just cannot get through for whatever reason.
HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE to run a business and provide the service when our lines for communication: OUR PHONES, FAX AND EMAILS have such unreliable service?? This has been the worst experience I've had to deal with trying to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are fixing the problem. NOW, they come around to tell me that other customers that have experienced the same issue has been resolved by upgrading to a different VOIP system.
FIRST, I need to point out that I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE undergoing this situation. SECOND, I'm pretty much being bullied into changing the way my business works and runs so that I can keep them as providers... Why do they have it all backwards?? They are supposed to mold to our needs, and here I am being told that I need to change my phone systems, and pay more than I am doing so now so that I can make these problems go away.
I am at breaking point where I'm researching to contact HELP ME HOWARD because their method of doing business is completely backwards. I keep getting the run around. Oh and I forgot to mention, in regards to the new location we are suppose to move to, we have been having to postpone the new installation due to delay with the construction. I keep receiving phone calls to notify that the installation is scheduled TOMORROW!! I've gone over this several times with our "customer rep" that is our direct contact through this process and it's still not getting cleared in the system. I feel like I would have to hire someone JUST to deal with Comcast because it's too time consuming to keep having to go over the same information again and again, as you would with children in a pre-k classroom. This is ridiculous.
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2016
My father worked for this company since I was a baby. For a long time I loved comcast. But now, I've realized I've only loved it because my dad worked there and we got so much for so cheap. My dad got hurt and was let go. Now that I see how much you have to pay to get any kind of "good" service, it's ridiculous. We pay almost a hundred dollars a month and we have to constantly get new remotes because we can't get our on demand without it. We have to pay more to watch what we already pay for? Also I didn't realize, but you also took the buttons off the box so we are FORCED to buy new remotes! Your service for employees are amazing, but for everyday people, your service sucks. I will never be a consumer again even if you give me a lifetime of free best awesome cable. Rot in a fruit cake six months after Christmas Xfinity. ROT.
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2016
We changed services to Comcast. The installers were not able to locate the service box and were unable to install the service. They told us their Supervisor would be there in 5 mins to conduct the installation. Two hours later (after an hour on hold), Comcast was unaware of the problem or able to see which Supervisor would be contacting us. They told us we would be contacted within 24 hrs. We explained that we needed immediate internet for our businesses, there was no sympathy for this.
After waiting 24 hours, we called back. There were no notes in the system. The operator said that the nearest appt. for an installation was on March 1 (a week out). I told her that we could not wait that long and needed a response immediately. She said to give the Supervisor 48 hours to call us. I asked for his name and number, she said that she wasn't sure who would be contacting us - it wasn't assigned. I requested the $90 installation fee and days without service be waived/reimbursed. She said I would have to call back and petition after the services were fully installed.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I hate calling Comcast. Automated menus doesn't let you just choose customer service. Foreigners answering your calls. You can hardly understand them. Cable/internet will go out or put codes up. The cost is ridiculous. Supposedly you're saving with triple play but I don't see any savings and the taxes they pass on are infuriating. Reliable for the most part but will go out for unforeseen reasons.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I was able to negotiate a lower rate subsequent to an unexpected, ridiculous price increase. Internet speed is exceptional, but the value of TV service is pitiful. I have had half a dozen cable providers over the years, and Comcast is the worst value of all - offering fewer channels and no free HD for the highest cost. No problems. Comcast is good for Internet speed, but horrible for TV service value.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Had issue getting voice mail but customer service was very supportive helping. Service has been good so far. There is nothing on tv anymore, all the channels are the same. What is on are repeats. Pay such high price for nothing. Lately having to reboot cable boxes a lot. Need to provide service at more affordable rates. All the channels and really only use 10 channels but have to pay for level up because they don't carry on the affordable plan.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
They're generally curious, knowledgeable, and predictable. After some initial glitches with the X-1 system, TV service is generally fine. Internet will experience random drops throughout the day, every day. Anywhere between a few seconds and half an hour. Way too expensive for the few TV channels we watch, with way too little content in between commercials. After initial glitches it's pretty much okay. We love the on demand functionality.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
It's so difficult to reach them. I usually had to 'chat' over my computer and then it's just not personal. Since I could save the transcript to prove what the agent actually said to me, that was the only positive I can offer. Entirely too expensive. Too many outages - I went for almost two weeks without cable once and they never even offered to deduct anything from my bill for not having service.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
The field technician was great. However it took 4 calls to house techs who knew nothing before they sent someone out. Since faulty equipment was fixed, signal has been good most of the time. Only one outage which was nationwide. Install easy, programming not as good as DirecTV. Comcast needs to work on their guide. There should be a way to only view subscribed channels.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
They act like they are doing you a favor by allowing you to talk to them. Had numerous problems from bad wiring, to Comcast technicians cutting the wrong wires, to network outages. If I could rate less than 1, I would. Prices too high, services very unreliable, and customer service is the worst. I was finally able to get Verizon FIOS and it is 1000 times, maybe more, better than Comcast.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
They have been quite responsive to my inquiries and the process is usually fast. It is fairly reliable almost all the time. Too much crap is being offered under the disguise of quality programming! We only watch 10 channels at best and the rest is streamed online. I am fairly certain that when I sit down to watch a cable program, I will be successful. Offer a la carte pricing rather than different levels of tens or hundreds of channels we will never watch.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
The only thing on my credit report is from Comcast claim that I never returned a $500 cable box when I cancelled service. It's the worst company in any of the countries that I've lived in. I wouldn't open an account with them if they paid me to do so. Technically, the TV signals were OK. The internet was very slow even when I paid for premium "fast" service. Hugely overpriced. I only wanted one channel that they carried and the minimum I'd have to pay was over $80 per month.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Very nasty customer service reps. Clear channels. Nothing wrong with service just billing. Very expensive. You get overbilled. Not for anyone on a fixed income. Pretty reliable. Could be better. Comcast does not consider that some of their customers are seniors on a fixed income and do not get paid when their bill is due. They should take this into consideration and change the billing date to accommodate the pay schedule of the customer.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Horrible customer service. Most are not educated with their product, are not able to listen, become defensive, offer a service that I have to pay additional fee, give inconsistent answers, avoid offering anything that could help me save money. Often are fuzzy pictures. Offer packages that I do not want. EXPENSIVE. Since they own this region, they charge what they want. And, sneak charges into my bill. Don't know if I'll have a telephone in the morning...or, my internet maybe down for some unknown reason. Offer individual channels. Is the triple rewards program really saving money? My bill seems to increase every other month.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I was constantly call customer support how always made promises to correct my bill and it would only be for 1 month and the bill would go back up or never be credited. So I canceled Comcast, purchased a box and watch Netflix's, I'm so much happier and I no longer have that overpriced bill. I was always calling in to have my cable box reset. It was time-consuming and a waste of my time. It worked when it wanted to and when it didn't want to, it didn't. We needed more competition in paid tv so that it is affordable for all.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
When equipment malfunctions (frequently) you have to either drive miles to the one service office, and wait usually over a half hour in line to exchange it, or pay for someone to bring a replacement to your house. Almost impossible to contact a live service person on phone. Both difficult and expensive to deal with when problems arise that they should correct to maintain service. Much too expensive, but the alternative is "rabbit ears" in my suburban neighborhood. Frequent partial outages of some channels, freezing programs, and deteriorating signals. My recommendation - avoid if at all possible.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Comcast customer support is programmed robot that has no concept of customer satisfaction. Comcast is all about Comcast. I have had 2 major conflicts with Comcast brought on by technician incompetence that resulted in serious physical damage. Comcast handled both situations poorly. One was a failure to ground the cable which resulted in substantial property loss from a lightning strike. The other was a severed main trunk caused by a Comcast lineman resulting in long outages and replacement of our incoming cable. Comcast Cable is OK. Not 5-star for certain. Too expensive. Poor customer service. Average equipment. Numerous interruptions. Equipment does not function well. I wish there was competition.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I've have Comcast cable services for about 15 years. I am currently living on a fixed income. When I call the agents from Comcast about lowering my fees to them I get different responses to lowering my bill. It seems like Comcast treats new customers like gold and its longtime customers like something else. Some of my friends that are longtime subscribers of Comcast have had to end their services with Comcast because their Comcast bill went through the roof. I wish they had more specials for their longtime subscriber that equalled their specials that they give to new time subscribers. Sometimes the internet connection gets really slow. I rely on Comcast for my internet, phone and TV connections. I've only had sporadic outages with Comcast. With Comcast it seems like the bottom end is the dollar and not customer service.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Different answers from different employees on same question; poor quality phone connections to cust service (that VOIP system that is delayed so badly); increasing prices and adding services w/o my approval. Poorly trained employees, one of them actually complained to me about his low wages paid by Comcast. Fairly satisfied w/ the internet service, although it NEVER is as fast as they advertise it is. Also recent price increases have it real expensive at $85 month for just internet. Works most of the time. I can't wait for google fiber.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
It breaks, they try to fix it. Not including outages. They're not proactive in terms of notifying of outages. You just have to guess that it's not working, perhaps it's a larger problem. Good programs, but the pay channels all have the same programs and run repeatedly the same movies or shows. Nothing much new in the way of new programs. Entertainment value. Price for the service doesn't equal the quality of the product. Pricing/packages are terrible in that new customers get better pricing whereas long-standing existing customers get nothing in the way of a price break. A take it or leave it mindset!! Consistent in the availability area. OVERPRICED PRODUCTS/SERVICES. UNDER-APPRECIATED LOYALTY OF THE LONG-STANDING CUSTOMERS.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Customer support is terrible. Appointments are difficult to schedule. Customer Support personnel will promise you services that the repair person hasn't heard of or be notified of. It usually works pretty well but the internet seems to disconnect/connect at all times. The value is very poor. Bill is way too high. When it works, it works well. But too often the tv freezes up, or the guide has wrong shows listed. Although I complain about Comcast, compared to other cable services I have talked about with friends and co-workers, it seems to be the best offered in my area.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
You can usually get someone on the phone within 5 mins as long as there's not a major issue, in which case they usually have a recording letting you know about it. They tend to want to charge you for everything, but you can talk to a supervisor in many cases and get all or part of the charges removed. We are told we get 50MBPS down speed. That is simply not the case, or I could download a 500MB file in 10 seconds. It normally takes about 1-2 minutes, depending on the time of day. It would make me feel much more warm and fuzzy about Comcast if they actually delivered what they say they deliver download and upload speed-wise, but it's better than C. America!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I haven't needed a lot of support. My most recent call was to confirm that I had the latest cable box. The person I spoke to was very pleasant and helpful. I have had very few outages and the system has always been restored in a reasonably quick manner. I am on the 2nd year of a new contract so I get a lot of channels for a reasonable price. When this year is up I will reduce my cable services to maintain a price close to my current price. No problems with reliability. There are services I currently have but I don't use like DVR and many channels I don't watch. If I was paying retail for these services my cable bill would be much higher.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Always solves the problem so I have, to date, no complaints. Most of the time the service is very good with sporadic instances of incorrect programming. Love the service. Most of the time the service is very good and occasionally have to call technical support to cover programming issues. Have complained to Comcast in the past that several times after ordering PPV the station was not programmed as promised. Requested that they improve their service in this regard.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
You can't talk to a human initially. I usually do a chat online. It depends on what employee you get. They are very good at apologizing. Equipment is cheap. Two remotes went out the same day. One box doesn't work. I have to take my time to return. Comcast sucks. They don't care because there is little competition. Writing to the executive office is also a joke. We have to live up to our side of the contract and they don't. Service goes out too much. Equipment is cheap and unreliable. When I initially decided to go to Comcast and went through Sales they lied about price and gave me service I never asked for. It took months to get the service removed. Trying to get out but have a 2 year contract. I have to abide by contract but they don't. How fair is that!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
