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Time Warner Cable of GSO, NC Totally Incompetent
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GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA -- I would really like everyone to just read the review and comment on the service and tech work. I have lost thousands of dollars here for a -17 signal. And I just found out that the previous owner had to have a AMP/Boost box attached here to get the service working, and that was installed by TWC. When they moved they took the AMP/Booster box with them I did not know this. All TWC did was push a button and switch my service to a new house, never once coming out here to check to see if my equipment was correct or that I had the correct equipment to run the services that were promised to me in a BINDING CONTRACT that I fulfilled but they did not!

I had more services than the previous owner so I would think that I needed a AMP/Booster also but I am not a TECH so I had no clue except for what they would tell me on the phone and you know how that goes. I talked to the previous owner a few days ago while I am putting this all together for the BBB and found out about the AMP/Booster. My god TWC should have come out here and hooked up my service instead of flipping a switch at their office and calling it done. So when I called TWC finally about this they would say went cannot monitor all of their customers?!?!?!?! I found that hard to swallow.

If TWC are going to run a monopoly and pronounce themselves as the premier Cable/Phone/Internet service company then by god they should produce. Who ever made the comment about nothing being perfect, you are right nothing is but I at least expect service on time and not having to call them over 100 times in a few months because they won't even bother to figure this out. I am in the service industry myself and never ever would do this to a customer.

I have cakes, cookies, tips, etc waiting for me when I go to a service, not screaming customers because I promised something I couldn't/wouldn't deliver. I have even been threatened by them and hung up on. Is that the way to treat a customer that is paying on time and fulfilling their contract? Do I not have the right to say something when I am being stolen from? I have no problem paying my bills, but I refuse to pay for something that I am not receiving in full. Go to ** and check out one of the videos I took from my TV and tell me if you want to pay for that.

I was under contract or I would have changed services in a heartbeat for this. But that's the cowards way out and it lets them get away with even more, well I say no more and I do not like to be stolen from or lied to. The only way to stop this is for people to band together and agree on what we can do about it. All I see are a bunch of people too scared to take on the status quo.

They should not tell us what to do, we allow them into our cities and towns when they promise stuff and then some of us get shafted. Well why don't we all go back to writing bad checks and crap again then it would be the same. (A bunch of pissed off people owing something to someone else) is that really where we are headed again? Whatever happened to standing up for what is right? When did people lose their backbones? I have still got mine and it will always be here so take your best shot TWC or any other company that's trying to steal out of our pockets, someone will find out and hopefully will make a stand against you also.

TWC flat out lied on their BBB response to the complaint and I have over 40 incriminating things that will put those chumps at TWC looking like the biggest liars in NC. I'll link em all every where if I have to for people to see. People might say enough is enough but that's only the people who don't want to hear or see the REALITY of it or life in general.

They now have me down as a complaining customer that they are trying to make happy lol, whereas I have the videos of them cutting my line 6 times in the snow and some not in the snow and cutting my neighbors lines because they sent no locators until 4th dig and so on. Complaining customer? HELL YES!! Your digging up 480 of my yard before Christmas and killing my neighbors lines + phone that runs a daycare so she's mad because she cannot get calls from the parents so she is losing money also.

None of that is mentioned in their report just that there was no problem with my service? (I'm Confused) They told me if I didn't call they would not know there was a problem because they cannot monitor everyone of their customers but at the same time when I do start calling I am now a complaining customer? If that doesn't sound like a scam to you all then I must be crazy.

So please read this review and comment about it please lol. I will post a different review about blue eyes OK that we can all get on :P. I'll be adding more. This has been going on for 2 years and 7 months now. Oh and btw my service was finally restored just 2 weeks ago and I already owe my first bill in the next 7 days lol. Ahh life. Come on people are you with me?

3-1-11 There must be accountability for actions taken by these large companies, and if we do not voice it how are others to know? Btw thank you for some of those comments :P lol, and also the people who actually did read it and commented on it. I am trying to replace the pic with a pic of just one of my service issues. Thank you. As of today I am waiting on the response from the BBB and TWC, then I will go from there. But one thing in this world I will not stand is lying, it will come back to get you every time! And they are caught. And I do not blame TWC for my accident, I am just stating what has happened to me and the reason I did not notice how bad the problem was.

