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equipment return page not working
I was trying to get the returning label for UPS and I got stuck. The page just didn't do anything after I selected 'UPS Prepaid Shipping' and clicked on the 'Confirm'.
(I can't just walk to a store to return that, the nearest one is 66 km away☹)
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Xindefinite
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Still not working as of 2-22-22 in any browser. The mobile app won't let us do returns and the Xfinity Assistant just takes us back to the same broken webpage.
A prepaid label was included with the replacement gateway, but that label is NOT for free pickup. I tried both the UPS website and 800-PICKUPS (talked to a human, too) and UPS refuses to pick up this tracking number. They want to charge a $18.96 pickup fee! I can't have this billed to Xfinity, because I don't have Xfinity's UPS account number.
I called Xfinity and was told the included label is for drop off only. The agent said I must print a label from the returns page of the website in my account in order to get free pickup, which of course I cannot do, since it doesn't work! The Xfinity returns instruction page needs to be updated to inform customers of this difference between label types.
Better yet, when you ship a device to a customer, include a return label that has pickup prepaid in the first place and avoid all this mess!!
Taking the box into a public building is not an option for me during these Covid times.
Fix this, Comcast, or don't try to bill me for this second, unused gateway!
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Xindefinite
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3 years ago
<sigh>... ok folks, don't even bother with direct messaging them. They don't care to look at referenced threads (e.g., THIS thread, which I provided them a link to) and thus will ask questions irrelevant to the issue at hand and will make suggestions that have already been dismissed in the thread. Talking to a brick wall would be as productive.
I had hoped that, once they had my personal details, they would at least email me a UPS label which has pickup prepaid, and I could report that being the solution for the time being, but no such offer was made.
Clearly, there will be zero help from Xfinity regarding this matter unless and until they decide to fix their broken website. We are on our own.
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Xindefinite
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Update:
They've obviously been working on this, but it isn't fixed yet. I tried it again today. It went thru to the confirmation page, but unfortunately, my active device is on the page instead of my inactive device (the one I wanted to return and had been clicking on habitually without paying attention to the model number).
The app worked up to the point of printing the label, which fails in all browsers, so it still isn't actually providing the label. They may eventually fix this part as well, who knows.
Now I need to cancel this return, as this is my current gateway, NOT the one I needed to return (which has mysteriously disappeared from the device list altogether). Weirdness...
Unfortunately, there is no option to cancel a pending return on the website.
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Xindefinite
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3 years ago
Here we go. I just got my latest bill and sure enough Xfinity is trying to charge me rental for this unused gateway that they won't supply the pickup return label for. It's not my fault that YOUR website doesn't work.
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Xindefinite
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Anyone who bothers to read this thread (and/or my related direct message thread) would see where I said I have not been able to "just drop off the gateway".
The point is, Xfinity claims that its customers can print a prepaid UPS return label and UPS will pick up the package free of charge. The website app doesn't work. Xfinity knows it doesn't work. Yet, Xfinity is nevertheless charging customers for unused equipment that CANNOT be returned by the very method Xfinity claims is available and even recommends for returning said equipment.
Do you see the problem here?
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Xindefinite
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Correction: I just checked and Xfinity has changed the recommended return method to drop off at an Xfinity store. At the time I was attempting to return this unused gateway, the recommended method was to print the prepaid pickup label. This change is proof Comcast is well aware the website label printer doesn't work for anyone.
As for direct messaging and phone support, been there done that. I was told by employees that employees are unable to email me the prepaid pickup label because it must "go through the UPS website". Absurd.
I can create my own UPS pickup label if I want to pay for it. It's not a difficult process. I can also add pickup service to the label included in the replacement gateway box, but UPS will charge me the $18.95 pickup fee, because I can't provide UPS with Xfinity's UPS account credentials, meaning I cannot have it billed back to Xfinity.
It's ridiculous that employees at Xfinity also don't have access to Xfinity's UPS account credentials so they could manually create pickup labels for customers. OR, the employees actually do have access to this info, but just don't know it or were told not to use it.
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user_378e9a
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3 years ago
This is exactly what we are dealing with right now. EXACTLY.
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Xindefinite
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I gave up on the site and managed to get the gateway dropped off at UPS, using the original, non-pickup label supplied with the replacement. The unit is now in Comcast's hands – I have proof of delivery/receipt.
I request that an employee remove the undue $14 rental charge from my latest bill (or credit me the $14) for the secondary, unused gateway, which could not be returned via the malfunctioning "free UPS pickup" label printer on your website.
Also, please cancel the erroneous return process on the replacement gateway that I am now using.
Thank you.
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user_9d0abc
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3 years ago
I am have a similar problem!!! I started my return and I get to the part where I click on the button to print the label and it does not work. I doesn't show the label to be able to take a screen shot or anything, just an error code saying page did not load, try again. I have tried this for several days thinking it was maybe just a problem they were having that day but no luck. Not happy. Now I have to drive 50 miles to a UPS store to return the item. VERY FRUSTRATING! They better not charge me for not rturning it on time!
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ursusarctos
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3 years ago
I'm having the exact same problem. Using https://customer.xfinity.com/devices/returns/status I'm able to create a return authorization for the device I want to return. No UPS label was generated at the time. Now, I can check on the status of the return, and it gives me the option to print the label--yet whenever I do so, it returns an error message, asking me to try again later.
I've been trying for the past five days, using multiple browsers, turning off all my extensions, etc. with the same error. It's pretty clearly a problem in the website. The page even sends me to https://customer.xfinity.com/devices/returns/label/[UPS Tracking Code] which suggests that a UPS shipment/label/tracking number is being created--just not turned into a printable label.
Support has been entirely unhelpful. Either it's "just take it to the UPS store" or "wait a few days". This afternoon, an agent tried to tell me that my internet service was down, but would be up by 3pm. Um...no, it's not, it's working fine, it's your website that's broken.
If Xfinity is going to advertise that we can return things by UPS, I expect them to make good.
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Xindefinite
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Well, they won't be fixing this or anything else on the website, since they're taking the website down altogether! Most of you have probably seen that email. I wonder whether the mobile app label printer will ever work.
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