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    Outside. Storefront. Located in the New Hope Commons shopping center near I-40 and 15-501 (I-40 exit 270).
    Daniel B.

    First, I very rarely leave one-star reviews. I visited this Spectrum store twice in three days and both visits were a waste of time. All I wanted to do was return equipment, but this store wasn't accepting any equipment. Instead, during both visits, I was directed to The UPS Store across the street. The UPS Store across the street was closed during both of my visits to this Spectrum store. I was, however, able to make it to a different location of The UPS Store than the one this Spectrum store recommended. It's The UPS Store off I-40 exit 276 on Fayetteville Rd: https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-ups-store-durham-5. I made it to that UPS Store just before they closed. The employee there asked me, "Spectrum sent you all the way over here?" You can return Spectrum equipment at any UPS Store. They pack and ship it for you. I received both a physical and emailed return receipt. I changed our Spectrum plan at home. As a result, there was some equipment we no longer needed. The Spectrum agent that helped me change our plan (over the phone) told me to return the unneeded equipment within 14 business days to my local Spectrum store. The "Local Spectrum Store" listed on the bottom of our monthly Spectrum bill is this one at 5446-A New Hope Commons Dr, Space 11, Durham, NC 27707. My first visit was on a Sunday. As soon as we entered and an employee saw we had equipment in-hand, he told us their systems were down and to go to The UPS Store across the street. Since that UPS Store was closed, I decided to wait a couple days and return to this Spectrum store when their systems were back up. I returned the following Tuesday. A different employee did the same thing to me except he didn't tell me that their systems were down. He didn't give me a reason why they weren't accepting equipment returns. All he said was they didn't accept equipment returns and to go to The UPS Store across the street instead, except they had already closed for the day. It shouldn't have been that complicated. I should be able to return Spectrum equipment at a Spectrum store, especially since a Spectrum agent told me that is what I had to do, and this specific store is listed on my bill. Come on, man. What's with the runaround? I've been a Spectrum internet and TV customer in the Chapel Hill-Durham area since June 2020. I've also been an Xfinity internet and TV customer in Atlanta since the early 2000s. To Spectrum's credit, until now, Xfinity was definitely the better value. After changing my plan, Spectrum *may* now be the better value. About every year since forever, I've had to play the game with these cable companies to find promos, discounts, bundles, etc. to not get gouged on my monthly bills. After communicating with, I kid not, five different Spectrum agents in a single day, I was able to get our monthly bill down from $211.62 per month to $121.18 per month. I only had to pay the $211.62 price once. It occurred in the month after our last promo expired. Before, we had been rolling along at about $191.29 per month. The $121.18 per month is good for 12 months only. With Xfinity in Atlanta, I've been rolling along at $178.67 per month with faster internet (Xfinity gig-speed vs. Spectrum "Internet Ultra" 500 Mbps) and more live and on-demand TV and movie content (e.g., Peacock Premium included). The reasons I was able to get our Spectrum bill down are: 1. I asked to speak with the cancellation department. They can find more and better ways to save you money than the regular billing department can, but you have to request to speak to them. 2. I dropped our Spectrum TV Select plan, which was $84.99 per month, and replaced it with the Spectrum TV Choice 15 plan, which is $__.__ per month. The Choice 15 plan is great because my wife and I can pick which 15 channels we want. We can also swap channels into and out of the plan. Most people don't watch most of the dozens or hundreds of channels they get. That system was/is outdated. 3. I dropped our Spectrum Receiver, a.k.a. the "HD box," which was $10.99 per month. This was the equipment I returned (plus the remote control that went with it). Instead of using the HD box, I just stream TV using the Spectrum TV or mobile app or https://watch.spectrum.net/livetv on a computer or tablet. With Xfinity, we still have a box and remote with various features (e.g., X1 platform, voice activation, DVR, apps) and again, more channels and content than Spectrum. This is why above I said, "Spectrum *may* now be the better value." We're currently paying more for Xfinity, but we also get more. My tune may change when my next promo(s) with Xfinity expire. Cable plans and packages constantly change. You need to stay on your toes to make sure you're getting the best deal and not getting ripped off by these monopolies.

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    Horrible customer service. They need a better check in process and more attentive staff. You will probably waste your time here.

