RIDICULOUS charge for Verizon TV Restoral Fee
hakoreh7
Newbie

It's $50 for a TV restoral???

Are they crazy??

Not only that but I ALWAYS pay on time and I missed ONE payment and the customer service dept could not credit me. 

What the $#%#%????

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TheTekAssassin

Verizon is CROOKS!!

Charging $50.00 to hard working folks like money grows on tree's.

$50.00 for a computer to reactivate your service.. No labor at all involved should be illegal..Greedy!!

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jonjones1
Legend

@TheTekAssassinwrote:

Verizon is CROOKS!!

Charging $50.00 to hard working folks like money grows on tree's.

$50.00 for a computer to reactivate your service.. No labor at all involved should be illegal..Greedy!!


That really makes neither here nor there. It is what a customer agrees to when getting services. If you don’t pay your power and gas bill you get shut off. They don’t turn it back on until you pay it, or make payment arraignments. It’s not verizons fault you have or took a service you cannot afford. 

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Hayesluc
Newbie

I agree.  Verizon is costly and insensitive to its customers.  I had a similar experience this morning (April 10, 2018).   Verizon is too costly and is always trying to sell new plans or ideas to its customers.  Do they care about how Verizon impacts its customers with negative behaviors and decisions?  I have to pay past dues in order to keep my service and can never pay the total bill.  I would go to a different company with justifiable fees and drop Verizon that does offer quality programs but charge ioutrageous prices.

Just this morning, a {edited for privacy} in Collections, said that she did not see in my account what a previous employee said she put in on March 14 to waive the restoral fee.  I asked her why couldn't she waive it and she said it is company policy.  We know that this is extra money for Verizon to keep whentheynever give customers a break. I have been a customer for 20+ years but never get any recognition for being with them so long.   Verizon is worst today than ever!!!

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jonjones1
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@Hayeslucwrote:

I agree.  Verizon is costly and insensitive to its customers.  I had a similar experience this morning (April 10, 2018).   Verizon is too costly and is always trying to sell new plans or ideas to its customers.  Do they care about how Verizon impacts its customers with negative behaviors and decisions?  I have to pay past dues in order to keep my service and can never pay the total bill.  I would go to a different company with justifiable fees and drop Verizon that does offer quality programs but charge ioutrageous prices.

Just this morning, a {edited for privacy} in Collections, said that she did not see in my account what a previous employee said she put in on March 14 to waive the restoral fee.  I asked her why couldn't she waive it and she said it is company policy.  We know that this is extra money for Verizon to keep whentheynever give customers a break. I have been a customer for 20+ years but never get any recognition for being with them so long.   Verizon is worst today than ever!!!


I hate seeing posts like this, but in any company you have business dealings with there are consequences. If you cannot afford Fios services and be able to pay on time every time then you cannot complain when fees are accessed.

now if you did pay your invoice on time and then were accessed a fee I can understand the anger at the situation. 

I keep reading how bad Verizon is and how the customer who gets turned off for not paying their monthly invoice is now going to another service. Going to another service is not going to help. The other service will want their money for services rendered.

any company would have taken the same stance.

loyality means absolutely nothing. You are paying for services rendered. If you don’t pay for those services you get shut off. In the same right if the service is too high then shop around for cheaper services.

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verizona
Newbie

The issue here is not about the late fee being charged...it is $50 restoral fee... there is always a grace period for paying your bill, the late fee should be reasonable...it cannot be 50% of your monthly bill....ridiculous !!!

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jonjones1
Legend

@verizonawrote:

The issue here is not about the late fee being charged...it is $50 restoral fee... there is always a grace period for paying your bill, the late fee should be reasonable...it cannot be 50% of your monthly bill....ridiculous !!!


Again it simply comes down to the terms you agreed to on getting the service.

yes things happen and it can be put off a bill to cover something more important than tv or internet. 

However when you make the choice factor in what the consequences may be.

yep late fees, then a restoration fee to turn service back on. You should not expect a company to let it slide since it can happen again and again. So before the invoice gets too out of control it is nipped in the bud quickly. Saves the company from going after the consumer, and saves the consumer from getting in too deep for yet another debt.

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Boo41
Newbie

The gas and electric companies charge you a reconnect fee because they actually need to pay a service rep who makes $45 an hour to physically reconnect service. Verizon just hits a button and likely costs them very little.

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Techie29
Newbie

I have been charged for $50 for restoring the services. When i asked them what steps were done to restore that justify this $50 and Verizon customer service told me that their tech has to go to the central office to re-attach the fibre cables. This can't be done in few seconds, this is ridiculous..

Although now i have decided to terminate verizon soon and would not suggest Verizon to anybody as they are fooling around people with these kinds of unjustified hidden charges.

I would like if someone responsible from Verizon reading these comments can give me tasks that were performed to resume my services with time stamps that justify the $50 charge or evidence of tech going to the central office with speed of light to re-attach the fibres .... (Even if they are paging someone in central offices can't be done in few seconds--- They say it will take 1 hour to resume but services will get resume within seconds)

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jonjones1
Legend

@Boo4 wrote:

The gas and electric companies charge you a reconnect fee because they actually need to pay a service rep who makes $45 an hour to physically reconnect service. Verizon just hits a button and likely costs them very little.


However that is neither here nor there. Yes gas & electric may need to send a person out. Verizon may just flip a switch. In both cases the bill was not paid. Not paying the invoice is a breach of the customers agreement with the company. So if they charge $50 or any other sum to restore it you pay it. The other two solutions are to pay the invoices on time or go elsewhere.

by the way no company is going to let customers just not pay the invoices without consequences. Think....

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