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Reviewed March 12, 2016
A hacker took over my account and I tried for days to recover. In their final e-mail they suggested that I create a new e-mail, but I won't. I want my e-mail. I answered all their questions. I won't come back.
Reviewed Jan. 24, 2016
I just went through hell to get simple pdf email attachments to print. Ridiculous 2 and 3 steps to get my HP Envy 4500 printer to print simple pdfs and I know how to get through the maze when not simple. THIS IS BS!! Extremely pissed off at midnight helping my wife... Again ridiculous!! FIX IT!
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2015
MSN today covered a story on Turkey rightfully blowing a Russian war plane out of the sky after being warned ten times not to continue flying. It appeared as though everybody was going crazy about the story but it ended out being completely untrue as MSN were deleting any comments that were agreeing with the Turkish actions. They have obviously got a problem with the Turkish and love nothing more than instigating this kind of hatred in people which is why anything they print should never be trusted. NEVER trust a news source that edits the opinions that differ from theirs. I will never read another MSN report in my life.
Reviewed July 25, 2015
I, and I am sure many others, use MSN.com as their home page. My first ritual in the morning is to look at the rotating section of the home page which provides the top news or human interest stories of the day. I have come to trust MSN as source of news and information UNTIL NOW! Now these rotating banners have embedded advertising disguised as stories. There are many places on this site that advertising is prevalent but not on the rotating headline banner. Not the place!
MSN.com has abandoned any journalistic integrity. Any news site that you have to carefully examine every link to determine make sure you haven't be duped into reading an ad disguised as a story or worse, going to a site thinking it's a trusted source only to find out that not only is it an ad but the ad is sponsored by unscrupulous foreign organization with malicious intentions. I guess it proves the point that you can't trust a product company like Microsoft to also be a trusted news outlet. The lack of integrity starts at Microsoft's core, its leaders. Once lost, trust is a very difficult thing to get back. I'll try CNN.
Reviewed May 9, 2015
MSN spontaneously sending phantom emails - My account runs through Outlook. At the bottom of the screen (where it tells you, "all folders are up to date," I also see, several times per day, "sending message *,*** of *,***." What are these messages? And where are they being "set" to? Are they all my old messages that I have not deleted? The enormous number in my "deleted" folder (I have tried to reset it to not store all these, but to no avail). Since I get no "replies" to these thousands of emails that are "sent" per day, I assume it's either a "phantom", or it's the NSA (kidding, but not much...).
Reviewed April 10, 2015
My email has been hacked. It when I contacted tech support with MSN - they didn't want to do anything after letting me know that my email had been basically taking over and that any of my information that had been emailed to me from my insurance companies from my utility companies from my personal business was now out in the open. They want to charge people. They are not securing their email at all and once you're taken advantage of they continue to take advantage of you. I reported the lack of security and activity and they chose to do nothing about it. For I give them a dime I will take my business to Road Runner where there is security and I would give it to them before I would give it to MSN who chooses to ** their customers.
Reviewed March 31, 2015
Me and my Husband can't no longer going into our account for 3 days now!!! I have family that try to Email us… I can't get my email! It ask for my password and it not working, so I try other password and still not working. No help, no nothing. :(
Reviewed March 12, 2015
MSN gave access to an unknown person(s) in another Country & allowed them to become a co-owner of my account. They won't do anything to help me. Now they have eyes on me & I'm disabled so social life is online & it's been taken from me. No support.
Reviewed Feb. 23, 2015
I just found out that we have been paying MSN $19.95 every month for the last 10 yrs for the dial up service that we don't use. It's because it's an auto payment on my husband credit card. He thought he has to pay as his email is .msn, which is free. There should be a lawsuit against MSN for this.
Reviewed Dec. 20, 2014
No matter how clean and having to do with the article the comments go with, my replies to other comments keep getting blocked.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2014
I have not been able to use MSN for two weeks. Going to MSN Games is just a great big mess and this is the second time within one year with two different computers that this has happened. I have deleted the cookie, reset, deleting Active X, reinstalling and the same with Java. I now get to the second box but it just stay there… Microsoft can fix any other things or software with Mr. Fix it but not this MSN. I have never seen a company try so hard to run customers away from the protect. There is NOTHING and I do mean Nothing to make this system come back up that I can find and I was told by a friend that I might have to format the hard drive - this is crazy to the core. If anybody know how to get this system working again please let me know.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2014
I would like to add my name to the list of unhappy users of the new msn.com. Some of the other posters have already identified the many reasons this is a terrible piece of software. Please let us go back to the old page or I will not be using this junk. It is big and cumbersome, and as someone pointed out a giant delivery system for advertising. I cannot even get it to keep me signed in on my private home computer! This after I sign in and check the box that says "keep me signed in". Yahoo is looking very good, unless anyone has other alternatives. The new MSN.COM is one more crummy product from the evil empire. Please either fix it or replace it! I am unable to post this with zero stars so I give it 1 star.
Reviewed Oct. 15, 2014
In September 2014 MSN made good on its threats of turning off my.msn.com and forwarding it to msn.com. At the same time MSN reformatted msn.com to become just one large page of advertisements and splash ads. The complete customization of my.msn.com is gone with very little choice on content and accessing any content requires multiple web pages and mouse actions. The new msn.com is designed to accomplish only one thing, generate revenue for msn.com due to selling ads and link revenue. Hopefully once MSN notes that that page hits drops and revenue drops they will return my.msn.com to active status without the extreme amount of advertising now found on MSN.com
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2014
Who do you use for field testing these changes? Masochists?? Trying to change the location for a Weather report from what is automatically input to my actual location was unbelievably frustrating. So, I will probably switch to Google after a long relationship with MSN. Sorry!
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2014
I have ever had more trouble finding things on MSN - on the new system than anything I've come across. I wish they had never touched it. If it ain't broke.... Don't fix it. Put it back like it was!!!!!!
Reviewed July 17, 2014
My computer remembers my password and email and they won't let me in. All they want is a card. I've had that password for years and email now. They say I forgot it.
Reviewed July 15, 2014
MSN stopped working may 8th. I called their help and support number and after 3 hours of repeating the same steps they told me I needed a cd to reload MSN Internet back on my computer. I was told it would take 7 to 10 days. I still had not received it by June 16th. MSN repeated told me it was ordered and I spoke with 3 supervisors and several others to find out where it was and they said maybe my post man stole it or someone took it from my mailbox. My mailbox goes directly into my house. I was told on June 16th that the payment they took would be refunded back to my account in 72 hours, instead they tried to take an additional payment on July 6th, I still had no cd to reload or service. I have made many phone calls trying to resolve this. It finally arrived July 12th. Now no at MSN is capable to install the software. Tech support says it's a billing and password issue and billing and password say it is a tech support issue. I have received 19 emails from MSN asking for details on my account and still no one can resolve this. They took my money and cannot provide service. All I've gotten are meaningless apologies and excuses. They take no responsibility for anything.
Reviewed May 23, 2014
On April 6, 2014, I purchased a new ACER Aspire computer, with Win 8.1 installed, from our local Walmart store. On the same day, I emailed Microsoft Support asking for assistance in transferring email from my old MSN account to my new Outlook account. It is now 46 days later, 31 emails to Microsoft Support, 2 telephone calls, 2 chat sessions and a letter to their CEO Satya Nadella (who has not responded in about two weeks), all to no avail as I am where I started on 6 April. On top of all that, it appears that Microsoft may have blocked me from using their support website as I have been receiving the same message for the past 10 days -"Ummm...we seem to be experiencing technical difficulties, but we are working on a solution right now. Please try again later." It would take several more pages to explain the problems that are in the 31 emails, phone calls, chat sessions and in dealing with a sarcastic Microsoft representative. I need the old emails but at this point, am not sure if I will ever retrieve them. What a way to run a business. At this point, I am trying to see if Walmart will refund my money. I guess my next step is to contact the Washington State Attorney General and file a complaint against the Microsoft Corporation.

Reviewed Feb. 8, 2014
"MSN has stopped working" message - I get this message several times a day sometimes after 10 minutes and other times after 2 hours more or less. No real pattern to this but it's very annoying. I've complained on their feedback page over and over for a month or so with the expected... no response. We've all heard people complain about Microsoft. Now I'm adding myself to that list and I've used MSN and other Microsoft products for over 2 decades. They could care less.
Reviewed Jan. 19, 2014
Easy to see from other comments that MSN service is totally, fraudulent, inferior service. Believe it or not, I started with regular MSN and then was forced to switch to Premium about ten years ago. They just keep getting worse: Selling your ID to advertisers, aiding NSA in spying, transferring help desk calls to offshore countries where idiots that don't speak good English struggle with even the most fundamental issues. It's garbage. Time to change and get A real email program that protects privacy and has software that works. Stay away from the giants and seek out alternative companies.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2013
For the last few weeks, MSN pop-ups have been appearing at the bottom of our computer screen. I want them removed. I did not ask for them and they are very provocative. Please instruct me as to how to do this.
Reviewed Sept. 17, 2013
Wed 9/11/13, got an automatic update from MS on computer overnight. Morning of Thursday 9/12/13, went into computer and all of my MS docs had been changed to MS Office - I couldn't open any of my hundreds of documents. Later that day, my computer all of a sudden showed MS doc icons and could open. Today, I spent all day on the phone (8 different people). I was to get a call back from Microsoft Word within 2 hours and have not. Have had MSN, MS, Norton and an MSN specialists tell me "it has to do with a glitch in the update they downloaded into my computer (and others)." I can not open any attachments with doc or docX - MSN has blocked them.