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    AT&T uVerse Fiber - Durham, Southpoint NC 27713 - It's great, once you get connected.... but…read morethere's a catch: the initial cable installation is temporary and the Buried Cable Service has to come and bury that fiber-wire. Therein lies the problem... and it's the same if they have to come back and fix it, lay a temporary cable, and have the Buried Cable Service Team re-bury the new temporary cable - IF it get's done, it will ONLY be if you berate them with the requests. You might have to get REALLY annoyed and upset with them to bury that wire, possibly report them to the Better Business Bureau and FCC. In my experience, our original connection took months to schedule - good that I didn't disconnect TWC (the worst service I've ever paid for - review another time). When the temporary fiber cable was finally installed by the AT&T service team - they did a good job - they were AT&T Service Tech. However, that's when I began to learn that the Service Team doesn't bury the wire, it's a Contractor.... and the Contractor's are awful at best. Once that initial cable got buried (2 inches below ground) - it got damaged - bitten by a mole. The repair took weeks... we were down. This is where the repeat frustration begins... a temporary cable get's installed... and service get's restored, but that cable runs across the street - which doesn't take more than a few days to get broken. Another call then goes into AT&T Support... after a week, another temporary cable get's installed, and... you guessed it, get's broken, resulting in yet another call to AT&T Support and waiting for a temporary cable. Eventually, the Contractor Buried Cable Service comes to bury the line and all is well. That is... until my neighbor who experiences all the above, has her line cut accidentally by road crews installing Fiber (Google-Fiber) down NC54. In the ensuing farce the AT&T Contractor who came out to fix her cable, cuts OUR cable buried underneath the road and uses it was a pull string for my neighbors cable (cause we wouldn't let him run through our property - imagine my livid reaction)! Several weeks result in calls with my screaming into the phone to AT&T Support and Supervisors with our phone and security systems and TV-Internet completely down = NOT amused. After several weeks, three temporary cables got installed and layed across the road, each got broken, each took days or weeks to fix. FINALLY, a couple of good 'ole southern boys from the nearby Greensboro Municipality team who'd been brought in to help with workload, came up with a better temporary fix, and strung the temporary cable from pole-to-pole (not on the road) and across the yard, until the Buried Cable Service could come and finish re-installing the buried cable that was cut by the previous Contractor. It took months before the Buried Cable Service showed up, but, there was no advance notice, and I found via my property camera's that there were AT&T guys on site - with no advance notice. Shortly, minutes later, I get a call from one of the onsite Contractor's about disconnecting our Service and burying the line. I told them, "oh hell not today, you'll have to come back, there's no way I'm having my cable and service disconnected, and go through a complete outage process again without my being at home and there to make sure it's functional". They hang up... and I watch them "bury" a cable anyways. When I get home, surprise, that cable isn't buried more than 1 inch... ~seriously~?? And most of it isn't buried at all - thank God it's not been switched over yet... Now the best part of it all = it's been over 4 months since that last Buried Cable Service visit - there's been no call back, I can't get a return call from my voicemails. The not-connected "buried cable" is still exposed... (and improperly routed through the walling of the middle of my garden). The suspended cable across the road and coiling around the side or the road and into the entrance gate and running across the lawn, is at least still active... I'm at least relieved that I have any service at all - grateful for that. I'm furiously annoyed that I know the cable WILL eventually get damaged - it's just a matter or time - ergo mowing the lawn has been a challenge to say the least, as has getting the leaves cleaned up (my property is surrounded by huge trees and buries the lawn each fall between Nov-Dec. SO believe it or not, my issues are STILL not resolved... Nobody calls, or calls back... Good luck to any of you who go down this road, but here's my two cents: If you are going with AT&T uVerse, bear these comments in mind and get a conduit properly laid in advance yourself, to facilitate the AT&T installation. AT&T doesn't arm their cable, it's an unprotected extremely thin and fragile fiber optic cable. Call AT&T Buried Wire Center at: 800-924-9420, Monday through Friday between 7:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET. This phone number is specific to cables in the ground that need to be buried.

    Had been with at&t since Fiber came into the triangle in NC, so about 7 years. When our internet…read morestopped working, we were given no explanation other than they were "fixing it" and service would be returned by 11pm that night. Looking at the outage map, it was considered low impact and didn't effect a large number of customers. Then the hours kept increasing, yesterday the outage map read 105 hours. 3 days later our fix no longer has a time estimate when we call, and the outage map now reads 105 hours to be fixed for the second day in a row. When we asked about a refund for the days missed, we were told we would be refunded zero dollars for downed service. Essentially we paid them to provide us with no service or customer support whatsoever. Thankfully it caused us to find Google was 30 dollars cheaper a month for the same service, so we canceled. They lost a longtime customer.

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