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Unacceptable Customer Service - a month without service and two appointments pushed out
A month ago, my partner and I had a new roof installed on our home in St Paul, MN. This required our DirecTV dish to be uncoupled from the roof but not disconnected. Once the roofers were done with their work, the dish was remounted to the roof in exactly the same place as it was removed from. We called to get an appointment to have the dish aimed and got a date a week out, which we though was long but reasonable. The day of the appointment, we received a call from a customer service rep who unapologetically pushed our appointment out to today, September 15, 2022 before noon. We were unhappy with the additional two week plus delay but accepted the appointment. Once again, a few minutes before our appointment window closed, we received another call, once again unapologetically pushing out our appointment another week. At this point, we have had a bill come in and be auto-paid but have been without service for a month, which is unacceptable. I called into the customer support center and Warren was pleasant but over the course of 30+ minutes, he made it known that there was nothing he or his supervisor, who I asked to talk to but was not allowed to, could do. I asked for an escalation contact or to be transferred but was not given a number, contact, or transfer. At this point, my partner and I are extremely dissatisfied and will be cancelling our 8+ years of service over this completely unacceptable lack of customer care and customer service. Sad that DirecTV would choose to lose the revenue from our service by not working with us to get a tech out for a 15 minute operation of re-aiming the dish. If I do not hear back on this, you will lose a loyal customer in the next 24 hours and I will advise everyone i know in person and on social media to do the same.


detuch254
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3 years ago
You are speaking to the wrong people, we are customers just like you on a public forum. So, it’s not our service and we don’t care if you cancel.
To actually get any sort of real assistance, you call DIRECTV (number in my greeting below) and say ‘cancel’ to the robot to be sent to the retention/loyalty department. There, complain that tech appointments are continually pushed out. Be sure to say that you will be cancelling if the issue isn’t resolved.
As a note, there are technician shortages all over the United States right now (even with Dish Network) so there’s no guarantee a technician can come tomorrow or in a few days to get your system going.
Howrver, websites like FTAinstall.com do offer local experienced techs that can come and reinstall your DIRECTV dish for you. This way, you can bypass the need to go through DIRECTV.
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Since_99
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3 years ago
Great answer and advice from detuch254
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NandKBasile
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3 years ago
Thank you for the comment deutch254. I have been on the phone with them at least five times in the last 24 hours and have posted to several social media platforms. My basic tactic is that the more awareness there is, the better my chance of getting a response. The squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease, so to speak.
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shannon02
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3 years ago
CSRs have no control over tech dispatching all they see is a list of dates and times.
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