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Toll free phone number: 1-800-827-6364AOL is an internet services and media company. It is one of the largest in the world, and because of that there are plenty of AOL complaints to go around. Many of them include poor customer service, problems with email and internet connections, and problems contacting the corporate office. Because AOL is a more traditional media company, they primarily rely on dated methods of handling problems with customers.
Many customers report frustrations trying to solve even the most basic of troubleshooting tasks to correct browser, internet, or email issues. The CEO of AOL is Tim Armstrong, who famously fired an employee while being recorded several years ago. He has been the CEO since 2009. If you need to write a letter to the CEO, his address is 770 Broadway New York, NY 10003. The corporate office phone number is (212) 206-4400.
The majority of complaints against the company stem from a lack of innovation, communication, and customer support. Although, given the corporations recent challenges at headquarters, it is not likely these problems will be resolved anytime soon. Focusing on customers simply is not a priority for AOL.
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AOL, cancels my POST remarks about ever things. AS a consumer of AOL. I'am WASTING my money and right to complain. Need I cancel AOL??
Hey guys you should publish on aol sight that is pg approved. we share the email with my kids and sometime i notice that news area is only for adults. please put some thing is not watchable for kids. i hope you will listen and stop this.
Email system is the worst.
Constant error messages that they have encountered a technical error.
Cannot open emails, cannot send emails.
This happens constantly and it stinks!
I am not receiving notifications in my email when I comment and get likes or when someone replies to my comments in the comment section of the articles. This has been going on for about 6 weeks. I previously made this complaint and was advised by AOL to click on my name at the beginning of a comment section and check the settings. I did this, and all the setting are checked to receive notifications. Just to make sure, I unchecked them and then checked them again and clicked to save them. I just checked again a few minutes ago, and all of them are still checked; yet I am not receiving any notifications. I used to get loads of feedback and then suddenly they just stopped. Can someone at AOL please see what is happening and try to correct this situation. I spent an hour with a tech who couldn't resolve the situation, and this is my second complaint in this online complaint section. I can't believe it is so difficult to address something that should not be that complicated.
Important emails sent to me are not arriving, WHY?
I actually pay a monthly fee to have to put up with your self-serving format, which I resent greatly. In almost every story or article I want to read, you make your customers read a few sentences and then click to go forward to the next page. Of course it takes several seconds because all of the advertisements you sell have to load. I would think you would make a no-advertisements version available to those subscribers who actually pay for the service. GREED, GREED, GREED!
Why can't I drill down to lower levals
I've been a PAYING customer for many years! I read the news every morning, but for the past month to a month and a half the service is
horrible. I click on a great headline and all I get is a BLANK PAGE, there are a few Head Lines that do link, but most are blank page! Please advise what the problem is and how it can be rectified! When you solve this problem, I will rate AOL.
AOL is an unbelievable stupid company and I am unbelievable stupid user. First most of the news that comes with pictures only reveals 1/3 of the pictures because the rest is blocked out by ads. Second, if you want the whole news story you need to train yourself to block out the ads and speed read. Thank you AOL for the first time in my 73 years on this earth I am able to speed . AOL is about the most unethical or maybe you can say smartest if your a money monger. It makes it's customers pay to fix its own dysfunctional software.
Finally discovered why aol mail is so horrendous !
They start off hassling one aspect of your webmail account: for example, slow linking to your Email. Then add another aspect, such as sending slews of ads to Inbox; and so on until you get so fed-up you find a way to complain to their Customer Service. Here they very sweetly commiserate with your problems and finally tell you they'll give you a 30 day free Tach Support --- for which you must give a Credit Card number. At the end of that month, as we all know, there's no way to cancel (despite their promises). When you refuse the free "favor" -- or try to cancel the paid tech service at the end of the month -- the hassling increases to the point of making the webmail nearly impossible to use altogether. In addition, If you Search "aol+outage+map" you'll see that the outages are ongoing most populated parts of the county.
BEWARE !!! aol is among the biggest SCAMS on the web -- and any so-called rating services (such as "hissingkitty.com") that gives it a high rating, you can be sure is being paid off by aol (or Verizon --- aol's new owner) itself.