What customer support? A problem... be prepared to be transferred at least 3-4 times and still most likely not have the issue resolved. They also lie about the bundling package prices. The X1 upgrade.. we were told we MAY get up to 75 mbps. We already had 25 mbps which they said could be average. What kind of "upgrade" is that? Then they give you a price, but when you receive the email confirmation, it's not at all what was discussed. Extremely deceptive tactics to lock you in for 2 years at really no discount. The internet goes out all the time. Pay more for less... That's their motto. The popular packages are removed from lower packages and put in higher ones to get you to pay them even more to get the channels you regularly watch. Mediocre.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Inexperienced with the products and services Comcast/Xfinity provides. Comcast has the worst customer service ever! They over charged and tell the customers one price and charge another. The services doesn't work half of the time. The internet disconnects all of a sudden. The TV shows blink out and freezes daily. It is horrible, not worth what we pay for it literally!! Not reliable at all. Comcast does not value good honest and on-time paying customers! I made several complaints about Comcast aka Xfinity whom have changed their name but not their products/services and customer service to the Company as well as the Better Business Bureau. I would not promote Comcast to anyone. I nothing positive to say about my Cable company. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
TV goes out, cannot get Comcast to respond in a timely manner. Rates keep going up while customer support has dropped off. Not enough staff to answer phones because when I call it takes longer for someone to answer. And when they do answer they are trying to sell some other service. My picture goes out, I call Comcast. They say they're working on it. I call back and I am put on hold for ten minutes or more. Or if they answer quickly they are trying to sell me. Much too expensive. And my building is sold out to Comcast so I cannot go to another source to even try to get a better deal. The most reliable thing is getting billed every month and the bill goes up. They should have a resource for the elderly. Some advocate to appeal the process they take senior citizens through.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Most trouble calls are from non-technical people following a script card. The end of the call is always followed up with a sales pitch. Internet speed is slow during the evenings. Selection of programming for the package I have is terrible. But I'm all set with spending any more than I have to. Every 6 months the price goes up $3-5 for the same terrible service. At least 1 local outage per month. Cable certainly isn't what it once was. Give me MediaOne or AT&T Broadband of yesteryear. Comcast is the worst.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
When I call, most times I get someone overseas. That is seriously disturbing. They are very hard to understand and there are too many Americans who need jobs. Great internet service when it works... Very good value. Easy to order on demand as well as changing your services. It seems to be getting better lately. The cost goes up and up till I have to call and ask them to bring the cost down or I will change providers. I Do like that there is no contract.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Customer services is OK. Tech support - depends on who you get on the phone. Most of the time it is someone who can only read from a script. We pay for channels we never watch - need a la carte. Internet is very reliable, but Xfinity X1 not ready for prime time. Many system hangups, lost recordings, software hangups requiring almost daily reboots of the X1 box, X1 box noisy, aspect ratios inconsistent between HD and non-HD channels, recording often cut off near the end and finally the daily forced reboot at night is obtrusive and shows how crappy the Xfinity software is.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
We have BASIC cable, reduced quality & programs. We live with it. We added internet last spring. Comcast adv $15/mo, said we could get $20/mo only, but charge us $25/mo, LIARS. Once upon a time cable was good quality. Now they GREATLY reduced the quality as well # of channels. Being on wrong side of a hill, we need it to get CBS and digital signals are NOT as good as old analog. In a word OK, barely tolerable. We now pay MORE $$ and get less programming & low quality after adding the BOX, just to get BASIC TV, a SCAM. Service signal reliable, Comcast LIE and try to scam us over and over. BEWARE, we have our own PERSONAL cable modem, works fine. Comcast is threatening to LOWER our service and CHARGE us for our cable modem if we do not ship it to Comcast in exchange for THEIR modem & pay monthly rental fees. WHY would I trade a working personal modem we OWN & give It to CommieCast? SCAM!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Quality is erratic, and the internet is often down. Technicians keep coming out and temporarily fix the problem. Poor service. Technicians come out regularly to fix issues. One technician told us that Comcast had installed indoor cable outside the house. Although the service is erratic, the price is 205 less than Verizon. 80% of the time there is no problem. But at once a week, the internet connection is poor and we must call Comcast or reboot the modem. Stay away from this provider if you can.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Most of the people I talked to read what they responded with out of a book. Most of them all told me the same thing. I had trouble understanding about 75% of them due to accent. I figured out what was wrong myself after hours talking to them. Cable picture is great when it is working. 98% of the time it is working fine, but the other 2% It digitally breaks up and stops. They usually say someone is working in the area. Cable costs too much for what you get. I really feel like I'm paying for commercials and not the programs. As most programs are adding more commercials. On demand is good as long as there aren't too many users on it. I would say it is about average with the other services, like dish and phone.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
They have to read from the script to be able to accomplish simple tasks or requests vs doing what needs to be done. We have no other choice of cable. We rarely have any service interruptions or issues with the quality of the product. The prices fluctuate often but continue to rise without incentive to stay with the company until you cancel. We have yet to get any service issues. If there were alternative providers in our area we probably would not be with Comcast.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
We found the need to communicate often and when we do, we find Customer service knows very little about their products. It is ironic that the service people confirm they feel the same way. We get odd sync problems with the sound and picture and sometimes the sound doesn't work at all. We have 2 residences and currently pay $163 & $189 respectively. Way too much money for the service and product we receive. Internet is slow (we upgraded to faster at one house and we still can't stream little videos online). OK. At the price we pay I hate to pay retail for HBO & Showtime. My husband calls whenever the deal they give us expires and complains and they generally re-up the deal. Not always.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
It takes a while to get someone on the phone but usually they're relatively effective at resolving issues, except the once a week when their Internet service is down. The quality of services is OK but not great. As with virtually everything else, the pricing is a little steep for what you get. Almost once a week either the Internet or telephone service gets interrupted. The speeds and connectivity vary at times. It's an overpriced monopoly that needs to be better regulated or broken up. You pay too much for too little and weekly interruptions get frustrating after a while.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I wasn't getting Starz on my TV, so I notified Comcast about my issue. Person came out to my house and fixed the problem by calling in to Comcast technician. I have no problem with customer service, with amount of TV channels or the quality of the shows I watch. The value of my cable service could be better. Why pay for 100s of channels when I only use about 20 of them? I have never had a drastic problem with receiving cable service. Only when there has been really bad weather do I have interrupted service.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Comcast knows that it is not a consumers' market, as they now have a near monopoly in our area and can raise fees and basically charge whatever they want. Their customer service is hit or miss. The last time we called with an issue regarding our router not working properly, they did send a replacement router, but then increased our monthly bill. This is after stating very plainly that the new modem/router was not going to increase our monthly bills. Add to that, very long hold times, out of state support operators, and general impression of not really caring about customer experience as long as they get paid. Comcast needs to be broken up and definitely not be allowed to merge with Time Warner. Internet access should be equal to all citizens, not based on ability to pay a very high premium fee.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Rarely I get a competent support member. At best, they're apathetic and doing the bare minimum. At worst they're downright rude and condescending. The X1 box is nice, but I think overall the rental fees are too expensive. Really hoping the FCC will open up the market so I won't have to be robbed by Comcast each month. However, as I said, the X1 makes it a little easier to swallow. (This is only referring to the cable box, I don't use their modem, as I have my own Motorola Surfboard.)
I think it's overpriced all around. And, just my own pet peeve, if you subscribe to a premium channel, I think every feed of the channel should be offered in high def. Little things like that would go a long way for customer satisfaction. But they don't care, they're the only game in town. In the two plus years I've had Comcast, it has been up 99% of the time. If Google Fiber moved to Denver, I would drop Comcast so fast it would make your head spin. Since that's not an option right now, I just wish Comcast had more value for the high prices paid overall. And that the FCC opens up the converter box market.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I was moving and turning them off. Called to check the date that I needed to contact them AGAIN to close out the account. Because they won't due it mid cycle. They bill a month in advance. So I wanted it turned off before they billed for that new month. So I was very careful. Called on THE day. Left immediately afterwards and stood in line for an hour to turn in my one box - again - didn't want that additional bill. The girl says - "You're good! You got it." 6 weeks later I get a bill. That after calling them - they insisted I needed to pay. So I waited for as long as I could and paid it. 6 weeks later I got a check back for the same amount. I turned off my cable over 4 years ago and don't regret it. Still don't miss it. And these monopolizing idiots will never get another red cent from me. Internet only. Who can watch 400 channels at once? Let it go people. Unplug. Go play outside!!!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
They have consistently offered temporary rates to keep me as a customer, and then increase the rates when the period expires. They consistently offer better pricing to new customers than to existing customers. There are frequent outages or service slowdowns (internet speeds slow or the cable service has to reboot). If there were another cable (not DSL) internet provider in my area, I would certainly switch. Their services are extremely poor and extremely expensive. I will switch at the first opportunity.
I have spent countless hours on the phone due to service and billing issues. Countless hours means that I have spent upwards of 50 hours on the phone with Comcast over the last two years. It is the single worst consumer service experience I have ever had. It took ONE year for Comcast to resolve static in my cable TV signal and FIFTEEN months to resolve internet signal problems, that were due to a faulty modem, that they refused to replace for 18 months, despite 7 or 8 different service calls.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Hard to understand the Techs from overseas. They are programmed robots. If I tell them the problem and what steps I've taken to resolve the issue, they still make you take the same steps, (reboot, restart, etc). Most of the time the service for internet is good but at times the high speed internet isn't very high speed. Their value is that they provide a decent service at a high price without much competition. Sometimes it won't work. I understand that cable and internet go down sometimes but it seems too often.
There are not a lot of options in our area if someone wants Cable TV or internet. I'm hoping that more options present themselves in the future. I think I heard Google has something in the works. I think if Comcast loses enough business, maybe they will start to listen. They charge enough already and are getting rich from it, how about providing better customer service? Comcast seems to have a Monopoly on the market right now. Like Ma Bell, it might need to be looked at by legislature and broken up. It's too big of a conglomerate.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Extremely long waits, disconnects while waiting for customer service. More than half of the time they cannot solve the problem and want to send a tech out to your home at YOUR expense. Extremely expensive, we pay 140.00 a month for cable & internet with no special channels. Simply said they STINK! Horrible. For instance we were paying $160.00 a month for cable (with no added special channels) and internet (the slowest speed). It's extremely hard to fork out this much money in an economy such as this one. My mom is an 89 yrs young woman on a fixed/limited income so we help out as much as we can.
So last month I called them to see if they were running any specials, because those are NEVER offered to the consumer that has been with them since the start of cable. We were able to save her approx 20.00 a month but again this is for a limited time. For what they charge and what you get does not equal value. Never on time even with a one hour window.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Customer service reps are generally polite and helpful, as long as the concern is one they know how to address. If they aren't able to address the issue quickly, I have been disconnected. Initially pretty good. Recent "upgraded" remote does not accommodate a surround sound system. I'm back to using 2 remotes. Three days a month of lost service. Hours on the phone trying to get service back. They decided I lived in a different town than the one I live in, which has caused issues since initiating service a number of years ago. If I had another choice, I would drop Comcast.
The new "upgraded" system was a pain to install, required hours on the phone and in their chat room to get it going. Some features are good on the new remote, lack of ability to sync with surround sound system is not good. Once problems start they can continue repeatedly for 24-48 hours. Generally service reliable, except when it is not! Chat room assistance is a joke. Wish I had another choice.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
There is no customer support. I tried for several days to get an error on my bill resolved. I was transferred several times, and nobody solved my problem. I finally complained on a social site, and some Comcast executive contacted me and eventually fixed my billing error. I spent 20 years developing World Class customer service, and this company completely fails in all aspects. The more you spend, the worse the service. More in infomercials, commercials, buying programs. Seriously? I finally quit the TV, and use broadcast TV. Yes I still get all of the commercials etc, but at least I am not paying for them. The internet is supposedly the fastest, but still cuts out, especially during streaming movies from Netflix, and the audio is sometimes horrendous. The installer had to replace the equipment twice, because it was faulty. Nobody should have to pay hundreds of dollars for internet and/or TV.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
They try to upsell at all costs. They talk in circles; never get a straight answer. Even their retention dept... After I was customer like 15 plus yrs only wanted to give me the fake 2 yrs "deal" that after the 2 yrs went to normal prices that I cannot afford. They lie. Told me I had a deal and it changed. "No. You never had a 15 yr old deal" lol. They actually made me cry. They would not let me cancel!! Look online. It is true. People have to say they died! Or just move and not give new address. They a passive aggressive. And aggressive period. Mean. It is a cult!
