Customer Service Complaint
I have been having connection issues with Hughesnet from my first month of service. I take online classes and cannot stay connected long enough to get through an hour long class. Last month after I had paid my bill Hughesnet reversed payment for some unknown reason and charged me a $25.00 return payment fee. NOTE: HUGHESNET not my bank reversed this payment, it isn't even showing up for my bank as a returned payment, with the bank it shows only a single transaction, my payment and it cleared the day after I posted it! So, I contacted customer support to find out why this happend. I got a tech who did NOT speak English as his first language. This is the actual email confirmation response I received. "Contact Reason: Billing Info - Explanation of Charges - Educated Customer"Whoa! Educated customer!!!!! Sorry but I do NOT need a ignorant tech support person educating me on anything!!! Offended, **bleep** yes I am! I was biting the bullet with bad connection service until this little piss ant decided that he had educated me. I had to go away on a business trip the day after this call, when I came home they had disconnected my internet for nonpayment. I sent support a copy of my bank statements showing I had paid, nothing, crickets......totally ignored. After waiting a few days I contacted my bank and had the payment reversed! Not getting my money after being so insulting and then ignoring me when I was paid in full on my account. I am stuck with this dang 2 year contract paying over $80 a month for service I can't use and I can't get a live person that speaks English as their first language on the phone if I can even get anyone to answer I am surprised. If you know anyone thinking about using Hughesnet tell them to run as fast as they can. I have had nothing but problems from the day the tech showed up to install the dish on. I won't even go into all the details and multiple trips from another state just getting this company to plant a dish entailed. I will say this, I WILL NOT CUT DOWN ANOTHER TREE for this company!4KViews1like3CommentsAccount renewed when I was trying to cancel and no one told me
I've been trying to cancel my service with them for months now. The first man I talked to some months back had told me to wait until December 6th to cancel so I wouldn't have to pay a termination fee and that marks the end of my contract also. I said alright and dealt with it. He said we could lower my package since that would still leave me with something.... the service doesn't work here and it will shut off whenever there's some wind or if it rains. I hated the fact I was paying so much money for that crap service. About a month or so later I called again. I was willing to pay the termination fee because I needed it to be over with. That lady sat there and gave me the run around and was trying to tell me to change all this stuff and she kept running diagnostics or whatever. Then I was supposed to been getting a call from a tech person and do more stuff. I gave up on all of that and I was so freaking annoyed. I call today and the first person ended up hanging up on me... I called again and this time I'm finally getting somewhere .... or at least I thought. I told the guy that I wanted to cancel my service since December is next month and the guy I spoke to months ago said to do it before December 6th. This guy did the whole run around with the apologies and wanted to know what I was switching to and what I was trying to use the internet for and blah blah blah. I'm not even mad at that because that's their job. What made freaking mad was this. I told him I didn't want to do any of the modifications and that I just wanted to cancel since I was told to do it before that December date since that's when my contract cancels. This dude tells me that my contract won't be over until September... 2022!!!! What the actual heck!??! I'm so confused because I was originally told to wait until December to cancel and now I'm stuck another year.... I didn't want another contract!!!! I want to be done with this!!! I don't like the fact that I'm paying that much for service that shuts out so easily and can't do anything even with the simplest device!!! I'm so over this and I just want hughesnet out of my house. I can't believe I was lied to and when I told the guy what I was originally told months ago he said that the first guy gave me wrong information.... I waited this freaking long just to find out I was put into another contract... I really hate this service and I don't recommend it!!3.7KViews0likes2CommentsAbsolutely Livid
As a business customer, I thought I would have been dealt with far better. I am making an official complaint and will follow this up with a legal letter. I have had this service for a little over a couple of months and the service has been the worst I have ever have. Now don't get me wrong, the techs who came and visited my property several times were more than professional but the fact I have had to have techs come out several times because the service is severely under par, is bad. As a media publishing and legal marketing company, I rely on the internet and I am just not getting the service. After going through every possible technical issue and having new equipment installed, I am still having problems. Finally, after exhausting all possible avenues, including tech visits, I decided I would have to more than likely part company, but as I was told, in order to do that I would have to pay over 1100 dollars to get out of the contract. When the service is substandard and I am not receiving anywhere near the service level I am supposed to receive, why should I have to pay. What company in their right mind tries to force you to pay them an exorbitantamount after they do not provide you with the service they are supposed to. Even with the obligatory statements of not guaranteeing a speed, there is some caveat that it should be adequate enough for using the net. When sold this, it was sold to me on the basis of being able to do exactly what was needed to run my business. Case after case after case, all possible avenues exhausted yet I am told there's no way I can get out without paying them 1100 or more dollars to do so. I am going to take this further and the last agent was not courteous or even remotely understanding. I am severely disappointedin this company. I will make sure I review accordingly and distribute said experience. At the very least, Hughes net should understand for a small company that when you rely on the service to run yourbusiness and you can't because it is substandard, why should you be forced into submission and pay what is tantamount to highway robbery.3.3KViews1like5CommentsAvoid termination fee
