As you instructed on Twitter, here I am. Ive talked to your customer service people until I'm blue in the face and I want my $325 cancellation fee reversed. I will not stop the Twitter talk until you reverse it, and all your millions of unhappy customers can join me on Twitter to share their stories.

Hi Kelli, I appreciate you waiting for my reply. After reviewing your account history and listening to your calls to us, I do understand why the previous agents informed you we would not be waiving the early termination fee. Not including the call to switch to a paper bill on 11/15/17 and a call detailed below on 8/27, these are the calls we have from you since the service was activated: Where: 5/10 - Called for assistance with a Roku device not working, which was resolved. (10m 39s) 7/6 - Called regarding slow speeds. It was found that the data allowance for the month had been exceeded and the agent provided 2GB of complimentary data. (9m 6s) 7/12 - Called regarding slow speeds. The agent was only able to get through the beginning of triage (testing 3 websites of varying load and was only able to get 1 out of 5 speed tests done). On this call is where the agent saw a read out of bad weather for the zip code of your location. After a request for a manager, the call was put on hold and a few minutes later completely dropped out. (26m 25s) ---8/27 - We received a call to cancel the account from someone other the account holder. The caller was informed the account holder needed to call in to cancel. 11/14 - Called to cancel service. The agent did try to explain that they could not waive the fee because there was not sufficient troubleshooting done (it was not completed or close to being completed on 7/12). They also tried to explain that we would not have an issue with waiving the fee if we were given the chance to complete the troubleshooting and escalation process. (22m 5s) 11/14 - Called back and spoke with a different agent who tried to explain the same thing. (12m 59s) I would be more than glad to continue the troubleshooting from 7/12 with you here in our community and escalate any issue found to our network engineering group here in our corporate office. If the issue cannot be resolved through our normal troubleshooting and escalation means, we will definitely waive your early termination fee. Thank you, Amanda

Hi, Corrosive. My story is similar to many other HughesNet customers.I called HughesNet to gather information about their service. On the phone, the salesperson painted a rosey picture of their service, and use the words, "I GUARANTEE you'll be happy with HughesNet." Well, I wasn't. And my calls to tech support started soon after my service began. I was unable to visit essential websites at time because pages wouldn't load, couldn't watch streaming media because it was so slow, at times it just did not work at all, we would even have to turn off wi-fi on all our phones upon entering our home to make a feeble attempt to get websites to load. Customer service was never able to help fix my problem even after checking speeds, trouble shooting, etc, and they never offered any suggestions beyond the phone call. No offers to have anyone come out to check things. In fact, they concluded "you must be having bad weather" when it was sunny and 75 degrees! We finally got so fed up, we had another company dig and bury cable underground all the way to our home from the nearest town! That's some major frustration, by hey....what else do you do when you need internet to run your business, and HughesNet's oversees customer service reps WILL NOT help you, WILL NOT transfer you to someone who can?!My husband called twice to cancel service and they wouldn't allow him to bc it was in my name, even though I had added him to our plan not once, but TWICE. I called again, finally, myself, to cancel and to explain my frustrations one last time to what I had hoped would be a sympathetic ear...and I had another rude person overseas tell me i was lying basically, slap me with a $325 termination fee, refuse to let me speak to a manager or anyone in the US that I could understand, and rudely tell me "ITS NON NEGOTIABLE!"I was guaranteed service that I'd be happy with....not just told, but "GUARANTEED" by the salesperson who signed me up. I entered into this contract, and HughesNet failed to fulfill their guarantee, and they abandoned me, their customer, leaving me with few options. Therefore, CORROSIVE, I feel my $325 fee should be reversed.

HughesNetSucks4 Care to elaborate on your story? Why do you feel your cancelation fee should be waived/reversed?

Acutally, yesterday was the first time I had heard about this forum. Amanda instructed me to come here, and here I am.CORROSIVE - can you tell me more about what a "Senior Instructor" does at Hughes Net?

It's not spam if i have a legitimate complaint and interest in a forum thread with similar issues to my own. That's absolutely ridiculous and a great example of a big company attempting to censor and silence the voices of those who have been wronged by them.

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Amanda
Moderator
8 years ago
Good morning Kelli,

Thank you for posting here! I was able to locate your account and will be reviewing both the previous support notes and listening to call records so that way I have a better understanding of what troubleshooting has been done so far. If a customer is experiencing trouble with our system, we always try to do what we can to fix the problem and get it working. I will post back once I have more information.

~Amanda
- HughesNetSucks4
  Sophomore
  8 years ago
  Thanks, Amanda.
C0RR0SIVE
Associate Professor
8 years ago
HughesNetSucks4

Care to elaborate on your story? Why do you feel your cancelation fee should be waived/reversed?
- HughesNetSucks4
  Sophomore
  8 years ago
  Hi, Corrosive. My story is similar to many other HughesNet customers.
  I called HughesNet to gather information about their service. On the phone, the salesperson painted a rosey picture of their service, and use the words, "I GUARANTEE you'll be happy with HughesNet." Well, I wasn't. And my calls to tech support started soon after my service began. I was unable to visit essential websites at time because pages wouldn't load, couldn't watch streaming media because it was so slow, at times it just did not work at all, we would even have to turn off wi-fi on all our phones upon entering our home to make a feeble attempt to get websites to load. Customer service was never able to help fix my problem even after checking speeds, trouble shooting, etc, and they never offered any suggestions beyond the phone call. No offers to have anyone come out to check things. In fact, they concluded "you must be having bad weather" when it was sunny and 75 degrees! We finally got so fed up, we had another company dig and bury cable underground all the way to our home from the nearest town! That's some major frustration, by hey....what else do you do when you need internet to run your business, and HughesNet's oversees customer service reps WILL NOT help you, WILL NOT transfer you to someone who can?!
  My husband called twice to cancel service and they wouldn't allow him to bc it was in my name, even though I had added him to our plan not once, but TWICE. I called again, finally, myself, to cancel and to explain my frustrations one last time to what I had hoped would be a sympathetic ear...and I had another rude person overseas tell me i was lying basically, slap me with a $325 termination fee, refuse to let me speak to a manager or anyone in the US that I could understand, and rudely tell me "ITS NON NEGOTIABLE!"
  I was guaranteed service that I'd be happy with....not just told, but "GUARANTEED" by the salesperson who signed me up. I entered into this contract, and HughesNet failed to fulfill their guarantee, and they abandoned me, their customer, leaving me with few options. Therefore, CORROSIVE, I feel my $325 fee should be reversed.
  - C0RR0SIVE
    Associate Professor
    8 years ago
    Interesting story, as there are no guarantees with service... I am sure once Amanda has your records pulled and investigates, if found in your favor for any reason, she will reverse the cancelation charges on your account.

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