I've been locked out of the AOL account for the last three days and none of your representative have been able to get a resolution for me to gain access to the account. I've had the AOL account for many years and they're telling me that they can get the account back open; unfortunately, since Monday, June 24, 2019 not one representative has been able to successfully reestablish the account. I've been on the phone, daily, since Monday, June 24, 2019 trying to gain access. I'm back on the phone with a representative and she just informed me that her system will not allow her to give me a temporary password and she just hung the phone up due to my asking to speak to a supervisor. I've spoken to Cel, Vee, Fee, Vin, etc. and none of them seem to know what they are doing.
This is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever experienced in my life that AOL is this antiquated that no one can help you gain access to an account that AOL blocked out. Can someone get the account reopened so I can gain access to my emails, immediately. This verification process is antiquated and when a representative is unable to get the account opened they then tell you to call back. How I check my emails, what type of equipment I use to sign in to the account, emails that I sent in the last two weeks, etc etc.
SLOW START UP ONCE IT IS UP NEWS CAPTIONS STAY THE SAME IF IT CHANGES TO NEW SUBJSCT
I TELL EVERYONE THAT YOUR SERVICE IS CRAP !
ill be changing to some other service !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On 6/11/2019 I was responding to a reply to a comment I'd made on an AOL comment thread and while typing my response I saw all my previous comments on the thread deleted. I have always followed the AOL guidelines and write thoughtful and considerate comments. Apparently the moderator was mad because my original comment was criticizing a Yahoo writer for taking Trump's words out of context. Verizon bought AOL and Yahoo so maybe that's why the moderator was offended or maybe it's just political bias.
Regardless, the moderator took it much further and deleted ALL of my comments from more than the past 2 years when AOL implemented their current format for their comment threads. I found this out by going to my profile page and all that were there were the 15 comments from April to June 2017 that I posted to other sites who used that same format for their comment thread. The moderator has also blocked my comments from posting and did so in a sneaky way. It appears that my comment has posted but if I reload that particular news article, go to the comment that I was replying to, my comment is not there.
I spent 30 minutes on the phone today with AOL help personnel. They recommended that I go to the AOL feedback site and make my case. It was the only recourse they could offer. I posted my issue on the feedback site. Went back to see if anyone had responded to my post only to find that their solution to my problem was just to delete my post. I've looked at the Verizon Media and AOL sites where they talk about putting customers first and about "human rights of free expression" but it doesn't seem to apply to me. I have been a paying customer at AOL for more than 20 years and a paying customer at Verizon for more than 15 years and get treated this way. There was even a Verizon section that was titled "Always Fair" on the page that starts with "Customers first."
It's pathetic that there is no way to contact the moderators of AOL comment threads and it would seem they could send an email to let their customers know WHY they've had 2 years of comments deleted and are now blocked from posting comments. Wouldn't that be "fair" and putting "customers first"?
I know to help pay for the service I have to accept pop up ads on AOL, but recently the pop up ad had a picture that I consider porn. I emailed Aol told I agreed to get pop up ads, no reference to the content. I then called and this guy had no concern about the vulgar ad, he tried to SELL me virus protection. It is not a virus it is a company they advertise for. I can not have children seeing an ad like this. Shame on AOL...I guess after decades I am going to have to go to another Email service
cannot read my mail from today May 30th. Plus when I went on to read
had no date said only yesterday. Called customer service had to talk to 3 people before I got to where I was supposed to be and that was the worst now it only comes up with the time and was told by the rep from
(Romania) that's the way it is. Well I've been dealing with Aol for more than 25 yrs and that's not the way it is. Plus this happens every couple of months I need to spend hours on the phone with you and to boot you
increased my bill to $21.00 dollars a month. This needs to get rectified and soon.
AOL is screening my posts and not letting others see my posts, because I am a conservative. I replied to my own post and it did not appear. I used to be a "leader" no more. I used to get tons of likes and some dislikes. NO MORE!!!
