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Friday, February 28th, 2025 5:09 PM

Upgrading Peacock

I made the mistake of switching Peacock to be paid with my Xfinity not realizing that it would downgrade to the version with ads.  Since then I have tried numerous times to upgrade it on the Xfinity website.  I have spoken with multiple Xfinity "customer service" representatives and every one had no clue how to help or just plain wrong information.  The website is easily one of the worst websites for a company I have ever dealt with, it's slow, loads poorly, and when you try to upgrade it errors out telling you to call customer service only for them to tell you that they can't help and directing you back to the website, that isn't working properly.
How can I address this?  I have spent multiple hours on the phone and between either being transferred to tech support because they believe there's some kind of problem with my PC (there isn't) or my connection (there isn't) or maybe just to pass me to someone so they don't have to deal with it.

At this point I don't care how it gets fixed, I either need to cancel it being linked to my Xfinity or it needs to be upgraded to the ad-free(yes I know that costs extra).

Even this very site and form are a perfect example of how poorly setup this whole "suite" of sites are; the screen extends far lower than most/any browser windows would be in length and even though the Topic, Tags, and Cancel/Post buttons are off the screen there's no ability to scroll down.  I had to take the tab from the browser and manually enlarge the window to be about 50% larger. 

Official Employee

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1.6K Messages

1 month ago

Hello! Thanks for reaching out to us through Xfinity Forums for help with your Peacock account. 

 

How you upgrade to Peacock Premium Plus depends on how you signed up for Peacock initially:

If you are still experiencing issues, feel free to send us a direct message with your full name and service address. 

 

  • Make sure you are signed in here in the Xfinity Forum. Click "Sign In" if necessary
  • Click the "Direct Message" icon (square chat icon in the upper right corner of your screen next to the bell icon)
  • Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
  • Type "Xfinity Support" in the "To:" line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list which appears. The "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line
  • Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
  • Press Enter to send it

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@XfinityEva​ at this point I finally got it taken care of. The website in Chrome and edge both kept failing at the end of trying to add Peacock Plus and nobody at Xfinity support seemed capable of helping. From giving completely incorrect answers to just plain saying they have no ability. 

I finally tried it through the app and it succeeded. 

It is really sad that a company of this size has such a horrible inefficient and incapable website and support structure. 

Official Employee

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1.6K Messages

Great to hear you were able to get this change completed! We're sorry to hear that this was your experience and we appreciate your time working with our teams. Please let us know if there is anything else we can assist with! 

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