I've been on hold 53 minutes and counting

Did you transfer lifetime from a Series2 to a Series3? If so, you no longer have lifetime on the Series2 and will be charged starting one-year from the date of that transfer.

If you are no longer using that Series2, be sure to remove that Tivo from your account at Tivo.com. Login to Manage My Account.

 

Must be reading this wrong. Are you saying you can cancel service online?

 

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No where near the record

 

I noticed the same charge a few days ago. 12.95/month. I had transfered lifetime service from a S2 to my S3. I called Tivo customer service, hit 2, then 2 again. I was on hold for about 2 minutes before a rep answered. I gave her my phone number, she pulled up the account, and immediately knew what was going on. She put me on hold for about 1 minute, came back and said that she canceled service on the S2 and reversed the 12.95 charge. This was at noon eastern time. I don't know what happened to you.

 

Why don't you just do what I did. Are you pretending not to know what the issue is with the rep?

 

ditto. Had the exact same "problem" and it was handled in less than 10 minutes.

 

Ok, just out of curiosity, I called to "confirm" that they fixed the issue.

I called 877-289-8486. Hit 2, 2, 2, entered phone #. It warned me that the hold time might be greater than 15 minutes. I got through to someone after a little over 10 minutes. I asked about the charge, then they said it was taken care of. My cell phone said I was on the phone for 11:13.

 

Brain fart.

You're right, he can't cancel online. But he can see online whether that S2 is still on his account.

 

How exactly did Tivo "know" you didn't own the old Tivo unit? Did you take the old Tivo unit off of your account? Did the new owner set up a new account in his name?

If you sold your old Tivo unit, the new owner took your year of free service (which he couldn't technically do under the terms of the transfer offer), and no one told Tivo about it, you can't really complain.

 

Dude, it could have been a LOT WORSE.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=344276

 

My guess (and the OP can correct me if I'm wrong) - the OP sold the old Tivo unit that had a free year's service due to the lifetime transfer. This violated the terms of the lifetime transfer offer, which said the year of free service could not be transferred. The new owner did not transfer the old Tivo unit to his account since that would have eliminated the year of free service. This also likely explains why it took so long with this particular caller.

As for me, I cancelled service on my old Tivo unit about two weeks before the free year ended. The CSR fell all over himself trying to get me to take $6.95/month for an old Tivo unit I'd never use, but it took less than 15 minutes to get everything squared away.

 

I knew it was coming at some point, so I wasn't surprised when I saw the charge. Tivo made it very clear that they would automatically start charging for the S2 service after one year. They read that statement when the lifetime was transfered from S2 to S3.

 

I wouldn't say they made it very clear. All the advertising I remember was about transferring your Lifetime sub over to a new S3, and letting your S2 operate for another year for "free".

What they deliberately obfuscated was that they were actually enrolling your old unit into a regular (recurring) subscription - likely to try and boost their subscription numbers to shareholders. I'd say most people didn't catch word of the automatic renewal billing crap until after we spent money on the S3 box and then contacted Tivo to actually do the transfer.

Seems pretty greedy and anti-customer to hold onto your credit info, and then make the customer wait in a phone queue just to cancel an old box they already replaced.

 

My $12.95 charge came in last Saturday. I called and it took about 30 minutes to get through it all -- although they answered in less than five minutes. I had given my Series 2 to my brother and we transferred the unit to his account about two months ago. My $12.95 charge was charged to a different Series 2 that doesn't even exist anymore. So, when they lost the original Series 2 from my account, they transferred the one-year free to the only other non-lifetime unit on my account. My rep also tried to sell me the continuation at $6.95 per month even after I told him twice that I owned one TV and one TiVo.

No, nothing at customer service has changed.

 

I called yesterday, the first day I was to be billed for my transferred service. I called around 11am EST and got thru with less than 5 minutes of hold time. Whole call took less than 10 minutes.

 

I think they have it under control now. I received satisfactory results with a single call that took about 20 Minutes, thanks to all the early callers