This discrimination is the reason no one trust MSM anymore. I will not pay for this abuse anymore. I will be cancelling my payment to AOL as soon as I find another that is not discriminating against their opinion and political agenda.
How about stop running false news.
Please fix you news feed so that when you advance to another story the Story header also advances with it.
I have tried multiple times and spent over 2 hours on the phone with customer service to cancel my aol account, after an attempted hack to my account. I deleted all 5 sub accounts in March (well over an hour) while on the phone with CS dept and was told to wait 30-45 days to cancel main account. Called today to delete my main account (jwasser369@aol.com). Spent 20 minutes with CS and he was unable to delete account and then disconnected to call without warning. Please advise to wasserman.judy@gmail.com
MY COMPUTER IS HELPLESS. TODAY EVERY THING IS NOT WORKING. I ONLY USE IT FOR E-MAIL THE REST OF MY COMPUTERS ARE WORKING WELL., BUT ARE IN MY DOWNSTAIRS OFFICE. MY OLD MAIL HAS COME BACK, AFTER MY COMPLAINTS. LAST WEEK I SIGNED UP FOR HELP ON A TRAIL BASIS. MY DAY HAS BEEN DESTROYED. I AM A CPA AND HAVE NOT COMPLETED ALL MY CLIENTS RETURN. I DID RECEIVE A MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE WHO WANTED ME TO PAY 1$ AND THEN SIGN UP AGAIN. MY OLD MAIL HAS COME UP AGAIN, BUT MY 993 CURRENT E MAILS NUMBERING(INCORRECTLY)99O MESSAGES COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. I CONNOT DO ANY WORK AND MY DAY IS RUINED. I CANNOT DO ANY WORK. I DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK TO SOME ONE BY E-MAIL BECAUSE YOUR PEOPLE ARE MORE INTERESTED IN SELLING KNEW PROGRAMS INSTEAD OF HELPING CUSTOMERS WHO RELY ON YOUR SERVICE. tHIS IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO HANDLE A CUSTOMER WHO HAS BEEN WITH YOU SINCE DAY 1
why cant I set my password for my email why are you asking for money you don't answer your phone no one will read this im sure I feel like I am being held hostage and that is bull shit
I have been receiving the last couple months that my AOL e-mail is going to be deleated. I did not ever give permission to deactivate my account. Please reactivate my aol account and email. I am not ok with this delay and cant sign in to my e-mail. thank u
I am a long time user of AOL. i have had some computer problems with AOL. i asked them for help. They forwarded me to a company who said they could help me. They represented AOL, but were not AOL.They tried to fix my problem bust said That i needed additional help. That was after i paid $399.00 for their initial repair. They asked for an additional $700.00 . i refused to pay that. Since then i have had a problem in signing into to my account. If i leave my computer on without touching it for a while it shuts down so i need to sign in again. if i sign in again the computer does not acknowledge me so i need to sign in again. Sometimes i am on the computer for a long time and need go to another site and sign in again because the computer says they do not recognize me. It is very annoying to need to sign in after i have been on the computer for a long time.
Pissed ordered for first time and was charged double want my money back now
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AOL is using a hard sell system for peddling System Mechanic and Anti Spyware programs. I have rejected the offers twice and again I will tell you I do not want or need them. I replied to their offer again 30 minutes ago and said in the email that I do not want the service and to confirm they are not going to charge my account per the email I received.
I have been with AOL for a long time (at least 20 yrs) and the service was a lot better. Also had more functions that I liked and without notice AOL took them away.If the one star is a low rating then that is what I can give them and if there was a lower rating they have earned that one.
why are my comments not being shown when I enter a comment after a story? I am not rude on line.
I am so disappointed today. For the first time in 2 plus years your "newspeople" and I mean that very loosely and sarcastically have
totally abandoned there Trump collusion and obstruction articles. AOl you should require them to write an apology for being wrong
for the last 2 plus years. I demand that AOl and the people you allow to publish on your web site apologize to Trump and america for
being biased.