My on demands would freeze late at night. That is when you need it most. When there are no good shows on! They always blamed me/My home/My box. I went in to get new boxes and all of the cords they gave me to plug into the wall were the wrong ones!! All. Amazing. They were not apologetic. And refused to let me talk to the manager. Was my highest bill. Ludicrous. Netflix is 10 times or more less. It is a monopoly basically. They scam you. They can do what they want. And they don't feel bad. They made me literally sick. Made me cry. Didn't even attempt to keep me; a 15 plus year customer. Refused to let me talk to a manager many times. Comcast truly felt like a cult. And went out of their way to give me bad service. Acting like... I personally bothered them.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I really don't think they know what they are doing. It is very frustrating if you are stuck with calling them. I feel like they have you jumping thru hoops till a miracle happens. We had patch of on again-off again service and we ended up replacing our router and that seems to have helped sooo don't know if patchy service in the past is all linked to that. Also originally we leased our modem and we decided to buy our own. The one we bought looks like the one we leased. I suspect Comcast is not happy losing the revenue and they might increase the aggravation of hooking it up (it was not easy when we did). Plus if we have any problem, they are likely to blame it on our modem.
Our only other option is AT&T (I live in Minneapolis) and I have heard they stink too. So 2 stars is probably standard for this area. I have heard there is potential for another high speed carrier in NE Minneapolis but Comcast and AT&T would lose big bucks and I'm sure they are buying off whoever they can to stop it. John my roommate says big downloads are a big problem.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
They berate the customer. "Yes, we are more expensive because we are the best". They also have a monopoly and charge 30% higher than if competitors were available. Goes out quite frequently for hours at a time. Quite dangerous where I live. It is senior's housing. No emergency phone backup without paying an additional fee. Basic is expensive with extra charges for router, HD, DVR. Network access was raised by over 40% this past January. Premium channels went down in price but nearly double what I can get it for on the internet alone. Cannot count it as being up. After it comes back up the router takes several minutes to get services back in line including critical phone line. Even though WIFI is included, the signal is so poor it can not be accessed in the hallways of the building. Signal is quite weak, especially with hotspots surrounding our building. I cannot get the cartwheel to work in my local Target due to the weak WIFI signal.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Until VERY recently, technicians would lie to you about what service is available, promise items would be deducted from your bill (only to be re-placed on your bill the next month). Now, however, they are MUCH more pleasant, all the way up to average. Pixelation, almost daily; 5-6 outages a year, down from 10-12. Tallahassee, Florida has the highest Comcast bill in the state, for basic Xfinity service.
Xfinity would not work with my new TV (an LG), so I had to use a DTA, instead of a set top box, and I am still using that. That prompted Comcast to bill me for BOTH a set top box and a DTA, and I have tried unsuccessfully for six, yes 6, years to get them to stop doing that, until recently. A technician had to come to my house, and I took the opportunity to walk him around my house so he could see for himself how many cable outlets I have and how many TVs I have. That technician SAYS he fixed my problem, and I will no longer be billed for "an additional outlet." We'll see. This is the fifth time someone has promised me that that ** additional outlet would be removed! Oh, they remove it all right, then re-place it on my bill the following month.
The "Comcast guarantee": don't bother phoning them about it; you're not going to get through on the phone (after an outage). It will be busy until midnight, when that little guarantee will no longer be available because your incident happened "yesterday."
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Sucks. It's a sales "upsell opportunity". Quality of service means I have internet, uninterrupted, and it's fast enough to support our home. I have it. Not what I would envision, but good enough that homework gets done, gamers don't complain, and I can get my work done. I pay in the neighborhood of $83.00 per month for internet only. I cut the TV bundle 2 years ago. I'm being punished for it, but will never take tv again. I don't want the content, 24/7 news propaganda, commercials, and PC promoted lifestyle impacting our family.
When too many neighbors stream "Netflix" at the same time we lose service via "buffering". Fed up. This commodity has become similar to electricity. If not provided, we need a company that can. Reliably, cheaply, and without messy complicated "deals". I want internet. I don't want their TV, Phone, or ANYTHING ELSE. Time, we're in "buffering mode". When power is down, we lose internet and this idiot company doesn't monitor and reimburse us for down time. The burden is on me to complain. I don't have the time. Fed up and I'm all for Comcast to lose their monopoly. I'm sick of their control over the fiber-optic "superhighway". Time for a sell-out, or government takeover via eminent domain. Internet service has become similar to water, sewer, gas, and electricity. Treating it as a luxury option doesn't work anymore. I will support a socialist-style offer from my city when it becomes available.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
The last time I called for help, I was transferred to three different people then disconnected. When I got home, I had no DVR service. Another call, disconnected once then, finally, a nice man helped get service back on. I do not like Comcast service. Every person has a different answer or no answer and transfers you and then there is a disconnect. Very frustrating. We got a new TV because we thought the old one had terrible HD quality. But, come to find out, it was the DVR box that was the problem. The HD part did not work.
A new box was installed and the service person did not know how to set up the closed caption feature. He had us using two controllers every time we wanted closed captioning. In the end, we figured it out all by ourselves! Actually, we have had little trouble with reliability. Fingers crossed! The cost is too high, there are too many options. I would like to be able to choose my own channels and have fewer, but ones I watch all the time. Way too many channels and it seems like there is still nothing of value to watch.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Kept cutting my service back and raising my rates. Then wanted to force me to rent their converter boxes to accommodate their change in service (which btw was not true for months). And I didn't ask for. Finally I just had snow, even though they told me I would not. So I told them to shut me off. 5 times. Despite this they kept charging me. And each time I called they acted as if I had never called/written to turn off my service.
So finally I wrote a letter to the office of the CEO. I had read that Comcast takes customer service seriously. HAH. Some guy from the "office of the president" called me. At first he was pleasant. When he realized that I really had no interest in staying with Comcast, he became verbally abusive. Even though I told him I was driving, he asked for specific dates that I had called etc. He threatened to send me to collections, even though I had snow on my screen for 5 months, and they had continued to charge my credit card, until I removed it from the website.
Bullies, abusers and crappy service. Never again. I had no service and they kept charging me. When I removed my CC number from my account they threatened to send me to collections for not paying for no service which I had called repeatedly to shut down. Criminal. Clueless is how I would describe Comcast, in their best moments. These people are criminal. The worst of monopolies. Totally lacking in anything that resembles integrity.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
If you have a problem with internet access and call in, you get to sit on hold with a system that tells you to go online to solve your problem... Exactly how am I supposed to do that when I have no internet service? Basically, there's no support at all. System has outages every single day - they may only be for 30 seconds, but 30 to 50 a day is too much. You cannot stream anything which I think is on purpose. They want $164 for internet and cable that comes with 86 channels we'll never watch, 5 channels we actually watch, and crappy reception. Constantly dropping off line; you absolutely cannot order a PPV movie because it won't play all the way through, you can't use streaming because the signal is constantly dropped and forget about trying to DVR anything - that doesn't work. I hate my cable service. I pay all of this money for absolutely nothing. All we get are excuses about trees, weather and unknown outages.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Robotic in their responses, reading a script and they seem more interested in you having a positive review of them. Granted when tested it get high speed results but the quality is poor proofed by all the interruptions streaming and stalling when surfing the web, it frequently stalls or can't open a page. Poor value if everything ran without stalling and we could watch a movie without interruption and we didn't have such poor performance from phones that rely on our internet feed I might be happy paying over a hundred dollars a month for the internet and what few channels we are allowed for the tier we are at. Reliability is nonexistent. I know of no one that is satisfied with Comcast/Xfinity service but business. We live in the heart of Silicon Valley and we can't get a better more reliable service, why is that? The rich neighborhoods do not seem to have these problems. This just stalled again for about 20 seconds and again just then, pathetic.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
The past 5 years has seen an increase in accessibility and civilness. My service has been quite good. I've never lost service in 12 years. There was a time when I had pixelating service, and it took 2 or 3 phone calls, but we finally determined my cable box was too old, and needed replaced. So did the TV. The new HD service is crystal clear. I HATE paying the $160 a month for a "basic" level service. It's backbreaking. I don't even watch that much TV, but you don't have a choice. You are forced to the package they are selling. Can't wait for a-la-carte TV service! I want what I want, when I want it. But I don't want the other zillion channels or phone service that I won't use. I have been paying for something that I only use a portion of. Oddly, I turned off Cable service THIS MORNING. I'm going off the grid, and moving on to Amazon or Hulu. 'Nuff said.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
No written contract. When I call I am shuffled around. When my alarm needed servicing, I was charged $50 without warning. Always seem to have TV and internet - except for a few times when the router went out or some such thing. When I signed up for a 3 year contract I got no written contract, nothing in writing and in my 3rd year my price skyrocketed (supposed to be a $10 increase per year). I think Comcast's motto is to get the most money you can out of the most customers. Highly unethical - and don't bother calling the AG's office or complaining to the FTC. They don't care and only send you back to Comcast to re-hash your problem.
We pay waaay toooo much for these services. And I am a nex cable subscriber - having just got it Nov. 2013. My internet has gone out a few times and I need to call in - or go online to reboot it. Pain. TC/Cable and telephone seem most reliable. Again they gave me no manuals or paperwork/contract. I had voice mail for almost a year before realizing I had it as no messages were being recorded on the old answering machine. Comcast seems not to want to provide you with your contract in writing and when you call them - they have no record of it either!
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Wait times on the phone, the transferring from one CSR to another is maddening. They are not empowered to do anything until you work your way through 3-4 levels and even then they are doing you a favor. When I moved the only way to not have my rates skyrocket was to upgrade to the Xfinity platform. When I was just on digital a mile away, Service was uninterrupted. With Xfinity, there are outages, there are several times a month you cannot change channels since "there is a problem with your service, try again later". I moved my modem to a more convenient location to reboot. I see no advantage of staying with them other than internet service. Where I am located no one has a competitive rate of speed that will handle my current needs much less if I cut the cord and want to stream everything.
For what the service costs it is not up 100%. I know this is petty, but only seems to go out when it is the most critical. If they could offer a more competitive rate and not be so hard to deal with, they would be fine. They simply do not care for their customers only that the payments are there. I had my credit card hacked so I called 2 days before my auto bill and tried to pay the bill with another card so it would not be late. They wanted to charge a service fee for paying over the phone. If I change it on the website they have up to 2 billing cycles to recognize the change. WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS? After 15 minutes, they finally agreed this one time to waive that charge... with a credit on the following billing cycle. Had the Exact same issue with my cell phone tied to that card, AT&T offered immediately that all charges would be waived since I contacted them.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
It is IMPOSSIBLE to talk with a real person when you try to phone. It is equally impossible to report problems through e-mails. I have tried to report unburied cable in my neighborhood and I cannot reach anyone by phone or internet. WORST customer service ever! My cable box stopped working. It took three different "technicians" to replace a new box. I was told that all the XFINITY boxes have been recycled. I think I am paying too much for just internet and cable TV (not the top of the level). Internet service and TV service frequently go out. The prices for my limited service increase on a regular basis. I would use another company if I could but satellite dishes get no reception where I live. The customer service element is simply non-existent. They have customers who cannot voice their opinions.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I have called multiple times for various problems and it's like I never called before. They have no record of my complaint, only that I have called. I have been waiting two weeks for a downed cable in the middle of our road. The fire dept finally had to come and cut the cable for safety reasons. They seem clueless and could care less every time I have called with an issue. They are a ripoff and continues to try and find ways to pork the customer. Such as, raising internet prices for customers who watch Netflix more than cable. They're going to find a way to make more money any way they can. I have never experienced a worse cable company than Comcast. I've called multiple times for this recent downed wire and they tell me each time the customer service representatives didn't put any notes in the system. Are you kidding me??? They suck, and if I had another option for internet, local news, and sports, I would cancel Comcast in a heartbeat.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
I had extremely slow internet for YEARS and they would tell me that it was my computer - It ended up to be THEIR Modem... They only credited me $20 for 2 months. Recently went to cancel my cable because my bill went from $160 to $225.00 and they told me I could NOT Cancel on Sundays. Somehow they only Cancel cable subscriptions on Sunday? I would spend on average 2 hours on the phone with this company to try and lessen my bill and end up with a HIGHER Bill. Recently I canceled my cable & they told me to drop off all the equipment at one of their conveniently located brick and mortar buildings... They have CLOSED All the Comcast buildings close to me - I have to drive over a half hour away to get this equipment back.
It's too expensive for the options I have. I couldn't pause and watch a program in another room like advertised unless I wanted to be price gouged for it. On top of that they have a monopoly on MLB - What a scam. The boxes are old and antiquated. They drain electricity even when off and I would lose sound if I paused and played back a DVR Recording. I don't have a landline phone but had to pay for one - just to get a discount because SOMEHOW It's More expensive to have LESS than to have More? I'm not understanding that... but I still paid into it for awhile. Makes me feel really Stupid. Really Really Stupid.
