Need to speak with customer service executive

Hello,
I just finished talking to customer service over the phone for 2 hours, and no results. So I am trying here.
Mid August I wanted to get nfl redzone, so I called customer service and they said I needed to upgrade my package. I was not interested in getting a new package, but the agent said it will end up costing less because he said I was paying too much before. So I agreed. My original Bill was $313.10 including verizon wireless. The bill for this month came to $374.14. So it did not come to less, but $61 more.
Today I called customer service to talk about what happen. After being on hold serveral times (around a hour total). The agent insisted it was Verizon Wireless that increased the bill and not fios. She said she will talk to Verizon Wireless with me. After being on hold for another 30 minutes, I believe she accidently (and I hope accidently) disconnected me and connected me directly to Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless did not have the solution (as it had nothing to do with them), and tried to connect me to Tech Support, also no solution. I asked for number to call to get the answer, and they gave me the original number, there was no way I was going to call that again. The process took around 2 hours.
After doing research on the bill, I believe I see where the problem is. Note, my bill is combined into one (Fios and Wireless).   The original guy I talked to in August said it would not cost anymore by upgrading the package.
My bill before the change in August looks like this:
Quad Play:                       150
     FIOS Voice                    30
   Fios TV                          50
     Internet                          20
     Wireless Share-700   50
Multi-room    53.99
Verizon Wireless              74.97
Total        278.96
My bill after change:
TriplePlay:                       129.99
     FIOS Voice                    30
   Fios TV                          64.99
     Internet                          35
Multi-room    53.99
Verizon Wirelss              124.97
Total        310.94
As you can see, the original guy said I would be paying less, but that was not the case.  And btw, not only was my monthly bill higher, I was charged another $20 for Partial month service change!!!
The problem is with a Fios increase, the wireless has always been 124, it was just separated in the original bill (50 and 74).
Anyway, I am very very very unhappy with how much time was wasted, and the fact that there was no solution, and the fact that my bill is higher, and the fact that I need to post here.          Can you please have an Executive customer service call me; otherwise, I think its time to move on.
Thanks

Your issue has been escalated to a Verizon agent. Please go to your profile page for the forum, and look in the middle, right at the top where you will find an area titled "My Support Cases". You can reach your profile page by clicking on your name beside your post, or at the top left of this page underneath the title of the board.
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So can you guess where I am with confidence that your customer service department is knowledgable about the plans/offers? Where I am that I can trust what I'm being told?
I know this email is confusing and really hard to understand...perhaps now you will know how i've been feeling--lost and confused with all the mis-information, with a hit and miss phone, and out of time with all the 1 1/2 hr to 2 hrs EACH wasted on this issue.
On top of all this, I can't even find out how to file a complaint with anyone higher up than Customer Service.

