Comcast / Xfinity
Reviews and Complaints

Why does the last few seconds of the news get cut off right before a commercial comes on. This occurs regularly with any news show I watch. It's aggravating.i notice you don t cut any commercials short. This seems to occur in other programs as well, and it's very aggravating.

Initial contact 24 July, reported low hanging line across backyard. Was informed it was not hazard and noted request for a service call.
Called again 25 July…again unable to be advise when we could expect a date/time. Called again 26 July and was advised a date/time 08:00 on 27 July (no show/call)…repeated calls July 27, 28, 29. Again assigned a service call between 2:30-8:00 on each of those days…no show 28 & 29 July. After visiting the local x-finity store we've been advised we will get a phone call between today thru tmrw morning to get a date/time for service
As a longtime Comcast customer, who was contemplating upgrade to X-fi… I am extremely disappointed in the customer service that ‘hasn't happened.

I am NOT a Comcast/Xfinity customer period; however, someone without my knowledge ran a Comcast cable from a pedestal on my property across my grass, across my driveway, down the street 2 houses down a few months ago and after 6 complaints, I still have this hazardous cable across my driveway. I want this cable off my property period. They did not inform me nor would I have given permission to place an inappropriate cable across my property and down the street. They need to strictly have this cabling established at the house 2 houses below at 40 Red Oak Ridge Drive, Chickamauga, GA 30707 (I am a non customer at 74). I have attempted 6 calls and lengthy test messages to Comcast to get a resolve ALWAYS with the promise to have this taken care of in 2 days which has become laughable. Do I have to resort to getting an attorney to get this cable off my property? I've had numerous ticket #s given me, some for HAZARD, some for PRIORITY, whatever the customer service group deem to read to me off their scripts I imagine. Such a sloppy way to do business. J Vaughn (who is totally disgusted with this company).

Why is MTV and VH1 frequently distorted? it's so frustrating to try and watch either of those channels for the last 3 months. Don't tell I Need to Upgrade, Because I already did LAST YEAR! I pay too much for cable, than to have to put up with this! This is the 2nd time I have complained about this! I guess I need to talk to the Corporate office. I wonder how many other customers are having this problem?

i keep getting snowy reception on my living room TV only. And what's the deal with the pixilated distortion on certain channels Like MTV mostly. We pay waaaay too much for cable, to be having these problems! I haven't seen snowy reception since the TV antennnas! How is it possible that cable has distorted channels? I thought Xfinity was better than Direct TV, when it comes to reception. What happend?

On a daily basis, my internet service goes offline. I have tried restarting the modem. I have unsuccessfully requested that a technician come out to troubleshoot the problem. This problem had caused a great deal of distress for me and my home business. The internet simply goes offline in the middle of Zoom calls. It also goes offline in the midst of customer orders. I continue to pay my bill, on time, every month, and via debit card charge. I am very distraught over the daily internet interruptions in service. Please send a technician out to help me with this issue. When I call the 800 number call center, I generally am asked to reboot but the problem keeps happening.

I am a widow who lives alone. I signed up with comcast during the pandemic for emotional and mental comfort while being house bound. My company closed down because of the pandemic and I have been unable to secure employment that will overlook my age and work around my physical limitations. I renewed my subscription in Feb 2021 and informed the representative I may not be able to continue. I was informed to call when and if that time came and talk to someone.

I have had to sell my home and will live in my car for the next 6-8 mos. I was told by Teddy, the customer service rep that there was no supervisor to speak with, then he stated he could escalate to someone else but it would just go up the ladder and comcast is not responsible... blah blah blah, a well rehearsed speech.

The pandemic may have been at it's peak in 2020 but the fall out is still ongoing. Plus the variants are spreading even faster. Hundreds of businesses closed including mine. Your $70 cancelation fee is outrageous considering the reason for canceling. I am not moving into another home or apartment I am living in my car! $70 is gas and food for a week. I am not the only one in this sad and disturbing situation but for a corporation to not care about their customers especially with everything this country is dealing with is absurdly inhumane. Terry explained "comcast isn't responsible..." neither am I nor the many others struggling because of a rampant viral killer. I did inform Terry I will be sending a complaint to the BBB and the Governor of Florida. If you willingly feel it is necessary for your bottom line to create more financial harm to this senior citizen, under the circumstances, I will revert to learning social media.

What is up with only black stuff? Why only black experience and not Hispanic, White, Native American or mixed race experience. If you want to show the black experience show how it is right now where they are killing and destroying. I'm a black woman and I'm insulted at your racism. And get rid of the black racist you have pushing your racist agenda . If a white personal deleted a black person you would all be in an uproar. I have filled complaints with other companies about your racist company .

