Verizon FIOS Complaints - Awful Phone support

350 days ago by Keith [send email]

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First of all, the service worked great and I didn't have any problems... until...

When I originally got the service hooked up, I had long distance turned on. I RARELY use my home phone for long distance. I use my cell phone. The first bill I got from Verizon had a 2 dollar sur charge because I DIDN'T use my long distance enough. Called them and said let me get this straight your charging me for NOT making any long distance calls.....yes that's correct sir in order to cover the cost as a carrier you have to make so many long distance calls. I had them turn it off completely so I had no long distance service. No problems...yet.

At the beginning of November, November 1st to be exact, I called them to turn my long distance back on because my cell phone doesn't work that well at the house since I'm in a valley. I also signed up for their 3 for 33 deal which is the same as Comcast. NOW the fun began. It took me 5 phone calls to Verizon to get them to turn on my long distance service. They did not have to come to the house, I didn't need any additional equipment, just enable my ID on the router as I was told by one of the customer service reps. After every phone call I was told...everything set it will be on by 5 PM that evening. Went home.....and it wasn't on every time. I even had a phone message at home saying to call...they had a problem that needed resolved before they could hook up my long distance. I had the customer service Rep listen to the message and he said "That's not true.....I am looking at your account and everything is set.....there is no issue....it will be on by 5PM tomorrow....it WASN'T ON!" The 4th phone call I unloaded the "f" bomb on the customer service rep and she hung up on me. :-) By the 5th phone call and 2 weeks later I had long distance.....whew that was easy. Not to mention that EVERY time you call it takes 10 minutes to go through their automated BS before you can actually talk to a real person. I tried to circumvent the system many ways but was not successful....had to go through that every time.

Ok, that was brutal. So while on the phone the5th time, I had already decided I'm going back to Comcast due to the fact that I wondered how long it would've taken them to fix a REAL problem if I had one. While on the phone I asked them how many days I had to decide to accept the service before I would be bound to the 2 year contract.....answer 30 days. So on December 12th I called them and said I want to disconnect all my service with Verizon (phone, internet, and TV). The 1st Rep, "Your account shows that there's a $200 disconnect fee." Response "No, not true, you have been sending me emails to accept your bundle package and I NEVER accepted the package plus I was told I had 30 days to decide to accept the service." "I'm sorry Sir I don't know who told you that by they were wrong." "I need to speak to a supervisor." Put on hold for an extended amount of time and got a supervisor. She started into the same spiel. She said that the acceptance emails that I got were for the bundle discount, not the service. The clock starts ticking when they hook up my service. Told her that I was told I had 30 days to accept and even if that's true, they hooked up my service November 14 and today is December 12th....less than 30 days. Response "Oh your correct." This ORDEAL took 1 HOUR and 52 MINUTES on the phone! I surely was not hanging up and going through the 10 minute automated BS again to talk to a person.

The Supervisor set it up so that my data and TV service would be disconnected the 14th so I wouldn't have to pay the two hundred disconnect fee. I wanted to transfer my number so she left that active but assured me that this would not mean that I would have to pay the $200 disconnect fee. It would be disconnected automatically when it is transfered over to Comcast. I also informed her that my cell phone was bundled in with this service and make sure NOT to turn off my cell phone. "Oh I'm glad you told me that I'll make sure they don't disconnect your cell phone." GLAD I TOLD YOU THAT.....YOU'RE looking straight at my account....can't you see that!!

The only thing that happened quick and on-time with Verizon was the disconnect! It was turned off at 4AM on the 14th.

I called Comcast, got the service I wanted (TV,Phone,and internet), and set up the install within 15 minutes for the 19th... their 1st available time... between 1 and 5. The technician showed up at exactly 1, and was done by 1:30... everything installed and working.

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