My problem with TWC started on Nov 1st 2008 when I moved into my new home. It is 480 feet off the road and TWC installed 560 of cable, (which was already on the ground when I moved in) even after telling me that 400 feet of cable was hard to get a signal through and the still didn't cut it. (If it's too far then why give me service? Or why leave so much extra cable for the signal to have to run through? There is a TWC junction box that can fit 10 people in it beside my house about 75 yards away..)

I went by what they had said/done after all they are supposed to be the professionals. I was paying $166.00 for a service and expected nothing more than what they said they could give. I made multiple calls to TWC after moving in because my signal was bad and they would just say they were working in the area or they would refresh my boxes, which seemed to help for periods of time. But I live alone and rarely used more than one service at a time. So I really never noticed a problem just glitches and things when the phone would ring or if I was uploading an upgrade for a game or something the phone would cut off every few min even down to every few seconds.

In June of 2009 just 6 1/2 months of living here I was hit from behind in my truck while I was working by someone on their cell phone. I sustained many injuries and the worst one was to my head. I could no longer watch a regular TV (Any models that had slow framing) any more because for some reason I could see the frame works flashing down and it would make me pass out. I was in 3 times a day therapy and having head injections through my forehead and temples and soft spot and such it hurt so bad.

When I would get home all I wanted to do was cry and sit in the dark. My TV of course was an old one so I did not watch TV/Internet again until May 2010. That was when for a present I was given a 46" LCD TV. I was so happy that I could finally catch up on my shows lol. I even went and got the HD box and everything, soon as its all installed and ready to go "BOOM" half picture, words blurring together. I have plenty of videos, audios and such that they won't even look at.

So I started calling them to get it fixed and also my Pricelock guarantee that they would not honor even though I had fulfilled my part of the contract and they were the ones who mailed it to me. It took them 2 weeks and still could not figure out how to bill me even though I'm standing there with a paper in my hand, that they should be able to print off since they sent it to me. I had to finally step up and say hey since you can't figure it out.

"Managers" just throw me on the 33,33,33 deal on the TV right now and they did in just less that 30 min probably (WoW). They started to work on my house and found that I was receiving a -17 signal coming into my house. Now for anyone out there I really don't want to pay 166 bucks a month for a -17 signal when I'm supposed to have super turbo boost. The wire running to my house was no bigger than a pencil and the New Ones (x) 6 were all bigger than 2 or 3 fingers put together. That's when they started cutting the lines of the 2 house's in front of me.

So they would come out to fix their lines and cut mine then fix mine and cut theirs again this happened 6 times over 6 months right at Christmas too. I have lost over 2000 dollars on my pay check due to having to be off days for them to be here and the 5 hours they were here the day after Thanksgiving on a Sunday when I wanted to be at church. And especially the days where they don't show up and when you call in they want you to take another day off work.

How am I supposed to pay the bill if I cannot work because TWC is at my house all the time it just doesn't make any sense. They dug 3 times before they ever sent out a locator and when one finally showed up they painted their marks on top of the snow.

One question kept popping up from them and it was "How can we make you happy and fix this". I could not believe what I was hearing. How can they not know how to fix the problem they created. Honor your contract you sent to me that was underlined "you don't have to do a thing" and yes they used slang I could not believe it. In a business like theirs they should be a little more careful wording with their contracts. And second give me the correct equipment and such to run the service that I am paying for is that too much to ask? BUT!!!!!!! All I have gotten is the run around, threatened, hung up on, and called names, and a few other things.

Sure I could give up like a lot of people and just say blah I'll go with another company, but the reality of the matter is, is that I honored my contract with TWC and did not receive my proper service (To me that is stealing my money). They did not know I had a video every time they were working at my house, even when they were inside my house the cameras were rolling ^^.