I can't open any attachments on any old emails from years back. I'm totally out of commission. The last MSN specialist uninstalled MS office 2010 and said MS needs to reinstall the software as the starter version 2010 was causing the issues and she removed that from my computer (remotely) and now I'm not able to open any documents. This is so infuriating and no recourse it seems. Just at MS beck & call. MSN has been nothing but problems for years. I've paid a lot of money for their services which are a total joke. Yes, I can change servers but that means changing my business docs, everything and all.
MSN and MS need to be held accountable for their crappy services. To have to call 8 people, get disconnected several times, and no one seems to know how to deal with any of this. I've lost business today due to this. Worst of all, I'm a bag of nerves, so angry and stressed and there seems to be no way to get satisfaction. MSN and MS are an empire and need to be crumbled - total lack of professionalism, etc.
Reviewed Aug. 30, 2013
I recently logged into one of my secondary .msn accounts with the incorrect password. I then re-entered the correct password and was told that someone tried to access my account and it needed to be verified... Fine... I had the security code sent. After entering the code, it now says that since someone has tried to access my account, I must change my password. No one has tried to access my account but me. Called MSN explorer tech support and was given a case # and transferred to some stupid rude person. I proceeded to tell him my issue and told me it was nothing that he could do but change the password.
Why should I change my password when nothing of malice has occurred?? He then lied and said that since the security upgrade, everyone would have to change their password eventually. I then stated I have 5 MSN accounts and was not asked to change any passwords on those accounts including my primary. I then asked where I could obtain this information of changing of password or if he could email me the update. I mentioned the only email I've received about the email changes is you would need to sign into each attached account manually versus automatically as in the past. It did not mention changing of passwords. When I mentioned that I had been a customer for over 10 years. His reply, "GOOD FOR YOU"! Very unprofessional, rude, and clueless.
Needless to say when I asked for the proof and called him on his lies, he hung up after I waited on hold for 20 min. to have my issue resolved. These people obviously have no clue of their jobs. Maybe if they would route the calls to the contact centers in your respective country it would be a little better as I am sure that no one at this place receives diversity or sensitive training. You pay your money to MSN for what? This is one of the reasons Google has surpassed them in the email arena. I hope they continue on with their success and surpass them on any other software/hardware functions as well. They SUCK!
Reviewed Aug. 6, 2013
As of 8-5-13, not able to access our email. MSN claims someone else is trying to use it. I spent over 2 hrs on the phone with people that I couldn't understand. I was hung up on, transferred, and given other numbers to call that led to nowhere. I finally got a hold of one person that seemed to be very helpful and was issued a ticket # and was advised that I needed to set up another email address for contact. Still no contact!!! I used the "guidelines" online and got nowhere. It was asking questions like, people's email addresses that I have sent, subjects, folders I had created...
This is a scam and MSN needs to take care of this!!! Apparently because this is a "free" account MSN doesn't care. Oh another question that the online form was asking was for "any other passwords that I have used in the past"... Now I just want to delete this account and not have anything more to do with MSN. I just don't know how to take care of this and get the account accessible so I can just delete it. Please investigate.
Reviewed July 11, 2013
I thought MSN was a free service. Why is MSN allowed to ripoff their customers? Both me and my son have had our email accounts halted, and when we phoned them to resolve the matter, they said for a one-time payment of $66, they will correct it. When I said no, it's a free service, they then put the phone down. I then phoned the UK Tech Support Team to complain about them, and they, too, ripped me off by keeping me on the phone for 18 minutes, which was costing me $1.53 per minute. When I started to demand to talk to someone higher, they, too, then put the phone down on me.
I feel, for a free service, this shouldn't be allowed. I've had read on the forums, and it seems I'm not the only one. To me, it's wrong that they have the control to do this to their customers, and I think something should be done about it. I did send a message to Martin ** and his team to look into it, but I know he's a busy man so probably won't get around to it; hence, why I have signed up to this site.
Reviewed June 12, 2013
I don't understand why MSN posts to the entire world so many non-sense news. It's insulting to those of us who look for something that is good - community goals reached, elderly people who gave their youth to communities, students who've reached goals that marked their family, friends and community, those who do good unto others, topics that will encourage good behavior to our world today. We are tired of the gossip, hypocrisy, lies, drama, stars that do the dumbest things that doesn't matter, negativity of all kinds, dress codes that degrade people. Oh my! It just doesn't stop. Enough is enough. I think you need reporters that have a vision of goodness, living clean, positive, outgoing, excellent co-workers who do good unto others, so they will be able to write something that comes within and not go along with trends of this world. Thank you.
Reviewed May 22, 2013
Why do I have to know about Kim Kardashian's mouth? Don't you have real news, something worthy of being printed, be it online or on paper? How many pregnant women are there in the world and what makes this one person so interesting to you? Just money, I'm sure. Please get back to real news and real people or call yourself TMZ or Extra. Some of us really want to know the news, not the crap. Thank you for the actual stories you do cover.
Reviewed May 13, 2013
I had dial-up service through MSN. Finally got broadband in our area. I called to cancel MSN. They offered multiple emails with antivirus. A year later, I got a virus in my email that was very severe. I messaged them and they locked me out of my account but continued to bill me. Since then I have been unable to get a person on the phone to cancel the billing. It took me 3 years to finally get through. They claimed there is no account associated to that email address. Well duh, you locked me out! They wouldn't cancel because I can't remember the phone number associated with the account. But I have all the rest of the billing info. Now they will finally cancel it and will refund me $10.50 because of it not being used. What about the last 3 years of non-use? I was locked out! Do not do business with these idiot crooks.
Reviewed May 9, 2013
Libya Embassy Attack - Why do you not cover this? Failure to do so is not acting as an independent news organization. All I see is fluff. When will you get to some real reporting? I have to go to FOX to get any real reporting. By the way, they allow both sides to present their views. Yes, they do lean right, but at least they show both sides.
Reviewed March 26, 2013
I paid MSN for the premium email package that was supposed to protect from advertisements! Why are there naked fat people showing up under my folder side bar representing some type of advertisement? How disgusting!
Reviewed Feb. 15, 2013
My Grandma has been billed for Web TV and has not had a box since 2004. I saw her bank statement a few years back, asked her about it and she said she didn't want to talk about it. She has had some health problems and my Uncle took over her affairs. He told me about the billing and I was shocked to see it on her BofA statement years later. We have tried to cancel the $21.95 charge and MSN said they needed the email address to pull up billing. We asked BofA if they could help cancel it and no luck there.
Today, I called the number from the debit card statement and they had two options - Press 1 for Windows support or 2 for Xbox. No billing, no anything. I pressed 1 for Windows and got a young woman who told me, "We have nothing to do with billing. Hold please, and I will transfer you to someone who can help." Ten minutes or so later she said she found the department and she would transfer me. Another few minutes later and I got the "billing department." Another 20 something girl told me she had no idea why anyone would send her a call for a billing dispute and gave me the original telephone number I called.
I was so frustrated at that time I asked for the corporate office number. She gave it to me and told me to talk to the operator and she would find someone for me to talk to. About 5 minutes later I called the corporate office and asked for the operator. Three times it disconnected me; just hung up. Did they blacklist my Grandma's number? I will call from my house later and see. Bill has probably made enough money from her to hang gold thread drapes in that mansion of his. She's sick and could use this money many other ways. I now understand why she didn't want to talk about it.
Reviewed Dec. 11, 2012
I have had my Hotmail account for over 20 years. I recently signed out and could not remember the password. It has been 3 days and I have received no help in getting back in. I have jumped through all of their hoops and have even called and been assured that they would escalate my problem. The issue is that the people did not even report the right problems, gave me the wrong case numbers, hung up on me, do not know how to transfer calls and have no customer service whatsoever. I believe that the company needs to be shut down and one that is reputable needs to be established in its place. It should not take 3 days to simply reset a password. I have given a 1 star rating as it will not allow me to give any lower than that. I have now missed two possible job opportunities as the needed information is in my e-mail and MSN reports that there is nothing that they can do. I should simply continue to wait until their computer techs get to my issue and then they will let me know!
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2012
I tried to log in to my MSN email account and received the message "Your account has been temporarily blocked". There are no options to speak with or contact anyone regarding my email account being blocked. There are no options for a chat window or email contact info to communicate with a representative. I have filed an FCC complaint against MSN since all my business and account holders communicate with me via email.
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2012
I was billed for $18.95 twice in the same day for an account I don’t have. They refused to give back my money because it was a fraud case. They refused to give me any information on the case so I could press charges on who did it. Do not deal with these people.
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2012
For years, I have paid for Premium Choice service for my MSN email account. MSN Mail recently disappeared and I now use Hotmail. I can't get support because the automated phone system insists I don't have premium support because they claim not to have a phone # associated with the account, so I am not eligible for premium support. I pay them $10.82 a month for this nonexistent service. I started with them when I had an associated phone # because the service was dial up. For years now, I have been on cable, but can't get this through to support. Your service should be called non-support customer service. It's awful.