I am EXTREMELY disappointed with my customer service experience with Xfinity. I have been a loyal customer for years and am now looking at switching to another company. We recently moved and requested to transfer the service address for our internet. I was told there was already a history of service at the new address and that I could transfer the box and set up service over the phone. I attempted to do this last Sunday and as it turns out, we would need a technician to come out and do an installation, costing us $100 for his services. No issue. We scheduled the appointment for Tuesday arriving between 1PM-3PM. I never received a confirmation email so I called back later to confirm the appointment. I was advised the appointment is confirmed, no worries we will call when on the way. On Tuesday at 1:30 I hadn't heard anything and still had not received any emails or texts so I contacted customer service through the chat portal. I was advised again, yes the appointment is confirmed we will call when on the way. The arrival window passed. I contacted the chat portal again. I was advised again that the appointment was still standing. Then later in the chat was told that the tech was not going to come out at all that day. I was THEN told that there was NEVER an appointment made. I asked to speak with a supervisor but was then just transferred to wait in the queue to speak with a customer service rep all over again. I then requested again that I speak with a supervisor. I was not transferred to a supervisor but I was transferred to a member of the escalations team. After setting up an appointment for the following day and sending a confirmation email of the appointment, she advised me that the $100 fee would be waived because of the inconvenience of being lied to several times regarding the appointment. She advised that she made the notations, and after the installation services were completed, all I would have to do is contact customer service one more time, they would see the notes and be able to remove the charge at that time. Well this morning I contacted customer service and was told that higher management deemed the charges valid and they will not remove the charge and will give a $20 credit instead. So basically I continue to be lied to- I am not asking to just get the answer I want, I am asking to be told the truth and every one I have spoken to has lied or been deceitful in some way to just pass me on to the next poor soul who answers the phone. I have screen shots of all my interactions proving that I am telling the truth about what happened. I would like this company to follow through with what they say they will do instead of continuing to give me the run around as though I am not a valid customer.

on june 29 2021 11:30 am ocean city md - this is the busiest week in ocean city Maryland for vacationers - 4th of july is always the busiest week and there are a lot of drivers who think being on vacation from work means vacation from driving laws and common sense. on this date and time an xfinity driver was seen as an aggressive risk taking driver - happened on coastal highway - do what you want with this complaint but this guy / gal was taking risk at your expense - people can get hurt and property damage which would have been xfinity's fault if this driver was guilty of an accident (cause) to protect your interest, you should at the least, let this person know you require safe driving from your technical people - there are enough vacationing nut drivers already - you need to watch out for them and drive safely yourself

This company has submitted me to collections for a bill that is not mine on a rental property that I did not reside at during the time of the bill. I submitted proof of my paid bill and my lease agreement from 2018. The collections account was removed and dropped because a mistake was clearly made. Now I am receiving a notice on my credit that ANOTHER agency has me in collections. I call to find out what it is for and it's for the SAME BILL that was resolved in FEBRUARY ! This is illegal !

Bobby R. From the Xfinity store #54007 should be retrained.

I stood in line for an hour to return equipment.

After waiting an hour, I asked Bobby R….since I already Canceled is there a quicker way. She told me I can go to another store rudely!

By the time she decided to help me it took her less then a second to scan the bar code and print receipt for me to sign.

She did it sarcastically and to be dirty and malicious.

When you offer movies to rent, new movies, include a trailer to the film. What kind of company offers movies that they select to offer for rent for $ 19.99 or $ 25.00 for purchase and not include a trailer. What is the matter with the heads of this company. It seems you were all born yesterday. Too bad video stores are no longer in business. What a joke! What a monopoly. Learn the basics of customer service, your clients are paying enough. Get it together!

I've had comcast as the only cable and internet choice for 2 years. Never had any complaint until today. My service was shut off a week ago for nonpayment. I called customer service and agreed to pay $50. to turn it back on and make a payment arrangement for June 18th, today . If I couldn't make a payment of $278.00 today, my service would be disconnected. Knowing I wouldn't have that in my bank account, I waited to be shut off. Instead, I got an overdraft notice from my bank. Stating I was overdrawn of $278.00. Not once did I ever give comcast authority to access my account . I always paid online myself. I never ever used automatic monthly payments . Yet, comcast wss able to access my account without permission and
caused me to have a negative $300.00 balance. How is that legal? Without any kind of authority.