(2nd) One of the people from TWC that is handling the BBB complaint hung up on me tonight (I have it all recorded). This is after a call from the same department the day before on a wrong number. They have been given the number 40 times or more to call instead of the one they did and I have personally witnessed them put the number in as the prime number to call and they still don't so that is total harassment, but I still talked with them and they said they would not honor the terms I was asked to give them from the BBB so I am going to rebut their claims.

They say they did not cut or disrupt my neighbors lines and such which were also credited on their bills and the horrible landscaping now will prove otherwise lol. They say there was nothing wrong with my service even when one of the managers was here and saw the TV box rebooting every 8 minutes, but on their report they have they stated they removed my Radio Shack wires I had put in. This is after they had been here numerous times and had installed the wires themselves.

I had the bag and receipt from the HD box I had received from them and the wires laid out on my couch and everything ready for the tech to fix my problem and the tech came without any of the equipment that was listed on the work order. The response from the tech while I was on the phone with TWC customer service he would not call and they would not call the tech was "Where am I going to get new boxes on Sunday".

In the middle of a conversation with the tech about my service the tech's personal phone rang and the tech answered it while I was in mid sentence and walked out of the house for 22 min 12 sec then the tech brought up a beat up HD cable box (all the tech had in the van) and hooked it up to my TV in the bedroom where I don't even watch TV. This is the same tech that registered my -17 signal and had the new wire scheduled to be installed.

I was told tonight by the person from TWC handling the BBB complaint that I was a complaining customer they were just giving me new stuff to make me happy and there was nothing wrong with my service -- My service was finally almost fully restored on this last Sunday 2-20-11. I have been credited from the top people in TWC over this area and if that doesn't say something I don't know what does around 500 dollars so far but I have not had regular service for 6 months so why was I receiving past due bills even though I had completed my renewal contract and they were working on my service?

I have given you half of the story so far I have videos, audios and recording from them and they are still denying it all. Someone dropped the ball and they just kept on kicking it I guess, and now they think they can just sweep me under the rug? Well they have never met the likes of me before, I have my will and respect to stand on and a voice that can be heard. I have been called a liar, cussed at, threatened and said I had threatened, put on hold while they went to lunch and when they got back I was still there and they would hang up. I have been told that I am the cause of the -17 signal lol, plus much more. (NO MORE!)

We allow them to be here and we can just as easily as a majority kick them out. After all look how long it took us to agree on the new FedX Hub ^^. I say treat us like people again and not numbers and maybe we will begin building trust in TWC again. Thank you for reading my post I have plenty more information and will be adding it tomorrow. This is enough for tonight they have already taken up 2 years and 6 months of my life. I refuse to give them more than this tonight.

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Making Promises They Can't Keep
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Rating: 1/51

HENDERSON, KENTUCKY -- Where do I start. Let's see, I called and set up a date on which to receive service. The woman states that I'll receive a 3 room hook up, DVR in only 2 - no problem, fastest internet around (Yeah I'm sure) - and home phone. She goes on to give me my total: $143 etc change. Which isn't bad. I go on to ask if there's a hook up free, she replies "No". I ask one final time. "How much will it all cost because I need to put it on a credit card? Because I only deal with cash." She replies "$143". She goes on to tell me that I need to call a said number to make sure they'll come out on a certain date, which was set for a week later, Monday I believe.

So I call, leave a voice mail. No return call. Couple days pass. I retry, voicemail, no return call. Monday arrives. No one shows up. So I call TWC. They proceed by telling me that because I didn't call to verify the hook up date that they cancelled it out - wow. I tried to explain but they weren't willing to listen.

Then they say "We can come out on set date." Which is fine I guess. I went on to tell them that I already have the $143 on my credit card, "Can I go ahead and pay?" The woman then goes on to tell me that amount is invalid. That the total cost is $250. "What?!? Why?" She goes on to say because I let it cancel out it's a $50 charge. There's a $29 hook up fee for each room (3). Are you serious?

It's ridiculous, I'm a hardworking single father of 3 children and I'm being taken advantage of. There isn't any other company that offers service in my area. So I ran all the way back to (*** Mart) put the money on my card. Come home, call back, tell them my situation and the guy goes on to tell me that since I ended the call with the woman, that it cancelled out our verbal contract. Do what?!? It's ridiculous. Time Warner Cable are so unprofessional. I'm so upset, I can't even think straight. Someone is ALWAYS trying to con someone. And today it was TWC.

