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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024 7:50 PM

Email account deleted

I am beyond infuriated with how Xfinity tier one through three support has handled my issue. I did not log into my Comcast email account for apparently over 12 months, however, I never received an email to my secondary email address on my account advising that my Comcast email would be terminated for inactivity. I have been on the phone for a collective two hours with customer support and escalations, With absolutely no resolution. It clearly states in the Xfinity app that all I need to do to reactivate my Comcast email is access my inbox. However, when I click any link or directive or pop-up to access my emails, I am redirected to this article on the Xfinity website explaining how to access my emails. I am not the only one with this issue. Now I am being told that all of my emails and data have been deleted, and I have no way to reactivate my email address that I was promised for life when my service was started. 

I have had to re-explain my issue with every single person I spoke with in this company. Not a single person understood what I was saying, and I was very clear and direct. I work in customer service. I have worked in call centers. This standard that Xfinity is providing is deplorable.

I should not have to re-explain an issue three times when I am already on the phone in silence, letting the advocates notate my account while I’m still on the line. And to come out of this with absolutely no resolution after the hours I have spent on this issue is beyond infuriating. I was essentially provided a service that was then removed with zero notice. I did not receive any notice to my secondary email account that my Comcast email was going to be terminated. This is reportable to the Better Business Bureau and state Attorney General, but this is my last straw to see if there is even one competent employee in this company who can understand and fix this issue. 

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1 month ago

Hi user_ceh8uw, I know all too well how important emails are, I depend on mine and would be pretty upset if I were in your shoes. It is true, that you must access your Xfinity email account once within a 12-mo period to prevent situations like this. You can find our Email Policy using this hyperlink. To confirm, had you logged into the Xfinity Connect website during the last 12-months? 

 

 

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I have not accessed my emails account in over 12 months. I never received notice that my data would be deleted if not accessed for over 12 months. Xfinity also states that I can reactivate my email by accessing my inbox, yet there is no way for me to do this as stated above.

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user_ceh8uw, we do send a notification prior to the account deletion. Do you happen to know if you had an alternate email set to receive those notifications? Let's work on helping you with getting your email reacgivated. Can you please clear your cache/cookies and attempt to log into the Xfinity Connect website? 

 

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@XfinityMarcos​ I did that and am able to login using the website. Still not able to access my emails. I did have a secondary email set up but I check it frequently and never received the email warning me of the data deletion. 

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@user_ceh8uw Oh, no! I can only imagine how upsetting this must be. May I suggest you attempt to discuss your email recovery with our experts in Customer Security Assurance (CSA)? You can reach them by calling our Customer Service Team at: 1-800-266-2278, but asking to speak with CSA about your email. If anyone can recover it, this would be the team. Please let us know after how things went.

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This is exactly who I talked to. I got all the way to tier 3 with the CSA team and the tier 3 agent was not helping. He just kept saying email accounts are deleted after 6 months of inactivity, which isn’t even the case. It’s 12 months. Can someone just reactivate my email, I am unable to do it from my end for the above mentioned reasons. 

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15 days ago

OMG i'm in a parallel universe.   I'm on my 7th representative and last night was bumped to level 3.  I'm rather sure that somebody changed some logic for Customers with ONLY email services.

This AM I noticed my secondary account does not say inactive but still cannot access the email functions. .that's the bad news.  The good news is I suddenly have acquired some new free services I never asked for nor do i want.

Xfinity Assistant is a joke and Support Reps level 1 and level 2 were embarrassing. Sadly I do not have much hope for Level 3.

If you or anyone have a resolution on this please advise.

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@user_pz914k If you're in contact with our CSA team and have an IH ticket, you're definitely in the best hands to resolve your email issues and concerns. Let us know the outcome of their resolution and if you're still needing assistance. 

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@XfinityBradM​ i just spoke with Lao (sp?) on the cSA team. . .he could do absolutely nothing to help and said wait for level 3 to call me.  Are you kidding me.

I'm rather sure, as I told him, that it has to do with logic that someone at xfinity changed for Customers who ONLY have email services because when I use the Xfinity app for all three of my email accounts it stops me and says we have no service and we need to pay our bill.  Note: there is no bill for customers with only email services.

I can login to this secondary account and I can see that it won't authorize me, likely becuase of logic around billing.

If i login to the primary account and try to see the bill, it tells me we have no services.

Somebody screwed up the logic in the programming and that's evident.  Logging in only works on the website but accessing email once logged in does NOT work.

If you CANNOT help, please say so as you would be person 10 at Xfinity and I don't have time or patience for that.

I can also see in this FORUM that around the august timeframe, other Customers experienced this identical issue so I'm left to believe that when Xfinity marks a secondary account as INACTIVE and flags it for deletion it screws with the entire account marking the entire account as INACTIVE. . .dumb.

Good luck with this but we're close to done with xfinity after this experience. What has happened to the level of skills on level 1-3 support? Disappointing.

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Here's the IH number if you care to escalate this matter:  [EDIT: PII].   I don't have spare hours everyday to talk with xfinity so i'm close to surrender but I will post on social media what this has been like to warn others.

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If it concerns the backend logic of UIDs, frontline representatives can only create tickets and refer you to our higher-level teams. Since your request is already in the hands of our awesome tier 3 team(s), we'll have to wait for a resolution from them if our account security team is unable to assist you. 

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Also not helpful.   

Trust me that I will get this fixed and then will openly share what a disappointing experience this has been.  I just spoke with someone who clearly has a brain at Xfinity.    Given her 15 minute conversation with me I believe she is first person to understand the real issue(s), the diagnostics i've already performed to conclude that Xfinity screwed up our account,  and she is on it.  She has acknowledged, in less than 15 minutes that this is indeed their problem.

I won't hold my breath but it took me 5 days and 11 conversations to get to this intelligent, informed, knowledgeable person who also was able to listen.

Here's some feedback:   get rid of the Virtual Assistant as that's worthless too AND listen to your Customers, especially those who know what they are talking about.

Y'all assume I didn't reset my password vs. listening to the depth of the issues.

BFN

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