Any satisfied Comcast users????

14 years ago

I hope I'm allowed to blast comcast because I've had it! We went with the package, phone, internet and TV, way back in Feb., and it has never been right....The TV keeps going out, they come and change the box, then they change the wires, then they scratch their heads....My computer isn't right, I've had a tech person either on the phone or in the house every week for months, they scratch their heads...But every month, they deduct their payment from our account, right on time, no problems....We are kind of locked into this until the 1st of March and I'm not sure what I'll do, but it sure won't be with Comcast....My daughter called about her's and was told, it has to be something in the house or her TV, not Comcast...They have NO unsatisfied customers!

So anyone else want to vent or give me a suggestion.....

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monica_pa Grieves
14 years ago
In my old house,TV cable service only, Comcast was always going out. For hours. I used verizon DSL and land line service, and told them that they can call me back when they can compete with Verizon's 100% up time for the past 20 years.

They never called me with a sales pitch again.

Here, in this house, we have Comcast for TV and Internet. TV service is pretty good, rare outtages for more than a couple of minutes...but, Internet service(altho faster than DSL) drops often, for as much as an hour at a time.

We're impatiently waiting for Verizon to install FIOS here.
msmarion
14 years ago
We are happy with Comcast. We've never had a problem. We had Bell South when we first moved to FL. The worst internet and phone service (and customer service) we've ever had.
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susanjf_gw
14 years ago
what they didn't hear the story about the little old lady that took a hammer with her to comcst office and used it on the computer?

my kids don't have a choice for cable...but we all have verizon, and i have att for the computer and landline...

we have bright house and while we've had our moments nothing drastic...

the problem is we can't pick and choose, so it makes them complacent...
gwanny2three
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I hated them for the same reasons! We would have outages on our tv more than it was on. And everytime I would call and complain and demand credit for the time it was out. They messed up my bill so many times and shut off our service and I paid my bill. That was the last of them for me. I went to DirectTV about 5 years ago and have been so much happier. I don't think they have happy customers, I hear nothing but bad things from other people. I'm surprised they are still in business.
azzalea
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country_bumpkin_al
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imjustme_gw
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Comcast cable and TV consumer here. No problems. I don't think I'll ever transfer my phone to them, however. I'll leave well-enough alone.
whidbeykathy
14 years ago
I have their broadband because they are the only company offering it. Every other company is only available in town, so it is dial up or comcast.

When they first came out to our area with tv cable we decided to try it. We had bought 2 HDTV's and they supposedly had the best in HDTV. We just had comcast taken out on Monday and will never go back again.

It's terrible for HDTV, they added advertisements on the DVR's guide menu so when you think you are changing the channel you are going to the ads. 20 minutes after the hour they cut off Headline news, and run some local interview show every morning for about 15 minutes. Every hour they do that until afternoon!

The cable locks up and you can't change channels or channel surf easily. When it finally does change the channel is goes through about 7 channels before it stops. As my DH says "not very user friendsly" The DVR " static snapped" and made humming noises we could hear all over the house; all of which they said was normal. We have three adult kids who have comcast and each of them is shutting it off in their towns as well. Same problems.

Since we went back to DTV we haven't had a single problem like we were having with comcast..

Any satisfied Comcast users????

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