Comcast is the biggest joke of a company, I can honestly say, I have ever come in contact with. Any contact I have had with them so far has been over the phone, & I have logged many hours dealing with them. I do not know how many times I have had to call them to correct something on my bill. I have actually called to cancel my service multiple times, but then magically someone gives them an offer for me that is something my bank account can tolerate, & they keep me. I should never have let them pull me back in with a deal, because in no way in the end is it even remotely worth it.
I actually was having to cancel my cable because of losing my job last time, & couldn't afford the over $70 a month I was paying. The gentlemen on the phone was very compassionate & helpful (I can say this was a first), & he did offer me a lower rate that I was previously told was not available anymore. He let me know how my credits would work on my bill & what would show up, so I knew he had adjusted it. A couple of days later, I went online to my account to pay my bill & what it said was owed was what he & I had discussed. I was actually stunned that something went through with them. Fast forward to this month...I go on to see what I owed for my bill this month & it was double what last month's was! What in the hell?! I am in no place financially to deal with that right now. I called them back (I feel like every month I'm having to call them for something). I explained to the gentleman on the phone what the situation was as to why my bill had been adjusted because of my job loss. I told him I had gone online last month & it showed X number of dollars was credited & the amount I then owed. He then began to explain to me that the amount I saw was wrong & that because I didn't pay the bill entirely, that's where the extra money came from with a penalty for not paying the whole thing. So I'm getting charged more because I paid what your company told me to pay & what was on the website for me to pay, but somehow you guys had it wrong, so now a month later, I'm penalized?! He started spouting out numbers that had nothing to do with anything, & just kept telling me the same robotic nonesense over & over. I said I needed to speak with a supervisor, so he got off the phone (and by got off, I mean, just stopped talking, because I could hear all the women in the background cakkling & yelling about how someone had gotten pregnant, & all this other mess I did not need to hear. Clearly you all are hard at work.) & was trying to find a supervisor. Finally, he put a woman on the phone that sounded so lobotomized it was disturbing. She then informed me that what I saw was just a "summary" of what I owed, & that wasn't the real amount. So now you're telling me that you do post incorrect amounts that a customer owes & fake credits, so I pay less & then end up owing you more?! She had 700 ways to Sunday to explain this away, but all of them involved falsely putting up numbers. She kept apologizing & said there was nothing she could do, that all the credits were now right, & that I need to look at my bill correctly next time. Wow. Oh, & she also told me that there was no penalty from anything, & the gentleman on the phone last must have been mistaken (another place where your employees are lying). She wouldn't speak for lengths at a time, & then would eventually just say the same generic BS answer back, that truly leads me to believe she wasn't listening to a word I said. I finally, after about an hour going round & round, let her know that I felt sorry for her for having a work for a company that has no problem flat out lying to their customers & putting them through Hell, even when they are already having enough to deal with & don't need to be stressed out over their freaking cable. I'm sure she had not a care in the world & didn't even hear me, but just so anyone else out there knows, this is absolutely the WORST possible company to deal with & it's sad that they continue to daily screw people over. I would have given no stars to this joke of a business, but the 1 is for the one gentlemen who did actually give a crap & tried to help me. read more