getting rid of comcast

[aloo1]

options:
pay it, walk away...
don't pay it, go into collections, dispute....see what happens
don't pay it, go into collections, settle for lesser amount =paid collection item
don't pay it, go into collections, score drops, lenders will now ask you why you refuse to pay a collections item.
what is your time worth to you?
but whatever you chose, return their equipment. they will charge you $300 if you don't.

 

[chucklenut]

$60 isn't worth very much aggravation bud.....
That's like 10, tops 15 minutes at my aggravated rate.

ya, its is the principle more than anything else. i might just wear a comcast sucks shirt or on that says "comcast is run by pedophiles" when i return it to the xfinity store.

 

[chucklenut]

options:
pay it, walk away...
don't pay it, go into collections, dispute....see what happens
don't pay it, go into collections, settle for lesser amount =paid collection item
don't pay it, go into collections, score drops, lenders will now ask you why you refuse to pay a collections item.
what is your time worth to you?
but whatever you chose, return their equipment. they will charge you $300 if you don't.

im not a thief so even if i feel like they owe me i wont steal

 

[GSPJAZZ]

There is a store at North Point mall where you can stop and drop it off - do not know if that close to you. But that is the one where us in Forsyth county have to go as Comcast pulled out of here.

 

[inkdaddy]

Before you get yourself into a credit issue.......try doing what I did. I had a similar situation about 2 years ago. I took the time to find the current CEO and I wrote him a long email telling him of all of the issues I was having or had in the past. I also informed him that I believed in loyalty in business and wanted to try one more time with him, before I moved onto another company. My letter was factual and always professional and polite. I received a call from his office two days later. Every and all issues I had were immediately corrected. His office could not apologize enough. They also ended everything by giving me one of the direct numbers to his team in the event that I had any more issues in the future. I have had zero issues since this all was resolved with the CEO. Try it before you jump off the cliff!!

 

[Rzr570]

Before you get yourself into a credit issue.......try doing what I did. I had a similar situation about 2 years ago. I took the time to find the current CEO and I wrote him a long email telling him of all of the issues I was having or had in the past. I also informed him that I believed in loyalty in business and wanted to try one more time with him, before I moved onto another company. My letter was factual and always professional and polite. I received a call from his office two days later. Every and all issues I had were immediately corrected. His office could not apologize enough. They also ended everything by giving me one of the direct numbers to his team in the event that I had any more issues in the future. I have had zero issues since this all was resolved with the CEO. Try it before you jump off the cliff!!

In for the number. HA!

 

[Dr. Jekyll]

This might have been said, but I agree with returning it in person. Make sure you get a printed receipt confirming the equipment returned by serial number. Keep that receipt forever - they have been known to surface years later claiming that you still have equipment. Also double and triple check with the person doing the return to ensure that it is removed from your account. At the end of the process, I always ask them to read back to me the list of equipment that their computer now shows for my account.

Since we're bashing comcast, I too had to use the Executive Email Carpet Bomb to get one of their big orange cables buried after it laid in our street for *two* years. The cable even got broken from being run over so many times. They came out and fixed it and still left it laying there. Appeals to all local numbers for months on end resulted in nothing. The EECB got action pretty quick.

 

[payneed]

Their name is X Finity
But you better keep all serial #'s and transaction receipts for N Finity... just sayin
NEVER EVER get in their van! oh wait that is somebody else (@ARCman47 )

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Comcast blows, but I got no other good options.... I was told that they hired someone away from Chick fil a Corp office that was supposed to get the CS piece up to par, but obviously NOT

My main beef with them aside from constant outages is they belong to NBC. I don't like giving money to leftist companies like NBC. That's why I also don't use PayPal.

We went without cable/sat for years. When we got here to Darien my old antenna that worked fine in middle GA wouldn't pickup anything so I ordered a better one and we got like 15 channels. We signed up for Comcast\Xfinity stand alone internet and I was good with that. Then one Saturday I got home from the laundromat and my wife was ordering cable from them. And she bitches about it constantly. But now she can watch The Walking Dead on Sundays with our daughter. And they seems to be ALL that matters.

 

[BangBang]

My main beef with them aside from constant outages is they belong to NBC. I don't like giving money to leftist companies like NBC. That's why I also don't use PayPal.

We went without cable/sat for years. When we got here to Darien my old antenna that worked fine in middle GA wouldn't pickup anything so I ordered a better one and we got like 15 channels. We signed up for Comcast\Xfinity stand alone internet and I was good with that. Then one Saturday I got home from the laundromat and my wife was ordering cable from them. And she *****es about it constantly. But now she can watch The Walking Dead on Sundays with our daughter. And they seems to be ALL that matters.

I dropped DirecTV and went to an antenna about 6 months ago. I get all the major networks, plus a few movie channels that mostly play movies that you've never heard of. LOL

My biggest problem with going to an antenna was that I didn't want to lose my DVR. After doing a little googling, I found out about the Channel Master DVR+. It works pretty much like a DirecTV DVR, but it's made for over-the-air TV. It's got an onscreen guide and program info and everything. It costs $250 and you have to add an external hard drive to it to store your shows, but there's no subscription fee.

I figure in the past 6 months that I haven't been paying DirecTV $80 per month, that my new setup has more than payed for itself.