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Monday, April 20th, 2020 1:54 AM

Billing issue - Chat Room

I was charged $135 for something on my statement and I wanted to chat with someone

with the chat room. But the chat room does not seem to exist - been checking

all day long and yet to see it.

ACE - Expert

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5 years ago

All the CSRs are on the phones so there are none to chat.

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Where does this Chat room show up?

ACE - Professor

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The chat icon usually doesn't show up when no chat reps are available.

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ACE - Expert

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21K Messages

5 years ago

Click on the link that says contact us at the bottom of this page.

ACE - Professor

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5 years ago

https://www.att.com/support/contact-us/directv/

ACE - Expert

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5 years ago

@dgoldens3

The "chat" option is only sometimes available. That is supplementary to customer support so has limited options. Plus the info given in recent months makes me question if they might be outsourced as a lot of the responses were inaccurate. In any case, Covid-19 has DirecTV short staffed on all fronts.

The amount of $135 is exactly the amount of a non-return fee for HDDVR/Genie level of equipment. So if it says NRF then they are not showing they got a box back.

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I mailed both boxes back. I got a letter in the mail claiming they did not get them. I had a tracking number that showed that both boxes arrived. I was warned by the person at the post office to get a tracking number because I might get accused of this. I did my job of returning those boxes. This is very upsetting.

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I did call DirectTV and they said that they arrived - it took a bit, but they found them. So why was I charged?

ACE - Expert

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Sounds like they weren't scanned in properly. If they found them, then it should be credited.

The Post Office (USPS) is only used if they sent you a return kit (the old process). They only do that if over 10 miles away from a participating UPS or FedEx location. If they didn't send a return kit, but you went to post office and arranged your own shipping, then that would have been the problem as wrong method used. But if you used the correct method, then the error is on them.

You would have to call and verify it is now logged in and that you get credited. Though we can give guidance on many things, we are still just other customers so do not know exactly why you were charged. All I can say is there have been issues with their new return process, so perhaps this is just another example.

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