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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 11:36 PM Nov 2014

Two Comcast customers nearly go insane fighting thousands in bogus fees

Although Comcast has been pledging for a while now to fix its legendarily awful customer service, little seems to have changed so far because nightmare stories of dealing with the company keep popping up on a regular basis. Two more such lurid tales have come to our attention this week that involve Comcast customers who have been doggedly trying to fight bogus fees that together total more than $3,000.

The first story comes to us via Consumerist and it involves a Comcast customer in Tennessee who moved to a new address that was just an hour away from his old place and who was told by Comcast that it would be able to deliver service to the new address. When it turned out that Comcast wasn’t actually able to service the new address, however, the company hit the man with $2,789 in fees for supposedly breaking his service agreement despite the fact that he didn’t actually cancel his service.

“I was just blown away,” the told Nashville’s WSMV-TV. “That’s way too much money for somebody like me to be able to pay.”

The good news is that once the man got his local news station involved, Comcast agreed to waive the fees because there were extenuating circumstances, a.k.a., its representatives told the customer that they could deliver him service when in reality they couldn’t.

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Two Comcast customers nearly go insane fighting thousands in bogus fees (Original Post) n2doc Nov 2014 OP
I love COMCAST! Most likely because I had yeoman6987 Nov 2014 #1
Makes me glad I live without SheilaT Nov 2014 #2
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. I love COMCAST! Most likely because I had
Thu Nov 20, 2014, 11:41 PM
Nov 2014

Verizon Fios and switched to COMCAST. Best decision I ever made.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. Makes me glad I live without
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 12:35 AM
Nov 2014

Comcast or any other cable provider.

I have the internet. I have Netflix. I can watch all sorts of things on the internets. Yeah, sometimes I have to want an unconscionably long time to watch something -- the second season of The Newsroom has only just become available -- but even with delays, I don't feel as if I'm missing anything.

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