Can Verizon explain the huge decrease in your customer service over the past several months? After being a Verizon customer for nearly 20 years, we are in the process of looking for an alternate service provider after spending a week with your customer service representatives trying to obtain a replacement settop box Model 6200.
After six hours of phone calls and a week of waiting, we now have a stack of three boxes sitting outside. The original that no longer powers up, the wrong unit that is obviously refurbished with huge scratches and grime all over it, and a new 7100.
The best thing Verizon seems to be able to do now is send a technician in another week with a 6200 on the truck. Obviously, our confidence in this is not very high.
During the process of calling in to Verizon every day this week, I have had the horrible experience of talking to your automated attendant who specifies that she/it has updates on my FIOS installation. When I follow the prompts to obtain more information, I hold for several minutes. Twice this week, your computers were down, so the reps simply hung up and said to call back.
Several of your customer service representatives were extremely nice and helpful but the bottomline is that after a week, I still don't have the correct piece of equipment. I also have your automated system telling me that I have two appointments in two weeks to send out technicians to install FIOS on one day and PHONE on another day. No one at Verizon can respond when I ask them what this is about.
Management seems to be non-existant or non-caring, and I'm not sure which is worse. Verizon representatives made the following statements that make it appear that Verizon has taken purposeful steps to make escalations of service problems by a customer impossible.
1. Supervisors cannot be reached by customers. They will call you back within 24-48 hours.
2. There is no headquarters phone number is not made available to customers because no one at Verizon executive offices will speak to a customer. This is a direct quote.
3. The headquarters telephone number listed by Verizon in any public forum is a voicemail box. (REALLY?????)
4. The legal/compliance number provided on your website forwards to customer service representatives who tell customers that they will look up the number on the same website that customers can. Which then transfers to the same customer service rep.
Verizon has made it apparent that customer that are treated poorly by the company are not taken seriously and that you will simply ask for "one more chance" to make it right in another three to five days and take the customers time for granted.
Amazingly, I can get through to pay a bill or order a new service in five minutes!
The type of experience you have had is exceedingly frustrating and one I try to avoid by going to a local store for simple box swaps. If you have a store convenient to your location, it is simply the easiest and least frustrating way to get a new box. And sometimes you can sweet talk a few freebies. Check to see if there is one nearby, and avoid the irritating lack of reponsiveness. Good luck.
That's one of the very reasons why I don't call 1-800-VERIZON unless I really have to because I too have been there with the runaround where it wastes so much time and nobody seems to know what they're doing but I've had other experiences with that call line which worked out better. Either way, I blame management. It's very disorganized and sometimes it's like asking for the impossible when you're making a very basic and reasonable request for something. My only other alternative available in my area is Comcast which wouldn't be very much different from what I have seen.
I haven't done this myself but as someone else here suggested, you might accomplish a lot more by exchanging your STB at a Verizon Fios TV store but please be sure to call first before venturing out. I know other people here have gotten this sort of problem resolved a lot quicker that way.
Here is the website for finding your nearest store. It might be worth the time even if you have to go a little out of your way. I often prefer to speak to someone in person:
Good luck!
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