Reviewed Sept. 19, 2012
Hotmail blocked my account, requiring that I enter my password. It has been at least 6 years since I used the password and of course, I have no record of it. When I entered "reset" including the creation of a secondary account, the entire request kept flipping back to me. Repeated phone calls to Help services were of no use. I understand the need for security, but Microsoft makes the process so error prone that it is nearly useless. The programmers in Redmond need to understand that what may seem efficient to them, in actuality, does not work. I have read numerous complaints regarding their service. So much technical support work is outsourced that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2012
I have had two Hotmail accounts for many years, perhaps a dozen years or more. Not anymore. Now, they have a new Hotmail version and are locking everyone out of their own email because of extensive security breaches. I will not be going back. The first one got hijacked and the rogues who took it were sending out emails as if from me to all my contacts with a viral infection included. I had to close the freaking account to stop it. The second account has just now been blocked by MSN and try as I might, they won't recognize me and let me recover my own account, saying it appears that someone else is accessing it.
Maybe someone is, as I lost the first account that way. Half the account recovery questions were asinine and I could not recall some specific answers. After spending much time trying to fill in the recovery form, the form reset twice and the information was lost because the site could not be accessed. It was down for maintenance for extended periods intermittently.
Only the real user (me) would spend so much time trying to recover the account and yet they failed to recognize this. I even put in my security queues correctly as my daughter's middle name, but this and some other sure answers were not enough for them. There is no other way to contact them and no room on the form to comment or ask questions. Microsoft sucks. I give up and will never again use Hotmail.com or Internet explorer and Windows. I recently tried free Linux OS with Ubuntu and Gmail with Firefox.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2012
I have tried unsuccessfully numerous times to disconnect the incoming MSN junk email for my ex-husband who died in July 2011. Every time I go into his mailbox, there are hundreds of junk emails. There isn't anyone to call because he doesn't have a paid account. Help! Stop! This can't continue!
Reviewed June 24, 2012
I bought a disc for a game called "Dream Day First Home.” My computer was in for repair and he had to take the games out of my computer. I was able to re-install all the other games that I purchased from other companies. My disc for MSN Games says that I have to pay for it again. I bought the stinking disc. I should not have to buy the game again! I should be able to download from the disc.
Reviewed June 20, 2012
I have been forced to install Windows Live. I do not want this version of Hotmail and all the rest that goes with it. I was under the impression that this could not be done, you should be able to choose what version of software you wanted.
Reviewed May 10, 2012
Having logged into my email account **, an account I have used for over 12 years, I was told I need to provide information to have it unblocked. The alternate email address given is not mine and the forwarding email address is not known to me. How can I get my email account unblocked as I now feel my account has been hacked or scammed? Information requested includes my credit card details. I do not have and use credit cards. Therefore, I am unable to provide information as requested.
Reviewed May 8, 2012
I keep getting spam mails from Hotmail.com. Can you help to put a stop? I have complained to Hotmail, but with no help whatsoever. Thank you.
Reviewed April 26, 2012
I have a different email provider. When I send a message, the "reply to" address shows **@msn.com. I don't know how many messages I have lost and have been wondering why I haven't gotten a reply to some of them. I am afraid a virus was put on my machine and I passed it on. I just primarily want that taken off my emails.
Reviewed April 19, 2012
For the second time, the MSN free online games will not download. This time, it has been three months since it stopped. Please correct it. The first time, it started on its own.
Reviewed April 18, 2012
Okay, someone hacked into my MSN account I have had for over 12 years. They accessed my account by which they added themselves to my alternate email address. Each time I would go in to retrieve a new password, of course, they were getting the new password as well. I contacted MSN to ask if it was possible for them to fix this problem. By now, all my sensitive email has been compromised: bank statements, accounts I had opened with financial information, the whole works. I now had an Arab who has complete control of my account. Everything in Hotmail is in Arabic.
I asked if MSN could fix this problem, and spoke with a person who do not speak English very well. From India? I gave him access to my computer and he said he can fix the problem (MSN) but the cost will be $99 or $199 for a lifetime(?). I stated to him, "This your glitch. It should be corrected by MSN." The company is the owner of Windows Live. To my dissatisfaction, the glitch is still in place. MSN should stop this madness. I had to delete my whole folders. There's lots of business stuff I had to get rid of and they have not fixed the problem. I am tired of speaking to other countries for my USA problems. I do not live in India. For once, I would really love to speak to someone who lives in the United States, a true American, not a prototype.
Reviewed April 8, 2012
I bet you didn't hear about a real hero's passing, but we've sure heard a whole lot of crap about Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sick-o Sandusky, and a 72-day sham marriage. Here's a real hero and his story: You're a 19-year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) x-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know that this is the day. Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But it doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come, he's coming anyway. He drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load three of you at a time on board. Then, he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back--13 more times until all the wounded were out! No one knew until the mission was over that the captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the captain and his Huey. He was a Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, who died last Wednesday at the age of 70 in Boise, Idaho. May God bless and rest his soul. And may the media put him on the front page, not the crap you report!
Reviewed April 6, 2012
There are so many menial stories that are headlines and Coach Joe Avezzano isn't even a topic. He passed away yesterday and is not even mentioned on my MSN homepage!
Reviewed March 17, 2012
How can I get rid of Bing and this irritating screen that goes over the print, making it impossible to read even if I wanted to? Every time I hit a different key, Bing pops in, covers up the whole screen and is impossible to reset or remove. I would prefer to have Mozilla as my browser or Internet Explorer. I am not too computer literate and I truly hate Bing. Thank you.
Reviewed March 3, 2012
I am a Verizon customer and have MSN with my subscription as of 3/1/12 that ended. To continue MSN service, I was offered a paid subscription with MSN. I agreed so as to not lose some features. I paid and was given an email receipt, but I cannot use the services. I am unable to log in and the favorite feature is gone. I have spent all morning trying to get a person to answer me to no avail. I have spoken to "sales" where I paid my money, but they "cannot" help. I have tried to find a number but when I do, it hangs up after a while and the online remedies do not work other than to see that there is no recourse. Can you assist or point me in the right direction? Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Reviewed Jan. 26, 2012
Every time I go to log in to check my mail, it says "error: bad request". It's really annoying. I should be able to check my mail whenever I want.
Reviewed Dec. 25, 2011
Specials.msn.co.in is a fake site based on fake counting. Please stop this site from working. The site is pertaining to consensus but there is consensus counted only on click. No other information is required and also a single person may, as many times, click whenever he wants. So Please stop this type of fake site to work.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2011
After a few yrs on Dial-up, I finally went to a broadband modem. When I called to cancel my MSN account, I was told that no refund would be issued. I'm 5 days into a new cycle that I've already paid for. After being routed through many people and spending at least an hour and half on the phone, the last gentleman tells me that if I would have called within 4 days I would have a refund. What **. And of course he couldn't transfer me to anyone else. He was the end all, be all.
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2011
I am thoroughly and profoundly disgusted with the "customer service" that is not provided by MSN. Someone has hacked into my hotmail account and I would like it closed. I have repeatedly attempted to reset the password and I am locked out.
While doing research on how to close my account, I am repeatedly advised to access it, which I cannot. When directed to MSN "customer service" to assist me, I am directed to another website and they want to charge me for the site's poor programming.
All I want to do is close my ** account, end of story!
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2011
Some program insists on making MSN my homepage when I open my web browser. If I open a tab, it takes me to Bing so I've reset my homepage several times and have stopped using MSN completely; changing my email to yahoo. Now, using only Google for web searches or Yahoo, it still will set my homepage on MSN and bing. Attempts to correct it result in returning to MSN, which I now refuse to use in any way (I've also changed my web browser on my work computers/laptop to Google and Yahoo for the same reason, though they've not yet been affected). How do I get rid of this? I don't even use my MSN email anymore, nothing has MSN related web.
Reviewed Sept. 22, 2011
A credit is continuously charged annually or more for an MSN service I haven't used in a number of years. I attempted to cancel the MSN account for at least 3.5 years with no success, and the charges kept coming through. Meanwhile, the credit card has gone through the normal renewal at least once or twice, and Microsoft has a different number. My cancellation of MSN continues to be unsuccessful, and they refuse to do anything else except "escalate" the issue for review.
They don't have my current contact info, and won't even ask for it. I have put a block on them so they can no longer charge to that credit card, but I don't trust them in any way after all the frustration I have experienced dealing with them. Since I use a web-based email and other web browsers with much better support than Microsoft, when I saw the charges continue to come through after attempting to cancel multiple times, I decided stronger action must be taken. Has anyone reading this, experienced similar problems when cancelling an account (legitimately)?
Reviewed June 17, 2011
The updates on the stock site does not update for mutual funds. It updates for stocks and markets. This is true on two different computers on two different systems entirely. Yahoo is still working. The help system is a web of **. At one point, in order to get help, MSN wanted a deposit to charge me. I need to be able to contact someone and get an answer. The problem is with your system.
Reviewed April 14, 2011
An advertisement on my MSN home page keeps crashing the home page. The ad is by AdChoices. It shows a pink bunny hitting a telephone pole and when it does, my home page crashes! Please pass on. I hope it's not virusing me.
Reviewed April 2, 2011
I have tried several times to reset a password for my MSN account. Unfortunately the information on my password and question were installed in an external drive, which is broken. I was logged out on my computer by a visitor who did not know that my information was not available. I have been a paying customer for years so I filled out the forms to retrieve my information and was informed that my MSN account was retrieved. The PIN # is of no use. I cannot reset a password.
