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Sunday, June 7th, 2020 12:56 AM

Direct tv customer service

I've been having trouble since October 2019. Had identity theft happen forcing me to change my direct payment card information. Since I was doing that I requested another promotion or wanted to lower my programming to keep my payments the same.

Repeated attempts to get it changed each time with it not happening on Direct TVs end.

Causing late payments, service interruptions and more added fees.

I've talked to so many people to get it resolved that I've lost track of the HOURS that i have spent to do it. It's time in my life that I will never get back.

The end of each conversation is always another required transfer or call to a different department. Not even a quarter of the conversations i have had have been logged on the customer service end so i never get anywhere always having to start over.

I want my account balance zeroed and I want to terminate my service. But they make everything impossible.

As if this covid 19 pandemic didnt make things hard enough you would think that there would be a better responce.

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5 years ago

Months ago discount offers were pulled back. They are weeding out customers were were operating at a loss. As a business they must remain profitable, so cannot afford to give away service for less than cost.

If you had requested to lower to a different programming package, but that wasn't done, that is an issue they need to look into. However they will not zero your balance simply because it is not within your budget. There is a late fee waiver request for a specific time period, but there is no other adjusting balance because of Covid-19. https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html#consumers

Call DirecTV and when you get the voice system say "cancel" to route you directly to the retention department. Don't expect lowering of your bill because of hardship, but if there is an actual error (such as requested to reduce package but wasn't done) then hopefully they can confirm and correct.

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I wouldn't have a balance at all if they had done what they were supposed to do in the first place and changed my programming package in October and set up the auto pay so I wouldnt have late fees every month

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You can log into your account online and setup auto pay there. Takes effect with the next bill that produces so upon setup you must make a one-time payment for current balance. With setting up auto bill pay, verify if it goes through otherwise if not then you must manually make the payment. Auto pay is a nice convenience, but in the end it is still up to you to verify your payments.

If you requested a specific package that was a lower tier and that wasn't done, that is an issue. Since you have made "repeated attempts", and you are at the point of canceling anyway, this is where you need the retention department. Normally they are more experienced agents. You can also request a supervisor if needed. Doesn't guarantee they will confirm that the package was supposed to be changed, but it is your best shot.

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Juniper... what part of me refusing to pay late charges do you not understand.

I paid it 2 times. Oct and nov 2019 and gave them the card info to setup auto pay.

But everytime in the end they didnt do what they needed to so I get another late fee.

IM NOT PAYING FOR THERE MISTAKES.

If you want to keep giving me stupid suggestions then stop responding

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Until just now, you never said you were refusing to pay.

It was up to you to verify payments went through and if not to make one-time payments each month so your bill wasn't late. And even with trying to setup auto pay more than once you still didn't check that payment went through. Unfortunately ignoring your finances until after the fact doesn't waive late fees.

Sorry but it is not a "stupid" suggestion simply because it is not what you want to hear. If they can confirm you weren't on the correct package, then adjustments can be made for that.

If they adjust the late fees, even some of them, that would be great. However the balance remains valid until such adjustments are made. There is no refusing to pay option with a dispute. If they don't adjust it, then you are required to pay it.

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If you dont know the whole situation Juniper then ask.

There is a lot more to this whole situation then the little blurp that I put out to vent because I once again spent 2.25 hours on the phone today being transferred from department to department all to go over the same stuff I did last month and the month before and the month before and to get told the same stuff I was told last time also.

I do pay attention to my finances. But it's not my job to pay extra because they didnt adjust my bill when I called to change package and gave them my new auto payment info at that time.

Do you pay for gas that is still in the pump at the gas station?

Do you pay for milk that you dont purchase or toilet paper that you dont bring home to use?

I'm guessing no you dont. Then why should I pay for services that I have asked to get adjusted and been working on straightening the situation out for the last 7 months.

Also why should I pay late fees that occurred due to them not adjusting my programming and setting up my auto pay at that time like I requested?


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