I have been with Verizon for at least 20 years. I have my account drafted each month, but sometimes you need to change the draft date or in there language make a payment arrangement. I have done this maybe 3 times total with no problems until this month (June, 2025). I went to chat and asked to change my date to a later date. It was done, but I was not able to "pause" the draft, so I called customer service and the man I spoke with said when you make an arrangement, it automatically pauses the draft date. So I'm thinking no problem. Well when I checked my bank, I noticed that they drafted my account anyway. So I called customer service again on a Saturday and the lady I spoke with was really nice, she said they should refund me the money and let me pay on the date I set up. She said I should receive my refund back in my bank account on the following Tuesday. I checked Tuesday and no refund. So I called again and another nice lady said it takes about 4 to 6 hours for that to go back into my account that it was "pending." So later in the afternoon, 6 hours later, I called the bank and the money was not in my account. I called Verizon back expained everything that had happened and then someone in billing said that the refund was denied because it would put me in a past due status and that if I waited to pay when I asked, they would disconnect my service and I would have to pay fees to get reconnected. This meant I was royally screwed for that week. Then they said I needed to take my account off of auto pay. I told them not to touch the auto pay. This in the 4th time in 20 years I needed to change a date and never had a problem in the past. I admit Verizon is the best as far as providing phone, networking service. But for customer service and doing what they say they will do, don't believe a word they say. They all are a bunch of lies, just say anything to make a paycheck and get you off the phone. Then as if the situation was not bad enough, Rhonda, with the billing department had the nerve to say "can't you borrow from someone." This is rude, disrespectful to say the least and it's invading my privacy.
L. Parrish read more