Jneklason wrote:
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I know this email is confusing and really hard to understand...perhaps now you will know how i've been feeling--lost and confused with all the mis-information, with a hit and miss phone, and out of time with all the 1 1/2 hr to 2 hrs EACH wasted on this issue.
On top of all this, I can't even find out how to file a complaint with anyone higher up than Customer Service.
I hate to tell you this, but you didn't write an email. You wrote a discussion post on the Verizon Wireless Community forum which is a public peer to peer forum. Unfortunately since you didn't mark your post as a question, the VZW reps that roam this community won't ever see your post. Before you re-post it, don't. Duplicate posts get removed from the community.
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LISTEN BT ITs now become a personal confrontational matter ( my landlord coming round)
ITS your problem your end GET it sorted.
If my only advice to anyone with BT
1GET account in your name same address if possible.
2. make sure BT know your mobile, and email addresses. double check each year when you renew contracts
3. WRITE EVERYTHING DOWN , name, time date who spoke to.
HERE COMES BIG COMPLAINTS LOOK OUT BT
also sent email to adam lee yesterday about this whole thing. Adam lee was who my landlord spoke to about the whole thing and so I think he deducted the wrong billing of my broadband to his account.
his email is ******* for any one else.
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when I check my online statements it shows all 3 accounts yet BT customer service say my broadband account has been disconnected?? DUHHHH im using it now !!
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Hi Hamish72
Thanks for comments
I totally agree as I run my own facebook custom fanpage design and webhosting so I know how customers what to be treated Key 1 I learnt is always listen and repeat back their question. and 2 solve the problem. 3 revert back to no: 1
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But wait... thats the second device. Every week I'm told The OTHER device is the one that works with this plan... then a few days later, no that other device is the one that works with the plan, a few days later... The OTHER DEVICE IS THE ONE THAT WORKS.. FFS. See a pattern? I've been directed by Verizon to replace my device 3 times, at $100+ per device plus the $10 sim card, plus the 5 hours on the phone with them every few days. I'd say there's an issue with customer service. First, yes it IS possible there is an issue on YOUR end. I'm pretty sure that having to buy a new device every time I call isn't really the best answer. Second, for the extremely limited amount of data I can't afford to watch a video for fear of capping my data before the end of the 30 days because its 10gig of data. Yeah, 2 whole movies worth! Third, its possible to be wrong, yet Verizon has never, not one single time chose to check their end. ALWAYS and ONLY my end. I don't find that surprising or ironic, I find it the most ignorant and worst customer service in existence only second to Virgin Mobile. Virgin mobile did finally acknowledge the issue was in the broken tower nearby. It took them 6 months and yes... 100's of hours on the phone. Verizon hasn't made any effort to accept responsibility for this issue. I'm sure they are very sincere when they are consuming my 5 hours per phone call trouble shooting my device for the third time this week. It's actually to the point where they have violated their terms of service and failed to look into an issue on their end. The tower has been hit. Hmmm... Ironic. Its quite a distance from here, but is a main tower that has caused an outage across my state. Verizon couldnt tell me that? Is that admitting your wrong so hard to do that it's easier to spend 5 hours on the phone trouble shooting my device than 5 mins looking for outages? Yeah, it could have saved my house and job, but I'm the customer... clueless idiot at the mercy of a company who is never wrong nor makes an effort to correct an issue on their end before stealing my hours from me. At one point, I actually fell asleep in my 2nd hour on hold. Customer service? Nope, a waste. I could dig it if this issue was on my end, but I'm confident that spending up to 20 hours a week troubleshooting to no avail is a HUGE red flag that its not on my end after all. Only cost me a house, a job, car and $18k plus court costs and fees. Fair? Nope. But it would be nice if just ONCE there was an initiative to provide actual support to a customer. I KNOW if this is my experience it is impossible to be an isolated incident with me alone. If I'm tying up 5 hours on the phone, what is the next guy doing? waiting to trouble shoot his box for the next 5 hours over a downed tower. Pride is what that is. People too proud to be wrong at someone else's expense. Definitely an issue if I've paid $900 in 9 months and I spent more hours on the phone with customer service than I have online. Pretty ******. Verizon, you ARE WRONG. Owning it would save the embarrassment of having to ***** about it on this site. I didnt' deserve my losses and it was at my expense and it is STILL at my expense that I'm having to contact that 888-294-6804 number. I've got it memorized like it was my best friends number - that's how often and how many times i've used it. Shame how simple it would be if Verizon wasn't so ******* proud and spent a few moments looking for issues on their end before stealing 5 hours from me doing the obvious over and over and over again... Small claims can be used to sue up to $3k. Looks like that's my only alternative, perhaps if I do that maybe checking for issues on their end will occur instead of pretending its impossible. It feels like I went to mcd's and paid for a meal at the window that took 5 hours to get a bag of raw patties thrown at me from inside after sitting at the window for 5 hours and waiting. I'm wrong of course. I'm am the customer. How could I possibly be right? I've troubleshooted my device over 1000 times. Of course its on my end. Must be.... 1000 times isn't enough to find out there's a potential issue that isn't related to my specific device, no? Is it gonna take 1000 more hours on the phone before one of the representatives decide to look for an outage before the 5 hours of daily trouble shooting? Thats a huge red flag that just keeps getting ignored. I can't think of any other companies besides these two internet providers that finds that acceptable. Better Business Bureau didn't. I'll be filing that complaint with them next. High time Verizon stepped off such a prideful pedestal and seek a remedy before a class action suit sinks them in the future from all other raging bitches not being provided with reasonable service. It's not a rant, this has been a life shattering experience for me and a simple quick check for an issue on their end could have prevented it. BAD BAD BAD Customer service policies to keep a customer on the phone for that length of time to repetitiously check the exact same thing repeatedly every few days. Disgusted. How dare that term "service" even be used if they can't provide "service" via support or otherwise. I'm on the internet finally after 10 hours and the news reported the Verizon tower down. Not verizon... A police officer interviewed on a Detroit News station instead. God knows police have nothing better to do in Detroit than make news appearances for verizon.

