LIES, FRAUD, AND INCOMPETENCE — RUN!!!!!
Xfinity lied to us and fraudulently charged our account without our consent.
In the course of trying to get an internet outage serviced, we were offered two FREE phones by the Xfinity service representative. In a lengthy discussion I told him repeatedly that we did NOT want the phones if we had to pay for them. He stated MULTIPLE TIMES that the phones were unequivocally FREE. Under those conditions I accepted charges for what were presented as incidental fees. I was never offered a written/digital copy of the agreement.
Later, our bill showed charges of $800.00 for the 2 phones!
After MANY HOURS on chat and with telephone support, I was told that the offer was conditional upon switching from another company. Our phones have been with Xfinity for 6½ years.
I tried to get help on the matter, to no avail. Finally, only after reporting this to the FCC, we were contacted. The only remedy we were offered was to return the phones, which took MORE HOURS of our time. This rep kept trying to frame what happened as a “misunderstanding”.
Xfinity never acknowledged the injustice, nor took any responsibility for the lies. “I’m sorry,” was mouthed — but apologies don't give me the over 15 HOURS of my time trying to resolve these issues, not to mention the stress of being lied to and defrauded.
MANY HOURS OF OUR TIME WAS WASTED BY XFINITY IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
— much difficulty trying to get through their phone tree to a real individual (who might or might not help)
— being connected to the incorrect department via live chat, wasting more time
— continued efforts to upsell us to a more expensive plan (including a fraudulant phone offer) rather than solve the problem we contacted them about
— losing phone service because their system cannot switch connections from one phone to another effectively
— no callback after being told I would get a call from a supervisor
— getting messages from their scheduling department with a restricted callback number, making it impossible to complete the call
— after more phone time, given an appointed time for a call FROM Xfinity; never got that call
— multiple dropped connections from their end just as we were getting close to completion of tasks, necessitating repeated restarts on the process
— interminably long waits for their system to make a single change in internet or phone settings
— over a week to get each service appointment, resulting in our internet being out for over three weeks
— repair person left trash in our yard, left wiring incomplete and the box open, did not return to complete as promised
— lack of compensation for the HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS OF TIME LOST!!!
— a total lack of empathy on the part of PR after being defrauded by Xfinity: unresponsive, unsympathetic, and predatory
We are STILL WAITING for our original phones to get properly reconnected and returned to their original status.
I am OUTRAGED and DISGUSTED at the fraudulent misrepresentation by Xfinity, their absurdly inefficient system, loooong wait times, lack of follow through, and overall lack of care. We are senior citizens on a limited fixed income, and this is how Xfinity treated us. This is a prime example of corporate indifference.