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Monday, March 18th, 2024 11:19 PM

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I got scammed by an agent

I got a higher bill in January, I thought it must be a mistake and it gets corrected next month. It didn't happened so I wrote to the chat, and one agent told me I have some limited data so I'm paying extra because I used some over the limit data. He proposed me some $70 deal (from current $25) which I declined. So I ended up speaking with Akshay, another agent, from a "Dedicated Team" to help me with another astonishing offer. I was asked to accept the same $70 offer for unlimited data, which I declined asking if they can match the $30 service cost from Verizon internet service. The agent assured me they can, even though in the proposal I had to accept was a higher price the agent convinced me "it will be $30  as it will be adjusted and lowered" when I asked if $30 will be the final price on the bill(the quoted text is from the chat transcript, exactly what the agent wrote). But the surprise came with the bill, which proved to be about $70 because it's $50 monthly plus some extra form the previous month, since when it's supposed I'm using the upgraded internet - but the matter of fact nothing changed except the bill. I tried to speak with another agent to get the $30 service it was promised or at least to get back the $25 limited service I had in the beginning and after I was bouncing between 4 or 5 agents somebody told me the best he can is to give me a $60 bill service, even though I have the chat transcript where I was assured I'm getting a $30 unlimited service.

This looks to me like a scam schema, I was ok if the agent would have told me they can't offer a so low price as $30 per unlimited service, instead tricked me to get an upgrade for a price I didn't agree and I repeatedly told him so. Also, there is no possibility for an end user to get access to the old chat conversation, some chat conversation like the negotiated prices is removed, the information about the complete service details (like data limit) is not available in the customer account, the customer portal has poor response, probably an overloaded database and these changes in the service are nowhere to be found, except the higher bill. 

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1 year ago

Concern moved here to the Billing help section for greater exposure to Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) for assistance. 

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1 year ago

 

user_n54915, Thank you for reaching out to Xfinity Support. This is not the experience we want for our customers. I would like to take a look at your account and see what we can do to figure out what happened. 

Please send us a direct chat message with your full name and complete service address to “Xfinity Support”. To do so, click on the chat icon located at the top right of this forums page.

Here's the detailed steps to direct message us:

• Click "Sign In" if necessary

• Click the "Direct Message” icon (upper right corner of this page)

• Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon

• Type "Xfinity Support" in the to line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list

• Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window

• Press Enter to send your message

Let me know if you have any questions.

 

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thank you for the response, I wrote a chat message to Xfinity Support

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1 year ago

Update: things went crazy

After this post here it was looking like the things will be ok, I got some support on chat with an agent, he offered me a credit to compensate the price difference between my initial plan and the current one. I should had probably just take it but I was not looking from such compensation, I was just wanted the unlimited data so feeling like I have someone who understands what I need I continued chatting with the agent(s) for an unlimited data solution. And one of the agents mentioned if I purchase my own modem I'll get that unlimited data for $30 per month, which makes sense, if I'm not paying the rental fee for the modem one would expect a lower price plan. What he carefully didn't mentioned is the $30 goes ON TOP of the base $25 plan and what he also didn't mentioned is the total monthly bill becomes $55. Which is really crazy and unique, if you rent an xfinity modem you'll get a $50 monthly plan but if you bring your own modem you'll get a $55 plan. 
So I got my own $100 modem and asked for the new plan I was promised, the one with unlimited data for $30 monthly. This is where I found out about this insane story, it's not $30 but $55 bill because now I have my own modem. Of course, I got apologies for misunderstanding. 
Now I'm in the same situation I was few months ago but I have, additionally, my own $100 modem which only gets me a higher monthly bill for the internet. And it seems I can't get back my $25 plan with limited data, for no specific reason, but that was the idea, I guess, just to convince me to drop that low cost plan. 

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@user_n54915​ 

It sounds as though you were on a promotion.  Were you a new customer at the time you got this $25 plan?  The majority of the plans come with "unlimited" data, but the data cap is set at 1.2TB.  For most people, like myself, that is unlimited data.  If you stream anything, or play multiplayer games, for example, you're probably going to go well over that 1.2TB; anything that uses your internet connection uses that data.  So, if you go over the limit you're going to pay $10 per 50GB of data used and that can add up.

It always makes sense to own your own modem because you can control it yourself, however, once again, anything connected to the internet, whether you're using your own modem or a rental modem, is going to use data.  If you were going over that 1.2TB of data and paying the extra $10 per 50GB of data used, it also makes sense to have the $30 for true unlimited data so that you can feel confident you're not going to pay extra for data above the 1.2TB.

I hope that explains it a bit more clearly for you.

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