It has been about 1 week and I cannot get this issue resolved. MSN has my correct credit card information; a list of my current emails and files saved and credit info. They do not have adequate phone service for those of us who pay to use the email system. This is a terrible business practice! MSN is truly disappointing and will not be my choice in the future. I cannot retrieve any of my work files, school files and lots of needed information as I am embarking on a career to do freelance work. My potential clients' information is in that account. Why bother giving information of a personal nature to them? Their so-called MSN Help is of no use to anyone and it is impossible to reach anyone by snail mail or phone. I have lost clients!
Reviewed Feb. 15, 2011
I was told that because I have a free email account (over 20 years of using MSN email), I could not be helped. I am locked out of my email account of over 20 years when I have used the email for job correspondence.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2011
I have an email account with MSN Hotmail for about 10 years now with the same email address. Recently, on Jan. 24, my email was hacked and the culprit sent an email to all in my contact list one by one saying that I am in London and that I needed $2000.00 for help. I could not even get into my email up to now. But, the worst thing is I lost my contact list which is in my account and I am doing business with them as a Realtor and Insurance Agent. I have been asking for help through their website but their customer service is very inefficient and up to now they have not done anything about this problem. Please guide me on how I can get back my contact list from my lost email account. Thanks.
Reviewed Jan. 24, 2011
My name is Jan ** and I have been ringing MSN to cancel a direct debit. First, I rang Microsoft as it states Microsoft MSN on my bank statement. This was about 15th January 2011. I was told that I needed another number and they transferred me to another number, where a voicemail said they were closed. On 10th January, I emailed Microsoft Online Customer Service. Hector ** replied on 11th Jan. asking for a copy of my bank statement to show their reference number. I scanned this through on 15th Jan. He emailed back on 17th, saying it was handled by their TechNet Subscription Department and gave me a phone number 13 20 58 saying option 3, option 3.
This I tried and was told that this was not the area I needed. The other number Hector gave me was the same number, but option 2 and 1. When they tried to transfer me again (bearing in mind, during these calls I had been cut off twice), I asked for the number they were transferring me to in case I get cut off. I was then put through to Raymond and I thought I was getting somewhere as he said he was trying to do it for me. Then after 23 minutes, I got cut off. When I rang the number, he told me 1800 134 995 (unable to connect). I rang again on Jan. 21 (5 times), the first time, I was put through to a voicemail. Second call, to Emmie for 12 minutes who couldn't help. I was given another number 1800 494 1962 (unable to connect), then another number 800 386 5550 which I also tried with a 1 at the front (wouldn't connect).
I tried again today twice for Tan and Raymond. They also transferred me to a voice where I cannot answer the questions she asked or to get to cancel accounts. She told me it was closed and gave me the hours they are open, which is midnight and I am ringing midday. Then, it hung up. The only thing I have found out today (as we didn't even know what the money was being taken out for) is my husband has an MSN email account which he doesn't use and doesn't want. It is coming up for the money to be taken out again soon and we would like it stopped. I would like a direct line, a form we could fax or an email (correct email address we could contact). This is costing us too much time and too much money to have this much hassle over; one would think as a simple request.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2011
MSN security of my contact list has been violated. Hackers have gained access to my contact list. My contacts now get emails from my address sent by various businesses without my authorization. I have made this known to MSN via their customer service department. Not only have they done nothing about it, they have not even replied to my email request for how to deal with it.
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2010
My e-mail address book was hacked by a spammer that I blocked. The spam continued, so I replied to one of the messages that was sent. The spammer must have resented this, so they contacted one of their low life form people, and hacked my address book, and sent the same spam for discount medications to everyone in my address book. MSN has yet to take responsibility for this. Their solution is to go to justanswer.com, and pay their technicians to fix their screw up.
Apparently, they have some system that disables the block sender function in your e-mail account . There must be some special fee that the senders pay, to bypass this function. They're collecting from both ends, privacy and security is pitiful. If they don't remedy this at no cost to me, I'm looking to delete my account with them, and switch to another, but that may be just jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Damage is unknown at this time.
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2010
I want to be fair to MSN, who was my ISP for several years. The people who work for them as classified employees are top notch, for the most part. But, as they say, it's the system. Because of file storage problems, mainly, I did a "system restore" on my aging HP Pavlion PC, which lost my ability to connect with MSN, in favor of AOL.
So I took the path of least resistance and signed up for AOL. But I needed to contact MSN to discontinue service, and was always being told the service was temporarily unavailable and engineers were working on it. This has gone on for more than a week, so I called their 800 number. The woman I finally got to talk to spoke with a thick foreign accent, and too softly.
I asked her to speak up, but still had to plug my other ear to understand what she was saying. I think I did get her to discontinue my MSN service, but I will be looking closely at my credit card statement for a couple months, just to be sure. I also tried to explain to her that I was being blocked in connecting to MSN's accounting service online, in order to cancel.
I couldn't understand her rapid-fire answer, but she seemed to be saying that there should be no problem connecting with them online. Except that there definitely is! Very convenient for MSN to keep on charging for service when it is no longer desired. The phone call was less of a problem (other than what I have already mentioned); when their robot couldn't understand my last name, I was connected rather quickly to someone in a foreign country who I had a hard time understanding. Really! There has to be a better way to communicate with an extremely wealthy organization such as Microsoft. If I still had the actual MSN connection available to me through AOL, I'm sure it would have been a breeze. You may draw your own conclusions from my (and others') reported experiences.
Reviewed Nov. 14, 2010
Get rid of the pop up audio crap or I am changing where I read the news and articles. This is a disgusting invasion of privacy. I am writing my congressman and will be suggesting to the government to look at the internet for cleanup of advertising.
Reviewed Sept. 13, 2010
My home page of MSN.com has been replaced with MSN Canada without my authorization.
Reviewed Sept. 9, 2010
My email account with MSN/Hotmail was hacked/stolen recently. I have gone through every step described (online) to remedy the situation. Nothing is working. I have waited both online and on the phone for hours to receive assistance from MSN, and although I have gotten through to a few live representatives, the situation continues. I am going on 72 hours of waiting for assistance.
The consequences have been large. Someone in London, UK, has hacked their way into my email account. They have connected everyone on my address list, posing as me. In one interaction, they were able to convince an older aunt and uncle into wiring $2000 to them at a Western Union location in London. My privacy has also been seriously compromised. This individual is learning things about me via saved email messages. He is using this information to contact people and convince them that it is me. I do not know what to do. MSN is not helping and this criminal goes on contacting people, personal and business from my contact list.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2010
I've had a Hotmail MSN Microsoft Windows Live account for about 2 or 3 years. Someone got into my Hotmail recently, so I changed my password and my year of birth, I put 2010, and when I logged out and re-entered my password, another page came up and said that I needed to put a credit card on there to prove my age. I'm using a library computer so I don't want to put one on there. They won't open my account until I do.
I called Microsoft twice and was told they wouldn't ask for that so I've printed the article out and it's from Microsoft. they said there's nothing they can do, so now I have to go get a 100-dollar credit card to put on here just in case someone steals it. The article also says that I could use picture ID and to call Microsoft customer service to find out how. When I called, they won't do that either.
Reviewed July 31, 2010
My e-mail was hi-jacked for the second time in a month. I was told by MSN's support team that I would receive instructions on how to fix it within 24 hours. I called back 40 hours later and was told by a supervisor that it could take up to an additional 7 days to fix. He also stated that there was no one in a higher position that was available for me to talk to and they did not even have voicemail (be serious).
Reviewed July 7, 2010
Two MSN accounts hacked by London money scam. Accounts now inaccessible to us. We just acquired an iPhone which links to our MSN email addresses. AT&T claims there is no problem and MSN is unreachable. Help, please. Contacts on those two accounts are lost. We pay MSN for services not rendered. We will have to set up new accounts and change contact info with all our correspondents. All of our contacts on both lists were told we'd been robbed, asked to send $1200 to London to help us "settle" our supposed hotel bill. We live in Oakland, CA and have not traveled to London in decades, have not traveled anywhere outside the USA in years.
Reviewed June 13, 2010
Going online to play games that are free till 12:00 pm. I find that they are listed as time expired.
Reviewed May 13, 2010
They have been spamming my email. I never signed up for anything. I have sent multiple emails to them. They ignore my email. I get 100 or more emails a day. I need to find a way to stop them. Please help me. This is my work email professional. They are nonstop spamming me by the minute. Please help me to stop them and make sure they don’t do that to other. Or, get me their legal department so I can sue them or something.
Reviewed May 11, 2010
MSN as well as Apple have taken all consumer rights and stuffed them into their back pockets. We have no privacy--this grandmother here. They slap all kind of junk mail and cookies from near and far upon me, weighing down my computer with garbage. I can no longer watch television for I live in Nevada since retirement and just cannot stand to watch the advertisement for prostitutes in the evening--that is if I can hang through the sorry commercials by corporation who want my money for products not fit to be in existence. Is it not about time you wake up and protect us Americans who need to have a say on this?
Reviewed April 24, 2010
The MSN Hotmail team has been doing maintenance on the site for over 4 hours which should have been done within an hour or two and by doing this, they are preventing me from accessing MSN hotmail and my MSN hotmail windows live id and it is getting really annoying now. Please do something about it because they should not be keeping the site down just for maintenance for extended periods of time. It is wrong and unfair to MSN hotmail customers. I put my yahoo email address instead because with the MSN hotmail team doing this, I would never get your message.