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Cable Service Over Charges - Poor Service - No Cable - Disconnect Services
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Rating: 1/51

ALBANY,NY, NEW YORK -- I have net and tv service and had been overcharged after over and over complaints. No refund, net never worked. Cheating... lies... discriminated by tech and billing staffs. Charged extra since last 15 years and when caught they will not pay more than 1 month. What?? For 15 years stoled money and refund for last 1 month?? Wow...net never worked. When you order 15mb net and you get lucky 1mb. They never tries. Spent at least 7 hours in just last month alone -- total spent many months in last 15 years. They lies all the time, cheats, discriminate, rude treatment - hangup - never fulfill service. No speeds... overcharges.

I ask anyone and everyone to call CNBC and Bloomberg TV (google the number) and tell them how poor service they give and over charges. If you have option then go somewhere. Definitely no business with them. I will be writing all letters to brokerages on Wall Street. I ask all to do this. Call Mad Money to Jim Cramer and David Faber etc. Do not rest until you do them. I am hoping that will work.

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Awful
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Rating: 1/51

FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA -- Your service here is awful!!! A technician left me a note on the door telling me I missed my appointment AFTER I answered the phone and AFTER I waved at him. He did not bother to even tell me he was leaving. I thought he was fixing something outside. This is after 5 months of having a DVR that did not record, all while l was paying $270.00 per month for "Signature Home". The solution within this 5 month period: a broken box, a box that the supervisor told me to turn off every time that I wanted to delete something.

Finally, I get the enhanced or hydra box. I am very happy. BUT now my cable bill is $600.00!! After two phone calls, my bill is fixed. I will pay the extra $30.00 to keep the enhanced or hydra box. BUT in order to keep the special rate, the repairman was suppose to come out and switch out a box so that I would have two recorders and a Signature Home which led to today's fun and games. $270 to $300 per month for this type of service!!! This is the home of Fort Bragg, one of the largest military populations. We deserve so much better!!!

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Cable TV / Internet
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Rating: 1/51

WISCONSIN -- Time Wasting Cable = Time Warner Cable. There are thousands of complaints just like mine. I will not bore you with the same details. Bad, overpriced service, you've read or heard them already. Do you know why cable companies are so bad? No free market! No choices = poor service high prices and poor quality of programming. If you're in a large enough city you may have 2 choices for Internet, cable or DSL, that translates as poor and poorer or just good enough and ok for email service (DSL).

In Europe they have better, faster and cheaper internet. They in many places have high speed fiber. They had vision they looked forward. We have creed, cronyism. The last time we had that kind of vision we built one of the best interstate highways in the world and for the same reason they are falling apart too! The internet is at the point that it is almost a necessity. Do you really want a company like Time Warner Cable / Comcast or any other cable company, to control what you see and read and here with out choices!

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Ripping Consumers Off
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Rating: 1/51

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- On Nov, 20013 I ordered 3 digital converter boxes. My first month bill should have been approx. $62.00 instead it was over $170. They gave me regular boxes and added on basic and standard services etc. That was the first clue that I should have discontinue their services. I stopped the cable service two months before the year was up. They refused to return my $50.00 that I paid to open the account. I will take Time Warner Cable to court and I hope others will do the same. Let me add that a friend of mine who is a senior citizen said they added both basic and standard service to her bill.

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This Is America. We Speak English.
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Rating: 1/51

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI -- On the third call to Time Warner Cable, I was canceling my account because I was tired of losing TV programs speaking Spanish. In Kansas City, I wanted to watch my Royals team play American Baseball in the World Series in ENGLISH. No, Spanish only. Two previous calls only got me an excuse that the signal was not coming through TWC and there was nothing they could do about it. On my call to cancel, they quickly figured out that it was a code that could be changed on my account for English speaking programs. Too little, too late.