Sure - it was very reliable. Didn't go out because of inclement weather - so yeah - it was reliable. I would like Comcast and Verizon to stop price fixing everything to be so damn high. You all make billions of dollars and you RENT the remotes to us? That's just ludicrous - you RENT The boxes? Let people know that they may have the option to purchase these items. Instead of making so much money off of them.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
It takes over 5 minutes of listening to a phone tree, advertising, and suggested additional products before one even gets to the queue for an agent. Sometimes the agents are knowledgeable. Sometimes the agents are clearly not native English speakers, and between lousy phone connections and unfamiliar accents (give me few minutes and I always get them), it is very difficult to do business by telephone. The chat service is very time consuming, even longer than a phone call due to the distances the messages are traveling, most frequently out of the Western Hemisphere. In store help is the same: inconsistent. Try to get an idea of your basic monthly bill amount: it is always understated, yet all the fees, taxes, etc., are static.
TV pixelates often; phone service is adequate. Internet is very fast, but I pay quite a bit for that internet speed. Cable TV industry needs to realize that consumers like me would be happier if we could select from stations/programs/movies/tv shows as we go. Have a basic charge for the equipment and availability, then add on the additional channels. I have over 200 channels I don't use just to get the 10 channels I do watch. It seems that this type of monopolistic business model is inevitably going to kill itself off with services like AppleTV, Hulu, Netflix, etc., that are less expensive and easy to use.
It is as reliable as overhead cabling will allow. If service were run underground, there would no doubt be fewer weather-related interruptions. If I did not need very high speed internet for my work and my housemate didn't want the cable TV, Comcast would be out of my life in any minute. I went cable TV free for a year before my housemate moved in, and it was fine using a hi-def antenna.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
If one wants it... one has to actually head down in one's car to get an English speaking representative or a person of knowledge and even that is iffy. It's as if doing things by telephone has become obsolete... so, we take a step backward and actually have to physically TRAVEL to obtain results or closure. When one does enter the store, one may as well consider himself in a third world country where making the all important DEAL is what it is all about. The bartering, the bantering, the apologizing, and the emotions involved are ridiculous. There should be ONE price for one set of services for ALL. But... NO... We gotta work to get a deal with a corporate twist of crap! What EVER happened to fair practice and timely results? Each time I've called Comcast to complain, I've gotten no satisfaction. They play GOD with the channels, giving and taking as arbitrarily as the storm of Spring. I hate cable. It used to be a pleasure, many years ago.
It rarely goes out. Maybe it should... I'd be less paranoid about my health... having to watch the trillion commercials ranging from ingrown toenails to heart valve replacement... and all the funky names of all the crazy medications related to these afflictions. LOL. I live behind a HUGE hill. Were it not for the hill, I'd try one of those analogue transmitters in a heartbeat. TV sucks and there are very few shows I LOVE any longer. I used to have to record so many shows in the old days... didn't want to miss a beat. Either I'm older and wiser or the menu for entertainment has gone from a night at The Bonjour Bistro to Burger King.
It rarely fails. Actual transmitting is fine with my basic package. My neighbor has another story as she has all the bells and whistles and complains constantly that she must unplug and replug. I hate the POWER these folks have over us. Our tv, phone, and internet are theirs. And they raise the prices with no regard to the income of others. It's one size fits all. What a shame.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Minimally, it takes five minutes before you reach a live person due to their automated answering system. Some customer service representatives tell you one thing, but they do something quite different. For example, a credit that I was promised for loss of internet service (due to a defective modem) was never applied. This meant that I had to call them a second time.
For more than a year, I had a defective modem. I never received the speed that I was being charged for. Sometimes, I would lose internet connectivity. When watching channels like Netflix, the program would repeatedly stop and buffer numerous times during the film. Comcast would not admit that their equipment was the problem until the modem broke down. Then, Comcast attempted to charge me for installation services when they sent a technician to my home to replace the defective modem. There is no local Comcast area in my town, so I have to make a 30 drive (in good traffic) to get to their center. It can take up to two or three hours of wait time for service depending on the time of day and the day week to pick up and/or drop off equipment.
I am canceling my service with Comcast as soon as my contract expires in March 2017. I originally was with AT&T, but they no longer service my area. Comcast is a giant monopoly. Monopolies do not have to be responsible to the public they serve. Comcast/Xfinity does not care that their customer service personnel are rude and ignorant. Why? We the consumers have nowhere one else to go! A monopoly can set prices at whatever it wants (called "price fixing"). A monopoly creates inflation since they can set any price they want to. A monopoly can sell inferior products (e.g., their modem). A monopoly has no incentive whatsoever to provide better service and products because there is no competition. This is a very sad situation. Due to systematic deregulation by our ineffective US Congress, Comcast/Xfinity has been allowed to dominate and control the telecommunications market. I do not recommend this company to anyone.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
Awful, 3 days to come out when an outside cable was cut somewhere. Service people, both at the call centers and technicians that come to your house, are untrained and don't understand how their equipment works. Recently Comcast forced me to upgrade to Xfinity by popping up a message on our TVs every 1/2 hour or so saying that if we didn't upgrade we would lose access to some of our stations. We always paid a little extra to have 2 separate Comcast DVD recorders so my wife and could record and delete our own programs on our separate TVs. When I was forced to upgrade I contacted Comcast Xfinity department on 3 separate occasions to confirm that if we installed 2 Xfinity DVDs we could still record and delete programs independently on our respective TVs and there would be no increase in cost.
When I installed the Xfinity DVRs there was no way to keep them separate as they both kept programs on the same web based cloud server. Delete a program from one and it is deleted from both DVRs. Called Xfinity support again and they apologized and said we just needed a filter installed, a 5 minute job for their tech which they scheduled to come install it saying there would be no charge. Tech came, installed the filter in multiple places with no success, called his supervisor who said the DVRs could not be separated as promised. They charged me $60 for this experience and when I called to complain about it Comcast argued and argued and finally offered to reduce the $60 charge by $25! After another 20 minutes of arguing on principle I was transferred to another supervisor who finally removed the charges.
After installing the Xfinity I had multiple other problems. I discovered they had been charging me for high speed internet for a very long time, but the modem they rented to me was incapable of high speed internet. I had them send me another modem and they charged me for multiple modems. Then had problems with static on my Comcast phone line, and still do, and a third small Comcast box on a bathroom TV. Comcast sent out another tech for these problems and charged me again. Told this tech about my experience with being told that my DVRs could be kept independent and he was surprised that they couldn't be separate. The tech said they have to learn these things from customers as they have no training on new equipment, they just receive an email message that they are going to be installing new devices and give absolutely zero training on them.
Many bad charges, many, many calls to Comcast taking hours and hours, it takes about 10 minutes for each call just to get through phone menus before you get someone in India or somewhere that is hard to understand and who tells you what they can read from a computer help screen and still my phone has static, my DVRs don't work as promised and I am being charged for all the equipment that I have returned to Comcast. I have never disliked a company in my 68 years as much as I dislike Comcast. Finally, in the next couple of months, RCN and ATT Uverse will be available and Comcast will lose the hard wire monopoly they have had since the beginning. I can't wait!
Vastly overcharges for services because it has a monopoly. When my cable, internet and phone all went down because the Comcast cable was cut outside somewhere it took Comcast 3 full days to send a repairman. My phone still does not work properly. Customer service at Comcast is just plain awful and incompetent which they only got away with because they had a monopoly on high speed internet and hard wired cable TV. This will end soon as will many years of suffering with Comcast.
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2016
After troubleshooting on the phone for an hour it was determined the receiver box was bad. Took it to the Murfreesboro office and exchanged for a new box. They took the new remote out-of-the-box and told me to use my old remote. Took the box home, hooked it up and worked with troubleshooting for over an hour to get their remote working. It was determined the old remote was not compatible with the new box. Told them to bring me a new remote because they would not give it to me at the office. Charged me $50 on my bill for bringing out the remote. Called customer service and they said the old remote was compatible with the new box and they had to charge me for bringing it out that I could have gone to the office again to correct their mistake. Would only credit my bill $25 instead of 50 they charged me. It was their mistake!
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2016
Today I've received my bill and it went from $136 to $153. To be honest I was satisfied with this company until today. I was told my bill was going to be high the first 3 months and after that it was supposed to go down to at least $120. Now I have to pay $153 because of all the "fees" and whatnot. I know I ordered movies but aren't they supposed to be added on the monthly bill that you ordered them? They are charging me for the movies three months later and I don't think that's fair. This is an issue that needs to be fixed specially because I love this company. I am so disappointed and I will end up going back to Verizon if this keeps happening. I am not satisfied at all after all this. I am hoping this gets fixed. Be careful before signing the contract because they might tell you all these beautiful things about what they can do to help and at the end they are going to turn their back on you. I do not recommend this company at all.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2016
I have been a Comcast customer for 2 years but just switched to another provider. While there were periodic service issues during my first year of service, Comcast addressed the issues and the pricing was generally as promised. The middle of last year, I noticed the service prices began increasing, without any dialogue or notice. When I inquired I was given a new rate which was confirmed by a Comcast service rep email and actually billed and paid for one month. The next month, I received a bill almost twice what I had been quoted, billed and paid the prior month. When I inquired, the rate was jumped even more the next month. All of these rate increases were made without notice, awareness, discussion with or approval by me.
In December my service went out. It took 3 weeks for it to be fixed by running a new line from the pole to the house. I received several promises of service visits before the problem was actually addressed after the new year. Here are several specific problems with Comcast.
Price - there are actually different prices for identical service depending on whether you sign up at the store, over the internet or over the phone. Promotions available from one source may not be available from another source. There are various fees, that can add $20 to $40 to your monthly bill. Many of these will be charged or waived depending on who you are interacting with. To get the best current price, you are forced to sign up for a 2 or 3 year contract at whatever future price they elect to subsequently put in place, even during the first year of the contract. If you are a Verizon customer, you supposedly get a Comcast discount. However, you are never told what it is or when it applies, or more importantly when it does not.
Billing - You are automatically billed any price changes. Any agreed to adjustments are generally not applied until after you have paid the incorrect amount. If you pay only the adjusted bill, you are hit with a late charge even though what you paid is what was agreed to as the correct amount due.
Customer Service - There are at least 3 levels of customer service. The general telephone number, the lowest level, has very limited authority and knowledge of anything. You are put on hold and transferred. You can appeal to the VP of Customer Service which gets you to someone with more authority. If you are not satisfied you can appeal to the FCC who will pass your issue back to Comcast and get you a higher level review. These may or may not resolve your problem. You can never get back to the same person you originally spoke to on a problem. You are continually repeating the same problem to different people.
Each person is entering something in your file concerning the call but you have no idea what it is. The next person you call most likely does not read the file but, even if they do, the correct information may not be in it. You are dealing with different people with different knowledge, training and language skills. Some actually lie or don't have any idea what they are talking about. When this happens, if you ask to speak to a supervisor you are told no one is available, put on an indefinite hold or disconnected.
When you get referred to technical support or someone is sent out, you get a wide variety of capability. Some try to help you self-diagnose over the phone. The technicians sent out may know the internet and modem but not the phone or TV. Only the telephone technician can climb the pole. Some technicians sent out are third party contractors who can only diagnose. The technician sent out may have no information on the problem or a problem indicated which does not exist, Of course, you are then billed for the call even though the service rep said you would not be billed. You then go through the billing adjustment cycle described.
Overall - One department of Comcast does not communicate with another. It is assumed that everything is in your file. However, it frequently is not depending who you are communicating with, their knowledge and skill, and, frankly, what they choose to document. I have actually been told that an adjustment to my bill was logged as a courtesy discount when I was out of service. I can only assume this was due to an attempt to manipulate the service statistics.
Service Termination - When you terminate, you are told you will lose your phone number which belongs to Comcast even when you ported it to Comcast from another provider. You are told that you will lose your email address. When pressed, the service rep may acknowledge you can port the phone number and have 30 days to set up another email. Yes, I had all of these experiences with Comcast over the last 6 months. I have been repeatedly lied to even when pointing out discrepancies and naming previous contacts. This is why I terminated service.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2016
My brother and I contacted Comcast on February 2nd this year. We moved to an apartment and need cable and internet services. The person who attended our call was Yunior, or at least that's the name he gave us. Well this gentleman told my brother and I coz phone was on speaker and I took notes of our conversation, that our bill will be of $132 a month, with FREE HBO for a year and that our internet was unlimited and with a speed of 75! I asked him many times during the conversation about the HBO and the internet and always told us the same answer. Now we got the first bill and surprise, surprise! Comcast is charging us $15 for the HBO and my internet never gets neither to 35!