Reviewed March 30, 2010
Hackers got into my husband's email address and changed all his information and password, so he couldn't get in and re-control his email. Then the hackers sent a message to all of his contacts, saying that we were stranded in London and needed money to get home. When we finally found a phone number to call and get someone from MSN actually on the phone, they informed my husband that they would not (even though they could) shut down his email address, because his email was on the "free" side of MSN and that their policy is to do nothing for those accounts.
Right now, hackers are still in control of my husband's email, and there is nothing we can do about it. They were also able to take over his Facebook account, and because we can't get back into his email account or shut it down, we can't stop them on Facebook either.
Reviewed March 18, 2010
If "they" all think that the new MSN home page is so great? Why don't "they" put a poll question or a survey online and ask the people who likes or dislikes the new home page idea. Are "they" afraid to find out how many hate "their" new idea? Hove "they" ever heard of customer satisfaction?
Reviewed March 15, 2010
With the new MSN, I no longer have my earth weather icon on the upper right hand of my screen. I kept all my family's weather there at a glance, and it moved automatically from city to city. It is extremely convenient. I miss it very much. How can I get it back? I want it back, and another thing, this new MSN looks like the old from before MSN.
Reviewed March 6, 2010
I cannot log into msn chat or hotmail. Seems like someone hacked or some virus got it. All my personal emails, business notices and bills were in the emails. I need it back on as soon as possible.
Reviewed Feb. 26, 2010
I have been a MSN internet customer since 1998. I cancelled my dial up account that I had since 1998 on 1/27/10 conf # and was told that as of "today," my account was cancelled and that I had 90 days to reinstate if I wish. On 2/26/10, I received a bill for my monthly fee and when I called I was told that the billing cycle was from 1/14 - 2/13 and since I cancelled 1/26 this bill reflects last month. I was fine with that and asked him what the prorated amount of my reimbursement would be and I was told that they do not prorate and reimburse even though I cancelled after using only half of the month's charges. When I asked how I can submit a complaint, I was told that I was speaking to customer service and that is who you complain to.
I further pushed and asked so if I have a problem with the service of the customer service staff how do I complain. I was told that there is no process. The amount of money is not worth fighting over but the fact that the process is not in place to complain is an issue and I was never told that I would be charged for the next billing cycle and how much. What is interesting is that the credit card that they had on file was also expired and they asked if I would renew the card and I declined. Very dissatisfied with the customer service process.
Reviewed Jan. 19, 2010
MSN barged in and change my front page again. They barged and just take you where they want you to go. I don't know how to get back to what I had or how to stop it. I am sure the best thing to do is get the *** of MSN.
Reviewed Jan. 19, 2010
My complaint is in regards to the free Internet accounts that Microsoft hosts such as MSN, Hotmail and Live to name a few. Many Nigerian scammers use these domains for their contact addresses in fraudulent emails. Microsoft has implemented a system that is too strict and rejects valid reports when someone tries to notify them that an account is being used to scam people. This is the only Internet provider I know of that has this system which they think is cutting back on invalid reports.
Scammers get around it easily by sending the emails from a different account and then setting up a another account with Microsoft's free email services. The system would then reject a complaint because it would see that the email did not originate from a Microsoft domain even though the reply address is theirs. Sometimes, it even rejects reports and gives a reason that makes no sense.
Reviewed Dec. 27, 2009
A mail was received from an unknown ID (MSN/Yahoo Lottery Incorporation), looks like MSN corp. It requests for very personal data. If spam, please control this.
Reviewed Dec. 15, 2009
Some time ago, I allowed a family member to sign up for a Hotmail account that had a minimal service cost. That person has since long gone, and I was left with trying to delete, or cancel an MSN account that was charging my credit card. What a total rip-off! I have spent countless hrs. on the phone, and online trying to get rid of these leeches. They keep telling me that they're sending me paperwork to fill out and send back to them, and that hasn't happened in over three weeks! But, of course, they've hit my credit card with yet another charge for something I don't even use. This scam needs to get out too people before more are scammed.
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I used my laptop for the first time to go online. It's connected with MSN internet explorer. I visited the same sites that I have always visited on my home/work computer and never had a problem. Within 5 minutes of being online, MSN stated that my computer is infected and I should download their virus remover, I did. Now my laptop is fully infected with worms/trojan horses that somehow infected my admin and my internet options. I cannot even do a simple system restore, which I have done several times when a possible virus has infected my home computer. I cannot even go online to any websites except to download the MSN virus services. I have my virus protection and I can't even load the software because of MSN's virus. The Geek Squad stated that my laptop was not the first to be infected by MSN's virus protection. MSN refused to accept blame.
Reviewed June 29, 2009
How does one ask that a news agency report the news accurately? An article appeared today that "Immigrants are suffering" It was not until you got deep into the story that these "immigrants" are illegal. I am an immigrant, those described are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens. I am not suffering and I am not illegal. I did it the hard way. I am experiencing emotional angst.
Reviewed June 25, 2009
I subscribed to Cox high-speed cable. I kept getting messages that I needed to update Microsoft programs, especially for protection of my computer. Two days ago, I did so. Now, my Cox Explorer screen is gone and replaced with an MSN screen which I don't like. I want to edit emails while on the Cox screen, which I'm not able to with the MSN display. Also, my computer was fast before, now I can't even get emails. I resent the trickery and deceit which MSN used to screw up my computer. I'm an old man, not an expert computer geek and I feel like I've been hoodwinked. I want things restored as they were and soon. I'll be awaiting your reply.
Reviewed May 5, 2009
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Reviewed April 13, 2009
My complaint has to do with MSN itself. I would like to know why there are so many viruses on MSN. Are they server-based? I do not even have to click on the links, but I seem to keep getting the same virus. Friends of mine are also getting it. Please let me know what the people at MSN are doing to resolve this issue.
Reviewed April 10, 2009
I had used MSN for a short time, then couldn't log on anymore. They were supposed to be taking my payment out of my bank account, so I kept trying to call, email, and go to various sites for help connecting. The automatic site is worthless, and I never did get a response from my phone calls - nobody answered. Now, since I've deleted my account with them entirely from my PC, and am now using a much more dependable provider, my Green debit card has been billed for MSN!
Today, I did my shopping and bill-paying, and at the grocery store, my funds came up insufficient! It was very embarrassing and confusing! I paid with cash and came home, went online to Green Dot, and saw that MSN has been charging my card for services I deleted and wasn't able to use for two months. Now I'm being charged overdrafts from Green Dot and I don't know how many vendors will do the same.
I support my grandson and myself on an extremely low Social Security payment (I get nothing from his parents), and I am absolutely overwhelmed by this; how can I pay for the overdrafts? I bought him an electric razor for his birthday on Easter, and have had to ask if I can return it for living expenses, which breaks his heart and mine, which is already in a state of advanced failure. I'm trying to stay around until he's able to be on his own, and this isn't improving my chances of doing so. How can these huge corporations continue getting away with this sort of thing? Don't they have to follow laws at all? Thanks for listening to a stressed out grandma. Best luck to all.
Reviewed March 30, 2009
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For the past several weeks, I've been getting email that says that it's coming from me:**. Once I open it, it turns out to claim to be an MSN Feature offer. But it always turns out to be something about ** or penis enlargements, things like that. It says if you want to cancel the subscription, click here. But all that does is make the ad pop up again. There is virtually no way to stop this onslaught. Can you help me?
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2008
Reviewed Aug. 26, 2008
It is 1:40p.m. in the afternoon. I was in the middle of reading the article when my computer froze and wouldn't let me page through. Everything else on my machine was operating fine, so I closed the browser and reopened it only to find that the article had been removed and replaced by the [other] article. How about removing that Census article and putting [the other] back. I will be switching homepages until I understand the type of media coverage MSN intends to project. I want to understand who I'm patronizing. I'd appreciate any insight [they] could give me, my family and friends, a couple of who were reading the article with me. Thanks.
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2008
I am trying to get this MSN window (for dialup service) off my computer that pops up every time I try to click on a email link from any website, so that I can get the email address. I called the first number, which says it's Microsoft technical support, and refused to give me support because I'm not currently a paying customer, and said they weren't technical support anyway, and gave me another number, and they told me EXACTLY the same thing, AND said they weren't technical support and to call the PREVIOUS number I had dialed.
Finally, I refused to put up with [Microsoft] giving me the running around and lying to me, and refusing to help me with [THEIR] program. Tell me how to disable the window so it's not popping up every time I click on an email link from a website.
Reviewed June 7, 2008
I spoke to a representative in the ad department but they said they could not help me. My employee Jeff called and he said that they would investigate it. I have ran a campaign this weekend membership drive that was a waste of time and money. All the time on my ad words goes to him! I did contact my lawyer because of the one person telling me MSN could do nothing.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2005
I cancelled MSN internet service in August 2004. Although I was unable to log on using my MSN account, MSN continued to bill the monthly charges to my credit card. Their automated service can not assist me, and their customer service does not answer calls. I placed numerous calls and waited for over 30 minutes without any results. After 6 months, I am still being charged on my credit card. I have had bad experience with this particular card in past disputes and have discontinued the use and paying off balance at present.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2004
I have subscribed to MSN service for 1.5 years. They always charged my account on 27-29 of each month. When I decided to cancel my subscription I did it on the 20th of the month so I do not incur any further charges. At the beginning of the next month MSN charged my account again. Because of that I incurred $35 overlimit fee. When I called the customer service I could not get further than the level 2 billing specialist, Nancy with no identifiable last name. She only gave her employee number 2XMK.
