What to do when being wrongly charged for equipment
lilburra
Enthusiast - Level 1

I hope this isn't breaking any forum rules or anything by posting but I'm having a huge problem with Verizon lately. When I moved out of my apartment in July I cancelled my FiOS service. I was in the middle of getting some boxes (to return the equipment) sent to my new address by the representative I was talking to and then as she's doing it she says to me something along the lines of... "Oh, it says here that you leave the equipment there." I thought it was odd but there was already some kind of verizon thing in the building when I moved in and she was the representative so I didn't question it. I leave it there and I move out. I start getting calls from Verizon asking me to pay my bill. I'm confused because... I don't have verizon service anymore. I look and they're charging me for the equipment! :(. At this time I talk to a representative over the chat on Verizon.com and she says she'll put in a request to have the charges removed. Great!!! I stopped getting calls.

It's January now and I've been thinking about getting service at this new address (my mom's place). When I login, the charge is still there for unreturned equipment. I tried calling Verizon but I can't get a hold of any representative to help me with this because apparently my account has been sent to collections. What the heck am I supposed to do about this? I don't plan on paying for a mistake that a representative made. Does anyone know a better way to contact someone useful?

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Re: What to do when being wrongly charged for equipment
jonjones1
Legend

Unfortunately this is a common thing with Fios and wireless in that representatives will tell you anything even if it wrong.

too late now but in the future return all equipment to a physical Verizon Fios location. You can find one via google.

you have a worse problem other than non returned equipment in that collections results in a ding on all three (actually 4) credit bureaus which negative marks results in lower credit score and it stays on for 7 years. 

Couple that with Fios will claim they never said that results in you having to pay them for the equipment.

You could file a complaint with your states attorney generals office or states public utilities commission which may be able to assist you.

Re: What to do when being wrongly charged for equipment
kh-gary
Moderator Emeritus

Hi lilburra,

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Re: What to do when being wrongly charged for equipment
lilburra
Enthusiast - Level 1

I haven't seen anything on my credit report yet, but that sucks :(. I'll be contacting someone else if Verizon refuses to clear the charge. There's no way I'm paying for this haha.

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Re: What to do when being wrongly charged for equipment
jonjones1
Legend

@lilburra wrote:

I haven't seen anything on my credit report yet, but that sucks :(. I'll be contacting someone else if Verizon refuses to clear the charge. There's no way I'm paying for this haha.


Best of luck to you 😀

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