So we called and one of the representatives told us that he could see the promotion but that was not applied to our account and he transferred our call to another department. This new guy told us that in our address there was not promotion for the HBO and that we'll need to pay the full amount and also that we had a contract with Comcast! Which nobody mentioned! They lied to us. They don't care about customer service. They're just into our money! We spoke with one of the supervisors and told us the same answer.
Also there's no unlimited internet!!! We can't use more than 300g because they said the government don't allow us to be that much searching and that if we persist going over that quantity we'll need to go to a different agency and request a permit to be using internet. Everything is BS!! This people sucks! They told us that we have 30 days to cancel our service and I'm considering to do it. This is our first month with the company and lies are all over the place!
Reviewed Feb. 22, 2016
In August 2015 I went to an Xfinity (Comcast) store and asked that our home phone line with AT&T get bundled in with our existing internet and cable TV service with Comcast. I was told this would be a seamless task - NOT SO!! Our phone service has been disconnected 2X by AT&T but they continue to bill us monthly. Comcast is also billing us for the home line. They've overcharged us. Said we'd get credits applied to our bill but still haven't. Each company is pointing the finger of blame to the other company. We've dealt face to face with representatives of each company who are polite, understanding but extremely ineffective. We're about to have our Comcast service interrupted due to an unpaid balance. My husband is 74 and I'm nearing 67. This has been such a struggle for us and is very upsetting. We do not know how to get resolution on this with both companies. Please advise. Thank you.
Reviewed Feb. 21, 2016
I had Comcast Cable Service and I updated last year so this year I wanted to cancel my services and they told me that I was under contract that I have to pay a penalty if I cancel. Before I use their services I ask them if I need it a contract and they say no and that's why I use their services. So know every time you talk to them is like you upgrade your services and they put you another year on the so call contract which is a rip off to hold customers that can afford to pay those penalties. They should be more honest and not give you false information about this false contract. Please investigate this matter. They should tell you before you get the service that you are going to be in a contract not when you want to cancel.
Reviewed Feb. 20, 2016
I've had comcast triple play package for over a year and yes several times I've had to argue with a ROBOT over billing issues. Three weeks ago someone in their office decided to turn off my phone. I've spent at least twenty four hours on the phone with dealing different ROBOTS. The problem I'm having is that they set a ticket for a technician to come out and guess what, they to call me and verify that I'm home. ROBOTS can't THINK that. Because I don't a land line. I can't answer the phone to say I home.
Reviewed Feb. 20, 2016
2-10-16 I called Comcast to get a new remote code. I was offered a deal for TV and internet for $69.99 plus tax and got an email from them that was incorrect. I talked to them again the next day and was told the same thing. I asked for an email which I never received. After that I was given the runaround for at least 3 calls in a row. Always a different offer always higher than the last offer. BAIT AND SWITCH plain and simple. They try to tell me that their employee was incorrect... That doesn't cut it. They are responsible for what their employees say and or offer.
I still have not gotten an email back from the last time I talked to them which was 2-16-16. It is now February 19th. This company is terrible. I have not dealt with a bigger bunch of crooks in my life. If I did what they do in my profession I would lose my license and most likely be sued... I still have the option supposedly to cancel with no cost. We will see how that works out. I am going to call the state Fraud department and make a complaint.
Reviewed Feb. 20, 2016
Got a guy come out, said they sent me the wrong cable to make this work right. We had problems, they said they would put that it was their problem and would fix the service fee. Online looked like they did but one month later it was triple the amount. This Comcast is the worst ever. I don't know why people use them. I'm done and going to look at my bank card to prove it. I know I paid them every month but they seem to lose payments.

Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016
Sadly this company has gone downhill rapidly in the last 5 years, although their rates go higher and higher, as they swallow up more and more of the competition. Over the last two weeks I have done nothing but battle with one idiot after another, that tells you anything and delivers nothing, only to find out when you do finally get a supervisor which is rare, that the employee you spoke with was wrong. Comcast has tried to take a payment out of my account 3 times in a one week period, although the payment was made online days before the due date. When questioned as to why, the answer was "Once in progress it can't be stopped." Oh yes it can, if the bank removes their ACH privileges with your account which I did.
But that did not solve the problem. As I was never told by anyone that another payment was due 4 days behind the initial one I made online. Instead of calling and explaining, I wake up to be shut off. After 7 phone calls, and being disconnected 4 times I finally reached a supervisor, who went through my entire last 30 days of activity with me, and explained that the last three people I had spoken with about this over the last week gave me the incorrect information and apologized for it. When I asked why these folks were allowed to say what they did and also withhold certain details, and if they would be reprimanded, the subject was quickly changed.
It is a merry band of thieves that sticks together and covers each other backs, right or wrong. They seem to only hire lower level people that tell you what they have to or what you want to hear in a prescribed time to get you off the phone, regardless if the information they are giving is right or wrong. And if you raise your voice even one octave you will end up being disconnected or sent back in to the pool to wait for someone else. Do not expect refunds even if you are promised them, they will only credit your account. Even if you are told to fax bank statements over, you are wasting your time. It will not happen. Why they even tell you to do this, if they have no intention of honoring the request is beyond me. But sadly we have no choice here the state of N.J., it is them or satellite which is even less reliable. That no competition is allowed is really baffling and possibly unethical as well.
Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016
On December 22, 2015 I had a chat conversations with Comcast agent Robert to renew my internet deal. But my Feb bill went up to 66.43. I call many times but none of the rep and supervisors were able to explain why my deal is not kept. This company suck and I wouldn't recommend it.
Reviewed Feb. 19, 2016
We have been LOYAL customers to Comcast for years. We moved our service after being with them for years and we're told there would be no fee. We had a special promotion for a year and when we moved our service we noticed on our first bill the pricing went up $150 plus we were charged a fee to move service. Come to find out they re-start your contract when you move service WITHOUT telling you but with no special pricing. When we called to cancel service after a year they told us we have to pay an early cancellation fee even though we have been with them for 3 years!! This is because they restarted our account when we moved service. Comcast customer service is the worst and punishing loyal customers is just sad.
Do not move your service with Comcast - you are better off canceling and going with someone else or cancel and restart service and save yourself the headache because there is ABSOLUTELY NO PERKS for you the customer to moving service! They basically punish you for moving by charging fees, restarting your contract without telling you, and charging a higher rate for service. Thanks Rob Comcast "Customer Loyalty" (what a joke) for your lack of help. Worthless. Just look at all the complaints with them and call someone else!!
Reviewed Feb. 18, 2016
A customer for over 6 years, I had contracted over the phone for promotion services in June 2015. In December 2015 my bill went up some $20. I called and was told part of the services agreed to in June was for 6 months, the other part for 12 months. When I called in June I made notes on what the customer rep told me. When I asked for confirmation that my bill would be $104/month for the next 12 months the answer was "Yes." Thus, the next 6 months I was agreeing to 12 months no change billing not knowing PART of my verbal contract was to expire before 12 months.
I have called numerous times going through the automated system over and over -- nicely wasting my time and increasing my dissatisfaction for the way Comcast wastes a customer's time. Similarly, when my wait for Customer Solutions (taking over 20 minutes to arrive at) was a dropped call (maybe deliberate??) my efforts to work with the company are a waste of time.
In my opinion -- and experience -- Comcast is a bad faith business and its customer solutions is dedicated to correcting no issues with the sloppy, incompetent sort of employee that answers untruthfully to a question about a whole bill amount for the next 12 months. Of course, Comcast wouldn't need to improve training and ethics of employees because that would amount to conducting business with some modicum of integrity, willingness to correct employees' untruths made, deliberately or in error, on making changes in accounts on the phone.
Do, please, review massive customer complaints about Comcast-Xfinity online BEFORE you call up and arrange to do business with them. After you're a customer what you're told on the phone may not be what you were led to believe, and you could even be strung along by a one-time Customer Loyalty credit. Make notes when you speak with Comcast employees. They may be duping you, and customer service has no authority to help you there!! Six MONTHS of increased billing that ensues just make that insult of a loyalty 'dog treat' laughable.
Yes you can, as Customer Solutions said, write to a PO Box in Sterling, Michigan but there's no person named to address it to. You'd do better to write to the FCC and get a complaint file number, and if you're a member of a senior citizens blog with over 100,000 members like I am, be sure to share your experience with Comcast's deceptive telephone contracting for services! Or, let the company, customers, stockholders, government and other watchdog groups get yet another vote for Comcast to get the Worst Company Award of the year, decade, century!! I'm ready to invest in wireless.
Factual Summary: I contracted for services. I noted affirmative billing for the next 12 months. I was misinformed or lied to because the employee did not inform me part of the services was for 6, not 12 months so the bill went up. Comcast cannot and will not honor the 12 month cost I agreed to, cannot or will not prevent this from happening anytime or every time, has a Customer Solutions department with no intent to provide solutions when employees may be involved in defrauding a customer by falsely answering questions. Why would they -- since integrity and ethics obviously has no presence in this corporate entity?
Reviewed Feb. 18, 2016
Have had Comcast and moved to a new home 1/2/16. Talked with numerous people at Comcast... My service was not stopped at the old address. Did not get a technician to the new address until 1/19... They did not finish and another technician came 1/21 and installed old cable boxes (3). I called several times and new boxes were mailed. As of 2/18 only one of the 3 tvs in my home works sometimes. Billing is still not resolved for the old address. Getting new bills for the new address when I had NO SERVICE and now another technician is coming 1/20 to resolve the problems and am being charged AGAIN for installation??? I cannot believe the customer service had been so poor. Your tagline... the future of awesome... It's definitely in the future because the last 7 weeks have been a nightmare. No one seems to be able to get the service fixed or the billing.
Reviewed Feb. 17, 2016
Absolutely the worst experience of my life!!! The move took well over 9 hours on the phone (and many more since then), they messed up everything! Disconnected our phone at the existing house, yet it was not connected and could not be transferred to the new house, so they left us with no phone at either house and they swore the phone was at one location when it was physically at another location, they didn't even know what they had done. Then the cable was not connected at the new house, internet did not work at the new house, I had to get it fixed and all it was is that they had not plugged in the connection that comes from the street!
They continue to charge us for services we asked from day 1 to not have - sports entertainment package, and service protection plan - I have to keep calling and yet the charges appear again. None of the services were set up correctly, wasted so much of my time, and they continue to sneak charges. I guess they think we won't look at our bills. I have even taken it off automatic payment because I cannot trust them.
Reviewed Feb. 16, 2016
I have made over 21 phone calls, had 4 technicians to my home, one did not even turn on the TV. All of this since Christmas 2015. All 4 of my TVs are out again and I explained my job requires me to be out of my home for 3 days. The customer service rep insisted that she put something down and a supervisor would call me within 30 minutes. Well 13 hours passed and yes you guessed it - no supervisor ever called.
So I called the next morning. They assigned me an Escalated service ticket to rush my needs. Well Another 12 hours and no response SO I called again this service rep called Shaki said she spoke to her supervisor and she "promised" and I quote "Promised" to call me back within the hour to give me some time. The service men will arrive at my home. Well you guessed it - 2 and 1/2 hours later no return call and now they are closed. So I am already speaking to their competition company and they seem very eager to help me. I would not recommend Comcast to my worst enemy.
Reviewed Feb. 15, 2016
We had Comcast when we lived in Baltimore and had several issues, luckily Verizon offered cable and we were able to switch. We had Comcast/Xfinity at our house at least once a month with reception issues or simply no cable/internet service. Once we switched to Verizon we did not have a single issue, not a single issue. We relocated to CT, unfortunately our only option was satellite or Xfinity. We made the wrong choice. We live in an area with several trees and were afraid that would be an issue with satellite. Well it's been a year and a half, we've had a repair person or a hour plus conversation (after the usual unplugging the box repair) with customer service at least every other month. Once the contract is up we're going satellite of 100% smart tv. This is ridiculous. As I write this my tv is constantly pixelating, yes this is after the recommended "unplug the box" repair. P. S. I unplug this box at least 3x a week.
Reviewed Feb. 15, 2016
I called Comcast about 50 times trying to get through to them. Never any luck so I go down to the Comcast center and ask why my services aren't working. They were very rude and condescending. Didn't help me with my problem but told me they will disconnect me so I don't have to deal with them again. I been with them for 5 years. And this is how they treat their loyal customers.