When I told her that I would like to record our conversation so that I have a proof of her refusal to take my complaint to the higher level specialist, she started threatening me that I am prohibited from doing so even if I told her about my intentions. She informed me that my subscription billing date is actually 18th of the month. It was the first time for the 1.5 years that I heard that. The charges always appeared on 27-30 of the months. I also learned that there is a webpage that you can go to see that. This information was new to me.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2004
MSN almost never lets us in. We dial up, get connected, but then we're stuck behind the MSN sign in. MSN has some major problems that need to be addressed. What good is their service if we can never use it, and we can't get past it to go in another way. We can't get to our email, so it piles up, then they complain we have too much email when we wouldn't have any if they'd straighten out their system. We've sent hundreds of their problem reports and they do nothing.
Reviewed April 19, 2004
I have to pay someone to come in and clean up my computer, with installing and re-installing MSN I think I have caused some problems in my hard drive, so that leaves me the consumer with more money to pay out of pocket. Why hasn't consumer affairs, tv stations, etc., done an investigation on MSN and their services, I'm sure it would turn up quite a few disgruntled consumers and maybe we the consumers can get out of these bogus contracts, as a consumer I feel that if you're paying for a service it should work and if it does not than you should be able to get a refund, whatever happened to the customer is always right?
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2001
I signed up for MSN Gaming Zone. Just yesterday I signed up for MSN messenger. Apparently it has totally messed up my "Zone" account since today, I cannot access it. Yes, I have a passport. Yes, I think it should all have been linked.
My Zone name was one thing, and then a while back you made me change it, so I did. As you can see I have my own e-mail address. I didn't need a hotmail account, but your outfit thought I did, to get MSN Messenger. I WANT THE SAME THING!!! People wouldn't be forgetting their passwords and such, if we had ONE MSN account. I'm really p-o'd about this.
I do, afterall, have more to do than sit in front of a computer all day, and it's bad enough when the computer network is too busy to handle the load, or my server is bogged down, or my computer is screwed up, without having to deal with trying to remember three different names, passwords, and such, for one company. If it weren't for people who have nothing better to do than try to figure out how to screw someone out of something, out lives would be a lot simpler.
Remember, I don't want to make purchases off your site, If I did, I would have a different password prepared for the time I have to hand out a credit card number. I just want to talk to a few friends, and play a few games of cribbage.
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2001
MSN Broadband has been a nightmare! I signed up for 640 KBPS DSL broadband, and I must give them credit for speedy connections. It was easy to install, and everything was really nice for two weeks.
Then the problems began. My DSL link went away. I wasn't concerned at first, because that had been happening briefly from time to time. After a day and a half I called customer support. They opened a ticket (which seems to be the only thing they do well), examined my connection, and said that I had a stuck LIM port (or is it spelled "limb"?). They said the problem was with them, and after 3 to 5 business days, if the problem isn't fixed, to contact them again.
While they were looking at my account, they noticed that I had three billable accounts with MSN. I asked them to cancel two of them. Needless to say, after 5 business days I called them, and they escalated the problem to top priority. I was contacted by someone from MSN, this time with a three-digit IQ, and he determined the problem was with Qwest, my local phone company. It would have been nice to get this determination a week earlier!
Qwest got right on the problem, and within a day my service was restored. They even came to my house to be sure everything was working right. The very next day the DSL link went away again. I got a call from the intelligent MSN guy who said that Qwest had been told by MSN that I wanted my service disconnected. It turns out that my prior cancelations of my two other accounts had resulted in them telling Qwest to stop my DSL link.
I called Qwest, and they told me that it would take three weeks to get the service started again. Meantime, I checked with MSN to see the status of my account(s), and found out that all three accounts were still active. After an hour on the phone with the guy, I was assured that he had just canceled two of them. Two days later I checked back, to discover that I still had three accounts active.
That was the last straw. All I needed was to get DSL service restored, only to have it stopped again later by MSN attempting to cancel two of my three accounts. I insisted right then that ALL my MSN accounts be canceled, effectively immediately. That seems to have worked. I'll never use MSN ISP service again. Good riddance!
I had been intending on telecommuting via broadband. Those plans have had to go on hold.
Reviewed Dec. 19, 2001
MSN had been our Internet provider for over 4 years. As we changed our service to DSL we cancelled our service with MSN in July 2001. MSN went ahead anyways and charged our Discover Card for one year subscription for $190.00.
We called 8/5, 10/1, 10/17, 10/19, 11/8, 11/21, 12/5 and spoke with different reps and supervisor at the toll-free number and no one gave us a satifying answer. Some told the check will be mailed, some said our credit card will be credited. Some said it was out of their hands and is in Accelating Dept.
On 12/1/2001 I called MSN Administration Dept at 1-425-882-8080 and spoke with the operator "Jeena" and she told me that some one will get back in a week's time. As of today I have not received my refund back, no one has contacted me and we don't know what to do next. Please can someone help us get our money back.
It is so frustrating to deal with MSN customer service. I feel I have been ripped off. It is been over 5 months and still my refund is with MSN. They have the worst representatives. They all are liars. I will never recommend anyone to go with MSN. It is a disaster to deal with their customer service. I just feel sorry for Bill Gates who worked hard to bring this company to the top and soon it will be down the drains becuase of the service they give to their customers.
It's too bad Suparna waited so long. She should have disputed the charge with her credit card company immediately. Now it's probably too late. Her next step should be to send a certified, return-receipt-requested letter to MSN, detailing her complaint and demanding that her money be refunded within 30 days.
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2001
Thinking of switching to MSN Broadband powered by Qwest? Think hard and twice before you do. It's migration into HELL!
07/19/01 Got my Qwest DSL and Qwest.net service. Got email from Qwest that residential customers now would have to migrate over to MSN Broadband by November 1, 2001, or would be migrated over automatically.
10/19/01 Migrated over to MSN Broadband.10/25/01 Had no DSL connection, called MSN, run multiple tests, no resolution and not sure why; MSN opens escalation ticket, should be resolved 24-72 hours.
10/25/01 Called Qwest to see if they can help, run multiple tests, no resolution, they too open an escalation ticket and told to call MSN back.
10/26/01 Called MSN, now told to wait 72 business hours.
10/27/01 Called MSN and was told there was no update or resolution or change in status.
10/28/01 Called MSN and now told the servers in Denver are down, and that was the problem. Spoke to supervisor to complain and had this again escalated.
10/29/01 Went back to AOL dial up account.
10/29/01 Called MSN and canceled my account, and got a cancellation confirmation number. Was told it would be canceled in 3-5 days.
11/02/01 Called Qwest to see if they had the cancellation order from MSN. They did not and told to call MSN.11/02/01 Called MSN, they opened an escalation ticket.
11/05/01 Called Qwest to see if they had the cancellation order from MSN. They did not and told to call MSN.
11/05/01 Called MSN and told that my order was pending cancel and they only work them once a month on my anniversary date which would be
11/12/01. I told them this was not acceptable and had another supervisor again escalate this.
11/06/01 Called Qwest to see if they had the cancellation order from MSN. They did not and told to call MSN.
11/06/01 Called MSN and spoke with another supervisor who again said that he would escalate this.
11/07/01 Called Qwest to see if they had the cancellation order from MSN. They did not and told to call MSN.11/08/01 Called Qwest to see if they had the cancellation order from MSN. They did not and told to call MSN.
11/09/01 Called Qwest to see if they had the cancellation order from MSN. They did not and told to call MSN.
11/09/01 Did a 3 way conference call with my new ISP and Qwest to see if we could resolve this. And told they need to wait to get the cancellation from MSN.
11/12/01 Called Qwest to see if they had the cancellation order from MSN. They did not and told to call MSN.11/12/01 Called MSN and asked again for supervisor or manager. Was told they would escalate this again.
11/13/01 Called Qwest to file complaint over this whole mess, and seek help. Got transferred several times and reached a representative at Denver business office. He asked which ISP I wanted to change to, and said he would start the order and it would take 5 business days.
11/15/01 Called Qwest, they have no order pending on my account. Told to call MSN, as they cannot do anything until they have the cancellation from MSN.
11/15/01 Called MSN and demanded to speak with a supervisor or manager. And now told that it can take 10 days from my pending cancellation date for them to send the cancel order to Qwest.
11/15/01 Called the Colorado PUC to request help and assistance. And was given numbers to both Qwest executive office for consumer complaints and for the Colorado consumer line of the Attorney General and Better Business Bureau.11/15/01 Called the Qwest executive office, and explained this entire mess to the representative. He indicated that they have had numerous complaints like this and that he had a stack of orders with the same problem. And that he had a contact at MSN, and that he would forward my account on to MSN and call me back either today or tomorrow.
11/15/01 Called the Colorado consumer line and explained my problem and got the website address to file this complaint.11/15/01 It has now been 22 days and I have no DSL service nor have I been able to order or change my DSL service over to my new ISP. This is completely unacceptable. I used to work for a now defunct DSL.com business and used to order and provision lines and cancel lines with U.S. West/Qwest and fully know the steps and the process required to complete them. At the very least you input the cancel order into the Qwest software and Qwest has 3 days to then complete the order. As of today MSN has yet to send that cancellation order to Qwest. MSN should not be allowed to hold the consumers of Colorado hostage in this kind of HELL!
11/15/01 Filed online complaint with the Colorado Attorney General & BBB.11/15/01 Emailed copies of this complaint to Local NBC, ABC and Fox television stations for their consumer compliant/trouble shooting departments.