For years I have had AOL, services. For some unknown reason Most any POST made are wiped out. Just like today. I tried to down a story about John McCain, being called the Hanol Hilton SONGBIRD. AOL blocked the reprint. I pay MONEYS for your internet services. Before I cancel. I would like to know my PROBLEM with YOU.
The number of ads and pop ups has gotten totally out of hand. I don't read your content on many menus because deleting the ads gets so frustrating that I just abandon the article.
For a service that I already pay for it seems I should not be bombarded with ads.
Alan Frey
AOL is constantly locking me out and requiring me to reenter my address and password each time I log in.
They keep saying there has been suspious activity I know there is not then they send a code to my yahoo.com address and every time I put the code in it says it is wrong they give another code I enter same thing I have complained and nothing I have a wife in a cancer treatment place she is level 4 and I have all my job info as I am trying to get a better paying job to raise our 12 year old daughter. It is very frustrating I wish I could go to there office and bust peoples heads open with a baseball bat. I have anxiety and depression I don't need there stupid shit.Please help
You constantly publish negative news or advises. You are converting this country in a hypochondriac nation.
AOL now sends me pop up demands from India that freeze my computer while I am working on it to recover from a massive hack from—you guessed it—India. They urged me to pay a $17.95 subscription fee for March 2019. How could I? A few days ago my Dell computer was compromised by hackers from Goa, India and I am still working furiously to block the fatal effects of that hack. However, the incredibly rude and stupid AOL tactic of freezing everything but their popup has prevented me from doing that. I had to pull the plug on the computer, and lose critical restoration work.
I called AOL many times, attempting to get a voice connection in the US, but seems there aren't any—the former American managers have flown the coop. In fact, each time I dialed, the phone was picked up in India-- not an uncommon event in the US these days. When the voice on the other end suggested I pay the $17.95 with a credit card and asked for the number, I replied in my best Indian dialect: "A credit card? Do you think I am going to give a credit card number to someone from India? Are you crazy? Get those $%^&$ pop ups off my computer screen so I can continue to fix my computer, which was crippled by you people. This will restore my financial life, and my peace of mind, for which you don’t give a fig.”
It was of course like hollering into 12 miles of cotton. I now work and save work and save and work and save before the popups appear to jam my computer. And if I can work my way out of the pernicious attempt by those Goa-based hackers to ruin my life, I will end my 20-plus years of employing AOL and acquire a new internet provider. One that is free of charge and located here in the states. It'll probably be Google Chrome. I hear Chrome is a tight secure ship compared to the rudderless AOL with its scareware sails. AOL is a sinking ship.
AOL is definitely the worst internet provider that even the most backward of tree-dwelling humanoids would want to employ.
AOL does not report the truth! They are extremely biased and only report far left liberal views. They also create sensational headlines where there is no story to back them up. Do you really think the majority of Americans give a hoot about the Kardashians, the Hypocrites in Hollywood and all of the other junk that they put on their website, not to mention the constant bashing of our President who the American people voted into office. How about printing some true facts instead of fictious lies????
i keep getting a pop up saying to disable my ad blocker hr so i disable my ad blocker and i still get the the notice to disable my adblocker I CANNOT EVEN ANSWER MY E MAILS HEY AOL GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASSES AND FIX THIS PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!
You have adds that are popping up blocking the things that I want to read or look at. I am tired of it. Please correct this or I"m quitting your services!!
My mother passed away two months ago and I found out she had her AOL payment on auto charge to her credit card. They refused to credit the last two charges - I asked for even the last month's charge as there is no money to pay the credit card for it. "i'm sorry we can only credit if you canceled before the billing date" (which basically means they don't credit anything) but you can't cancel if you are dead! Supervisor said no way to credit - really? AOL has no ability to credit an account? Ever? Under any circumstance? My mom was a two decade customer - they couldn't credit as even a customer courtesy? Terrible!!!
I have no contacts blocked on my phone. I contacted Verizon and they do not provide technical support anymore and was told to call AOL who now does for my account. I also contacted Apple and was told nothing came from their end and to contact AOL. I contacted AOL and was given 2 options. 1. Go to AOL online Help page and 2. Sign up for a AOL Plan that provides live technical support with a monthly charge. I was told I can cancel the plan during a 30 day trial period. AOL has a bad reputation with this process.
