For the life of me I can’t find an obvious way on Comcast’s website to report a downed wire, so if anybody from Comcast reads my blog: hey… you’ve got a wire down in the street on S. Morgan, just East of the intersection with 51st AVE S!
Just thought you’d want to know.
I’m documenting how much junk mail I get from Comcast so I can sue them for commercial harassment. I’ve probably gotten over 1,000 mailers from Comcast in the last 10 years, and lately they’ve begun sending door-to-door salesmen to my burrow. When are these fuckers going to figure out I DON’T WANT their service? This feels like extortion; they won’t leave you alone until you buy their service. If it isn’t a crime, it ought at least be a tort.
What, you can’t just call 1-800-COMCAST & wade through their forty layers of voicemail, to talk to the nice folks in at the call center in Mumbai or Sioux Falls?
Goldy, your mistake was signing up for Comcast in the first place.
Could be worse, you could be stuck with Broadstripe.
Roger @3,
I don’t have Comcast. What I do have is a downed cable draped over my car.
A couple of weeks ago I called to cancel my Comcast Cable TV service because they increased the price 50% with no prior notice. My wife had tried to call earlier, and they told her they couldn’t do anything – despite advertising we had just received in the mail offering six months service at $19.95 for “new customers”. But when I called the cancellation number and told them I was cancelling, they suddenly they had all sorts of flexibility.
Maybe you can call Comcast and select the “cancel service” option, and you will get someone on the line who has the flexibility to get a message to the crews about the downed line??????
@5 If it’s trespassing on your property, you know what to do …
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@6 If it was blocking my driveway I’d solve the problem in 30 seconds with a pair of bolt cutters.
Roger Rabbit: you can sue them, but an easier choice is probably to opt out. There’s a good opt-out list for mailings at:
http://www.stopjunkmail.org/resident.htm
A polite letter to the CEO’s office (but certify it) also usually works wonders.
can’t wait for comhealth.
Goldy, did your Big Wheel get stuck on it?
Interesting that Comcast might acquire NBC. If that happens, watch for the business types to insiste that NBC boost its ratings in all divisions, including cable.
About the only for that to happen is to dump the entire MSNBC lefty-loon lineup and replace it with something people might want to watch.
Don’t you just love the law of unintended consequences?
The Piper
@10
What do you think we have now, dumbass?
If you have twitter you can tell @comcastcares and he’ll help you.
Piper @ 12;
Common, Piper, you are smarter than this comment let’s on. The whole reason Comcast wants to buy NBC/Universal is not because it’s current NBC fall lineup is weak and they think they can do better. It’s because of their cable spin-offs are doing pretty well – Bravo, Oxygen Channel, SyFy, Telemundo Int’l, Universal HD, USA Network, National Geographic. And don’t forget CNBC, MSNBC, and the Weather Channel (a favorite of my sister, a frustrated meteorologist).
Currently Comcast has to pay for broadcasting programming on all of those NBC/Universal channels. If Comcast acquires NBC/Universal, those payments would just be accounting transfers (assuming they were made at all).