Reviewed June 21, 2001
I am constantly frustrated and upset with attempting to use my computer to access the internet and e-mail my family. I have struggled for months to get help from MSN both by phone and online. I am paying $21.95/month on a 3-year contract (as I got a $400 rebate from MSN off the cost of a new Compaq computer 6/00), and I have such difficulty staying online or sending e-mail that I frequently have to give up.
As before, they have not addressed the problems I have had with their service while demanding the contract for internet service continue. I am 84 years old and have limited vision. I am living on a small fixed income and cannot afford two internet service fees per month. This situation with MSN has been very emotionally draining. I hope you will be able to help me end this contractual agreement as I am not getting the internet service from MSN that they have agreed to give me.
Reviewed June 15, 2001
MSN erounously took funds of which they were not authorized to take. They claim we tried to access the Internet from out of the country. I haven't been out of the country since 1994 when I was stationed in Korea! Regardless we have been trying to correct the situaton since the end of march.
We (me and my wife) have been hung up on, denied to talk to a supervisor, and lied to on countless occasions. They keep claiming they have refunded our money to our checking account but the bank has no record, neither do I, of the money being deposited ($365). Now they say it will be there in 3-5 days, before for it was 30 to 60 days and depended on our bank's billing cycle. Getting this money back from MSN? I'll believe it when I see it!
Reviewed June 8, 2001
I took advantage of the $400 rebate program last fall and was immediately disappointed in the service from MSN. Most of the time I could not get online and even when I did I was usually bumped offline. Calls to customer service were not helpful. Calls were not answered, handled unprofessionally or resulted in the wrong information.
I've had to resort to using free AOL service and paying for Compuserve just to get online. Yet, because of the 3-year commitment to MSN, I've had to continue to pay them $21.95 per month or face the heavy 70% liquidated damages penalty. I believe MSN has overcommitted itself with this rebate program in order to destroy the competition, without giving much concern to the consumer. I also believe that the there may be some legal issues regarding the rebate contract.
Reviewed June 8, 2001
I've been bounced back and forth between technical and customer support trying to get MSN to correct the name they have placed on my e-mail. I've spent hours on the phone (and on hold) plus sent e-mails which no one reads and only occasionally responds to with canned gobbledygook unrelated to the problem. This has been going on since 12/7/00 when I signed up for MSN service for my new Compaq iPaq1A-1 (a comparatively expensive home internet appliance.)
I can't use the MSN on-line help which doesn't work with my iPaq. Nor will the MSN "Change My Account" screen on the iPaq let me change their misnomer. I have a three (3) year contract with MSN so I'm stuck with their customer unfriendly attitude which seems to be "as long as we're receiving our monthly payments, the customer be damned."
It has been a totally frustrating experience. I'm a physically handicapped senior who had hoped to accomplish on the Web what I no longer am able to accomplish in person or via telephone.
Reviewed June 8, 2001
clubs were in a few years ago -- wanting your business and your
money but not being able to provide the services promised.
MSN iscurrently making a big push for AOL's customers. They are offering a
varying level of rebate ($100, $200, $400) when you buy a new computer and
commit to a 1, 2 or 3 year agreement with them.
The only problem is isthat 1) they are terribly undersized to offer the service and once you try
to log on you realize not only do they have few too few phone connections
and they have frequent outages (major -- for entire days, far beyond what AOL ever
had).
Secondly, and most importantly, they are selling the deals for newcomputers for which they won't provide any technical or user support. When
you call the hotline trying to get answers to simple questions that aren't
really related to the operating system you bought but more the MSN
product -- they refuse to answer them for anyone with a 98, 2000, or ME
operating system. That is unbelievable because those are the
operating systems for all of the computers being sold under this deal.
Ihonestly am so sorry I signed up. I never imagined their service or
support
would be so ridiculous yet the MSN agreement is over 8 small print pages
with loopholes only an attorney would love. When I signed my agreement, I
signed a one page agreement with the computer store. Then they attached
the
MSN agreement. Outrageous.
Consequences at this point are that I have an internet connectionthat is not fully usable (although I can get in today) because I have no
user support to help me figure out issues and I am stuck with it for 3
years
Reviewed June 7, 2001
In January of 2001, my husband went to Best Buy to purchase a Direct TV satelite dish. After purchasing the dish and setting up for installment, he was approached with the "opportunity" to sign up for MSN internet service. He explained that his wife, not himself, was the owner and user of the computer in the house, and he thought that I was quite pleased with the service that I had.
It was in May that while sorting through bills, I found my husband's credit card statement. Upon inspection, I found that we were being charged nearly $30 for MSN service. After asking my husband and verifiying that he had signed no papers, I looked back through our statements and found that their had been one additional charge. We contacted MSN and explained the situation, they sent us to the Investigative Billing Back Shop.
We were asked to in writing explain what we were purchasing at the time, the store, and all pertinent information, including my E-mail address. My husband wrote this all down and faxed it to a number he had been given. After coming home from work one day, the phone rang and it was the Investigative Billing Back shop. "We are sorry, but without the information we requested, we can not help you." I asked him what he was talking about, as we had already faxed him the information requested.He said he either needed my MSN E-mail address, the information provided on the forms that were provided by Best Buy, or our credit card number. Since I did not have an account with MSN, I did not have a E-mail address, as I had thrown the papers away on the day they came into the house. I did not have the information required, and I certainly was not going to give them my credit card number.
Angry, I hung up and got on my computer, and retrieved every phone number available to MSN. I began calling one after the other (and getting the runaround, until I mentioned contacting the Attorney Generals office of Texas.) Then the story changed dramatically.I was put in touch with a young lady that was so very sorry for the inconvenience, and that she promised that the account would be closed and our money refunded. My statement to her was. "Since you never received in writting our permission, nor do you have evidence of our having ever called the 1-800 number to activate this account, then there is NO account. What you people have practiced is fraud and theft." I was once again promised that the situation would be delt with promptly.
My question is, how can any company use your credit card number to activate an account without your express permission? And how can a company release your credit card number without your permission? I have sent forms in on both companies to the Attorney General's Office. People need to know that they have state and federal resources to turn to to help them in these situations. I had my husband cancel his Credit card and get a new on so no further charges could be made against it.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHECK THEIR STATEMENTS CLOSELY AND QUESTION ALL UNRECOGNIZED CHARGES.I have not received the new ammended statement, so I don't know if this has been taken care of yet, but they won't get another dime from us. Neither MSN or BEST BUY. And I tell everyone that will listen, so they won't get sucked into the same situation.We were told that our credit card would be creditied for the first two months of charges, but that we might be charged again, and that I might have to go through the phone call again to get it credited. I have spent at least three to four hours on the phone, It raised my blood pressure quite a bit, my frustration level was at it's peak. If there had been a vent for my anger, it would have never survived. I don't like being played for a sucker, and what they don't realize is that I WILL fight back, and not fairly. And I will win. LET THEM EARN THEIR MONEY HONESTLY, JUST LIKE WE HAVE TOO. UNTIL THEN, THEY WON'T GET MY BUSINESS, OR MY MONEY.Still angry, you betcha! And am probably going to stay that way for a while. I'm tired of those that think they deserve a free ride.
Reviewed June 3, 2001
I signed up for the $400 rebate when I purchased my HP PC in December, 1999 with the agreement that I would use and pay for MSN Internet Access for 3 years. I was OK with that, as long as I was able to use the Internet as promised. In Feb or March of 2001, I began having problems with MSN email. I would call support and have to go thru all that process over and over again. This went on for well over a month. The problem was with their email server, not with my PC or email setup. I finally gave up, cancelled my MSN and went with another ISP.
I received a phone call from an MSN representative a week ago. She informed me that if I refuse to pay the $338 termination charge (or whatever they called it) I would be turned over for collection. I explained that I had email problems for a long period of time that were not being resolved and she stated that -- Hear this now -- "MSN does not guarantee connectivity in your contract". That would be like signing up for telephone service that does not guarantee a dial tone.
I put up with aggrevation for two months of not having email function. My children and grandchildren live overseas and I depend on email to connect with them. I kept my part of the bargain with MSN until long after they failed on their end. If they turn over the account for collection, it will go against my good credit record, not on theirs. I should have a reasonable expectation of connectivity.
Reviewed April 30, 2001
I purchased a computer from Best Buy and with that purchase they had an offer of $400 off the total computer purchase if you signed up with MSN right then. It sounded like a good way to save money and I was going to need an internet server anyhow, so I took the offer. Since I purchased the computer and signed on, on January 26, 2001 I have had only problems with MSN. My email had never worked for either out-going or incoming mail, chats or anything else relating to email.
In addition to this problem, I had a minor billing question regarding a double billing I had received on my credit card statement. When I called their billing services on three occasions over a two day period I was told every time that they were updating their billing information and no one would be able to give me an answer and of course told me to call back again. This service is $21.95/ month and I am in a contract for three years. On my third call to the billing services, I asked to speak to a manager who told me he couldn't do anything and if I wanted out of my contract that I would be responsible to either pay back the $400 which I saved on the computer or 70% of the remaining time left on the contract.
Reviewed April 23, 2001
MSN started up service without my wife's knowledge and then refused to cancel service after being requested. In March 2000, my wife's FirstCard was billed $6.95. She called MSN at 800-386-5550, extension 7, to discontinue service. When the bills kept coming, she attempted to call MSN again, usually waiting 30-40 minutes before giving up. Finally, she asked FirstCard to intercede.