Five days after canceling my account, I receive a bill for the next half month. Since I cancelled my account the day before the next month renewal cutoff, this was just a tack - on bill to see if I would pay it. I called, and they cancelled the bill. Five days later I get another bill for another 15 days, now billing me into December, and this is still October. I called, they cancelled the bill. What does it take for these people to stop billing me? I now have a beautiful picture with an antenna, and couldn't be happier to watch FREE TV.

By the way, I'm using my cell phone as a hotspot for my internet service on my laptop. 4G LTE is much faster than my cable! A much overlooked option that saves a lot of money too. Stop double paying for Internet on your phone and at home.

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Horrible
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Rating: 1/51

GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA -- We called and we're quoted one price and when the technicians came out they didn't have our DVR box that was supposed to come with the package and we're told if we wanted it that it would an additional $13 a month and I was signed up for the lowest Internet package when I specifically ask for the turbo package!! I called the provider and was told there was nothing they could do.

I called back and talked to a supervisor who also tried to tell me that I'd just have to pay the price. We finally settled on a price that was $5 more than what I started with!! The worst experience epically seeing how this is the only provider in our area and my daughter has to have in internet for college. Now I remember why I turned all their stuff off years ago.

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Do Not Use Them! Go To Dish Or DirecTV Or AT&T
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Rating: 1/51

I have had insight cable for 3 whole years!!!!! I am billed 130.00 per month and pay each month on time never once being disconnected. Well all of a sudden TWC takes over insight and raises my bill 55.00 a month. So now my bill is 180.00 per month!!!!! Outrageous!!!!! I am not paying it and I am taking my business elsewhere!

Do not choose TWC! They will rob you. I also know someone who works there and they said that TWC only cares about their existing customers not the new ones like me who had insight and now has TWC because insight was bought out. Something needs to be done about this!!!!!!!! TWC will not get another dime from me!

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Makes you Stressed!!!! Worst Co.
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Rating: 1/51

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK -- I wanted a home phone and thought about getting cable. I already had High Speed Internet so I considered a bundle. First of all, these old HD DVR Scientific Atlantic boxes are the terrible. Mine freezes every single night I go to watch TV. It's annoying and I figure I spend an hour or more a week total trying to get this damn thing to do what it's supposed to do with no problem-but nope, it's always a problem. Already switched a box and have had people look at the lines and every thing was said to be okay-but it wasn't, obviously.

I was promised a newer Samsung HD DVR box but now I'm told they're in high demand but have few to offer. So why was I told I could get one when I signed up? They lied to me from the start and I should have known right there I was getting into a company that doesn't care about their customers but themselves. Making it even worst, as soon as I had service, I noticed right off the bat that I was experiencing the problems I've continue to have today. They supposedly give you 30 days warranty and I should have taken that advantage when I could have.

They charge you a month ahead and so in no time your bill is past due-and I'm suddenly in the hole paying my bills because of Time Warner tacking on 20 plus dollars a month because of being late when technically I'm not late but am by their standards. They say they can work with you on a payment plan but that's ** because when I asked the guy about the plan he said the "plan" is paying the minimum... lol What a LOAD OF **!!!

This is a racket and it's wrong how they're treating people. I can't even cancel services because I can't get anyone on the phone! I just called and now they're saying that there's an unusual wait time so fine, I'll wait it out while on speaker phone.. Four days ago I spent an hour on the phone for nothing - I got hung up on! I want cable but can't deal with this headaches anymore.

I'm so stressed out over this. Just as I catch up and pay the damn bill, I'm already past due from the new month. With Dish Network, I never had these issues, their equipment was wonderful and I was extremely happy with service but decided to try TWC since I already had their High Speed & getting a land line. Biggest mistake I made.

A word of advice, you want Cable-do not go to Time Warner! Go to Dish Network instead! I'm still looking into all these charges I'm paying. My bill started at 154 a month and now I'm trying to figure out why it's been 168 a month (before late fees). Don't do it. They make it easy, you call them up-they're kind but after they got you, you'll not experience any pleasantry after wards. Good luck, wish me lots of it because I'm going to need it.. (still waiting for an operator by the way and I've even walked away for 15 minutes for coffee and to make a sandwich!!!!)

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