I recently had a house put on my property and needed to move my satellite. I talked to the representative and since I was on the easy care plan I could get it done for free. With any special equipment costing extra. The installer came out did what he needed to do and was professional about the installation. The problem is that when I was billed they billed me for installation cost of 200 dollars. I talked with customer support and they agreed to pay back the 200 dollars but it would take 7 to 14 business days. So here is my grips. One we have bills coming out and when you get 200 dollars more taken out it causes problems with other bills. Two why should I have to wait 7 to 14 business days when it only took you one to remove it from my account. Finally three this all could have been avoided if you actually show my next bill before you billed me. I checked the day of the billing and it didn't show up till after your company billed me.
Posted 2 years ago
Stephen Rice, Champion
Matt B, Viasat Employee
Stephan I will send an e-mail and have them look at this. As you said Matt your company has no problem taking money from people, but when it comes to mistakes by your company we have to wait to get our money back. This is an unacceptable business practices. This is not a return on an item that we didn't want this is theft of money by a big cooperation who believes they are above the law. If you walked into a store and stole money from someone you would be required to pay it back immediately along with jail time. There is no difference here you company took money that was not theirs from my bank account. By law that is still theft because I didn't give you permission to take it. If I went over and took money from your wallet and you noticed and talk to me and I told you I'm sorry I took your money I'll mail it to you in seven to fourteen days. You would ask for the money now. Why? Because it wasn't mine to take. I'm sick and tired of business who create policies to overwrite the legal system. If it's not yours return it simple as that. We all make mistakes but we are still responsible to correct those mistakes. Because of your company I had to borrow money to finish making payments and possibly loose my wife's insurance because I didn't have money in the bank for the auto draft.
GabeU, Champion
It's not just Viasat. I think you find the same with Verizon, Directv, Spectrum, etc.Same with HughesNet, too.
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Stephen Rice, Champion
It doesn't make things right. Amazon has far more customers than Viasat, yet when they screw up, they go above and beyond to make things right. I figured someone from corporate would at least offer a small form of compensation instead of simply saying, "Sorry but you still have to wait 7 to 14 days for your money to be returned."
GabeU, Champion
Whether Amazon can be used as a direct comparison is debatable. With Amazon you're buying a product. With Viasat, Verizon, DirecTV, Spectrum, HughesNet, etc., you're buying a service.
With that said, I do understand what you're saying and agree that having to wait isn't very fair.
With that said, I do understand what you're saying and agree that having to wait isn't very fair.
Stephen Rice, Champion
With Amazon Prime you are buying a service called two day shipping.
You get two day shipping, but the video library is why I buy it. You get access to a ton of streaming content.
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