Simple solution. Get a real internet service and not a cell phone internet connection service it was never meant to be used as the primary internet service
And how do you lose a home and job and be sued as you claim. What over 10 Gb of data? Give me a break
In my city small claims is $5000.00
And over that amount you can go to a superior court to have your issue settled.
http://www.bbb.org
Good Luck, Elector

I have "chatted" with customer service 5 different times. I was sent here. I have activated Photoshop Elements 9 on two different iMacs. They are both dead and I am unable to get it to activate on my newest computer. iMac. Can anybody help me?

I have "chatted" with customer service 5 different times. I was sent here. I have activated Photoshop Elements 9 on two different iMacs. They are both dead and I am unable to get it to activate on my newest computer. iMac. Can anybody help me?

Unfortunately, only adobe can help you with that, as most people here are just posters such as your self and don't work for adobe.
If you go here and use the Chat now button (bottom of page), they should get you up and running by resetting your activations.
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-deactivation-products.html

Installed my Photoshop Elements 7 on my new laptop. Says my serial number is invalid. Chatted with customer service rep and she says the number should work. What now?

Installed my Photoshop Elements 7 on my new laptop. Says my serial number is invalid. Chatted with customer service rep and she says the number should work. What now?

Hi,
Did the serial number come from a boxed set and previously installed from disc and are you now trying to install from a download?
If so, that will not work - the serial numbers are different.
If you don't have a dvd drive on your new system, perhaps you could get someone to copy your disc to a memory stick and install from that.
Brian

What is up with customer service lately???

Apple is the product of choice in my household and has been for many years. I work on a MAC, have two Iphones, several Ipods, two original Ipads and recently brought an Ipad2 for my youngest child. I have not even had the product for a month when this occurs: My child was working on the Ipad2 and went to pass it to his brother who was on the coach next to him. It slipped out of their hands and fell less than 12 inches to the floor. Before I could get to the Ipad my youngest son picks it up and cuts his finger open on the glass. The Ipad2 was cracked in the bottom corner and the glass shattered into tiny pieces. I put the Ipad away.
I call up Apple and explain my situation. I get the most ridiculous response from a supervisor. She claims that she can not help because when the repairs department opens a box that is sent in and see a broken screen they will automatically look in the system for a credit card number. They want $269 to fix it. As if there is no way she can over ride this.
For a company that is supposed to be so great with customer service they seem to not care so much about customer safety. How do you promote a product and say that it is so great for people of all ages. Yet not take into account that your product is composed of a highly breakable substance like glass and may have accidental damage. You promote apps for young children to use with your products yet when they get injured using your product you are of no help. I would really like some resolution to this situation. I have never had any problems with your products and have always praised your customer service very highly. This time around I was extremely disappointed. Please help reinstate the faith I have had in Apple for a long time.

9of13 wrote:
..............The other is an everyday tool for living and entertainment. Apple tells us to let our children play games on it, stuff it in our backpack like a book, toss it on the couch like a magazine, fall asleep with it while watching videos, .........
You really have to read what you write before clicking on "Add Reply".
Apple does not tell you to let your children play games on it; there is no ad content featuring diaper clad toddlers stumbling around on your elegant wood flooring carrying your iPad. In fact, these forums are filled with horror stories of people who have done just that.
Apple has not recommended that you just stuff it into your backpacks or your briefcases and then casrelessly, casually toss those items around as you seem to think is the normal way to use them. In fact, these forums are filled with horror stories of people who have done just that.
Apple does not recommend that you toss it around like a magazine, which most sentient beings would recognize as being in many ways different from a sophisticated manufactured item. In fact, these forums are filled with horror stories of people who have done just that.
Apple does not recommend that you fall asleep with it while watching videos, or watch videos with it propped up on the edge of the tub, or anything of the sort. In fact, these forums are filled with horror stories of people who have done just that.
Bottom line is you made a judgement call in allowing unsupervised young children access to an expensive piece of hardware that they, through carelessness, inattention, lack of coordination, whatever the reason ..... broke.
No new life lessons there, I think.

Need to speak with customer service executive

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