There may be light at the end of the tunnel

It seems that Axxxxx Bxxxxx has taken ownership of this issue and is putting forth the effort required to resolve it. There were some interesting revelations, the most interesting is that "the technicians never used to record the serial numbers on the routers". This means that even though I shipped the router back under Verizon's direction, they would have no way to associate it with my account. They really have some screwed up/non existent systems. FiOS must be bleeding the company dry. I cannot imagine maintaining profitability if they cannot keep track of such basic things. Or maybe I am a unique case (lucky me).

Axxxxx Bxxxxx says he is still trying to locate the department that generated the bill I received. Can you imagine such a thing? If he is having this much trouble, how are customers supposed to figure things out? In any event, he has promised to see this through, and it looks like he is making the effort to keep that promise. I expect to hear from him next week.

This just won't go away!!!!

Get home from work today. Now I have a BILL from Verizon for an "unreturned wireless router". These people are (@&#(&% unbelieveable!!! I followed their instructions and dropped the equipment off at a UPS store, I have tracking numbers with confirmed deliveries, and they are billing me $200 for that crappy Actiontec router, that, according to UPS tracking, was received to their West Chester office. Oh, and the ten bucks for "video franchise fee". This is surreal.

Called and spoke to Axxxxxx Bxxxxx. He is really trying to be helpful but is unable to locate any bill. He says because of billing cycle, a credit "should" appear on January bill. I doubt it. He is really trying to figure this out, but is unable to find any account number using the bill I have in my hand. Unfortunately, after 42 min, he is unable to resolve. He promises to follow up tomorrow and call tomorrow afternoon. Axxxxxx really seems to care about doing a good job and I am cautiously optimistic that he might actually be able to help finally put this to rest.

Did I do something to piss someone at Verizon off?

Again, I have to say, I NEVER had this level of disservice from ComCast.

I leave this blog here as a warning to anyone considering conducting business with Verizon. Read away and make your own decision.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VERIZON LAND LINE, DO NOT GET FiOS!!