On one hand, every person I've spoken with has been really friendly and made every appearance of effort to address my issues.
On the other, I have never encountered a bigger fustercluck of FAIL.
Lessee...
I tried to sign up for their services online, to get the "special" online rates. After I basically persisted in explaining and re-explaining what I wanted (X deal with Y upgrade), we got to the end of the process only for him to tell me that the previous tenant in my apartment was a bootleg jagbag who never turned in their equipment or paid the final bill, so he couldn't set me up--I'd need to talk to the local office.
Except, no one ever picked up the phone for the number he gave me. Ever. When I called the national toll free to find out why, I was told, "Oh yeah, they never answer those calls, they pretty much only answer the intra-office numbers." Great. So why in the deep fried hell was I told to call them? Rep #2 went on to tell me that I'd need to go to this Comcast location in person, along with a utility bill with my name on it (problematic, since all of my utilities are included in my rent, so all I had was a lease) in order to prove I wasn't the same tenant from before trying to con them out of their stellar services again. Until then, the account was locked.
Ugh. So I went to the office at 1255 W North when my business hours and theirs overlapped, stood in line for 45 minutes, then got to the agent to be told that the account was never on hold, she didn't know what the phone reps were talking about. She proceeded to set me up in the system, handed me the necessary equipment, and sent me home to set myself up.
Which I did. Alas, when I called to activate my cable, I was asked if I were interested in Internet as well. When I explained I already had internet on my new account, I was told no, the rep I had just seen had never added that to my services.
Since I did the set up myself, it was smooth sailing. For about a week. Because I got my first bill and learned I had not one, but two accounts--one with a mostly correct list of services, and one with a disconnection notice attached. I have enjoyed two emails, an online chat session, and four calls about the second mystery account, and was told alternately "I can't help you, call this person," "I don't know what was wrong but it was an accident, just ignore the second bill" (LIKE THAT IS EVER A GOOD IDEA),"I don't know why you're getting this, but I've fixed it, you shouldn't get any more bills for that" (fail), and "Oh, see, this is an installation charge, there aren't any services attached, so I can't actually close that account because there's nothing to close." A disconnection notice for an installation charge for services that I set up myself.
So yeah, I have cable and internet, and both work really well so far. But the hassle! My lord. If my only other alternative weren't RCN, I'd take my business elsewhere. read more