I will say the people who actually work in the Cox store are wonderful. I have zero complaints in that regards. My issue is Cox service in general (once you go home). The frustration this company has caused is insane. I have had cox for 2 MONTHS and we have had successful service for about 3-4 weeks total. I have spoken to more "help lines" and online chats, I am just ready to lose it. I will list the issues I have had since I had Cox cable installed. (warning, long rant ahead).
1. I moved 4 blocks away. I went on the Cox website to transfer my service to our new location. They have a section that you put in your information, and then they send you an email letting you know that "someone" will be getting in touch with me shortly to set up a time for a technician to install our new service. Great. No one contacted me...ever. I submitted the transfer serviced 3 times online. Come to find out they sent out a technician every time I requested it but they forgot to tell me. So the poor guy kept coming to our home when no one was there because no one had any idea he was coming.
2. Because no one contacted me, I decided to call them. Spoke to cox for 45 minutes and the lady was so confused. She sent me to another number who sent me to another number. I went online and did that "chat box" and they told me the reason people were confused was because the home we used to live in...they already set up their new service. So somehow (magically) they were charging us both for the same location. Anyways, the guy online figured it out and fixed their mistake. I told him I would set up our cable box because this whole thing took so long, I needed internet pronto.
3. We decided to just grab the cable box from the Cox store rather than wait 2 weeks for their "soonest technician." We picked up the cable box and connected it to our TV. It wasn't working. It turns out they gave us a default cable box. We had to go return it and get another one.
4. We went about 3 weeks without cable. As an apology, they took off $50 which covered their "installation" fees and the extras when you move. Thanks.
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5. We set up automatic deposit online. It asked for our bank account info - which was a little bazaar (in my opinion). Most companies are fine with a debit card. My Husband and I looked for a debit card spot, we couldn't see it. (not that it wasn't there, we just couldn't find it). So we put our bank account info. We copied and pasted everything, and hit GO. We received an email confirmation. Great.
6. 2 weeks later, our internet and cable is turned off. Ughhhhhhhhhhh. I go back to my online chat people (they really are all very sweet, like I said the people are amazing in terms of customer service but it's the actual product that I am just not sure about). They said that my debit card never went through. My Debit card?? I told them I didn't put my debit card, I put in my account number and routing number, like it asked me to do. And I was sent a confirmation email when it was all done. The women then asked me for my debit card info. Lol I wanted to just bang my head. I give her my info and she said everything would start working in about 30 minutes. No big deal, I didn't want to finish my movie anyways. Life goes on, I went to bed.
7. Now, the reason why I am finally writing this review. My cable was shut off again. AGAIN!!!!!!! It's been off for days. So I get myself ready to call them again. I've been chatting with them for about 40 minutes. My cable is now working. For no reason at all, the cable just stopped working. They said something about "tuning"... I don't know. It shut off for no reason.
I just have now words. I have been signed up with Cox for two months and all these issues are just crazy.
You've been warned.
***Update**** 6/20/2018 My cable was shut off again. Someone has to be playing a joke on me. Can a company actually be this incompetent? I set up my debit card for e-pay and I asked the cox employee to please send me a confirmation. She did. Our internet has been shut off not once, twice, but this would be the third time due to my e-pay not being set up. I will try to post a photo of my e-pay confirmation that the lady sent to me and PROMISED me this would not happen again. And I know my card works fine because when I called to get my internet working again, the automated line used my card they have on file to pay for the "past due" account. So the card works fine but they can't seem to figure out how to get their automated payments to work. Thats it. I've reached my max. I am cancelling tomorrow. read more