I went to the AOL webpage and there was absolutely nothing that addressed how to unblock a contact. In fact, the webpage was so generic I found it totally useless for consumers.
I believe AOL does this on purpose so users will sign up for the monthly live AOL help.
This blocking had NOTHING to do with me and was done by AOL so I do not understand why I would have to pay AOL for assistance. I have Never blocked anyone and find the AOL fee assistance program a scam....PARTICULARLY SINCE AOL DID THE UNAUTHORIZED BLOCKING.
I RECENTLY HAVE RECEIVED 20 TO 30 E-MAILS DAILY OFFERING ME SEXUAL ADVISE AND SEXUAL OFFERINGS. MOST OF THESES E-MAILS HAVE PREVIOUSLY COME THROUGH MY SPAM ACCOUNT. I DO NOT WANT THESE COME THROUGH MY PERSONAL OR BUSINESS ACCOUNTS.
MARTIN ROSENWASSER CPA aOL.COM
This new yahoo portfolios you switched to is absolutely the worst ever, totally NOT user friendly and unable to control, maintain or obtain what s wanted. Due to this change which was my primary reason for PAYING for AOL I now have to research other options to track my stocks and may posibly have to drop AOL.
When I log onto a News Item, with that STUPID MUSic that is played YOU CAN NOT HEAR what is being said for the music over it.. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT>>
Why do you always report Kardashian news? No one cares!!! Let's have some more pertinent media coverage and not waste everyone's time with this.
every time i sign in i never get a phone call to give me a code that gives me access to my emails, and went i call to complaint. they tell me that they don't have my email address and my phone number.i have to use my other email address OUTLOOK.COM to sign in to aol. will you please kindly straighten this situation out because i don't wanna have to fill out a complaint application with the better business bureau THANK YOU!
its simply horrible you freeze up have to reboot room all day several times ,cant post and serviceis slow this is a new puter thats already messing up and i only use aol ,im constantly having to reboot your program what am i paying for?
The new split screen picture on the Welcome scroll is terrible. Please go back to the way it was.
It is the day before Thanksgiving and your banners are all about attacking Trump and being negative to include some stupid thing about poisoning
your dog on Thanksgiving. Do you people have anything to be thankful for. For God's sake get over it. I pay for this service and I want more positive stuff.
hi I have had system mechanic for a number of years about two years ago they downloaded but not very well but I left it because that all took three hours to do and it always does and they always say I owe them money except for the part they are the one who pay themselves as they take my payment out of my account so I don't like this well three months I shut my computer down to factory settings I forgot to save system mechanic I called aol and it took a hour and finally they said aolo had to do this so called them three and a half hours later and talking to manager got angry with him he could not download because it is under a nother name which I had forgotten because they don't let you switch to other user well finally he went to my account and found my other name I guess there were four errors and he is telling me I have to pay for them which I said no first it was over one hundred and then 80 dollars if they had had this fixed I shouldn't have gotten this error I have paid for this service all of these years and I am not sure he took away the way you get your money it hasn't been quite a month I don't like talking to foreign people the news says they are usually out to screw you but yet almost all operators are foreign can you do something for me I don't want to loose this but I don't want something I am paying for and not able to use and I don't want a foreign person calling me and I have other problems with the items you have provided me with somehow they lapse and I never know it and they don't tell me
Your company charges me just shy of $20.00 a month to be my email service. I have also made you my home page. As my home page your service is terrible. I have received messages that for an additional fee I could stop the incessant pop-ups for occurring. I can't get through a story without your popups interrupting it. I can never complete a story because there always seems to be a problem with the story just before the few final story lines. You stink as my home page.
I was trying to read an article about Tom Selleck. There are so many advertisers and so many pop ups it was impossible for me to read the article. Does AOL really think pissing me off is going to get me to buy from one of these advertisers? This is too much.
You ask an interesting question (what does so and so look like now, what happened after this picture was taken, etc.) and I have to go through a whole bunch of advertisements and never actually get to the answer.