To top it all off. There was a massive amount of people and cars in their parking lot because of everyone having issues with them, so another customer and I got into a car accident right in front of the store. The person that helped me came out and took pictures and was laughing. How rude is that?! Very unprofessional and they are just a money hungry group of people that don't provide any services they say they do. Not hi-speed internet, you get a TV box with no channels and all of that for the price of $180 a month. What a deal!!! I would stearate far away from this place. COMCAST ARE SCAM ARTIST! They will give you a deal for your first 6 months then 100 turns into 200 and your bill doesn't stop going up, EVER!! Every month there are more fees.
Reviewed Feb. 13, 2016
I wanted to restart a new service at a new address today. They would not allow me to do so with my old account. There is a $23.74 credit sitting on my old account. I had to open a new one. I called to see if they could help me. Instead I was met with confusion, reluctance and being passed around 4 times. I was hung up on 3 times, one time I believe was on purpose because I was telling him I was just hung up on 2 times and need someone to help me and then he hung up on me. I have never felt so angry and disappointed with a company before and now I am stuck with them for a year until my contract is up. Train your staff!!! Get rid of them if they cannot do the job!
Reviewed Feb. 12, 2016
In August, Comcast/Xfinity told me I would get HBO, Starz and a phone line when I changed my seasonal account. I did get Starz. I asked why I wasn't getting HBO as I was promised and they told me I didn't ask for it. Then in October when I ** enough, they gave me HBO for free. But they were giving me stream pics, which I know nothing about nor did I ever hear of it when I called. Now I called for a now X1 box as well as a modem and the one person who actually said they changed my account to Streampix was completely understanding. Tonight, I asked why I suddenly had Starz and not HBO. She said it couldn't happen until I had my new equipment. I haven't had Starz since November. How does that work and why should I have to be told I was basically a liar because I "should have had" Starz. The WORST company ever.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2016
Contacted Comcast Business services on 1/19/16 to arrange a move for my business on 2/1/16. The move included business internet and phone service. During the initial call, I was informed there would be no issue meeting the date of 2/1. Several weeks and over 10 hours of phone calls later, still no appointment was secured. I escalated to several managers, never receiving a reply.
In the end, I went 9 days with no internet or phone service for my business which is based on sales and incoming calls. I was told the reason for the delay was that the associate who originally set up the move did not properly set up the phone transfer as I was moving to a new area code. At the end of the day, I was forced to pay for a temporary internet service, wasted over 15 hours on the phone with Comcast and went 9 days with a business that could not be run.
The installer finally came on 2/9 and apparently installed the lines incorrectly which shut my cable system down. The residential cable tech fixed the issue and also informed me that the area code is the same as my old location. I have since confirmed that is the case. I ended up filing a complaint with the BBB last week and received a call back from Comcast. They informed me they would not do anything to cover my business losses and did not even apologize for the issues they caused. My frustration level with them continues to rise and I have absolutely no recourse at this point. Therefore, I want to share my story with anyone who will listen.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2016
So frustrating. I spent 90 minutes trying to set a watch list and parental control. I made 15 calls. I was referred to different specialized departments. English was not their 1st language. When I was sure they understood, they spent a lot of time trying to find what I needed. In the end, one rep said that there is no watch list for the future programs. The other person couldn't find parental controls and I found it on the TV and had to help her. I would be asked thing multiple times for the same info from the same rep. For instance, name, phone number, address, etc. This is not the 1st time I have gotten inferior service. Sometimes I'd be told that the engineers are working on the problems. Glad I don't have a contract.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2016
I have had Comcast scam me numerous times. This time I took a month to month plan because I knew I would not have long enough for contract to took month to month plan. Two months later the bill was incorrect and called to fix, they advised taken care of. When I cancelled account I received a bill for early termination fee. I have called times and spent 45 min or more each time to be told it's taken care of and then today I get a call from a collection agency trying to collect the same amount again. Called Comcast again and they say they never said that. I know calls are recorded and I need help resolving this and Comcast runs all over consumers.
Reviewed Feb. 10, 2016
In December I contacted Comcast to set up service at my son's new apartment in the city he was going to college. Requested a start date of January 13, 2016. Shortly after my soon moved in his TV and internet service were not working. Odd, thought maybe it was an outage. Called Comcast and I was informed much to my surprise that the services were interrupted because of a past due balance from our first bill starting in December. I found this very disturbing because I did not request the service to begin until January 13, 2016. We had never received a bill and another tenant was living there until the last day of December 2015. This made me wonder why Comcast would bill 2 different accounts for the same address, for the same time period and why would a service be interrupted without a bill being sent. This I found all very strange.
I called Comcast and after being disconnected and transferred 5 times, Kelli a supervisor in the billing department said she saw the problem and would get the bill corrected and issue a new bill. Not long after speaking with Comcast I received another call from the Comcast collections department. They were calling because I had a past due balance and the services were going to be t/off again. Spoke to another billing supervisor Patricia and she assured me that the services were not going to be interrupted and we should see a new bill soon. I asked Patricia what I should do if the service was t/off again. Patricia informed me that was not going to happen and that I could call back and speak with her if it did. She also waived the 12 dollar disconnect fee. Why would I have a disconnect fee when the billing error was not my fault?
Today 02/10/16 the services have been t/off once again. Patricia was wrong, very, very wrong. Called Comcast again spoke to supervisor Josh. Josh informed me after reviewing the account that the services were off because of the past due balance. I asked Josh how I was to pay a bill I have never received. He stated that it was sent and Comcast could not t/on the service until it was paid. Asked to speak with his supervisor and he put in a request for a callback and stated it would be 24-48 hours before they would call. I asked for his supervisor's supervisor at which time he refused, stated he was putting in call back and that is all that can be done. I find these events very sad for a company the size of Comcast and I plan to change the service to DirecTV. Just wanted to let anyone that would listen know DO NOT USE COMCAST SERVICE FOR TV OR INTERNET.
Reviewed Feb. 10, 2016
I didn't want to get Comcast to begin with but where we moved to AT&T Uverse doesn't get a good signal so I signed us up for the triple play with cable internet and security. In the beginning the service was ok at best but the problems began after the first few months of service with the kids' bedroom box "intermittently" cutting in and out. After troubleshooting tech came out and replaced the coax cable in the bedroom and also found an issue with the coax cable for the wifi which he replaced. All this with no charge to my account. The second issue arose several weeks later with the internet which they boast is the fastest download and upload speeds at 75 mbps however mine was barely getting 20mbps. After troubleshooting with customer service and having them assure me that I was not going to be charged for a tech visit we scheduled the repair.
Tech came out, replaced the coax cable again and advised me that the only way I was going to get the maximum speed was to have my laptop directly connected to the modem... Hmmm interesting but ok, whatever. Tech leaves, no problem right? Wrong! I find that my account is charged a $70 tech visit for THEIR faulty equipment. I call to have this charge removed to be told it has been escalated to a manager and it would be taken care of, no worries. Wrong again! I pay my bill minus the $70 that I was assured would be removed only to have my service disconnected some days later for nonpayment. I try to rectify the situation but I cannot connect to customer service as I keep getting directed to billing which tells me that I have to pay my bill to have service restored and there's nothing they can do.
I am completely and utterly livid at this point as I have company over so not to mention how embarrassing this feels. I pay the bill and immediately speak with customer service who apologizes and assures me I will receive a $70 credit to my account. This took me several calls and escalations to have this credit applied and you'd think my troubles would end there! Absolutely not. As we speak I am now experiencing issues with my security system. It began a couple months ago with my camera not working. Spoke with customer service who was clearly working from home because I heard her dog barking in the background and she'd try to mask out the sound by muting herself.
Anyhow, went through troubleshooting and she told me that she can have a tech come out but I would be charged for the visit even though it's THEIR faulty equipment and offered a plan for me to pay an additional $4.99/month on top of the $220 that I already pay for this b.s. service which of course I decline and choose to go without the camera. Last week the security system app stops working and the touch screen is offline so I get a call from Comcast to troubleshoot which we did and found a tech needed to come out. They of course conned me into the $4.99/month and scheduled the tech. I receive 5 calls from some advanced technical department (foreigners) to do more troubleshooting which consisted of the exact same steps as we did with cust service which somehow brought the security system back online.
However, since the camera is still not working I requested the tech still to come. I received 3 more calls from the "advanced technical support" group for the exact same issue to do the exact same steps with the camera. The last person I spoke with I requested he notated for them to not call me again and he said that he would. Not even 5 mins later I received another call! I have never in my life written a review but this has been the absolute worst experience, the worst service that I have ever received. Overpriced crappy service and I hope to be rid of them soon! Buyer beware!
Reviewed Feb. 9, 2016
I have NEVER interacted with a company that has poor service as much as Comcast. I moved and was going to transfer my service to my new address. I set the date to move in 4 days. They erroneously disconnected my service immediately. I called and they reconnected but not all my channels I had paid for so I had to call them again. Then I called back to move my service to new location. Again, they did not give me all my channels then disconnected me. I spent over 12 hours on and off the phone over a 4 day period. Then I called and cancelled my service over the phone. They said it was cancelled and to return my equipment.
I returned equipment and then closed out my account at the actual office. Then I received a bill so I paid it. The next day I received another bill showing that I had closed out my account and that I only owed $32 vs $129 so I contacted them and ask when my refund would be mailed. Comcast customer rep told me my service was still active. I told her it was closed on 1/21. She said her computers were down and she would call me within 7 days and confirm my account was closed and that I would receive a refund in 4 - 6 weeks. It has been a nightmare.
Reviewed Feb. 9, 2016
Like most consumers, I was a bit dissatisfied when my Promotional Rate ended. So I called the Customer Care department to inquire about new or additional promotions. Long story short, I spoke with 4 different Reps who all lacked Empathy and were very uncaring. Please keep in mind that one of these Reps was a "Supervisor". Each of these Reps were told that I would possibly have to seek alternative services if they were unable to assist. Each one of them said "OK".
I have received a bill from Comcast faithfully every month and have paid faithfully every month on time or early. I have not received any upgrades or had anyone out to explain that services are going to be wonderful for me and my family once the price increases. I say that because I'm unsure why I have to pay a higher rate for the same POOR SERVICE. All of our TVs have experienced some problem or another related to Comcast since we've had the service. None of our Remote Controls have worked properly since we've had the service. Every time I call Comcast, for anything, I have to hold for a minimum of 15 mins before someone tells me to call back tomorrow or there is nothing they can do for me. Comcast really needs to step up their game as it pertains to Customer Service.
Reviewed Feb. 8, 2016
Tried to pay my bill on Saturday. Was not able to access account online. Got a message my email address wasn't connected to the account. So I called waiting over a hour to make payment. I gave up. Made payment through my bank online. Well they didn't get it fast enough, shut my cable off, charged me fees, and I called today 2-8. After 3 transfers and 45 min later I got my service back on. I was asked 3 times how I sent the money. They are a monopoly. I hate them and there is no other provider allowed in my area. It is so horrible the way they treat their customers.
Reviewed Feb. 8, 2016
Super Bowl 50. Epic Showdown. Friends were invited and the beer and food were served. But no game. Comcast cable (the service required by my apartment) decided to crap out 4 times during the game. Each time the cable box (provided by comcast and assured to be the latest model) reset itself would take 10 minutes. We missed half the game. I have been used to bad service from this provider but this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Will forever on refuse to buy comcast and spread the word to anyone and everyone to never ever use them.
Reviewed Feb. 8, 2016
I'm not going to mention all the lies I have been told over the years by the Comcast representatives, or all of the times they have continually raised my cable bill. How I never wanted a house phone, but I was told that I would save money if I did... Then bill went up AGAIN... Let's talk about the Super Bowl... How I am unable to watch any television on the ONE DAY they everyone in the US is watching the same thing. I CAN'T. WHY NOT??? CAUSE COMCAST SUCKS!!! Tomorrow, I will be getting DirecTV or Dish Network. My cable has been out for two hours and they estimate it will be off for another two hours... So basically, I can't watch TV at all tonight. Thanks Comcast for the great service you all provide... NOT!!!
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2016
Comcast is the worst. All I wanted was to have a simple installation in my home and they couldn't even do that. When the first tech came he said he couldn't install because wiring to my apartment had to be done first so I had to call and make a separate appointment for that. When the second tech came he said the exact same thing but that was already establish the first time when I called back to customer service. The third tech was supposed to come between 8-12 and didn't call till 3:30 but by then I was already at work. Called back to schedule another appointment and the fourth tech never came but claim he knocked at my door (which he never did) and when I called customer service they said I would have to make another appointment.
