America Online Consumer Reviews - Page 6

I thought I had cancelled my AOL account via phone after my computer died. Imagine my surprise at receiving a bill for 25.90 after cancelling my debit card. I mailed, to the address on the bill, a letter stating this account was cancelled. I now just got a bill for 103.60. I spoke to AOL to get the 103.90 reversed, they agree, I have not used my account in six months but I still owe the money. They settled for half (which I paid to save my credit as they said they would be reporting this bill). After being an AOL member for six years This is how you are treated!!

Their customer service people were rude and when I get a new computer, AOL will not be my provider, stay away from AOL!!! It was my error in not getting a confirmation number but for customer relations, you would think they would have helped me.

STERLING, VIRGINIA -- AOL has backdated one month of my yearly internet service I pay by the year. I have been on AOL since Dec 10, 1996 and every year after that I am due to pay for another year. Last year they went and billed my credit card one month sooner, which actually had me paying two months to them, double charging me.

I wrote the AOL main office last Nov. 2007 and got not response. I wrote them again recently to AOL headquarters in Virginia and even to the CEO of their parent company of Timer Warner. So here it is, over two weeks later and no response from either of what I call deadbeat companies. They would rather lose a customer of 12 years than to correct a billing error.

You cannot call anyone since it looks like they outsourced the customer service to a foreign country since I guess most of us can't understand them. So I talk to some idiots on the live help and they cannot pull up the records they tell me and its like talking to a stone wall. No wonder AOL is losing long time customers. They don't care. My next step is to contact the Federal Trade Commission and the Virginia State Attorney offices. At least I will get some satisfaction of them having to respond to them. I suggest using any other internet provider other than AOL.

CALIFORNIA -- Last year, I converted my broadband service and e-mail service to Comcast. After a couple of phone calls and two letters to AOL's customer service, I have been unable to terminate my e-mail account with them. This has gone on for the last six months. Each month they bill my credit card and they returned my letters instructing them to terminate the account without even bothering to open them. Trying to find a phone number or e-mail address to communicate with them is an impossibility.

America On Line is ripping off its customers by hiding from them and submitting bogus invoices to credit card companies. If you subscribe to them, don't use a credit card - this forces them to bill you direct so that they can't collect money from you without your consent. If you are having the same problem I've described, contact your credit card company and insist that they treat AOL's future bills as a disputed account billing.

I signed up for AOL in early Feb. of '08 (dial-up) for only 2 days. I cancelled because there wasn't an access number in my area to dial out for internet access. So, I was given a confirmation number from customer service and thought that was the end of it. No such luck!! They keep billing my phone company 33.00 bucks every month for the last 5 months (for a service I haven't had since Feb."08). This now amounts to 165.00 that my phone co. says I owe them. They put a block on my phone and I can't call outside my own city.

AOL promised me all this time they would credit my account through the phone co. but to no avail. What's worse, I can't ever reach anyone that speaks let alone understands freaking English. Who do I have to strangle to get satisfaction?? Why should I be put out because AOL acts like they are a bunch of pit bulls??!! All I want is for them to correct the problem and credit my phone account. How hard is that??

I have a Dell with Vista Operating System and I was running AOL 9.0. When announced by AOL I downloaded a new version of AOL. It did not work and I lost direct access to AOL. I could not re-install even the prior version. After talking with AOL technicians, I was told to get an AOL installation disk for Vista. I tried all the prime computer stores: Compusa,Circuit City,Dell and Best Buy. No one had such. AOL told me to go Walmart. They did not have it.

Finally, an AOL tech support said he would see that one was sent me. That was over 2 months ago. I wrote to AOL Executive Offices, not even a reply. It is incomprehensible that AOL would ignore me. I signed up as a paying subscriber hoping they would help me to obtain the disc. They did not.

I often visit AOL chat rooms when a topic captures my interest. I have found that AOL hosts are opinionated and biased to that opinion. One such topic of conversation was the NFL football star, Michael Vick and the Dogs. The host allowed racial slurs and somehow deemed me "Ann Frank." I did not take this as an insult and continued to exchange points of view, but things I did find objectionable were:

1.) Some of my comments were not allowed to be viewed.

2.) Racial slurs were allowed to be viewed.

AOL often allows debates in chat rooms on the incumbent, President Bush, knowing that many Americans are dissatisfied with this man's actions or inactions. These chats quickly become shouting matches: the Democrats against the Republicans. It's an ugly sight. The racial slurs and hatred is so thick it can be felt to the bone.

BUT MY GREATEST CONCERN IS MY CHECKING ACCOUNT.

3.) My pricing plan changed from $9.95 unlimited access for dial-up connection monthly to $109.95 per month. I was charged this price in June, July, August, and September.

4.) Also, I was charged for fast access $34.00 in May plus the $9.95 per month.

5.) Previously, I had to change my screen name because I was not allowed access to any of the top news, it was restricted to me. There was no one I could contact to correct it, believe me I tried!

6.) Just recently I visited a site about unions and my footprints were cleared from my computer. No one at my home has access to my computer.

These type of actions cause me to wonder... What is becoming of America, freedom of speech, and privacy?

I currently have dial-up, which is SLOW! For the same price basically, AOL offers high speed internet (DSL). My question is, what would I need to do in order to run this? Do I need a whole new modem? Does it hook up to the phone line still? I have a laptop and a PC -- could I connect to DSL internet with each of these? I can't imagine what I'd need to hookup to the laptop in order to run DSL. And, for anyone who currently has, or had, AOL high-speed DSL, what do you think of it? It's only about $26 per month. Thanks!

DANBURY, CONNECTICUT -- I am fired up at AOL right now. I just tried to cancel my account and this girl Ray just gave me the biggest guilt trip a company has ever given me. I told her that AOL was useless for me. The browser sucks. I don't chat and I only used AOL because a client of mine had it and I needed to update his website. She told me if I cancelled AOL my computer will become vulnerable to all types of cancerous viruses and what nots. I just don't want AOL. Cancel my computer. She starts to insult me about using another service and that I didn't know what I was talking about. I'm ready to exploit this company. Where is Michael Moore?

HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA -- This is to inform all of you that I too have been lied to by American Online service. About 2 years ago, I got a call from someone that said they were from AOL and that because I was a good customer for so many years, I was getting a deduction on my bill from $28.99 to $17.99. Well I was shocked but did ask of this $17.99 included tax and was told yes, so I said yes. Now 2 years later I got an email from AOL that I will now be paying $22.99 + tax and also that I now have call waiting on my computer as I requested. I never requested this and am not going to stay with AOL.

I emailed AOL with my concern and spoke via email a server agent and never got even one second of help especially after he heard that I had a complaint. I too will have to change my credit card number as I was told once you have AOL the only way to stop them is to change your credit card and number. I was informed that they can find me as they have my social Security number. BE CAREFUL. THIS COMPANY IS REALLY BAD. I wish you all better luck than I got.