FirstCard reversed the June, July, August, October, November, and December charges. (She forgot to call in September.) She never would have had to do this if MSN had either canceled the service the one time she was able to reach it or 2) MSN answered the telephone in subsequent months. Eventually my wife gave up, and asked me to call.
I got through on 1/24/01, and received cancellation number 60340124. I was told that MSN had no record of her March 2000 request. On 3/1/01, I discovered that my wife's inactive Wells Fargo account had an MSN credit card charge dated 12/26/00 for $19.95. I called 800-386-5550 and spoke with Fresa, who gave me a cancellation number for the Wells Fargo account. On 3/9/01, I called MSN again and spoke with Lisa, who told me that she could find no cancellation notice for my wife's Wells Fargo account. She gave me a new cancellation number. Lisa speculated that MSN began billing my wife when her previous employer ceased operations (February 2000).
Lisa said that I should FAX to MSN Investigative Reporting, since 1) MSN changed the billing to my wife without her knowledge, 2) she was being billed twice, and 3) she had been trying to cancel MSN since March 2000. My wife did not use MSN, since her personal account had been on AOL. I sent a fax to MSN Investigative Reporting on 3/9/01, but received no response. I faxed again on 3/26/01, but received no response. On 4/23/01 I called MSN at 800-386-5550. I was told that MSN had turned down my request for a refund because they had no record of either my wife or I calling to cancel the service. I am offended for two reasons 1) they did not have the courtesy to contact me and 2) they, in effect, called my wife and me liars.
In effect, MSN stole $322.80 (12 months at $19.95 and 12 months at $6.95) from my wife by not canceling her service when requested.
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2001
I have had MSN for 3 months and have been COMPLETELY dissatisfied. I live in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area and there are only 2 dial up numbers. It takes 10-15 times to log in and once I am in the server is EXTREMEMLY slow. Many times email will not be available or sites can not be viewed. Many others experience the same thing in my area. Contacting MSN is next to impossible as their lines are always busy, or the hold times are totally ridiculous. I am stuck in a 3 year contract that I can not get out of. They got too big too fast and now they can not do the proper service to their customers.
Reviewed Feb. 17, 2001
I have been calling DellNet/MSN for almost 22 days straight now and this game goes on. I have gotten error messages almost regularly. I still do not have a working email system. My messages that I have discussed with their supervisors and customer service people on more than a few occasions are as follows:
Within minutes I get disconnected with the option to click yes if I want to be re-connected.
"Your email did not get sent through and has been sent to your outbox". Until 2 weeks ago I didn't even know what an outbox was. This occurs on about 45 percent of my emails."We are unable to sign you in, there may be problems with our servers, or problems with your internet connections. Please try again later. (click) OK"
Last but not least I also get the following: "Another program is dialing the selected connection. (click) OK" This is absolute bull because I am not using anything else at the time and nothing else is connected or opened.
I just like a lot of other people am not a computer professeional but I do know if I would offer service like this, I either would not have a job or my company would not have customers.
Reviewed Feb. 10, 2001
I purchased a TV at Best Buy for the $200 off the purchase price of the TV if I agreed to sign up with MSN access for 2 years. The first month or 2 was not too bad other than low bandwidth, but then I received an email that MSN was dropping 2 of the 4 dial-up numbers in the Milwaukee area. Ever since then I have had nothing but problems with the internet service and MSN internet support. Dialing in can take 5-30 minutes everytime just to get hooked up online because of a constant busy signal. I also get disconnected an average of 6 times per day.
I have certificates for many areas of computers and A+ is one of them which is strictly involving computer hardware and software. I have also written a few tech notes for my last ISP on how to fix many common problems with internet service and users' modems. But everytime I have contacted MSN support, they send me a pre-typed note on a few adjustments I can make to my computer which I have already performed. I have even demanded that they give me other suggestions and I still get the same pre-typed message.
In one of the emails I sent, I demanded that they send me something different for more suggestions and told them not to send me the same pre-typed email and sure enough I get the same pre-typed email with my original email.
Because of the problems with MSN access, I am having difficulties with my online schooling for my MCSD course for my MCSD certificate (which coincidently is run by Microsoft). This is a $6,000 course. I also have an extra 180 phone calls at $.05 per call thru Ameritech. This is emotionally tiring because for 4-6-8 times a day I lose 5-30 minutes each dial up, after getting disconnected trying to get connected and all I get for a response is the same pre-typed reply over and over. I have even tried to discontinue my service and go thru another ISP, but literally everytime I have called the numbers that MSN support has given me (in the pre-typed emails) I am disconnected from the phone calls due to their high volume incoming calls and not enough operators on their end. One of the numbers that MSN sends me Qoute "You may also contact Customer Service at (800) 386-5550 for the information about access numbers." This number when dialed will tell you that this is not the support number and gives you another number which leads to another number. Which eventually gets the message that all operators are busy and to call later and you then get disconnected from the phone call. This is an average 10-20 minutes of wasted time.
Also, when calling these numbers the very first thing they tell you is all of the website links they have to help you, which is a waste of the consumers' time when they, or I, are trying to talk verbally one on one with somebody about not being able to get connected to their internet access. If all of this sounds like it is running on and on, then MSN is to blame because that is how they have treated me.
Reviewed Jan. 13, 2001
On November 6, 2000 I purchased a computer that came with a rebate from MSN if I signed up for service with them for 3 years. I took advantage of this rebate and bought a computer. When I got home a friend explained to me that everytime I got on the Internet I would end up paying long distant charges because we dont have MSN local access in Walla Walla. I was never told this when I bought the computer from Staples.
I immediately called the Walla Walla branch and they told me that I would need to contact the branch where I bought the computer. Which I felt was kind of funny because any other department store that you shop at you can deal with any problems from your purchase from that retail store in your own hometown. But anyways I did contact the Richland branch and the manager told me that I should have been informed of this when I bought the computer and he appologized that I wasn't informed and wanted the sales clerk's name so this wouldnt happen again. He stated that I had 14 days to cancel my membership with MSN but I would need to come back to their branch.
At this point I was just glad that I didnt make a huge mistake that I couldnt get out of. On December 6, 2000 I went back to Richland Staples after I got off of work which was 45 miles from my house. This was 13 days after I purchased the computer. I went up to the sales clerk and told him that I needed to cancel my membership with MSN. He told me that I would need to come back the following day because they were short-handed. I explained that i couldnt come back because I live 45 minutes away. He then contacted a manager and handled my cancellation with MSN.
I paid the extra $400 for the MSN rebate since I was no longer eligible for the rebate. I figured it was all over and I wouldn't have to worry about this anymore. I accepted the fact that I had a responsiblity in traveling 45 minutes to get this matter resolved.
Then I received my Visa bill and MSN had two charges on it, one on Dec 1 for $21.95 and the other on Dec 28 for $21.95 which also threw me over my credit limit and I was charged $25.00. I called MSN and told them I wasnt receiving service from them that I cancelled and they aren't authorized to debit my visa card. They told me that I would need to contact Staples because they never sent the cancellation through. I again contacted Richland and Kevin told me he would work on this and get this corrected amnd give me a call. This was Monday. By Tuesday I still didn't hear back so I called again. Kevin stated that he contacted the corporate office and left a message stating this matter was urgent because he didn't know how to handle this situation. He still hasn't heard back.
Reviewed Jan. 6, 2001
My husband signed the three-year, $400 rebate with MSN one year ago. The "deal" is we sign up for three years of Internet service, they give us a $400 rebate towards the purchase of a computer. The problem is that the Internet service frequently cuts me off in the middle of downloads -- whether I am working on e-mail or working on the web. It has happened periodically up until the last two weeks or so, when it has cut me off everytime I have attempted to connect. (I would say 20-30 times in the last two weeks)
Occasionally (in the last 2 weeks) I have gotten on for 2-3 minutes, long enough to get 5 of my 25 incoming e-mails only to be thrown off before it has gotten all of my mail. We are STUCK in a 3-year agreement (2 of which we still have to fufill) and they are not fufilling their agreement to provide me with internet access. I worry that I will be paying $20 a month for the next two years, for nothing. By the way, I am typing this to you on my parents computer, because as of now I still have not been able to fully connect.
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2000
Bought a Hewlett Packard Computer with agrement to sign for 3 years of MSN internet service provider. Recieved $400.00 instant rebate on purchase with promise of unlimited Internet acess for $21.90 monthly. The MSN net service is programmed to be frugal. It disconnects without warning at times when it senses a lack of activity. This is done to open up other channels on an overloaded network. This happens so often and it is s at times so difficult to to re-connect that it is impossible to do downloads that take anymore than a couple of minutes.
I often will get up to get a drink or go to the bathroom only to return and find that the machine has been kicked off the net. I talked with MSN and they say that this is a built-in feature of their latest browser product. I contend that this dysfunctionality is so intense as to render false the promise of unlimited internet access. At times it takes hours to straighten out the problems. This is not unlimited access, it is an unfairly controlled access that masquerades as unlimited access. I would like to sue out of the contract for a percentage settlement and procure a different net provider service.
Reviewed April 30, 2000
I give you my aol email because very rarely can I get on MSN. Isn't there some type of law that you should receive a service that you pay for?
We pay MSN for internet, but they do not provide the service, unless it's convenient for them.
MSN Company Information
- Company Name:
- Microsoft
- Website:
- www.microsoft.com