I recently moved to a new apartment which already had Spectrum service. I contacted Spectrum on…read moreSunday February 2, 2020 to cancel my existing account since there was no reason to transfer it to my new location. During the conversation, one of your agents informed me that I would continue to be charged through the remaining billing cycle even though my billing cycle had just started three days prior on January 31, 2020. Of course, I was not happy when I was told this and questioned the agent's statement. She told me "that is our policy" as she read from a script, insisting there was no alternative. I suggested a logical solution to the matter and that was to pro-rate the bill, after all, I did use the service for three days. However, she reiterated I would be billed for the entire billing cycle as she read from the same script, word for word.
I knew further conversation would fall on deaf ears, so I asked for a supervisor, to which she replied "yes, you may speak to a supervisor but he will tell you the same thing". After 10 minutes on hold, a supervisor named John answered the phone. He had been briefed by the agent as to why I asked to speak with him. To my continued disappointment, he read from the same script as the agent and didn't waver as he read, "that is our policy" again and again as I tried to interject some semblance of rationalism. Needless to say, I was more perturbed at this point and asked to speak to a manager. I was informed the manager was not on duty at the time and that "he will tell you the same thing", but I persisted and the same reply was repeated another three times before I insisted the manager call me back when he/she was on duty. Needless to say, I never received a call from any Spectrum representative.
I then sent an email to their Customer Service department only to be told the exact same thing. This is no way to treat your customers. I had been happy with the service and would have eventually gone back to Spectrum, but after this experience, I will be looking elsewhere for service in the future. Ironically, at the end of the call the agent said 'we appreciate your business', and I said, 'No, I don't think you do appreciate my business'!
Your unfair policy of not pro-rating your bills is appalling! I've read some of the reviews about Spectrum and there are many others that express the same views on this policy as I do. I could understand if the new policy was meant for new customers, but it was not in effect when I started my service, so I should have been grandfathered in the original TOS, and not to have new changing terms imposed on me in the middle of my service.
Is this how your company treats their customers? They are extra friendly when they know you are going to sign up for service, and they are very pleasant when you have to call for technical service, too, so I expected the same customer-first service I was used to when I called to cancel my service, but instead I felt like I no longer mattered now that I would no longer be a customer.
I am not asking for anything other than a fair and equitable agreement. I am more than willing to pay for the service I used and will agree to a pro-rated bill.