AND the pop-ups are awful. I try to read a news story and it is 2/3 blocked by an ad.
All of this is really HORRIBLE!
Sevice On my computer and apple phone stopped working on Sunday. I lost saved e-mail , didn't receive any new e-mail from Monday morning. Also the e-mail from Monday and Sunday disappeared along with saved e-mail. Late Tuesday my e-mail service resumed on the computer but not on my phone. Nothing has been restored as of now Wednesday 10/24/18.
Further calling AOL help desk is a BAD JOKE. When you finally get thru after 2 days of trying you get someone who says he can't hear you and barely speaks English. I told him to get off his head set as I could barely understand him, but with no results.
I found an appalling ad for Build the Wall when I opened my AOL account this morning. If I see it again, I am closing this account. I am completely disgusted.
I keep getting "reCAPCHA"even whe I said I did not want it, Why?
I have used an AOL account for many years, and believe it services my needs, and prefer it to Google due to easy of use
and clarity of formats. I have always respected AOL reporting and trusting same.
However I am very disappointed at the miss leading, incomplete, and inaccurate news information, with bias, that many AOL News entries
now contain online.
Many of your writers of such articles are not reporting news, with sufficient real, or full facts, but slanting their articles with their own opinions
to form, I think, a political opinion they push.
I hope AOL management favors full facts and fully honest reporting. Not slanted articles.
Let the American people read the complete verified facts of any AOL subject on line.
Do not slant a article for any political purpose, party, or a wanted political result.
We all deserve honest responsible journalistic articles. NOT SLANTED PROPAGANDA.
worst company ever
This complaint is on executive Sam August September I sent e mail to Sam no e mail back for 2 months problem with AOL WELCOMESCREEN is new it sucks old WELCOMSCREEN IS better I was happy I told Sam that e mail AUGUST and September Sam got e mail never fixed problem Sam don't care what AOL want or what best for AOL members 2 months same issue and other problem my e mail says it all that Sam never fixed or e mailed reply today is 9/20/2018 I finally got a reply back it said sorry this email is no longer valued this was new to me after 2 months SAM DID NOT ANSWER MY QUESTION OR FIX PROBLEM YET I been a AOL member 18 years no respect from executive SAM I am mad my e mail says it all that I sent to executive Sam investigate who is right who is wrong I will work with you to sole this problem soon OLD WELCOME SCREEN was better the problem with AOL nobody listen to e mail or feedback that my opion only please investigate email I sent executive SAM THANK YOU . PS and calls to SAM no return call back to me with number.
Today I called to change my billing info. from one credit card to another; representative tried to sell me a 1 month free trial - I said if you're going to have a company call me telling me that my computer has been compromised and attempt to sell me a $300.00 + to clean up my computer - I don't want to go there. AOL has thrown me into this horrible company a number of times, requiring that I pay a computer expert to get rid of them. They block my computer that I can navigate at all. I hope whatever company AOL is using to perform this act of hostage taking that they stop this kind of behavior.
Why is it every Head line post story that idiot Kane West pops up with that stupid comment about slaves. There is no need to keep running that story. PLEASE stop posting that idiot...
My complaint is I cant get pass my Security questions. When I initially open my Aol Free account it was early 2000. My Security questions were my Dad's Date of Birth, Mother's maiden name, and name of elementary school. I no longer used the phone number that I listed on the account. Tried to update information over the years. For what ever reason, none of my information was updated. New phone number. So the problem is, Aol is still using the original number that I used on the account, which is now disconnected. Also, it was in early 2000 and I certainly don't know my last bill of pay. Yes, I agree stricter security code, but if can identify original Security questions, all of my old and current passwords, I am at a lost. My work and personal information are associated with this email address. On top of that,, the banks only go back 5 years. So, I couldn't even get information regarding last bill of pay , and last 4 digits of CC card. Please Aol even had the issue "escalated" and Tech team could not push pass their system . Please have mercy on me, and I willing to have my data to be at risk, so that I can get to emails that I need for work. Please help .
Tammy Thomas 901-314-7145.
