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Sunday, March 30th, 2025 4:21 PM

Website error when purchasing plan upgrade: XCP GraphQL Status API Failure XCSCP.400.1.3

Description: See title.

Impact: Customer unable to purchase plan upgrade online. Frustrating customer experience. Xfinity losing out on money. 

Steps to recreate:

1. Start here: https://www.xfinity.com/digital/offers/plan-builder

2. Select desired plan from "Choose your speed"

3. Go through rest of purchase flow
4. Arrive at the shipping step of the purchase workflow (https://www.xfinity.com/digital/install)
5. Select desired shipping option for equipment > click next.
6. FAILURE: A page showing the following message:

Looks like something went wrong

We're sorry about that. Please try again. XCP GraphQL Status API Failure XCSCP.400.1.3


This has happened over 10 times over the last 7 days and is consistent across plans and time - I'm literally unable to purchase anything through your website.

2 out of 10 times it did go through (absolutely no change in user selections on my end) and I was presented with an order number. But there was

1. no email confirmation

2. no change to my plan online

3. no awareness or record of the purchase from phone-based customer support

Bonus actions:

1. call customer support 4 times.

2. face aggressively unhelpful customer service representatives

3. Realize their system does not match what offers/plans are presented to me (or it's part of their strategy?)

4. They try to talk you into adjacent plans that are demonstrably worse (more restrictive, higher cost, longer contracts, hidden conditions)

5. Be told "no one on our side has the ability to look up an order number" - what?

6. Wonder if there can possibly be a worse customer experience than the one Xfinity is delivering

7. Realize you have spent more than 5 hours of your life trying to pay a company more money and getting nowhere

To be honest, I don't blame the customer support representatives I've been talking to. I blame Xfinity's leadership (CustEx and technology) who has either designed or allowed this customer experience to persist. This is embarrassing to see and honestly really damaging to Xfinity's brand. If they weren't a monopoly in my area, I would have switched long ago. But a local monopoly is no excuse for poor service and customer experience. Do better Xfinity. And for heaven's sake, fix this issue.  

Official Employee

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5 days ago

@user_o4ywpk  Thanks for bringing your concerns to our attention. Our apologoes for the frustration this has caused you. Certain plans will not allow changes online. I can help you with making those chnages to your account. Can you please direct message me your first and last name along with your full service address so that I can assist you. 
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.

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Hi Kei, thank you for your quick response. I will DM you. But if your hypothesis is that the root cause of the API error is that "certain plans will not allow changes online," then this should be clearly indicated for users on the site, along with a clear indication of what path the customer should follow to make a necessary change. This would be easy and low cost to implement and would proactively avoid a significant amount of wasted time and frustration on both sides. This remains a leadership issue in allowing this sort of experience inside a common use case without taking common sense steps to prevent clear purchase flow issues. 

Official Employee

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user_o4ywpk I know how important it is to have the best package which provides you the service you need at an excellent price point. We only want to assist you in finding that value, usually customers are able to make changes to their accounts themselves, but if you are coming across a concern in doing so we are here to help. As soon as we receive your direct message we can get started. 

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Kei and Marcus - I've DM'd support as you've requested. While waiting for a response, I went to grab images of the user flow and plan I am trying to purchase and now, can't even enter the plan-builder portion of the site (https://www.xfinity.com/digital/offers/plan-builder). It is just cycling through 2-3 redirects in an infinite cycle. I have a screen recording, but am apparently not able to upload it here. This is a separate issue on your site. Let me know if you want the video so you can triage and address.

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More on the above issue: Clicking sign-in during the cycle of redirects goes through another set of redirects until it lands on this page (https://www.xfinity.com/) with the following message:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.xfinity.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.8192117.1743434088.32135a1

https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.8192117.1743434088.32135a1

In addition to creating a confusing customer experience - clearly an infinite cycle of redirects is not your intended behavior - this message may be unintentionally revealing information about your underlying systems and security measures which can be a security concern. I'm not a security professional, but I think this exposure may be a gap in your security practices and may not be following best practices for keeping your systems and customer data safe.

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4 days ago

Update. Issue still unresolved.

I DM'd xfinity support at their request. I spent from 10am to 2:30pm on Xfinity's online chat feature. I spoke with Kei, Adrienne, Marcus, and now Richard. Over the course of these 4.5 hours, I was told:

1. that some plans can't make changes online

2. Actually, the plan in question is not available in my region

3. Actually, I'm being shown "new customer pricing" that is not available to me

At no point did they ask me to try things on my end, show them what I was seeing, ect, to understand and diagnose the issue. I actually constructed tests on my end to rule out 1 and 2 above, which is how we ended up at explanation 3. 

My personal frustrations and feelings about their customer experience and leadership aside - I'll report back if we get a clearer picture of the problem and what the resolution is. Pray for me.


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Having very similar issues. Spent hours dealing with it between chatting with agents, in store and over the phone. I was told they should have it fixed in about 2 hours and they would call me back. That was over 24 hours ago and still no call. I am getting told the same as you, it’s a glitch in the system or that is a new customer plan though it clearly shows my address and name when signing in to see the deals. Xfinity claims they are unable to honor the price it shows online that I cannot complete as I can’t get past the tv equipment page with getting an error. If you try to have an agent do it on their end you do not get the same price it is alway more. I even have screen shots of everything but they don’t seem to care and won’t honor it.  Good luck I have been dealing with it for days as well. Beginning to think it will never get resolved. It seems as though it is not a priority for them. As a loyal customer for many years we get left behind and new customers get the better deals. 

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