I cancelled my service in October 2007. I thought at that time that my account was paid up to date. I never once received any correspondence from them stating that my account still held a balance. That was until April 2009 when I received a letter from an attorney/debt collector stating that I still had a balance of $87.68 on my account that needed to paid immediately. Why did it take them a year and half to contact me regarding this? I would have paid the balance immediately if they had sent me anything within that year and a half before sending this to a collector. I am still furious over this and will never do business with this company again as well as warn everyone I know of their awful business practices.

have tried to get ahold of cavalier since july. no customer service when account number is put in you are told not valid and are disconnected. lawyers are trying to collect money. have talked to lawyers and have faxed letters and statements was told this would be taken care of and have still recieved letters saying that i still owe them money.

I have had CAVALIER (telephone since 2004 In February I requested a new line as a dedicated line, after 2 month I had to cancel after taking off from work on several occasion to be home as requested. I tried again in Mai, the same problem, they keep transfer me from one service to service and always with the same auto voice and have spent hours on the phone on hold. I asked for compensation and they refused. I am thinking on suing them for lost wages. Do not use Cavalier when they got you, you can't contact them

I have been a Cavalier customer for about a year. I have experienced constant service issues since I switched, and several billing issues (at least three or four). In the most recent issue, Cavalier simply deducted a $27.00 from the amount I had paid. They simply registered it to the account as a negative payment. There had been no canceled, refused, reversed, or otherwise credited payment back to my bank account. Cavalier simply took $27.00 of my money. This happened back on 5/7/2007. I notified them of this error on 6/4, when I received my 5/29 statement. I received back a very unprofessional email a few hours later, stating that my email had been forwarded to accounts receivable. I heard nothing else. Today (7/3) I received my 6/29 statement. The issue has not been corrected, and a of 5:24 p.m. EST, Cavalier's customer service offices were closed.

I had serious billing issues for months when I first joined Cavalier, and they were all due to Cavalier's mistakes and failures in fixing them. The telephone service has also been riddled with a static interference problem which began as soon as I switched. Cavalier claims that they can prove that the issue is originating outside my home, but are powerless to make Verizon fix it. They tell me that I have to deal with Verizon. And of course Verizon claims the problem has to do with my home's internal wiring (which didn't have a problem until I switched to Cavalier).

I may switch from Cavalier without every recovering my $27.00, but I didn't see any point in losing money on awful phone service and not trying to help someone else avoid the same problems.

Cavalier Telephone Co, branch that services Baltimore Maryland. Their email address is feedback AT cavtel.com. I've already emailed this company. My story is below for all to read:

This is in reference to phone number 410-243-4080. I don't have exact dates nor everyone's name that I talked to, but to the best of my recollection, and the few notes I do have here's what I personally think. I'm going to be as kind as I can. Though this is a lengthy reply, I hope it conveys to you the length of time my problem has existed, and still exist as I write this. I ask only that you bear with me and read this to the end.

First off I'm not the kind that usually complains. When there are problems I don't mind waiting them out when it appears that those in charge, and in power, to resolve the problem, are working on fixing things. This experience has been so terrible, for me, that for the first time I am not going to just suffer it without at least writing to complain. I'm not going to just write to you, I'm also sending a copy of this email along with my complaint to the Better Business Bureau.

First off, I'm a long time Verizon phone and DSL customer. I'm 50 years old and have been a Verizon customer since I was 16. I decided to try and save a few buck by giving cavalier a try. That decision turned out to be among the worst decisions I've made in years. For me it has been a nightmare.

I called around the beginning to middle of January 2007 to find out all thats involved in becoming a cavalier phone and DSL customer. The gentleman that I talked to handled things smoothly and it appeared that it would be a painless transition.

He said he couldn't give me exact dates but it would be about a couple of weeks before I'm changed over, and that I shouldn't experience any disruption in phone or dsl service.

I received my cavalier DSL kit close to the end of January with a letter stating that my DSL service would be activated on Feb 1, 2007. On Tuesday, Jan 30, I'm guessing about noon, my phone service stopped working. I figured that my service was being switched so I didn't worry.

When it still wasn't working the next day I decided to call and inquire. I was told by a young lady that my service should be on. She stated that a tech would be sent out to take care of the problem, but it would take approximately 2 days. I gave her my cell phone number so that I could be reached by them if need be. About 2 days later (I think it was a Thursday) a cavalier tech showed up. He checked in my basement, and in my yard, and discovered that I had no dial tone, and told me that an outside tech was needed to get the dial - tone signal to my house. He let me know that cavalier uses Verizon's techs to bring the dial tone from the pole to the house. He told me that it would take, maybe 2, up to 4 days, to get a Verizon tech to the house. He said I should get a call, either that day, or the next, confirming that a Verizon tech was scheduled and when to expect him. I received the call (From a Ronnie at 804-422-4647) and the tech was due the next week (I'm almost positive it was on that next Monday, Feb 5th), and I was to make sure he had access to my yard. I stayed home the scheduled day, and unlocked my gate for the tech that morning. I never saw any tech that day, but didn't worry because I was told that he wouldn't contact me unless he needed too.

