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Friday, December 15th, 2023 7:16 AM

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Password reset error

3 days ago I tried to log into my primary email account.  When I did was prompted with ‘reset your xfinity password’.  After entering my address, last 4 of ssn and birthday the following error displays: Sorry, we ran into a problem. Please give us a minute and then try again.  I have work with online chat customer service for 3 day and gotten nowhere.  They ask for my account number. I tell them I can’t get that because I have to log in with my primary email user-id and that is the one that is requiring an password reset and that is the process that is broken.  They say this is a known issue and it is being worked on.  Last I was told it will be fixed tomorrow.  I’d like to place a bet on that. Xfinity IS A JOKE.  An issue like this having gone unresolve for 3 (maybe more) days should be escalated to the highest priority and there should be communication to the customer base.  Instead, Xfinity attempts to hide the issue.  Customer service is non-existent.  I’ve been a customer since 1991 and can’t wait to find an alternative to Xfinity.  I’m old enough to remember the old joke: ‘we don’t care and we don’t have to, we’re the phone company’.  That was a Lily Tomlin skit from Saturday night live.  You can replace the phone company with Xfinity:  ‘we don’t care we don’t have to, we’re Xfinity’.  Here’s a link to the skit the next time you need a laugh after trying to talk to a human at Xfinity. https://vimeo.com/355556831

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1 year ago

same problem

driving me nuts

Official Employee

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Hello user_3t0ibb

Thank you for getting us in the loop. To confirm, this issue is with your primary Xfinity user ID? Appreciate all of your time and patience. 

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3 Messages

1 year ago

Ok we are now on day 4.  I said I'd like to bet it's not fixed in my first post yesterday - Well I would have won that bet.  Xfinity, doesn't your system have a 'password reset required' flag for a user profile.  The system must be looking at some status flag on my primary account record that tells it to prompts for password reset when I try to log in with my primary account.  If the system would quit requiring a password reset, it would get around this issue of the password reset process being broken. 'We don't care, We don't have to, we're Xfinity.'

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1 year ago

Today I used Xfinity chat and this time they were able to make a change that fixed my issue of not being able to reset my password.  This time the person was able to find my account and said they needed to add a mobile to my account.  They did this and then sent a link to the mobile to reset the password.  I used and link to start a password reset and instead of getting an error, during the reset process a verification code was sent to my mobile.  So the issue may be related to a missing mobile on my primary email account.  I am remembering that I have been getting a prompt as I log in to add an email address to my account (and perhaps a mobile?).  The email could not be an Xfinity address.  I have just been selecting 'ask me later' when this comes up.  But I have now updated with a google gmail account.  So I believe the reason that I was required to reset the password on my primary account (and that password reset process was erroring) was due to the missing mobile number?  

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@user_ao75cw I am happy to hear this has been resolved, please send me a message if there is anything else we can help with. Thank you. 

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