Customer service was NO HELP AT ALL. I got told something different every time I called and could never speak to a supervisor and no one who could actually help could call me back. It was always the "I don't know what to say" excuse from every representative I spoke with. Just straight unprofessional, rude and lazy. I would not recommend this provider to anyone!
Reviewed Feb. 7, 2016
My cable bill increased and I called to see if I could get a better price without giving up my sports package. After much aggravation I was able to speak with a very nice young lady who lowered my bill slightly. I had to agree to a 2 year contract. At the time I was very happy with Comcast so I agreed. A month later Comcast dropped the YES network, the one channel that I watched faithfully all baseball season. Now I am stuck for 2 years, will not be able to watch my favorite team for 2 seasons. November 5, 2017 will be my last day as a Comcast customer.
Reviewed Feb. 5, 2016
I cancelled my Comcast service. Reason they suddenly discontinue my promotion and bills comes too higher- and when I cancelled my service - after that I go through lots of hassle- After discontinue service- I got call from ** every other day asking someone calling from Comcast and need credit card number and all. Then it not stop and Comcast send me bill amount of $49. I paid. I received again second bill of $47 then I paid through online. And lastly I was shocked I got bill from southwest credit bureau amount of $47. What is this- is Comcast crazy after losing the customer- their behavior is too weird- They sending bill from last 3 months. Do not go for Comcast service. AT&T is the best internet service and Dish and Directv is the best- with the customer. I do not like Comcast at all. Stay away from Comcast.
Reviewed Feb. 5, 2016
I set up Auto Pay in November 2015. Was told I will have to call in December's payment because it takes 30 days. Received a confirmation letter Auto pay was set up only to be told 02/04/16 it wasn't and was even charged a late fee for Comcast not doing their job. Please someone shut this company down quickly.
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2016
I don't have room for the detailed summary (it's 4 pages single spaced). We've been without cable for almost a month - multiple technicians and phone calls each telling us they promised to resolve our issue (1st technician never showed up despite us waiting for 2 hours then being told he'd be there within another hour). Total amount of OUR time spent (I started keeping track AFTER first missed appt) so this is on the low end: 17.5 hours waiting or at home with technicians and over 7.5 hours on the phone (calculated based upon cell phone records). This doesn't include multiple calls from my husband.
Ultimately, they discovered the box they gave us was the problem. 20 minute install of new box, WOW it works now. Oh, and by the way - couldn't get any kind of response until we filed FCC Complaint. While that initially got corporate's attention - but even they didn't call back when they promised (and of course, they don't give YOU a number - heaven forbid you actually have the ability to call them).
NOW, they want to make sure to compensate us for our troubles. I sent them the 4 pager. They agreed what we went through was awful and credited us a WHOLE month of cable - and then act like they're doing US a favor (by the way, did I fail to mention that we DIDN'T HAVE CABLE for most of the month). But wait, they threw in internet. $55 more dollars. SO generous. I guess according to COMCAST $55 is fair compensation for over 25 hours of their customer's time that could have been resolved in 20 minutes. Absolutely HORRIBLE excuse for customer service.
Reviewed Feb. 4, 2016
My mom is a senior citizen on a fixed income. Her encountered a bill increase. She asked me to contact Comcast to see if they could provide a discounted price. 1st phone call to customer service ended in a disconnection while representative was checking on offers. 2nd phone call resulted in a $10 discount and transfer to a customer loyalty representative to receive an additional discount. Customer loyalty representative spoke with her supervisor who suggested having a sales representative call me back with a new customer offer the same day. The bill is in my dad's name, he passed away 1 1/2 years ago. Nobody called.
I called the next day. 1st phone call, disconnected when customer service representative picked up the phone. 2nd phone call, customer service representative referred me to a customer loyalty representative who was not able to provide an additional discount unless my mom took out a two year agreement which would save her an additional $10 a month. Told it was not possible to get a better price by setting up a new account, only additional inconvenience through interior of services. Large waste of time. Have contacted Comcast in the past, numerous disconnects, inconsistent advice from customer service representatives. Repeated bad experiences.
Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016
Let me start off with if I could change broadband provider I would in a heartbeat but unfortunately Comcast is the only broadband internet provider in my area. I have been experiencing on and off issues for years with them and been waiting patiently for U-verse to come to my neighborhood with no such luck. Comcast doesn't fail to send us a bill each month and or raise their prices but they fail providing us the service we pay for. I did a huge mistake by ordering their new TV service X1 platform. Over half of the time it doesn't work. The internet speed isn't the speed we are being promised to receive when it is working. I've called Comcast customer care numerous times and even Comcast corporate.
I've had techs out to my home, change all the wiring outside as well as equipment and nothing. The service will work for a day and back down the next. There have been 4-5 outages a week with Comcast since the end of Dec 2015. I am now given the runaround and told no there is a issue in the area which they're unsure when and if it will be resolved. I am first told a week then a week and a half and then a month or more. One tech left broken cables and connectors in my home knowingly there is a toddler in my home. Could've been a choking hazard. This company is a joke and do not care about their customers. I have asked Comcast since they're unable to resolve the issue “Why not just stop providing our area and stop robbing us customers from our hard earn money.” This company is a scam and should be put out of business once and for all.
Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016
And so, yesterday we could not access the On-Demand feature that is part of our tv service. Calling Comcast only got me a robot answer and then I waited... until I finally just hung up. Bottom line: could not watch anything on "On-Demand" and was not at all satisfied with this experience, especially since I've had to sit thru at least three complete outages in the past few weeks. Who knows how many more there were? I HATE Comcast!
Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016
We moved to a place where Comcast is the only thing available right now. They reel you in with these packages. Well we have lived in three apartments in the complex. All the wiring is short. Try to get it fixed, "well it's the apartment's problem. No it's the cable company's problem". Well then they need approval from the apartment then get referred to the sales rep for the community. Still get nowhere and the never ending changes in bills, we get call to fix them and they're supposed credits get added on. Don't forget all the hidden fees you surprised with to get service in all the rooms and each box adds up. You can go pick up your boxes but never informed of that till they charged a lot of money to mail it. Then back to the wiring. It's so bad you have to have a tech come out and say it's free. Check the bill, 50.00 odd dollars in charges.
Try to speak to customer service to work all this out, told we're wrong. They refuse to correct this bill. They're overcharging us 140.00 on this bill alone, taking the whole bill into consideration and we have to pay it cause our kid needs internet to do homework cause everything is online. They take and take with no account for who they affect. Bad, bad business practice. Shame on you money hungry people.
Reviewed Feb. 3, 2016
I changed a cable box from one bedroom to another. I called customer service to help reprogram the box. Well what a SURPRISE, they couldn't do it over the phone because they were incompatible. They send a representative over and then charge me a 38$ for coming to program a box! No notice on any fees just a charge. I call customer service. The rep. tries to tell me they changed a wire! Well my ** that happened, no wires changed! The representative basically called me a LIAR when I asked to speak to her manager and flat out refused! There has gotta be something we can do! Any suggestions?
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016
I went in to get support for my Comcast system which is a required feature Comcast promises under the contract signed with the service. I specifically instructed them NOT to sign me up for paper billing. I am an accountant and live by obtaining the receipts for the businesses I do work with. It is the only way to enforce contracts when breaches occur. I clicked on support and it brought me to a page that asks if I want to be signed up for paperless billing. It then gives you the option of signing out or accepting. There is no option whatsoever to refuse and still obtain online support. I contacted a third level manager and this manager promised I would not have to sign up for the paperless billing but then decided between the time I spoke with him and the time he promises to get back to me to sign me up for paperless billing then un-enroll me from paperless billing.
I had instructed him I do not want to agree and do not agree yet they decided to go ahead and do so anyway. I went into my system again today and the same pop up came up stating I had to sign up or I would not be given support whatsoever. Do not trust this company. They are disreputable. It is unfortunate as I have enjoyed a long term (over a decade) relation with this company but now they are forcing their customers to sign up for paperless billing. Instead of stating to the customer that paper billing is more expensive and they can no longer afford, which is what I believe they are facing, to continue to send everyone paper billing they take away support if you won't agree to online billing. DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY FOR ANYTHING in the future. The third level manager is still working on the problem.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016
I had internet set up with Comcast in my new apartment and before the technician left, he said that it may be a bit slow until it finished its updates. Not only was it slow, but it would not connect to my Roku at all (however, the wifi hotspot on my phone did without any issue or delay). In the midst of that, I had called inquiring about cable but decided that $137 was too steep for me and the internet service continued to decline in quality.
I made between 6-8 calls to Comcast over the next 2 days attempting to resolve the issue. Twice the call was disconnected and I was not called back, once I was told that there would be a service charge between $25-50, once I was told there was nothing wrong with the unit (over the phone), once I was told that they would waive the fee (which was then $40, not the $25-50 the previous rep had said) and once I requested a supervisor's assistance to which I was told that all supervisors were in a meeting and one would call me back in 30 minutes - that also never happened.
I finally got fed up with the whole thing and cancelled after 3 days and was told that I had to return the equipment to a UPS store to avoid being charged for it. The next day, I received a box with a security camera and a cable modem! I went online to my account, and guess who had added additional services to my account without my consent - COMCAST! I called and they tried to smooth it over by saying that the package was sent, but there was no plan set up for it on my account. "Then why is it listed as a service on my online account page?" I asked. I was told that they didn't know, but they didn't show it in their system. I cancelled my account and took all of their equipment back to UPS that day. I've never received such horrible service in my life - and I was only a customer for 3 days.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016
Just gotta love this. They expect us to pay our bills in a timely fashion for services rendered. TV service... never had a real issue that was not resolved immediately. Kudos for that. Internet however is another story. How the hell do you expect me to happily pay for internet service portion of my bill when I have averaged over 230 disconnects a week?? Some days are good... but most are atrocious. Equipment in the home swapped out several times and yet still constant disconnects. Do NOT tell me it's in the home. I don't buy it for a second. There is an issue outside the home, which numerous agents have admitted to seeing in my neighborhood.
If I could only pay for the TV portion of my bill I would. I cannot see paying for internet service that makes dial-up look preferable. I am however paying the full bill since I have no other recourse. Get your crap together for crying out loud. 5 months of constant disconnects after all the in home equipment has been swapped out several times?? Logic dictates it is an outside issue causing the problems. But then again following logic implies intelligence... (disconnected while I was typing this... go figure.)
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016
I wish we could give them 0 stars. When I first set up this account a year and a half ago, they set up two accounts in my name and attempted to bill me for two of the same service for four months. After many phone calls with them, it was finally resolved. I did really like their service after that and thought it had been an honest mistake with the initial account set up. Fast forward to less than two months ago: We moved a few miles away from our previous residence, and found out that Comcast Cable does not service the area. When I called to cancel my account, I was told at first that I needed to pay an early termination fee. I disputed this charge and after several phone calls and being bounced around to different departments, it had not been resolved.
In the meantime, two weeks after we moved (one of those weeks was Christmas), they had already sent us to an informal collections for our equipment, tacked on an "un-returned equipment fee" and we were receiving several phone calls a day telling us to return the equipment. So then we went to the store and they gladly took the equipment, but then I was told that they "don't have access to your billing account" and they gave me the number for Comcast. I called Comcast in the Comcast store and was told to wait a week to call them back to confirm it had been resolved. A week later, I spoke with someone who told me that it was all taken care of and I was not responsible for the fee.
A week later, I received another call from them again, attempting to collect the fee and they acted like it had not be resolved. I was able to "resolve" it on that call by speaking with an agent and this time, I insisted that I receive a confirmation number, ensuring me that termination fee had been removed from my account. When I checked my mail today, I had received a bill from Comcast for the fee as well as a Collections Notice from Credit Collection Services. Keep in mind that I returned their equipment when we went to the store two weeks after we moved.
Also, we moved on Dec. 15th. It is now Feb. 1st, which means that while it took them forever to get my account set up right in the first place, they somehow managed to send me to informal collections for the equipment within 2 weeks and then to actual collections over a fee they should have never tried to collect, within 45 days. Maybe I should send them to collections for the hours and hours of my time they wasted when they first set my account up wrong and then billed me incorrectly when I closed it.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016
For months I noticed increases in my bill, so I finally examined my bill to find that I was being charged usage fees for my data. I called to inquire and was told it would cost $10 a month, then when I agreed to the fee it was different, to have unlimited data is an extra $35 a month. So I am paying a $35 unlimited fee and additional $10/50GB additional usage fee. I called customer service to request an explanation and credit; representative told me she could not help me, and when I asked to be transferred to someone who could she hung up on me.
