Comcast Cable Service

All started when multiple of our 4 services (usually tv & internet) started constantly having issues. When the box would get turned off and I'd turn it on to watch tv again, I'd have to reboot the system every time for it to work. Which worked through the my account app sometimes, & other times I'd go through the whole reboot process it wouldn't work & so I'd then have to have a representative do it manually over the phone(*which ALWAYS takes at least 20 min just to get someone on the phone w/ them)! Then technicians had to come to fix it; multiple times.

After an hour of telling me that THIS was the problem or THAT was the problem, being told it was finally fixed, AND paying a technician visit fee (*which I was told over the phone that the fee would be waived because it was an equipment issue so I wouldn't have to pay it), it'd start happening again almost right away. I became very unhappy with my services after going through this about 3 times & wanted to cancel but was unable due to my contract.

Then came the virus situation, I was laid off from work as well as my fiance so we were transferred to the Xfinity assistance plan. For the first month of being on it, my subscriptions that I ALWAYS had been apart of were working fine. Then all of a sudden 1 night I fall asleep watching a movie, I wake up the next day & want to finish it and my tv is telling me that I'm no longer apart of the subscription and can't resubscribe to it OR order any movies while being on the assistance plan... which to me didn't make sense because for the first month or so it was all working fine and I believe we ordered a 3 dollar movie in the first month as well.

So I called Xfinity, waited the ridiculous amount of time to get an agent on the phone; when I finally did, he was the worst agent I've ever come across and I've spoken to a lot of agents with Comcast! To start off with, he had a very thick accent & was talking extremely fast so I couldn't understand a lot of what he was saying. So I kindly asked him to speak slower & he kept speaking fast, literally screaming at me telling me that if I had paid my bill I wouldn't be experiencing these issues. Every time I'd talk he'd start sighing very loud into the phone or making little comments. I asked him what his name was and to transfer me to a manager. He proceeded to tell me over and over again very loudly and very rudely that he wasn't going to until he got to explain to me and 'do his job.' He never told me his name and finally transferred me when I was in the middle of speaking to him after yelling at me for 58 minutes.

I DO NOT recommend Comcast to ANYONE. DO NOT use this company for internet, cable & home protection especially from them is HORRIBLE & WAY over priced for what you actually get! Home: If you're not watching your cameras 24/7, you don't even get to see what's going on unless you pay 10.00 for EACH camera to record 24-7. Which is absolutely RIDICULOUS. When we first got xfinity home, if you didn't pay the $10.00 for your cameras to record 24-7, they would at least take a still photo shot every 5 seconds that motion was picked up on the camera!

About 6 months into our 2 year contract, they took that away and now you literally have to be watching your camera on your phone or touch screen device if you want to catch anything happening on your cameras! ALL AROUND A HORRIBLE OPTION and I DEEPLY regret not opening my eyes to what we were actually receiving for what we were paying and canceling my services years ago! I will make SURE all of my family friends and anyone I even talk to in person or through social media knows how horrible we were treated by this company and how disrespected we were by that 'Customer Service' representative!

I had a transfer of service. The agent says they don't why it isn't showing at my new address. There is no way to edit my location on the site, just my phone number, which also makes no sense. I can't go to the store because of course the store is closed. Everyone hides behind the coronavirus as a reason but it is incompetence plain and simple. So I have no service. Customer Service cannot tell me why nor can they tell me what to do to fix it.

Conclusion.... I have no idea. If I can't call for help with technical issues, exactly what am I suppose to do? I guess just pay my bill. If there was actual competition I would switch. I guess I will call repeatedly until I connect with an agent that can solve the issue, you know, like Bingo. I can call and listen to the long nauseating dragged out recorded message about the coronavirus again which I CANNOT opt out of with a 0, all about washing my hands and social distancing. They must think everyone is stupid. I don't need help washing my hands, I need technical support and have no one to call.

The next day I went back to the Santa Cruz office and explained what we had discovered. I was told that this is simply not true. I asked to see the manager. The manager said that the documents I had been shown were in fact old and no longer reflect the channels of the plan. I asked this manager "then why are you selling the plan using them?" No answer. I told him his reps assured me that if these channels did not exist I could return to our grandfathered plan. This manager told me they have no authority to do that. I asked him "why did your reps guaranteed I can return to our Grandfathered plan?" No answer.

I have discovered, from the loyalty dept, that Comcast has a policy that all reps understand. Once a customer moves from a grandfathered plan they may not go back. The Grandfathered plans offer channels no longer under contract so Comcast must pay more for them. I wrote the Comcast board of directors and chairman, no replay in two months. The rep was simply trying to meet his sales quota and they will lie to customers to reach it. Do not fall for fake channel line ups and false promises.

Well a few days go by and once again the problem arises and nothing is resolved. For the amount of money I pay each month it is shameful that they can get away with how they treat their customers. Not only that, now they want me to install any equipment rather than a technician coming to install it. I’m not getting paid to install new DVR boxes. Also I pay a monthly protection service fee so that a technician does all the troubleshooting, not me. It is appalling that consumers have to put up with this because Comcast is such a monopoly and I have no other choices other than streaming services which don’t offer the same extensive programming. Instead of apologies it would be more productive if they respected their customers rather than giving them the runaround.