Want money for a Gold Plan. I never signed up for one, so I wish you would give my account a credit. Thank you.
Still no banner headline about possible return of KIA's from North Korea. No positive and no negative. But no worries, you do have a banner
headline about what a farmer found in a pig's stomach. Do you people even realize how idiotic this make's you look. I pay for a service and
I want more positive stuff about good things occurring in and around our country. Give me what I want.
After about 20 years with AOL I have decided that you folks don't give a shit about customer support. So I cancelled my account today. This morning I had to reboot my windows 10 and I lost my AOL Gold desktop. I spent about 4 hours trying to get it re-established, during which time your tech support folks took over my computer twice and surfed thru my files until I had had enough of the bullshit. All I wanted to do was download AOL gold. Instead I got a bunch of crap from folks that barely spoke English. At first they started telling me that there was a problem with my account. Funny, since I haven't missed a payment is 20 years. Then they said they were having trouble with their server. So...they had lied to me. Shit fellas!!! If you can't download Gold off a website in 10 minutes, who the fuck needs it. So you lost one of your oldest, most faithful customers because your customer support sucks so bad. Good luck with your turd.
Okay AOL..here's the deal: You have someone very lazy working your daily posting on homepages. Some of the posts have been around for months and now and then..years! But regardless everyday we are lucky to get 3-4 new posts and the rest is the same-o same-o posts that have been around for days and weeks. Boring! Very very boring! I have been a customer for over twenty years but I'll tell you I slip on over to Yahoo where I get a heck of a lot of new posts and info everyday. Therefore I am also seeing their ads everyday as well...not so much yours. So get with the program...get some live wired posts coming through...even if they are boring at least get new ones...had enough of the same old worn out posts.
Stephanie Gogarty
Still no news banners about the good GDP number or more importantly the return of KIA's from North Korea. Hypocrites. Try a news
agency not from Cally or New York. Maybe from the USA. Hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I pay for info-supply what I want to see
Your news banner people never miss a chance to hammer Trump about what they believe relates to how bad he is. Never any good news.
Hypocrites, There is not one banner or article about Trump and Pompey getting our KIA's returned from North Korea after 70 years. Your
news banner people are Americans right! They see no value in discussing the return. Hypocrites-should be ashamed of yourselves. Your
hate is evident and seem's to be only getting worse
Your company and news vendors are very good at posting banners about Trump, Fox ,Republicans. But today when the the
GDP grew at 4.1%. I cannot find a single banner about it. Such hypocrites you are. I pay for this service and I expect you to
post all the good and bad news.
You keep running most delusional commentator on fox news. Its like when you have no new BS to post you throw this up again and again. I am
sure if you looked at CNN or MSNBC (I'm sure you do) There are delusional commentators on there as well. Brain Williams, Rachel Maddow,
take your pick on CNN. I pay you a fee, I want fairness.
How many times are you going to run Fox host most delusional banner. I have seen it at least 20 times. You must be owned by CNN. Give us
a break. If you have ever looked at Morning Joe on msnbc you will know what delusional is. Also. Maddow at night. Your and their hatred of
Fox and Trump and anyone is obvious. By the way post some of their delusional people on your site. I want to be able to control what you
post for me because I pay you
I have been with AOL for years now. I am so tired of their biased news reporting. Unbiased news reporters are truly a thing of the past. Sean Hannity said journalism is dead and he is right. Our president has done and is continuing to do great things yet Aol will never report it. It's a shame you Trump bashers will benefit from his tax cuts. He's not weak like our last president, I guess that's what liberals can identify with is weakness. It would be nice if AOL news would give the good and the bad, and not be biased. But then that would be journalism,
The emails i'v been receiving years with or without attachments.Last 3,4 months it Stopt. I don't now why I'v try all the directions AOl listed on help section it just does not worked. #1 There is more then one setting i,v try all of them ie AOL mail page options there is SAFE AND BLOCKED SENDERS AS INSTRUCTED ,another direction options below my name on aol email page then click mail settings no ware to fine ,an other one go to spam folder the address I want to remove from blocked list,on and on.Where and under what settings I should go that has .Mail Options and or blocked senders list so I can unblock.Is there a simpler directions ? Because mail page under my mail address options there is non of the options has what I am looking for to continue .Also I never made any changes to block these senders, I am missing importent informations has been email to me .Calling you toll free phone # dos not work for me since I am in another country of Turkey.Please help.I am inclosing my phone # incase there is a AOL customer service in this country..Phon # is 011 90 232 246 5686.I thank you in advance for your help.