For months I frequently have to retry many, MANY, times to connect to common internet sites getting error messages like "site not found" (example CNN, or my credit union, not found - really?) or "no internet connection" or "site took too long to respond". Also while active on an internet site, clicking on a link from therein, and trying to return back to the home page I get errors like "site not found" (I was just there). From my 20+ year career as a systems programmer specializing in networking mainframe computers I am convinced that xfinity's servers (eg: Domain Name Servers) are consistently overloaded/under-sized and fail to respond. (Before I retired I was able to run traces on problematic TCP/IP connections to pinpoint response problems, but I lack that capability now so I can't be more specific.) BTW, I am not downloading movies or playing games and moving a lot of data that might cause xfinity to throttle down my service - I do online banking transactions, email, and read headlines on reputable news sites.

June 12, 2021
William R. Stemper
President, Comcast Business
Comcast Corporation Comcast Center 1701 JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19103.

cc.: Tom Karinshak.

I am truly and utterly staggered with my BUSINESS level "service," or what passes for that, with Comcast. More properly, perhaps it should be called "unservice." Might I suggest you make that change in your website, since that is clearly how you treat people and businesses? And I don't know who gave you all those "eight awards" you waste our time with as we sit interminably on hold, as we wade through your absurd, insulting, time wasting, IVR system.
First, your automated voice recognition is an utter embarrassment and insulting to anyone and everyone who uses it. It doesn't recognize one's voice half the time, and has an interminable, Byzantine menu system, and generally wastes 20 minutes of my time just to get someone live. And no, for the 26th time, "I don't need my modem reset." But thanks for more waste of my limited time. Brilliant. Basically, it's the old "We're Comcast, we don't care - we don't have to' approach, right?
I get it that you try to save money with all these bots and AI that just waste people's time. Apparently Comcast thinks burning through customers' patience and goodwill is nothing. We get it.
Here's another winner from Comcast. I have a new Dell computer. A Vostro I-5. Nothing special. Let me repeat, since no one seems to get it there: It is a regular, vanilla Dell I just bought. I have MS365 I just installed. Nothing special. No funky software, nothing souped up - nothing. Let me help the Einsteins there in your useless"support": It is regular, vanilla MS 365 an Outlook. I have Comcast Business (lotta help that has been!). NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
All I freaking need to so is get my Comcast email in Outlook. I have now spent over a week, and about 22 hours, plus hours listening to your ‘snazzy" hold music for 30 minutes at a time, being transferred around, people reading their Comcast customer scripts ("I'm sorry," "I apologize," ad nauseam, which come across as genuine as crocodile tears), then speaking with people, and then when the line gets dropped they don't call back, even though I just gave them my number.. and STILL I SIT WITH OUTLOOK NOT ABLE TO GET MY COMAST EMAILS a week later. At one point, I was promised a call back from Tier 2 support in 30 - 60 minutes. It came 2 days later. Nice! When I finally got the call from Tier 2, after losing THREE DAYS of much of my day, I wasn't at my phone, and that was that. They call back one or twice, and you actually have a job and life and you miss it, you are SOL. Gee, I guess I should sit around for 24 hours a day waiting for a call that may or may not ever come. Would YOU do that? I tried setting up a call time, but twice no one ever called back, even though it was agreed to. I also simply asked, in lieu of this idiotic vmail tag, for someone to NOT leave a message, but just call until they got me live. Fat chance with that request.
So, it's all Microsoft's fault you say. They insist it is Comcast. But let's leave that aside. Why do I keep getting that there is a security issue with my email (screen dump below), and that I need to change my password? Your tech support says that is not the case, yet I AM getting this message almost every month. And every time I change my password, after I have spent HOURS trying to get Outlook working (at one time, it DID work), it breaks everything again. If this is my email being hacked, you should be concerned. If this is a phishing attack, you should also be concerned. But as it stands, as I write this, no one at Comcast appears to give a rat's [censored] over this. Further, I get this message when I am right on the Comcast website, so how could that be phishing?
There have been at least three calls that dropped with Comcast support. You would think people would have the professionalism to call back. Fat chance. The most recent was for ticket [protected]. Basically, if my call gets dropped, I am SOL. Again, its the old start with an apology that comes across as sincere as a snake oil salesman, then the old "We're Comcast. We don't care. We don't HAVE to." Nice! So, in one case as an example, after one of the calls got dropped, I stupidly called back and once spent 20 minutes with your idiot "restart your modem" msg to blow off customers (already heard that one 20 or 30 times now, thanks), and then brilliantly, if you say no, it went back to the main menu!. Oh, and as I am on the line right now as I write this, and I then I go to some "Upware" msg which I could care less about, and "pay your billing" message (hint: I am calling technical support), which are completely irrelevant and yet MORE waste of time. Did Comcast actually PAY someone to think your IVR system up? Do they actually PAY someone to set up your support structure? Look, I will do that for 1% of the money you blew on these Einsteins - except I will make it work, and do so efficiently. Oh yes, and I won't have support staff reading scripts about how "sorry" they are, and how "they apologize." Really? Someone thought that up?
Subsequent to the above, I contacted [protected]@comcast as yet another one of my 20 or 30 calls, to discuss why I keep getting on a regular basis, this msg:

Is my email being hacked? Why do I get this at least once a month? No answer from support, no call back. Will you blame Microsoft for this too? If this is "business service," what does your regular service look like? I can't begin to imagine.

In fact, WHY do I have to send freaking REGISTERED LETTER to get a basic problem solved? CSA support said they would call back re. CR970458761, on Friday, June. 11, at 6 PM CT. I dutifully sat by my desk, skipping dinner with my wife, and NO call. I then tried calling again, and after the usual script reading you train people to do "I'm sorry,"I apologize"ad nauseam (and that after going through 20 minutes of your idiotic IVR system, telling about all the awards you won, trying to restart my modem the 96th time, and host of other irrelevant options) I got someone. They promised a call for sometime after 9:30 CT on Sat. June 12. Of course, consistent with the extra money we pay for business service, the call never call. So I called again and asked for a supervisor. Got someone named Sherry, employee R48 around 11:30 CT. She, as with all the other"We're Comcast, we don't care, we don't HAVE to"employees promised a call. Yeah, and as Monty Python said,"The cheque's in the mail, "too. Don't think I should hold my breath for that one, right?

Your support tells me that it is Microsoft. Microsoft tells me it is Comcast. Question: Does neither company KNOW how to work with the other? Is getting Microsoft Outlook to work with Comcast email something that has never been done before? Is it brain surgery? Wouldn't it behoove Comcast to work with Outlook folks to have an answer when people run into this type of issue, given that email is a central focus of BOTH companies, rather than Comcast just saying, as I was told,"We aren't trained on this."(Hint: So…. Freaking train them! Not to be Outlook experts, but to at least know basic settings. Then, if there are still problems, you should have some type of liaison contact group at Microsoft. HOW difficult could it be to do this.?
And no, no one wants to"chat with your Xfinity assistant, "and waste yet more time there. Worse, when I get to support in the email assistant, they always tell me they are not Business and can't help. Here's another hint: have the ability to transfer from regular users to the business team? Apparently, the non-business team can't even transfer over a call or a chat!
But let me ask you a question. How would YOU feel personally, if, in your absolutely filled to the brim day day, you had to spend over TWENTY hours trouble shooting a basic question on something. TIME YOU DO *NOT* HAVE. And this is just the time I have spent so far.
Microsoft says Comcast should create an"app password, "and I can replace this password that is entered in Outlook using that"app password"or mail secure key to connect your account to Outlook. I have no idea how to do this. Microsoft says if Comcast can't create one, just ask them to turn off 2 factor authentication. Your team says there IS no 2FA. I have no idea as an end user, but here is a brilliant idea that all you $100, 000+ salaried folks at Comcast might want to try. And, in fact, I'll provide this business consulting fee at no charge! How's that! Maybe I, too, can get"eight awards"for this, too. Here's what you do:
1.) Comcast has, as one of its main offerings, email service, right? Are we agreed on that? Good.
2.) There is this very large company Comcast just MIGHT have heard of, call M-i-c-r-o-s-o-f-t, who has an email client that you just MIGHT have heard about, right?
3.) Since it is inevitable that there will be issues like mine that crop up from time to time, rather than pissing out tens of thousands of customers, why don't you open some type of liaison with Microsoft? I was told your people are not Outlook experts, but why not have them at least trained in basics and standard settings. But barring that, your brilliant, 8 award winning company should be able to seamlessly transfer over issues, with comments, to Microsoft. Now, you don't have customers stuck in the middle.
Heck, and I won't even charge you for this suggestion.
Again, I only have vanilla s/w and h/w - nothing special. How would you feel if you had, say a basic Toyota and you used Shell gas, for example. You required your car to get to work, your wife to the hospital etc. But now your engine doesn't work. Toyota blames Shell, Shell blames Toyota. In turn, you, personally are screwed. You have nothing special with your car, nothing special with the gas, you haven't fiddled with the engine (everything is just out of the box), no water in the gas from Shell, nothing. Don't you think Shell would want to have some basic communication with Toyota, and Toytoa with Shell, for times there might be issues related to fuel and Toyota engines? as they necessarily have to work together? In this case, would it not make sense for Tier 2 support to have basic training on Outlook? NOT to be Outlook support, but to at least be conversant in the product to assist customers navigate issues and provide a standard fix for out of the box configs? Better, might it NOT be advisable to have some mechanism between the two companies to resolve issues integrating the two companies?
Or, another example: How would YOU feel if you, or your child, was in the hospital, say for cancer or pneumonia, and say, your medical record was screwed up… and then you spent, as I have at the time of this writing - over TWENTY freaking hours trying to get someone to simply fix a BASIC problem? How would you feel if that happened to you in this example? Customers don't need your stupid scripts ("I'm sorry, ""I apologize, " ad nauseam); rather we need a competent company that will fix things, and not blow people off for - as of this writing - a week straight (and no doubt this will extend through all next week or more). We need CALLS BACK that were promised. When a call is dropped for some reason, we need Comcast to have a level of professionalism that I would expect out of a 10 year old and call the freaking customer back. How hard is that? I realize Comcast doesn't give flying rat's derriere about individual customers, but still… doesn't anyone there have just common decency, or pride in what they do?

