Poor Billing Practices and customer service

Yes I found all that out AFTER I had my account overdrawn. your people do not explain these things to the customer when they call. The first person said "we will debit your account on the 11th for your next bill, no problem" She never said my account would be prorated nor did she tell me it would be another month before this happened, hence the second overdraft.

But the main thing is I NEVER signed up for automatic payments. I was never asked and I did not authorize it. And the other thing that is not right is the salesman that I spoke with when I signed up never said that the account would be debited when the bill was issued. Your bills have an issue date and a due date, That is the day the bill is due to avoid late charges, we should have that 10 days to view the bill and contact customer service for an explanation if we are not happy with it.

No matter how you slice it up its still poor billing practices.

I understand that, but why does the customer get popup windows every time they open their browser until the actual due date when in reality its not due? and this only happens to the customers that are setup on autopay everyone else is not interrupted until the Due date,  

Warren Hughes has done this from the beginning of time, any customer that uses auto pay has their account debited on the day the bill is generated and not the actual due date, and will popup late payment reminders on your screen until its paid even though its not really due. I have commented and complained about this practice for years and have been told by the billing department that its the way the software is setup and the only way to get around it is to prorate your bill and move the due date so you bill is generated on the day you want the payment to come out. which is just wrong. the auto pay should not try to debit your account until the due date and it needs to be fixed

This is why I rarely ever sign up for auto withdrawal for any bills at all. I do have house insurance and car insurance come out automatically but that is all. I have been messed up way too many times myself with trying to let TV or Internet be taken out automatically. I am on fixed income and the family members who are working do not make much so we really cannot afford to have auto payments. We do have to be late in paying some times just to avoid being neg. at our banks. 

But I have never heard of having to pay an extra $5 monthly to cancel an auto withdrawal, unless you mean that they charge that $5 because they send you a bill. If this is the case, there is a way of not having to pay that, just ask for paperless billing and you won't have to pay the $5. Some even still send you a bill without charging if you sign up for paperless billing, at least AT&T does with my phone bill, why I don't know. I don't mind getting the bill though as long as I don't have to pay that $5.

I have never let hughesnet take auto withdrawals from my account, so I really don't know if something like that might happen to me or not, but don't plan to let them do it anyway. I really have not looked that good at the bill to see if I am paying an extra $5 because I do get a bill each month from hughesnet, but if I am then so be it. I would rather pay that than go through all the problems with overdrawn bank account.

I too have always said that I would never recommend hughenet to anyone even knowing that where I live we really don't have any other choice.  There are enough people who cannot really get good internet that they are not hurting for people. So I am not sure that even bothers them at all. 

Mine was auto deducted this month too, usually I get the message and go pay it. And since being a finalist in the photo contest I'm supposed to receive free internet for a year, but they billed me. I sent an email with my case number, haven't heard back

I know your going to say that its only suppose to popup 1 time a day but thats not the case it will popup every time you close and reopen the browser. 

Im not picking on you Warren this has been a thorn in my side every since it happened to me when my 2nd payment auto debited on the date the bill was generated and I called CS and after 3 reps and 1 supervisor they finally figured why it was happening and I had them prorate my account to move the date my bill was generated on to the day that they were suppose to trying to debit my account and over the years Ive been with Hughes I have seen time and time again where a customer was on here wondering why their account was overdrawn when the bill was not due for 10 more days.

Hi Janice, I never signed up for it or agreed to it, they just did it. Then when I wanted to cancel it she said I would have to pay an additional $5 a month. I don't believe in paying extra fee's that do not cause any extra work on the part of the company. Its a rip off

Hello Deb,

Welcome to the community and thank you for the post.
We would like to look into this further to address this concern. Could you please post one of the following -  a recent case number, or serial number of your modem so that we may look into this?

-Warren

Hi Warren, the case number I have is #42570821 I believe that is for the credit for the overdraft fee's but can't remember and its the only one I have.