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2016
I just called to reduce my bill and now Comcast has already increased two "fees" on the bill. I got no warning of the increases, and no explanation as to why these increased. Also with the new "plans" they offer, you have to pay for premium channels even though they are old movies and they run over and over. I don't want these channels but to get HD service, I have to go with this package and pay a higher price. It isn't fair and they are taking advantage because there is no competition in the area. I wish there was some competition in my area and I would switch in a heartbeat. This is not an isolated complaint, I have had to subscribe as I have no other choice. The bill is a different amount every other month and it never decreases. I am not getting anything better as a result either. Customer service is a joke. They just read from a script.
Reviewed Feb. 1, 2016
I have been paying for the Blast! Internet for over a year now but have never received the speeds that I have been paying for. Called in numerous times and nothing has ever been resolved. I had a technician come out and said the same thing that the speeds were way down and couldn't figure it out either. After many calls to Xfinity I FINALLY was given a $200 credit and decided not to switch to a different internet provider since they finally did something for my troubles. However, a supervisor looked over my account and felt I did not deserve the credit for paying for something I was not receiving and took my credit AWAY!! How can they give you a credit and then just remove it?! I just feel that is TERRIBLE customer service!
Reviewed Jan. 31, 2016
I have been with Comcast since Oct 2015. I did not have a choice unfortunately, in the apartment building I moved to. They do not know what they are doing. I had no phone service or voicemail for the 1st three weeks and absolutely no compensation for their error, people who came to transfer and set up the service after I moved to a new apartment in the same building did not complete the installation, and now I'm transferring to another apartment and instead of a transfer, they are calling me a new customer. They do not know what they are doing.
I had to call the rapid response team to get my services fixed and report them to the FCC. They raise my rate when I have a written contract? They can't even place the correct television shows in their shabby menu. Comcast is pathetic. I have used TWC, FIOS, RCN and always had excellent service. If you can don't use these people. It's a horrible service where customer service does not communicate with each other, it's impossible to get a US Customer service, they mess up your modem online when you have to deal with the Philippines. OMG. It is such bad service. I wish I could get anything else but Comcast, but stuck with this horrible service.
Reviewed Jan. 31, 2016
WORST COMPANY EVER! Aside from having the WORST customer service in the world they are crooks! After having the same channels for 5 years Comcast just decided to take channels away and then tried to charge for increasing your package to get them back. I work for a large company that has over 1500 apartments. Two of our locations in Ocean County have Comcast as their only option. Because this is the last straw with this company I have convinced the owners to now allow dishes. After 35 years of not allowing dishes as of Monday we will no longer suggest Comcast but will be persuading customers to get a dish instead. STAY AWAY FROM COMCAST!
Reviewed Jan. 31, 2016
Recently I switched to Xfinity and could easily connect via VPN to my office. Recently I started having problem with my VPN Connection. When I contacted Xfinity they told me they do not guarantee VPN on residential networks. This is cheating. They did not tell me this when they were signing me up and it worked flawlessly for more than one month - the free cancellation period. Now I am being asked to pay additional to get an static IP and upgrade to business. If I cancel they want 210 $ from me. Is this fair in any way?
Reviewed Jan. 30, 2016
This company is a complete disappointment! Their representatives are either not trained properly or their policy is overcharge customers and deal with the issues later. The bills are always changing from month to month, you are being told a price and when the bill comes you get another amount. From $ 114.98, as told, we were overcharged $222.74 and then $145.95. Everything is a lie and each representative puts the blame on somebody else and the cycle goes on forever. How can a person in the Philippines fix your issues when all they see is the same information I see on my bill? Comcast cannot afford to have qualified people to deal with issues?
The service is not worth the outrageous fees they keep putting on consumers. There is no contract that states clearly the fees and the final prices you need to pay. This is how people give up Comcast and it will not stop here... I am just disgusted with this company and their billing policies... I will be another customer that will give up my cable with Comcast. You people have no ethics! You rip off hard earned money from people!!!
Reviewed Jan. 28, 2016
I spent 2 1\2 hours flying around the world from South America, to the Philippines, to India. Fighting them to speak to an American in America. My on demand no longer worked because my boxes overnight became obsolete. They wanted me to drive to Comcast store. I told them that wasn't going to happen. I told them it was their problem that they can come to my house and fix it. I refuse to speak to anyone outside the United States. I finally got someone in Chicago who said they couldn't help me but another country could.
I have had Comcast for years and have always had Americans in America answer my calls. You all should be disturbed that our account info, our social security numbers and credit numbers are all in foreign companies. I told them, "write that I'm a racist, that you're taking jobs from Americans." That Chicago lady tried telling me that those Philippians I was talking to were in Colorado. I said "why are you lying to me?" What, do they have them in a box somewhere as slave labor? I hate Comcast. They better fix my boxes and for free or the wrath of god is coming down on them.
Reviewed Jan. 28, 2016
A Comcast salesperson talked us into a bundle package that included their basic security system. We were told that it was a three year contract but we were assured we could transfer it with us. My husband is a disabled Vietnam Veteran and we had to move out of our house to a condo. We are both retired and on a fixed income. When we were told that Comcast didn't service our new location and the fee was $720, I was shocked. I called the corporate headquarters and they refused to reduce the fee and was told someone would call me in 24 hours. When they didn't call, I called back and set up the time for termination and said I would file a complaint over the excessive termination fee. As soon as I hung up our service was terminated and it took two hours to get it hooked up again... They said it was a system glitch, I think it was done in retaliation.
Reviewed Jan. 28, 2016
We have ordered service from Comcast and signed a two year contract. At time of signing we were notified that we can cancel early and we will have to pay an early termination fee of $250.00, also that we can change any of the services such as downgrade or upgrade with no issues. As you know the market changes everyday and Verizon has offered us a deal we cannot refuse with no contract or obligation. I have called Comcast regardless the better deal from Verizon and explained that we no longer have televisions in the office and would like to just remove the Television service. Their response was I would have to pay early termination fee for the TV. Now I am starting to get upset so I asked worst case if I cancel everything what will be my early termination fee and guess what? It is $2100.00.
I asked to show it to me that on the contract and the only thing they showed me is under termination fee on the contract there is a website address which you have to log into and that is where it explains that you have to pay 75% of your monthly bill X the remainder of the contract, in my case it is 17 months. I thought it was bogus so I decided to call Sarah ** who was my inside rep and was the sweetest customer rep I have ever spoke to at time of purchase. Now her answers to my question about termination fee is: "I have checked the system and did not see a record of conversation with you today", after I called twice. I was not looking for a conversation times or specific posting, just looking for a simple answer "what is my early termination fee". I can pull hair out of my teeth and still get no answer, completely being ignored by customer service.
Beware, the contract and the promises is a total scam and false promises. Read the terms and condition. The funny thing that makes me very concern is how do I know when is the terms and conditions were changed they were never presented to me in writing and a $250.00 early termination was promised which is a total bogus. Stay away. The worst customer service ever.
Reviewed Jan. 27, 2016
3 different installers attempted to do install, but could not because service line from road to house needed to be replaced. The 3rd installer who described the reason it would take an additional week to obtain my long-standing phone number from my present provider indicated that the work order was to connect one (1) TV; I have five (5). Due to the increase of TVs, the work order and contract were invalid as well as the monthly rate I had been quoted. The monthly rate would increase substantially. Was this a "bait & switch" tactic? What is the competence of maintenance to restore the line prior to having an installer arrive? I cancelled several appointments to be present for the installers. Due to the nature of robocalls used to schedule the installers, I could not state the problem of a "non-serviceable line." I have reported this complaint to the FCC.
Reviewed Jan. 27, 2016
I have contacted COMCAST by phone for one month, twice a week, to try to resolve the problem, with no success. Last month when I tried to obtain services, I was told that the apartment had a $400 dollars debt. The apartment was leased through August 2015. The contract for COMCAST services was between the tenant and COMCAST. I was not even aware that the tenants had COMCAST services. I was told that the debt was associated to the apartment rather than the tenants. This cannot be legal. An apartment cannot enter into a contract, only individuals can. Resolution expected from COMCAST: Remove the debt from the apartment.
Reviewed Jan. 27, 2016
I set up an account on 1-19-16 for services X1 Xfinity & Home Security Instructing them that a Bucket Truck was required to do the job! They sent a tech out on 1-21-16 in a van with a ladder. His supervisor come out to survey the situation and said the cable needed to be ran over 350 feet. & Comcast has to do it not a contractor. The supervisor told me someone with a bucket truck would be out within 24 - 48 hrs. No one showed up until 1-26-16 in a truck with a ladder. He told Comcast they had to come with a bucket truck. So now today 1-27-16 the tech to install the Security System come out but couldn't install cause the cable has not been run.
Updated review: Jan. 28, 2016
The day after this experience, I received a call from Comcast and they restored my ability to use credit cards. There is still hope yet for this internet provider Giant!
Original Review: Jan. 27, 2016
This is probably one of the worst companies I have ever had to deal with. In order to keep my services I had to give them a credit card number that would withdraw my funds a week later. The week passed and they made an attempt to withdraw. By the time this happened, a charge hit my card that I wasn't aware of. So they were not able to make the withdrawal. I called them to try to use another card and was told that I would not be able to use another credit card, claiming that there was fraud on my account. They said that I would need to call my bank to get that cleared up. I got my bank on the line and did a 3-way call with Comcast. Then their story changed. They said that they had run my credit and since my score was low, I wouldn't be able to use a card again.
I have never had a problem with any other company in the past. Usually if one card doesn't work, the merchant will just ask for another one. Not Comcast! I am now placed on a 6-month ban for using a credit card. Most of the agents, including supervisors were rude and could care less whether I was a customer or not. When I told them that they were losing a customer, they told me to make sure and turn in my boxes. I am disgusted. I am sure that most people at some point in their lives have had a credit card that was declined. Unless you are well off, in which case you probably couldn't relate. This company is unreasonable and does not know how to treat loyal customers. I am going to be seeking internet service elsewhere now...
Reviewed Jan. 27, 2016
I have been trying to get a technician to bury cables since 8/2015. It is safety issue. I got several appointments, nobody came. The case was escalated as safety issue, I got appointment for today, 1/26/2016, I waited from 8am to 8pm, nobody came. I will be switching tomorrow to another company.
Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016
I received our Dec. 2015 billing. I pay $64.98 mo. Well the Dec. billing was $164.00+. According to Comcast our Nov. billing was not received until 01/12/16, I wrote and mailed the payment of $64.98 on 12/28/15. So we called Comcast to straighten the mess out. The customer service rep who took our call was rude and accusatory. He told us that the late charge of $14.50 will remain on the bill and we have to pay it and take the matter to our postal service. I was appalled by his comments. I requested to speak to another person.
After 10 minutes of holding, another person (a woman) who spoke to us that resembled a script from a movie, was a little bit helpful. And after pulling our history with Comcast (since 1999, yeah, I was stunned to discover I have remained a loyal diligent paying customer ever since and this is the service I got from them in return, I kicked myself, I am stupid for being a Comcast customer), to make a long story short, I handed the phone to my husband and he waited patiently as the customer service rep waived the late fee and other charges that they added onto the bill, while I called other cable and internet providers.
Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016
Call Comcast on 01/23/2016 to report a problem with my services, scheduled a service appointment for the following day 01/24/16 Between 9 am and 11 am. No one show. Is a horrible customer services. They don't care. They say that someone will you call back. Nobody calls back. They overcharge for the service. Shame on this company.
Reviewed Jan. 26, 2016
I have been with Comcast for three months and when I signed up for service I was promised a 100 gift card for signing up with them with the Triple Play. I made four calls to Comcast about the gift card, which they told me you had to wait 90 days until you get the card. During the four times I was on the phone with the untrained customer reps, no one told me if you're late or have any problems with your account you will not get the card. Do not sign up for the Triple Play and think you are to get a gift card, if so don't be late because you will never receive it. Poor customer service, will not be using them anymore after my 12 months is done. Choose a better provider when choosing your cable service. But the supervisor did offer free premium channels for a month and I decline because that wasn't a good deal to take despite I work all the time.
Xfinity Cable TV Company Information
- Company Name:
- Xfinity Cable TV
- Formerly Named:
- Comcast Cable Service
- Website:
- www.xfinity.com