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JL72's avatar
JL72
Freshman
5 years ago

Frustration with billing and this company

I am so frustrated with this comany Im not even sure what to do about it. I had two accounts with Hughesnet. We soon discovered having two was just really a waste and we cut it down to one. I then got charged a 320.00 unreturned equipment fee as i couldnt get the radio off my roof. After speaking with customer service i was told they could send a tech which would cost me 125.00. In my mind i figured i might as well so i could get the whole 320 back again. The guy who came out took down the radio and in doing so also disconnected our active one! So after an hour on hold with Hughesnet they told me they would send another tech out to get the live account up and running again but because no one would be home it couldnt be until Saturday which meant i was going a whole week with no internet. Hughesnet agreed to refund me the 125.00 fee for my trouble. I noticed in my account i now had a negative balance of 225.00 (i looked in the notes and saw they also gave me 100.00 inconvenience credit which i thought was nice. 

Fast forward 2 weeks.I now have my internet back up and running and i have packaged up the small radio and the transmitter and sent them back in the box they provided. I go online and not only do i still see no credit for the returned equipment but now instead of a -225.00 account balance i have a 125.00 pending charge. 

I called several times regarding my returned equipment. I was told they got one piece (modem) and not another (radio)!!! How do you prove everything was sent other than to say "why would i pay someone to come out and take it down if i wasnt going to send it back?". Finally after many calls they agree to manually receive the equipment and i was told to call back in 48 hours, given a case number and told that in 48 hours i can request the refund for the 320.00. Well as im sure you can imagine this did not go so easy. I just got off the phone with them after being on hold back and forth for an hour over this!!! The lady says they processed the refund but wanted me to be aware of the 125.00 pending charge that will come out of that. Upon researching this she tells me its for the technician call!!! WHAT??? I then try to explain that this was supposed to be a refund and the whole story. Another 20 minutes on hold she comes back and sees i was being refunded this fee and apologizes saying i no longer have a pending charge. Well ..hmmm i still have a pending charge (its 140 but only because i had to pay 15.00 for data tokens this morning) and the lady on the customer service chat tells me that she shows i have a 291.00 credit. WHAT? Where did that figure come from??? No one can explain but i have a feeling im never going to see the acutal 320 refund and if i do ill never see the 125 credit becuase now instead of having a negative balanc of 125 they are going to tell me they are taking it out of something else. Im so frustrated and i feel like no one has any clue what they are doing over there. I hate being like this but im so angry and none of this makes any sense.

  • JL72, 

     

    Thank you for reaching out! After taking a look at the history of your account, this is what I've found:
     

    • 10/18/2019 - You were charged $382.04 
      • This was for your two unreturned equipment fees as well as your bill for the month

     

    • 11/18/2019 - You were charged $168.54
      • $100 (not including tax) was charged for the de-install fee and the remaining amount was for your bill

     

    • 11/18.2019 - You were credited $225
      • $100 should have been for the de-install fee.
      • The $125 credit was applied as the agent thought it was a standard dispatch, not a de-install

     

    • 12/11/2019 - Both credits were removed; however, there are no notes detailing why

     

    • 12/16/2019 - You were credited $431.04
      • $325 for the Unreturned Equipment Fee
      • $106.04 for the De-Install

     

    The unbilled amount on the account is for an upcoming dispatch charge of $125 and the tokens you purchased. I will be crediting your account for the $125 to even that out, so in total, you will have $431.04 of credits on the account to account. These credits account for the de-install fee and unreturned equipment fees that you have paid.

     

    Please let me know if you have any questions concerning your credits.

     

    Thank you,

     

    Jay

     

     

  • JL72, 

     

    Thank you for reaching out! After taking a look at the history of your account, this is what I've found:
     

    • 10/18/2019 - You were charged $382.04 
      • This was for your two unreturned equipment fees as well as your bill for the month

     

    • 11/18/2019 - You were charged $168.54
      • $100 (not including tax) was charged for the de-install fee and the remaining amount was for your bill

     

    • 11/18.2019 - You were credited $225
      • $100 should have been for the de-install fee.
      • The $125 credit was applied as the agent thought it was a standard dispatch, not a de-install

     

    • 12/11/2019 - Both credits were removed; however, there are no notes detailing why

     

    • 12/16/2019 - You were credited $431.04
      • $325 for the Unreturned Equipment Fee
      • $106.04 for the De-Install

     

    The unbilled amount on the account is for an upcoming dispatch charge of $125 and the tokens you purchased. I will be crediting your account for the $125 to even that out, so in total, you will have $431.04 of credits on the account to account. These credits account for the de-install fee and unreturned equipment fees that you have paid.

     

    Please let me know if you have any questions concerning your credits.

     

    Thank you,

     

    Jay

     

     

    • seebobfish's avatar
      seebobfish
      New Poster
      Your response sounds like what I've recently had to deal with. Hughes hires lots of phone support staff who are very poor in speaking clearly. They change their names so you might think they are normal people - they are not! I've spent many hours on phone with tech support people in past years. I am looking for other companies to replace what Hughes provides -100%! THEY WILL LIE, NOT FIB , LIE! And admin supports their basic efforts as well as not addressing the lies. I have always been put on hold as the training they receive is minimal and anything asked of them needs more "training" for the right answer. Hughes is a "one way street" - troubleshooting a minor problem usually works after being put on hold for a few minutes - very few. They will disconnect you while waiting to connect you to their supervisor - many times been done - since no one will get to the bottom of who hung up first. Current issue is their lieing - every call - before you start conversation - warning they are recording for future quality - but when you need to go back to their promise to wave $125.00 for labor to install the failed Hughes equipment, it can't be retrieved. I had one low life Hughes employee tell me the technician needs to eat too! And then I was offered to split the $125 with Hughes so the tech could be paid! The tech who arrived and replaced Hughes failed equipment was the only Hughes related worker I can look forward to working with again! Honest, quick and very tuned in to his work - excellent results! Hughes' name fooled me as I thought high tech, well defined company, very big and successful - maybe so but they "create" problems by hiring people not capable of handling their jobs and put them at the end of the customer support phone! Go figure! This Hughes company is not customer friendly unless you are face to face with them. Too bad Howard isn't still here! This would never have included "poor speakers" as customer interface!
      • maratsade's avatar
        maratsade
        Distinguished Professor IV

        So you're unhappy and are looking for options, right? Good luck with your next ISP.

         

        *I am not a Hughesnet employee or representative. This is a customer-to-customer tech support community, and I am a customer.

         


        seebobfish wrote:
        Your response sounds like what I've recently had to deal with. 

         

    • JL72's avatar
      JL72
      Freshman

      First i have to say thank you for taking the time to actually explain this. Its so frustrating to never obtain an explanation and to find out a credit you thought you had and spent so long on the phone with issues over is no longer there with no one having an explanation as to why. Even when the response is "we dont know why that happened" its still better than having no explaination.

       

      However i thank you for going the extra mile and getting it taken care of.

       

      Sincerely,

      Judy Lawton

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
        Moderator

        I'm happy to help! Please feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions or concerns.

         

        -Jay

  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV

    Sounds pretty messy! Give the HughesNet mods on this site time to sort things out for you, and they'll contact you on this thread or via private message.