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Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 1:13 AM

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Need help ASAP please!! Need to speak to a live, knowledgeable agent! Incorrect, conflicting info about planned outage & I work from home.

I contacted Xfinity on 9/17 after receiving a notice of a planned outage on 9/24. I have a copy of the transcript in which the agent told me - and confirmed after I asked again - that the outage was planned for 9/18 and would go from midnight to 6:00 a.m. (the agent even capitalized MIDNIGHT to make sure I understood that it started in the middle of the night, not at noon).  Catching up on text messages from today, I see a message from Xfinity Assistant indicating that an outage is still planned for tomorrow, but starting "as early as 6:00 a.m."  Checking my account online, it says work starts at midnight.  My first meeting is at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow, and I have made NO ARRANGEMENTS for working elsewhere tomorrow because YOUR AGENT TOLD ME ON 9/17 THAT THIS WASN'T HAPPENING.  

I need to speak to a REAL person who ACTUALLY KNOWS what is happening and when, and - if necessary - can compensate me for now having to find last-minute (likely paid-by-me) accommodations for somewhere to work tomorrow.  

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7 months ago

Got a live agent to call me.  Been on for 44 minutes and counting.  No straight answer yet on whether there is currently an outage (there's not) or, if there will be, when it will start.  Agent told me it would start at midnight and be done by 6:00 a.m. but when I asked for that in writing "something changed" and now he's not so sure and looking into it some more.  HOW HARD CAN THIS BE?  My first meeting tomorrow starts in just over 8 hours - do I need a hotel room or not?  And will Xfinity pay for it?  

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Thanks for reaching out, user_4egmcu, and I'm very sorry about the confusion. I'd be more than happy to look into this for you to see if I can get you some straight answers. In order to get started can you, 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.

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@XfinityAntoine​ I sent a message that included your name ("XfinityAntoine") a few minutes ago if you're able to respond to that?  Thanks.  

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@XfinityAntoine  So disappointed that after asking me to verify my account via code, you just completely ignored and failed to respond to my question and help on my issue.  It’s been 2 hours of me pinging you in the support channel after your initial response, with just radio silence and not even the courtesy to respond or transfer my issue to someone else if you were too busy.  I hope a supervisor sees this, as your customer service and follow up have been abysmal.  

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7 months ago

Warning to other gullible Xfinity customers:  Don't be fooled by offers from "official" Xfinity employees claiming they want to help you.  Moving complaining customers off of a public site to a formal communications channel is an excellent strategy to make Xfinity appear to be responsive.  But almost an hour later, @XfinityAntoine has only managed to send me a code to confirm my account (and I had to prompt them to "re"-send it when I didn't get one).  No response since I received it via text message and sent it back. 

I still don't know if the planned outage is starting or ending at 6:00 a.m.  This is not a hard question.  There is no reason that I should have been given wrong date information last week, received a text message from Xfinity today that differs from what showed when I logged into my account this afternoon, or why - after an hour on the phone and another hour now waiting on @XfinityAntoine - I'm still waiting for someone to give me a real answer.  

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