For the entire time I have had HughesNet, I have had minimal to no service. Speeds of 4-5 when I was told I would have 20. At one point, I was talked into increasing my plan to over 189.00 a month because it was claimed that I was using too many minutes. I have been continually charged the 4.99 fee every month for Norton "service" that I cancelled because it was discovered that they were causing more issues for me than they helped. This fee has never been dropped even though I have requested it several times. I went back to the minimal plan to save money and found absolutely no change to the lack of speed, buffering and shut downs that spontaneously occur. I have found that T-Mobile is going to be offering wifi in my area. When I receive notification that it is available, I want to be able to drop HughesNet with no termination penalty. I will happily return the modem and you can even come to get the dish off my roof(if you do not damage my roof). I just want out with no further charges. You have charged me many times what the service is worth already plus charging me for Norton service that I do not have. Please send me an email documentation to the effect that I will not be charged termination fees when I cancel and I will be satisfied.3.1KViews0likes3CommentsEARLY TERMINATION FEE - LESS THEN 30 DAYS- SERVICE DOESNT WORK
My name is Maureen and I am writing today because I am 100% dissatisfied with the service I've received via hughesnet. I have 7 kids &amp; i run a business which requires a lot of data plus 6 of my kids are REMOTE LEARNING and my business requires multiple devices i ordered service in a country area in the middle of nowhere i explained hughesnet was the only option and I was concerned with the service availability &amp; the DATA CAPS - the tech i spoke to (Chris) told me the deal and that I could stream, remote learning, run my business we just couldn't game anymore (that was hard but we accepted it) I opted for service in the beginning of August 2020 and cancelled and was refunded because I was told spectrum could provide service but that was misinformation so I did a 2nd order and was suggested due to the data caps to choose a BUSINESS ACCOUNT of 75gb to start off with so I did and on August 25th 2020 the tech (Chris) came and installed my internet. Now when we started using it was horrible so I got a really good router to try to improve the connection and during the daytime it wouldn't go above (2.9mbps) and then during 2am -8am it was around (39mbps) very laggy never consistent. Since weve had hughesnet we spoke to a tech on Sept 1st 2020 and he stated that basically our service wouldnt get better then this and during those hours would be a little better - I was devastated because we had no other options and no way to communicate because we have no service even though i just paid $230 up front for the service -after everything all my research I found a company in the (Berne, NY) area who provides an internet service which works for all the requirements i stated were necessary &amp; told Hughesnet I wanted to cancel and they are telling me even though I haven't had this service for 30 days im expected to pay $880.00 as an EARLY TERMINATION FEE which is INSANE because I had to pay for another company because HUGHESNET doesn't work. It states that depending on the situation and the fact their own TECH stated it wouldn't really get better i shouldnt have to pay how is that fair or right IT DIDNT WORK and they couldn't make it better - we couldn't even watch a movie as a family and on all my streaming services I wasted hundreds of dollars because I believed what they're tech &amp; customer service dept told me. I have to say customer service has been very kind and helpful along the lines of what they're ALLOWED to do or say. The one tech I spoke to (Billy ID#18653) today 9/18/2020 - he handled things really politely and made it clear on the procedure because customer service has only so much ability so it has to be moved to corporate. He also told me to post on this community site because there is some liability within 30 days for a residential account but some reason a business even within the 30 days gor you to be charged for something out of your control - i mean i plan on writing to the better business bureau and also contacting the atny General because this is wrong and if they move forward with charging me instead of realizing this is on the service they couldn't provide then ill reach out to my lawyer. Thanks for listening &amp; anyones help <br>Maureen2.6KViews0likes2CommentsCanceled due to Inaccurate billing and poor service
I have had repeated poor service for the two years of my contract. In July I was charged double $150 for a 25gb token. I was then told I probably hit the purchase button twice. When I pointed out that the invoice says 1 token for $150, they said the invoice had an error but the charge was correct. I have canceled service and will post my experience on as many consumer websites as possible to hopefully prevent others from being cheated with poor service and overbilling.2.5KViews3likes3Comments