Visitor

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Monday, October 6th, 2025

Cable locate service

I chatted with an agent last week, and set up an appointment for someone to come and mark the location of my cable. I am putting a shed in the back yard and need to know where all underground cables are located. After a long time fighting with the xfinity assistant, the most frustrating bot ever, I finally connected with a human agent. He set up an appointment for someone to come and mark my cable location.

They were supposed to come today. So far no one has showed up. So I tried chatting again. This time the bot kept refusing to connect me with an agent. It said it could not do so because of an outage in my area. Yet I was not experiencing an outage, and was literally using that very xfinity connection to chat. Nevertheless, the bot kept refusing to get me to an agent. At one point it said I had no appointments on the schedule.

I tried calling on the phone. All I got was the recorded message with nested menu options. It kept telling me I had to wait until the outage was resolved. Again, there was no outage. Then it rather unceremoniously hung up on me.

If any xfinity personnel can look at my chat history, they will read where an agent was supposed to come today. No agent has come. My main purpose in posting is:

1) to find out why no one has come, and to get them to come ASAP and mark my cable's location.

My secondary purpose is:

2) to say that this system is extremely frustrating. The human agents are surrounded by a labyrinth of technology, shielding them from customers who need help. This labyrinth exists on both the phone and the chat bot. Please fix this. I am actively looking for another internet provider.

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Official Employee

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415 Messages

19 days ago

Hello, user_rtkfz9! We appreciate you knocking on our XFINITY Community door this afternoon. We totally get how frustrating this must have been after going through an extensive journey when attempting to get this resolved so you can set up and start using your shed for storage soon. We’d be more than happy to help you get the ball rolling on this!
Please send our team a direct message with your full name, the name listed on the account (if different), and the service address associated with your account.
To send a Direct Message, please click on the “Direct Message” icon in the top-right corner of the screen, next to the bell icon click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon then type or select "Xfinity Support". Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window and press Enter to send your message and initiate a live session. 
 

 

Visitor

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4 Messages

I sent you a private message two days ago. Nothing happened. I am starting to doubt that you "totally get how frustrating" this is. You don't seem to be "more than happy to help."

I will try again to find my way through the labyrinth of the chat bot and the phone menu.

Official Employee

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My apologies @user_rtkfz9 I am not seeing a private message sent on this thread. I'm not seeing any PM's on this platform. Could you send one again so we can assist?  To send a direct message:
1. In the top right corner, you'll see a little chat icon near the bell icon. Click the direct message icon 
2. Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
3. In the 'To' line, type "Xfinity Support" there. A drop-down list appears. Select "Xfinity Support" from that list (an "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line)
4. Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
5. Press Enter to send it. An official employee, such as myself or whoever is first available, will respond. Thanks!

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Visitor

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4 Messages

Thank you. Lacking other guidance, I sent my private message to xfinityNatalie. I will now send to xfinity support, per your instructions.

UPDATE: I see that Natalie did say to send it to Xfinity support, so that one is on me. Sorry.

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Expert

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32.8K Messages

19 days ago

@user_rtkfz9 

Did you call 811 Locate?  Every utility will come out and mark where utility lines are located, Xfinity included.

Visitor

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4 Messages

@Again​ Yes, I did. They marked everything, except they said I had to call xfinity (comcast) myself.

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