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About three weeks ago on a Sunday, cable tv went out- phone and internet were fine. By Thursday, we'd had enough of watching tetris blocks fill the screen followed by "your service will continue momentarily"
They came out and it turned out to be a bad splitter, so they swapped it out and everything is fine.
Three weeks later, I get a service charge added onto my bill- $28. I hardly find this fair. I called CS and got no help from the lady. All she offered was to sell me a protection plan for a buck fifty a month. I asked to speak with a supervisor. After being on hold for a long time (total phone call 34 minute 29 seconds) Logan answers. He tells me that because the problem was inside my house and not outside, that they have to charge me for it. Bull shit I say. I've had this service three months and a part they provided fails and they want me to pay for it. I bitched that it was unfair and then said what about the 5 days I was out service. He offered me EIGHT DOLLARS. $8. I took it, his name and hung. Up. I know it's only $20 I'm out, but with them spending BILLIONS to buy a network corporation and refusing to budge on $20, I want to fight back. What should I do?
#comcast
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