I am sending this registered US Mail, and am going to not only copy the BBB, but also a number of other magazines. As a matter of fact, I am the creator of CompTIA's Server+ certification (sister cert to A+), so I do have some visibility

Your service has been utterly and totally unacceptable. Why should I have to write a freaking LETTER to get resolution. I ask that you resolve this poste-haste.

Jim Vanne

[protected]@comcast.net
301 Inverness Dr., Aurora, IL. 60502
Tel. [protected]

I need internet access only. I do not have a television but Comcast will only offer a package including internet and cable television. This costs a minimum of $99 per month. Not only that, when I checked that option, including cable television that I do not want, they said that I needed to add another service. I refer to ‘they said', to clarify these transactions were on the web. I have called Comcast, they also said that I cannot have only one service.

Whenever i call takes longer than five minutes just to ask for a representative you get paid way more than necessary why do i have to speak with a machine?! this shows how much you really don't care about the consumers time and feelings. Like this is also a waste of my time. You either have a machine or a temp worker
read these and that worker is told to just delete whatever the customer sends and he or she doesn't give a crap not enough to help pass this on - heck his or her supervisor is either a machine or someone that doesn't care. Over twenty one years i've been with comcast/exfinity and it's only getting worse. My father passed away almost two weeks ago i fell behind in the payments that were needed to get to his house in a different state then i had to pay for a house/dog sitter. Does xfinity care no i don't know where this is going but i doubt its a comcast/xfinity like i said a waste of time.

Comcast has been skipping sending out paper bills every other month. This is in a effort to get me to sign up for paperless. I'm NOT going to paperless without them giving some discount for the less cost on their part.
They sent me a March bill with NO Feb. paper bill being sent. Since I pay my bills when they come in I didn't receive a bill. It shown up as past due on my March bill. Of course they billed me a $10.00 late fee.
They then don't send me an April invoice. So again it shows up on my June boll as past due, and of course there is another $10.00 late charge
Two things you folks need to understand:
1. I'm NOT signing up for paperless unless you offer me a discount for your savings each month for NOT having to send me a paper bill.
2. The next time you fail to send me a bill and follow the next month with a late charge. THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME. I WILL FIND OTHER WAYS TO GET MY TV AND INTERNET.

Wayne Messick
Account # [protected]

I have been with comcast, now masquerading as xfinity, since 1999. I never miss a payment. During the 2020 pandemic, I kept up with all my payments.

Recently, I missed 1 month and on the second month of anticipated miss payment, I ask their billing dept to give me time to apply for EBB. For some reason, they started using strong arm tactics on me. They cut my service off a week without notice, then turn it back on, then off again the following week, then off again, and so on. This was their way of jerking me around. One rep at a billing department suggested that i start going around chasing family / friends for money to pay them.

We are talking about $200 absent ridiculous fees and charges. This is how you treat us after 20 years? In the middle of a pandemic? This is a request to launch an audit into your billing department's strong arm tactics in collecting bills during the pandemic. This kind of tactic caused me $500 in lost time, job opportunities gone, and missed zoom meetings.

I would like to have some of that money reimbursed to me before I leave you all together.