One star because I can't go lower. On the other hand, once I switched to the business side of Charter, things improved, although I only get internet service now. I'd also much rather have them than Cox or Time Warner
And now, here's the list of issues I've had:
I've had 2 appointments where I was going to have cable and internet shut off. Both times something came up and I needed to keep the internet going for a little while longer but still needed the cable shut off. Both times the CS rep failed to mention that by doing so, they were changing the date and time of the appointment. Both times I only find out after I take half a day off work, they never come, so I call and then find out they rescheduled me without bothering to tell me and no, they were never sorry, I really should have known this was how they operate.
Once I changed an appointment to a week later. I made no other changes to what was to be done. They were coming out to install a cable card. Unlike my previous issues, they didn't actually change my appointment, so I came home to a note saying they missed me. It took a couple more weeks to get them to come out.
When they were installing the cable card into a Tivo, the bane of Charter apparently, the tech was talking to them to get the cable cards activated. He put the lady on the phone so I could listen to her yell at him about how he's not supposed to do anything with a non-Charter DVR and they aren't responsible for anything that goes wrong.
I had an issue with one DVR not receiving service but the other one was. This was shortly before the time there was a box that had to be plugged in because of some encryption. The CS rep was telling me this was the issue even though if the problem was a signal that couldn't be decrypted on one DVR wouldn't be working on another. I knew this was him not knowing what he was talking about and wanted to speak with a supervisor, which he refused to do. He said I could go to the local office and get the device I needed. When I went to the office, guess what I couldn't get and had to get an appointment for. The tech came out and said the CS rep didn't know what he was talking about and they weren't requiring people to have those boxes yet. It was just an issue with the cable cards.
I had upgraded the speed of my internet at one point. About 6 months later while talking to a CS rep about something, she mentioned I never had the increase activated on my account. She assured me this was all my fault because most people run a speed test to make sure the company I was paying extra for the higher speed did their job. No, they would not offer any sort of credit even though I wasn't getting what I was paying for.
And then there was the incident with their phone service. 30 day money back guarantee is what they told me. The installer came out, drilled the hole in the side of the garage for the cable, making sure not to seal the hole on the outside, nor using drywall anchors to hand the modem on the wall, resulting in a nice hole since it was a bit heavier than the drywall supports. He said he couldn't come in to test the phone and left before we could. The phone didn't work. We were so tired of Charter at this point we called within an hour of him leaving to say we didn't want the service since it wasn't working and we weren't happy with how things had been. We had to argue with the CS rep to give us the refund from their 30 day money back guarantee. The service had never worked but they still wanted to charge us for the hour it had been installed.
I almost forgot about the phone calls. For months, every two weeks we'd get a phone call from them, telling us they could upgrade our package I can tell you right now that they never had our account up on their screen because this "upgraded package" consisted of a slower speed Internet at a higher price.
Their phone calls were so frequent and predictable that we got to the point when we knew it was the on the other end of that ringing phone.
After awhile of being offered the same offer, we started telling them that they call us all the time and that their offer is worse than what we have now. Sometimes that would stop them but other times it wouldn't. In those cases I'd beat them to the punch and tell them how fast my internet was and how much we paid. You'd think they'd be able to mark an account that was useless to call but this is a cable company you're dealing with, so you can't expect to much.
But one Christmas I did get a card from them acknowledging that I had some issues with them in the past. Didn't say they were going to fix anything or change in any way but they did know I've had issues with them. read more