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"Paula" phones me today over a year after our contract ended (May of 08) to inform me that my verbal request and credit card payment cancellation given at two earlier dates was insufficient to "cancel" their services. Because I had not sent them a written authorization to cancel (this is required because their services are so critical and sensitive... read CYA) that I owed for the past 10 months. She would today be advising the credit bureau and collection agency that our contract was cancelled for "non-payment".
Unbelievable... three year customer plus over paid by another 6 months (always on time by credit card withdrawl) and yet the records will say we are unworthy of credit for "non-payment" because TYCO/ADT and "Paula"say so.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
ADT IS A HORRIBLE COMPANY!
The way they treat their customers is pathetic! I had a rental property with significant fire damage, but didn't burn down. They wanted to charge me $150 to move the system, $99 to install it and additional money to check the system if was still operable.
Their business model is BS! Send me to collections and you may as well make it $1million, because I'm not paying a penny!
Count me in for the Class Action. I had something like this and continue to receive harassing phone calls. One threatened to cancel my service; I begged them to cancel it. An entire quarter and many many calls later, someone on their end agreed to cancel my service verbally (nothing in writing which they were very admit for months that I would have to do that). They continue to call, but will not have a manager call me to discuss.
gotta send in written notice that you want to cancel monitering or you will still get billed bud, sorry for all the crap you're going through with all of it.
this post is from Canada:
Our contract was to expire in July 2009. In June, due to the system kicking into an annoying beep in the middle of the night, and otherwise sitting useless in the "Error" code (apparently, that meant no communication from the system in our house to the monitoring service), we called ADT to cancel the service and step us through manual disconnection of the beeping system.
We were instructed, over the phone, how to disconnect the system altogether (what does that mean? NO MONITORING from now on!) and we were told the contract will be over in July, as originally signed for by a person who did not longer reside at the house prior to July 2009, and has been deceased for several months now.
Well, today is January 05, 2010. We have checked some bank accounts and discovered we are still being billed the monthly fee and that our contract has NOT ended in July 2009, as we were told!
We were told that, since we did not inform ADT in writing, the contract has not expired.
We told them that we feel it is unlawful to bill us for services that were not delivered (the system was disconnected) and we want out money back. We also requested to be provided with a name and phone number of the representative at the ADt head office in Calgary but, we were told, this information will not be given to us because "the head office will just send us back to our local office" (presumably in Edmonton, AB).
"Felicia" told us she will submit our request to the head office in Calgary, but they can only refund us for 3 months. She said she will know in a "couple of days" (we will follow up on this) of the status of the refund request.
We feel contacting BBB is in order and we are seriously considering filing the case with the The Provincial Court of Alberta, Civil Division. Since we were billed for, I believe, 6 months (for the non-deliverable service), suing ADT would be a matter of principle, we would not get rich on this nor we care about getting rich on this. We do, however, feel that someone should seriously do something about ADT's antics. Class Action, anyone?
Post here if you feel this might be a good way to get justice.