My husband has been given orders to go back to Iraq, so he canceled with direct TV. Military personnel can not be held to contracts whenever they are called to duty because the service is of no use to them. He canceled on Dec. 4th 2008 by phone and email. The first week of January, we were shocked to see that direct TV had taken $544 from our checking account without permission or without giving a notice. My husband called Direct TV and the lady apologized for the mistake and said the money would be returned to our account immediately. After a few days, the money had not been returned, so my husband called again. This time a man told him it would be 7-10 business days.By this time, we had bounced many checks, because I had mailed out bills not knowing this money would be stolen from my account. I sent an email about the stress and hardship it was causing my family and got another apology and this person said that it would take up to 6 weeks! My husband called very upset and was told this time that Direct would not take responsibilty for the $410 in bad check fees they had caused, yet the week before he was told that Direct TV would refund the bad check fees.
This is over $900 they have cost me during an extremly stressful time. I do not have money that kind of money to spare.
This is my husband's third time going to war, I have three small children, and no family to help me because both parents are dead and I live in another state from my in-laws. Thank you direct TV, for supporting your military.
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