My 1 star review is quite different than the others in that I actually have no complaints on the rate I got, nor did I have any complaints on my connection.
I signed up in Jan of 2023, and to make things easier for myself, and optimum, I paid $490 in advance.
6 months later, I am moving to a different apartment. Same complex, same building, just a different apartment.
All I needed to get done, is SIMPLY transfer my service from one apartment to another in the same building.
In order for me to accomplish this request, it took 5 bound phone calls in 3 days, multiple call backs from Optimum as they said they would call me, they did, however when they called me and I would say "hello", no one one would respond. This happened multiple times, so I would have to keep calling back and talk to someone who would not put me through the same 'call back' process again.
I am not being sarcastic, I can and am happy to take screenshots of my phone showing proof that I literally spent 5+ hours on the phone with optimum......just to transfer service on my paid, never late account.
Talked to roughly 13 employees, but one conversation in particular with Stephani, holy moses! Stephani advised me that they cannot schedule service in my new apartment because their is active service their already. (I live there, and can confirm I, the resident, do not have any active service there). She then advised me that the technician they already have schedule to come out Monday to "disconnect", will have to "disconnect" the service that is non existent, and then Wednesday is the soonest I can have a technician schedule me for connection.
I asked Stephani, if they have to send a technician out to disconnect, and they knock on apartment 306, what is going to happen when it's me who answers the door? Are they doing to realize there's no internet to disconnect, that technician waste his time and leaves, I go 2 more days without internet and then you schedule another technician to do the same thing the first technician was capable of doing?
She was a robot. Incapable of thinking outside the box. Incapable of realizing a solution.
On top of all of this, an erroneous re-occurring $10 charge was added to my account after the first month. Being that I had paid in full and was never sent a bill, I assumed they never sent me a bill b/c I was paid. However I then find out, that optimum had my address wrong. I found that out because a different lady advised me she could not talk to me about specifics on "my" account because when I was asked to verify my address, and I gave her my address, she said it didn't match up. I told her I was already a customer, paid in full 6 months ago, and that I have an account so whatever account they took my money from, that's the account I need assistance with in finding out why my bill went up.
That phone call, like 12 others with optimum, was a complete waste of my time. Turns out, a representive admitted to me that they had the incorrect address, someone had put a request in to change it to the correct address, but for some reason, it was not corrected. Therefor, if optimum did not change my address as requested, if optimum raised my bill, how was I supposed to know this? Online? Well I tried to sign up online but they require an account #. The account # was not being given to me on the phone, you know, because optimum had my address wrong. So when I try to find my account so I can do my own research on my account, optimum refused to give me my account #. Refused to transfer service. I was going to pay in full again.
I literally had zero issues with optimum, until I had to call them for what should have been a S-I-M-P-L-E service address change. You guys cannot even change a wrong address, you can't transfer service, but you can hire incompetent employees and pay them however much you pay them an hour, and whatever that hourly rate is, multiply it by FIVE, and that's how much money optimum pays their employees to change someone's address and transfer service.
I am the 6th review of this company. I am the 6th 1 star review. It's not the service, it's not the pricing, it is the UTTER INCOMPETENCE of the employees.
I attached screenshots showing proof that Optimum internet took up 5+ hours of my time being on the phone with them. Again, I was paid, I wanted to continue business and simply transfer service. 5+ hours. read more