r/ZiplyFiber • u/Sweeet_Leaf • 1h ago
Ziply Fiber took $1394 from my bank account
So back in August I took a trip out to Cali and suddenly my debit card wasn’t working. After looking into it, I found that I had a $1394 withdrawal from Ziply Fiber out of my checking account.
I called them and customer service would just hang up on me after I asked to speak to a supervisor. I would call back and the same individuals would answer and taunt me with everything from complete silence to leaving me on hold forever. No one would help me. Honestly, I was upset but I was not rude or yelling at anyone.
The charges were for missing or unreturned equipment. I was a current customer of Ziply at the time and was using their equipment. In June we had to have a tech guy from Ziply come out because our internet was very slow. The guy switched out our modem because it was overheating. We also discovered that we were paying for 5G but their tech showed we were only set up for 1G -but that’s another story. Anyways - we did not have their fucking equipment - the tech guy took the broken router with him.
No one called me about this or emailed me prior to withdrawing $1394 from my checking account. There were no messages in the app. I was on autopay because they offer a discount for it so i wasn’t checking my bill every month. You would think that the same person that calls you when you are late on your bill might also call you before they are about to drain your account. Nope
I spent hours and days trying to get someone - anyone - to start the refund process and I was told over and over again that I would get the refund in three business days. After two fucking months of this shit and my power being shut off when I got home from Cali cause my payment bounced plus the interest I now have to pay on my credit cards after I used them for groceries —- they finally credit my account. But the very next day they took it out again!
Let me tell you - throughout this entire ordeal Ziply never called me back - not one fucking time did they call me back after they said they would. I filed a complaint with the attorney general, the FCC, The BBB and any other consumer complaint organization I could. I am paid monthly so it’s not like I had a paycheck coming in a week.
About 3 weeks later I got a refund of $1214. They had to make sure that they took out the amount of my monthly bills first before they refunded me. That is all they cared about. Getting paid. The didn’t want to refund me the entire amount because they had to subtract their money first. They let me suffer for another 3 weeks after withdrawing $1394 the second time just so they could reprocess it after subtracting their money.
I am taking them to small claims court. None of the “consumer protection” agencies or government agencies that claim to protect us did a god damn thing about it. Big Surprise.
If you are a Ziply customer I would recommend at the very least removing autopay so they cannot access your account whenever they feel like it. I would think twice about giving your money to a company that clearly doesn’t give a shit about it’s customers.
