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Wednesday, July 12th, 2023 12:54 AM

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Billing error after "free" service added

About 1 1/2 years ago I entered a new internet contract in which I received a $10 discount/month for paperless billing & automatic payments; everything has gone smoothly until now. Last month I added the "free" Peacock Premium service ($4.99 value) & now my new bill shows only a $5 discount...how convenient. I am so tired of trying to explain their errors to them. Why does Xfinity make it so much more attractive to just cancel a service rather than trying to solve the issues they've created.

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@stish 

About 1 1/2 years ago I entered a new internet contract in which I received a $10 discount/month for paperless billing & automatic payments; everything has gone smoothly until now. Last month I added the "free" Peacock Premium service ($4.99 value) & now my new bill shows only a $5 discount...how convenient. I am so tired of trying to explain their errors to them. Why does Xfinity make it so much more attractive to just cancel a service rather than trying to solve the issues they've created.

Recently Comcast asked customers on autopay to switch from using a Debit/Credit card to ACH banking for paying their bill.  It sounds as though that's what has happened to you.  If you are using the Debit/Credit card system in order to get that $5 discount back you would need to change over to your bank account.

FWIW, this had nothing to do with you adding Peacock Premium.

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@Again​ Thank you, I was never notified of this that I am aware of.

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I have updated my auto payment to my bank account. That gives them over 2 1/2 weeks to update my bill. If I don't see the extra $5 discount before then I'll rescind the auto pay & cancel my subscription.

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Update:  I just received an email acknowledging my payment update & this was a portion of the response "Please note you will need to pay your current bill, as this change will not take effect until your next billing cycle"....NOT ACCEPTABLE! I will be gone before the next billing cycle 😒

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Hello @stish, and thank you for reaching out with your autopay and paperless discount on the account dropping by $5. To confirm, when you added the Peacock, did you make any changes to the autopay option at that time as well? There are 2 options for the discount of a debit card or credit card for $5, and $10 for using a bank account. If you swapped from a bank account to a card, it would account for the change in the discount amount. 

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@XfinityEricB​ Thank you, I was not aware of this.

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@stish, Thanks for reaching out with an update to your services. It's pretty common for changes made to an account, especially ones made in the middle of a billing cycle, not to reflect until your next billing statment. This is the same for debits and credits, but there is a chance you may still see the discount on you upcoming bill. Currently, there is no way for us to change or expedite this process as it's all determined by when the changes are made. 


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2 years ago

The concern is not "Home Networking" help related................. Topic moved here to the proper help section for assistance. 

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@EG​ I know, but when I posted I was only given 2 options to choose from; it was "Home Networking" & I think the other might have been "email". So, again, another xfinity issue.

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@stish 

No worries ! It's in the right place now. Good luck !

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