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Thursday, November 14th, 2024 4:13 AM

Customer service reps are incompetent liars

I was a customer for 18 years and cancelled last month. It started with a phone call to see what I could do about the increase in my bill. I spoke to someone who seemed very nice and said they could change my plan which would make my bill cheaper each month. I agreed to a cheaper bill each month. I received an email after the call with the changes which was actually a large increase in my monthly bill. Thst was not what I agreeed to. I called customer service the following day and spoke to a different rep on the loyalty team who said the previous rep removed a discount I had and nothing could be done to get it back. They also said there were no discounts to make my bill even close to the same amount that I had paid monthly over the previous year. I then requested to cancel the service. The rep confirned what my final payment would be. That payment happened and my service ended several weeks ago. Now all of a sudden directv sent me another bill for additional charges for my plan! I didn't even want to cancel my service. It's the incompetent workers who tell lies that forced me to cut the cord. I can't imagine directv will be around much longer treating loyal customers this way. Very disappointed. 

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1 month ago

Cancellation occurs at the end of the service month (no proration). If you received a bill for the month of service after that then it wasn't canceled. Call DirecTV and when you get the voice system say "cancel" and that should route you directly to the department you need. As long as they can verify the prior request they should adjust charges back to the end of the service month when it was supposed to have canceled. That is assuming the new bill wasn't final one-time charges to clear the account such as Early Cancellation Fee (ECF), unbilled PPVs, or Non-Return Fee (NRF).

I suspect the first agent didn't double check your promotions before changing the package. So they go to a lower costing package, but ended up disqualifying a discount which meant a net increase for you. Likely an honest mistake, but I hope they get corrected on that so they don't repeat it.

Well hope your days go better.


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