When my phone service still wasn't on by that night, I tried calling my home number from my cell phone. I got a dial tone and ringing in the ear piece of my cell phone but nothing on my home phone. I called cavalier and let them know my situation. To the best of my recollection, a tech arrived the next day (Tues Feb 6th). He was a different tech than the one that came the first time. He checked in my basement. He checked all my wiring by cutting the in-house wires from the lines that came in from the outside. He used some hand held gadget and explained to me (the best I can recall) that if a dial tone was on the out side line, we would be hearing a fast busy signal via the gadget he held. We heard nothing. He stated that Verizon's tech said that there was a dial tone on the line, but there was none. This tech too, explained to me that a Verizon tech was definitely needed to come to my house and make sure that I had a dial tone from the pole to my house.

After this 2nd cavalier tech left I received a call from someone named Christine on the same number as above. She gave a call back number of 866-607-8669. Her call was to set up a vendor meet, where a cavalier tech and a Verizon tech, was to meet at my house, at the same time, and stay until the problem was resolved. If I remember correctly the vendor meet was scheduled for the next day (Weds Feb 7th) at 11 am and that someone would have to be there to give the necessary access. My wife took off from work and stayed home that day. However, we received a call that day from Christine stating that the vendor meet would have to be rescheduled because Verizon's tech would not be able to make it and the meet could not go on with only one tech there. So the vendor meet was rescheduled.

I'm not sure, but I think the rescheduled day didn't take place until Monday or Tuesday of the next week (Feb 12th or 13th). That day, cavalier's tech showed up (This was the same tech that came to my house for cavalier the first time) but Verizon's tech did not. To this point no Verizon techs have shown up at my property to help resolve this issue. The 1st cavalier tech looked at the wiring that the 2nd cavalier tech had cut and left hanging. He waited about 5 minutes and left saying that he was going to try to get hold of the Verizon tech. A few minutes later I noticed that the cavalier tech's truck was gone, so I called Christine to inform her of the situation and inquire about my status. She informed me that she hadn't heard from the the tech and that she wished he had called while he was still at my home so that she could have helped to contact Verizon to see what the problem was.

Christine put me on hold for a few minutes while she investigated. When she returned to the phone she told me that she had bad news for me. She was very apologetic when she informed me that, through the communication between cavalier and Verizon, that cavalier had inadvertently given the incorrect address of 2108 Harford Rd instead of my address, which is, 2808 Harford Rd, to Verizon. She apologized and told me that it was a mistake on cavalier's part. She also said that if I decided to change my mind about trying cavalier she would understand, but if I decided to stay with cavalier she would stick with me personally until all problems were resolved.

Despite of the major inconveniences I, and my family, had endured to that point, I decided to continue with the process. This was for two reasons, mainly. For one, I understand that sometimes things just happen. Sometimes things are out of our control, and through no fault of, or maybe just a little fault of, our own, sometimes, things just happen. Secondly I decided to stay the course, because up until this point, despite of how badly things seemed, everyone for the most part seemed to have a helpful attitude toward resolving the situation. Except for the 2nd cavalier tech just cutting my wires and then just leaving them like that, and the 1st cavalier tech (on his 2nd visit-- the 2nd failed vendor meet) just leaving me with the impression that he was trying to contact the Verizon tech, not letting me know that he had left the premises for good. Up until this point, though unhappy with the situation, I still wanted to give cavalier a try.

Christine had also explained to me that it would take some time to straighten things out. My order would have to be put in again and could take up to another 7 to 10 days to be completed. I asked her this, since mine is a pre-existing order can it be escalated or expedited? I also asked her, since we have been through all we have been through, could someone, somewhere help move this along? I also explained to her that time was taken off from work to meet the techs, that all 3 in my household are students, and that we need the phone and our internet access to complete assignments. She stated that she understood and would do all that she could to help, but that the way Verizon works, it could not be speeded up unless she bugged them to the point where they just moved my case up on their own. She stated that she had no control over whether my order was moved up by them or not.

She told me that she was moving to another building the next day, but would call back to give me her direct number, and that she would stick with me until it was resolved (This was the week that ended on Fri, Feb 16th). I'm sorry to say that I have not heard from her since that conversation.

