I agree with Topic!Cindy, tommyrot. This was their screw-up, and they are responsible for dealing with it in a timely manner. Keeping thousands of your dollars for well over a week does not equal a timely manner.

I think I missed the beginning of this story, but I've gathered that Comcast overcharged you by some vast amount, and they're saying it'll take two weeks to fix?

Hell, no. I agree with Cindy. Stay on the phone and refuse to hang up until someone fixes this.

This was their screw-up, and they are responsible for dealing with it in a timely manner. Keeping thousands of your dollars for well over a week does not equal a timely manner.

Adding my voice to the chorus as well.

From BoingBoing and Metafilter -- flickr set -- people seeing goatse for the first time.

yeah, how did i miss the story. i swear i've not been skimming today.

HDTV ready?

What they want is for you to wait, so that they can follow their SOP for reversing a payment, which makes the paperwork easy/less/nill for them.

That's tough shit. You need to be Mr. Doesn't-Take-No-For-An-Answer, until you get a human with some brains, and some compassion, who realizes Comcast can do without its 250 bucks for a week or two, way more easily than Tommyrot, Dick, or Harry can do without 2500 bucks.

Someone can reverse the charge today, online, and might have to then put a post-it note on his/her monitor, or a note in his/her day-planner, to follow the paperwork through to completion, after the fact, but the charge can be reversed today.

Put it this way, if you'd called them, and asked them to take the payment from your checking account electronically, you would see the debit from your checking account, tomorrow. They just don't want to have to go and find out how to fix this now. It's completely unacceptable.

The higher you go up the food chain, the more reasonable people ought to be (there are always incompetent asshats at every level, but in general, I mean), because they have more autonomy in decision making. At this point, for your extreme aggravation, they ought to be writing off your monthly bill this time out, too, as well as reversing the charge immediately.

Firstgoatse? Please to explain?

Wikipedia on Goatse.

This is getting so confusing. What with the contradictory info and such. I just called my bank (before, I was talking to people at the nearby branch office) and found out that the charge has not gone through yet - there's still just a hold on it (I was told earlier that the charge had gone through). So what will probably happen is that the hold will automatically drop off tonight or tomorrow. (If Comcast tells my bank to drop the hold sooner, then it will happen sooner). All this three-to-four week bullshit was on the assumption that the charge had actually gone through.

Wikipedia on Goatse.

HOLY CRAP!!!! Remember to look at the name of the freakin' thread before clicking. ita, at least you linked to wikipedia, but I followed their link. Holy mother of God.