Comcast/Xfinity,
This may be the worst company in the country, from the customer service to the store employee's to the actual service they are supposed to provide. They have a monopoly on the market in my area and something has to be done about it. I work from home like many others do, we depend on a reliable internet, doom on you if you are stuck with Xfinity/Comcast. My internet has been down every morning this week from around 8am to noon or so. No warning, no nothing just in the middle of working and bam cut-off. Try to contact customer support and guess what? You cannot talk or chat with anyone until service is restored which leads me to believe they knew it was going down, took it down and disabled customer service so you could not complain or ask any questions about the service. In other words they are saying, we know our service sucks soo bad that we have implimented a plan for the constant outages. I will attach a screenshot of the message. I click on the request a credit for outage button, put in the dates of the outages and guess what? You're not eligible for a credit. what?!?! What qualifies you as eligible? I guess the button looks good like they actually care that ther people working from home are losing money while they rake in billions. Billions you say? Yes in 2021/22 Comcast was worth 155.57 billion. But screw the little guy, we'll throw a fake button up and act like we care.
We live in southern Florida and went through hurricane Ian (one of the worst cat 4's) we lost power and internet (obviously right?) for weeks. Comcast was putting out all these ads saying how they are here to help their customers, comcast cares blah blah blah. I happen to have my internet and cell phone service all bundled through comcast/xfinity. I'm thinking hey I can just hotspot my phone and connect to it so I can keep working. So I do and soon after I start to run out of data, I think to myself hey, comcast/xfinity is here to help their customers I bet they'll give me extra data to get me through this until we get service restored. Well think again, I asked 3 different times and they said sorry, we don't do that but hey we will help you and give you a credit on your bill. Ok cool, they're gonna give me a free month or something off my 200+$ bill. Nope, 10$... 10$!! what am I supposed to do with 10$? lol. I ended up having to drive to Miami and rent a hotel room so I could use their wifi and work from my hotel room. they care they helped hurricane Ian victims, HA! PR bull$%^& is all that was.
I have a friend who is a linemen/cable guy that works for a company that works for comcast, during the hurricane there were an abundance of lines that needed restored as you can imagine. I see on the news there are all these linemen crews from out of state here to help. Then why is it taking months to get our service back up everywhere? Well my friend tells me it's only their company and 1 or 2 others working for comcast because they refused to pay the other companies/linemen/cable people a legitimate price... A 155 Billion dollar company who is here for hurricane victims and dedicated to getting service back up refuses to pay the guys here from out of state.
The store near my house is in complete disarray, you walk in and always see an angry customer shouting at an employee. So I go in to get a new phone cause my 5year old phone wore out. I pick it out and they take it over to the cell phone guy to put a sim card in it. You know that little hole you have to stick a wire in to get the sim card to pop out? Well guess what else looks just like that hole? The microphone! You guessed it, the guys starts sticking the wire into the mic hole, I tell him, hey wrong hole! (wonder if this is a common problem for him). Well they tell me the mic is fine, won't exchange it for a new one and just say if it doesn't work bring it back...
Another time my bill goes up out of the blue, I ask why, they tell me because that was a new customer promo and it expired (so essentially you get punished for being a loyal customer, but hey who else are you gonna use?). I am told by an employee, yeah it's BS but you can cancel your account bring all your equipment down here and then restart your service to get the promo price back. How does this logic in a company stay in business? Simple, they have a monopoly on the market.
I could go on and on but you get the point, we need a better choice, this is in my opinion an evil corparation who holds money above all else and could care less about their customers. read more