I waited approximately one week before calling to find out the status of my order. When I called your service rep (I didn't note his name--I should have) told me there was a problem with my order. That I must have moved or gave them a different address, or something. I assured him that I had not move and that I had been living at this current address for 15 years. He stated that I must have done something because Verizon has me down at address 2108 Harford Rd and that since I was coming from Verizon, that Verizon already had my address, and that was the address that they had. I explained to him what Christine had explained to me about the address mix up. I was letting him know, in polite terms some of what I had been through so far, only to hear another problem had popped up. He told me that everything I was saying to him was irrelevant because it was in the past. That was the first point during my entire ordeal with cavalier that I felt any kind of anger. I could not believe that a person representing cavalier, a company I was now bending over backward to become a customer of, was saying that all I had been through was irrelevant. I reminded him that I was a customer and that even if it was irrelevant (which it was not) it was not his place to tell me that something I was going through, as a customer, was irrelevant. I also told him that it was not in the pass, it is in the present because I am still going through it. I am still having problems that are not resolved. He told me two more times that what I was telling him was irrelevant. He was determined to tell me my situation was irrelevant.

I asked to speak to someone else because at that point I could not, comfortably, continue to talk with him. He transferred me to a young lady who stated her name was Linda, I explained to Linda my situation, as far as my order was concerned, and what I had just gone through with the person that transferred me to her. Linda empathized with me and offered me the first month complimentary (confirmation # for the credit was 244251--just making note of it) I asked her to transfer me to a supervisor so that I could formally complain against the person that transferred me to her. Before transferring me Linda, stated that she was transferring me to a supervisor named M's Vanessa Barnes at ext. 4982. However, when the phone stopped ringing the voice mail message was a man's voice who stated that his name was Kevin. I left a brief message, that included my complaint, my cell phone number and my desire for someone to call me back. I must say when it came to dealing with a company I have never, ever felt as helpless as I feel when dealing with your company. I never did find out the status of my order which was the reason for my call.

Throughout this ordeal people we know have been telling us that they have been calling us and leaving messages. So the line is active somewhere but not here. Until recently my internal wiring was not connected at all to the outside wiring. If the signal was coming to my property all callers would have been getting a constant busy signal. I called our number using directions received in the mail and retrieved our messages.

I waited a couple of days more before calling back to find out the status. I was told, by a young lady, that my order was on hold because my address could not be verified. I asked her what did she mean? She said that they could not verify my address in the system. I told her i didn't understand, after all, their (meaning your) techs came out to my house on a total of 3 separate occasions. She said she could see that, but that my address couldn't be verified. She stated that for my order to be filled, first, my address had to be verified then it would take a few to complete the setup days. I requested a supervisor this call too.

I did not get the supervisor's name but she is the last person that I talked to concerning my order. This date was February 21, 2007. I asked the supervisor if a tech could be sent out to repair the in-house telephone wiring, that the 2nd tech that came to my house had cut away from the outside wiring coming into my house, when he was troubleshooting the dial tone issue, which has not been fixed yet. I let her know that my desire was to cancel the order and go back to Verizon. The supervisor told me that a tech could not come out until after my address had been verified, and my order completed. Only then could a tech be sent out to repair the wiring that was cut and she didn't know how long that would take. Then she told me that I could not cancel the order. I asked her what did she mean? She told me because my name was not on the order I could not cancel it. I reminded her that I was the one that called and placed the order, I handled all the calls for the order, and that except for the one time my wife took off from work (for the 1st attempt at the vendor meet that didn't happened) I was the one that stayed to meet all scheduled techs, even the ones that never showed from Verizon. That supervisor told me that it didn't matter.

On 2/21/2007 I made arrangements with Verizon to have my service returned back to Verizon retaining our original phone number. Just this past weekend I paid to have the wiring reconnected. Verizon made an attempt today to reconnect our number, but now the line has a DSL signal on it too. Where ever that signal is going it is not coming to my house. I have no phone signal or DSL signal here at 2808 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21218. Cavalier has sent both the phone and DSL signal to someone else's home, I guess. To top it off, we have received a bill, for account number 3746855, with a statement date of 02/16/2007, and have yet to receive any service. Not that we want any service at this point.

If you bore with me until this point I thank you very much. Getting this off of my chest does not make me feel any better about my experience. I feel so strongly about this situation that I fully intend to send a copy of this email to the Better Business Bureau and a hard copy to your company headquarters. I have spent 18 years in the hospitality service industry. I know very well how customers are suppose to be treated. I know that when you lose a customer, you don't just lose the immediate revenue, but also the future revenue from that customer and other customer brought in by that customer. Over a period of time you could be talking about many thousands of dollars. I'm sure it's just a few bad apples, or a few good people just having bad days. They have cost your company money. I hope that they are not reflective of management.

All of the above was written yesterday. I just want to add that I decided to use a new phone number and Verizon has me connected again. We dearly wanted to keep our old number, which we've had for 15 years, but loosing it is just another of many bad experiences this decision to try Cavalier has cost us. Out of curiosity I just dialed our old number, 410-243-4080, and it still rings somewhere, but not here.

Sincerely,
Ricardo Jobes.