Puyallup WA. store: I'm old, a disabled vet, tech challenged, and get stressed easily by having to repeat myself or discuss tech issues. I explained all this in front of the staff before we started.
We've been getting screwed on our bill for months (it doubled to $450!) since they dropped our old package. My wife was brought to tears trying to navigate the online apps to select a new plan. Every time she'd get it set up and try to activate the final total it would add an additional $100+ to the final bill. I Explained this to the staff at the store and received no explanation.
I was the only customer, with four clerks up front, the manager and another in back. I was being helped by a nice young man who was relatively new, and having difficulty navigating our internet needs plus a landline. The other staff seemed to be initially inconvenienced when asked for help by my clerk, and had to be torn away from a movie on one personal phone (loud enough to be heard), and scrolling on the other three. After 30 minutes of having to keep repeating wants, needs and desires and fumbling through options, which kept cancelling for some reason, it finally came time to close the deal. Sadly, this required a smart phone to verify the contract and sign, which I didn't have with me. The young man was unaware of an alternative, like a printed contract etc. and none of the other staff intervened (I have an uncontrollable stress reaction and my voice drops and tends to break up forcing me to talk louder: think RFK JR) until I was so frustrated I got up to leave. The manager finally walked out front and offered to bring the contract up on a pad. My clerk walked out in frustration. The deal was finally closed. Once I got home a few hours later, we now have internet and phone but no TV. I'm really frustrated, and now we can't talk to a human because everything is AI and the store is closed. There are no after hour human operators and the AI keeps asking for info that has already been stated (phone) or typed (online) and here comes the stress reaction........
OVERALL: We are in a somewhat phone and internet dead zone and to my knowledge this is the only cable provider available on our long private road. We've had four different contracts with Comcast/Xfinity over the last 7 years (a housefire, a rental, back to the original house, then our new home, and my parents house in Bremerton during covid). Every time we moved and turned in equipment it would take weeks or months before the billing was corrected and charges stopped for equipment and services for addresses we no longer lived at.
Customer service: They try, but have no experience, or are apathetic about dealing with seniors and the non tech crowd, too much personal phone time (movies? Really?) on the floor and one personal conversation between staff in front of a customer that shouldn't have occurred. Passive aggressive comments along the lines of "this is 2025, what do you mean you can't do this?" Just wait till you get old sonny! :-) read more