This company Illegally took $113.16 out of my checking account 1 year after I had my service transferred to another person’s name. I called Direct TV customer service and after 1hour and 36 minutes on the phone with them nothing had been resolved. They acknowledged they had "forgotten" to take my credit card information off the account and asked me to fax them even more personal information about myself, and wait 8 day’s to receive a refund. CSR Violet (100249195) was not one bit of help. She had a very hard time getting supervisor to speak with me and could not understand that I did not have an account with Direct TV; I also spoke to Kai (100144863) and Ann (100170010) both who could not provide me with a corporate address, a finical department phone number, or Direct TV fraud department number.

I just spent an hour trying to find out what happened to an access card that I ordered on 1/23/08 that was supposed to be here 3 days ago. Rep/Cust Service found that the address that I have corrected at least 5 times since I moved 4 years ago is still wrong. So after several attempts, Rep says it is now fixed. However she had to transfer me to Access Card Distribution Team/ Rep there says card was sent to my old address and she would have to resend to my current address where I have
been for 4 1/2 years!!! Also I told them both that I could not access my account on-line due to a wrong E-Mail or Username error---they could not help with that and said I would have to call another dept. Talked to supervisor/ and basically was told the same thing. I said you either need to get your processes fixed or get people more training as this sort of customer service is anything but acceptable!!

I need to inform you of an unfortunate incident that occurred today. It is unfortunate not only for me, but for your company as well. We have been loyal DirectTV customers for a very long time. A few days ago for some reason our satellite was not receiving its signal and we were not getting most of the channels with the exception of a few HD channels on one TV. I tried to troubleshoot the tv as the tv display instructions indicated, it made things worse, I got no channels. I called DirectTV and spent almost an hour with the customer service agent. She was trying to help me troubleshoot over the phone. But in all honesty, I really don’t think she knew what she was doing as it seemed she was just reading from a manual as to what to do. Then she finally said we would need to have a service call. She came back to tell me that the next appointment was on Tuesday, February 5th. I explained to her that that would not do since the Super Bowl was this Sunday and we were having a Super Bowl party. We needed to have the TV fixed by Sunday. She put me on hold and then came back to say that we could have someone here tomorrow (Saturday, February 2nd) between the hours of 12-4. I could not do the afternoon, so she gave us 8-12, Saturday, February 2nd. I waited at home all morning today, and when no one showed up by 1:00 I called customer service. I was then told by someone that our appointment was not for today, but next Saturday, February 9th. I told him that was not correct and that we did make the appointment for today, explaining my Super Bowl predicament. He said there was nothing he could do for me today, so I asked to speak with a supervisor. I then spoke with a supervisor by the name of Onjinee. I have to say that it is unfortunate that she bears the title Supervisor. First she tried to apologize for the “miscommunication” between myself and the customer service agent yesterday, saying she was sorry that I misunderstood her. I’m telling you that there was no miscommunication or misunderstanding. That customer service agent lied to me. I explained my situation needing to have our system fixed by SuperBowl Sunday, why would I accept an appoint a week later. Furthermore why would I make an appointment on Saturday the 9th when I could have gotten one earlier on Tuesday the 5th. I was told that my appointment was today, Saturday February 2nd. I stayed home all day waiting for the service man. I waited 5 hours for him. I explained all of this of Onjinee and told her that I expected some to come to my house today. She said “there’s nothing I can do”. And that is basically all she kept saying to me. This situation is not my fault, I was lied to by your company, I was put in this situation by your company. Your company should have bent over backwards to rectify this situation. As I was speaking to Onjinee I could tell that she was either pushing to mute button on her phone so she could talk without me hearing what she was saying or she was putting me on hold so she didn’t have to hear me. Everytime I was speaking I could hear a click after I was done speaking so I know she was doing this. This is so unprofessional. Onjinee then rudely suggested that I “get out my yellow pages and find an independent technician to fix my problem”. I feel this is absolutely outrageous. I told her I’d do that and send Direct Tv the bill, she said “we will not pay it”. I gave her many suggestions on how she could rectify my situation but all she said was “there’s nothing I can do.” I asked her if she was prepared to lose my account over this situation and she said “there’s nothing I can do”. I asked to speak with her supervisor and she said that he does not speak to customers. I asked to speak with anyone higher up and she said they don’t phone numbers and don’t speak to customers. I find this completely outrageous. So I guess your customers can get treated this way and there is nothing that can be done? I am hoping that this letter is getting to the right hands and that there is someone who does care about how customers are treated. There is a lot of competition in the cable/satellite business, so I think you do care. I know of your referral program and my husband and I are always positive about DirectTV. But now at the point I cannot be and will need to tell my story to others. We will have to cancel our Super Bowl party thanks to DirectTv and it’s poor customer service agents and so called supervisors.

Thank you for your time. I’d appreciate some kind of response. And I hope it’s not “sorry there’s nothing I can do”, because I really think there is something you can do.

I ordered Direct TV service on October 30, 2007. The salesman lied to me when he said the cost of the hd dvr (about $200) would be given back to me in the form of a rebate once the service was activated. When I found out this was not true, and after a poor installation experience, I decided to cancel the entire service, within my 3 days right of rescission.

After 2 different billing problems that my credit card company helped get reversed, I received a bill for about $200, almost two months after canceling the service. I had no idea what it was about, turns out they bill you for the initial hddvr, even though it was RETURNED TO THEM, IN THEIR BOX, WHICH THEY PROVIDED. So, here is a company that charges you for something you don't have, and have returned it in a timely manner. Where do they get off doing something like that?

This is the worst customer experience (besides xm radio) that I have ever witnessed.

A resolution dispute specialist promised to call me back, never did. Just a horrible experience, and I hope no one orders direct tv again, hope they go out of business.

I have had service with direct for only two months and have seen several instances of randomly added charges to my account. These are charges for services or upgrades that I did not request. When I called customer service to get these removed they remove only a portion of the charge (pro-rated) even though I never asked for these in the first place. I am sure there are many customers that do not review their billing details and these charges go undetected.