(AOL does not provide a link to write, so I'm using this site.)
Writing this to you from the public library. AOL "Dialer" will not let me connect with the assigned numbers to you.
In March this year, same problem happened. That time, tech support acknowledged there was "a weakness" on your end in connecting with my modem calls. Problem solved after a week. Had to use an alternative assigned number to connect, resulted in a long distance charge from phone company of nearly $300.
PLEASE READ latest CASE# 0603 2897 for FOR COMPLETE INFO.
Phone with "tech support" today ended with "Senior Tech" said it's something wrong with my computer. Not with the access numbers assigned. My Local computer service has checked my computer. AOL Tech said, that is the "only option".
So, two months ago with identical problem, AOL DID fix the "weakness".
This time, AOL does NOT want to check their own weakness.
Fyi, one of your phone consultants suggested that "almost nobody in the world uses dial-up anymore. That I SHOULD TRY TO CONNECT WITH A DIFFERENT ISP!!!! "
I have been told that "nobody uses AOL anymore and that AOL doesn't care.
Also, as you can see, I've been a paying AOL member for nearly 18 years. NEVER had a problem connecting to the internet UNTIL I HAD TO use the "DIALER". Have the latest - the one and only - version of Dialer loaded on my computer. It worked for a while. Sometimes. Not at all this past week.
I'm ready to copy this to FCC. First I'll wait briefly for your careful response and/or fix.
Margaret - screen name MECHASKA@AOL.com
As a longtime AOL customer, I have begun to wonder if AOL has a specific editor or department that posts extremely grotesque photos every week of mangled, bloody, nauseating, diseased animals and individuals along with any form of disgusting pictures of babies, children and adults.with grotesque deformities. I have to quickly flip past these disturbing photos every week to keep from losing my appetite or losing my lunch.
There is so much else in the world to show us. Why put these nauseating pictures mixed for no apparent reason with the news of the day?
Julius Hunter
kelton4@aol.com
St. Louis
Why am I paying for AOL gold when on a daily basis I can't get my email. And at 3 in the afternoon while trying to get help, I am told that there are no agents and I should call back during regular business hours?
At least once a week I cannot read my mail. Message reads to come back in 5 minutes-HaH. Been waiting for 50 minutes. Why do I have to pay for such bad service each week. What is your problem. Talking with other people, they don,t have this problem with their providers, ever. This happens at least once a week, and I am tired of paying for this kind of service. Why don,t you fix it. Can,t understand why not.
Now that we are all paying you to use AOL, we should get better service. I send spam complaints about the same company over and over and nothing ever gets done. Most are from the same company. I have tried opting out, but it is impossible. They just ignore my requests and I end up getting more emails from them. Here are some examples:
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I get these emails multiple times per day and I can tell immediately they are spam. Why can't you? Why don't you block these spammers or take some action against them? This is ridiculous!
AOL has been billing me $39.99 for what? I started paying 24.99 for using their email back in 2000. I just kept paying to use my email address because I didn’t want to change my email address. I became disabled and just kept paying the service. I have been very sick and I found out I have another issue Lupus. I am now feeling better and started paying my bills and I saw they are billing me 39.99 for using their email address. They are jacking up people’s bills. I am sure the people who are elderly and Someone is paying their bills when they are not able to do so are just jacking up the price and the auto billing is taking their money. I had no way of knowing you increased the price or when. I can’t find a email address to complain. I can’t even go to aol and sign in because I don’t remember my password. I use my email on my phone and iPad. They make it impossible to get ahold of them. What a scam...
AOL's stories and articles have become so vile that in good conscience I can no longer be a customer after 17 years. They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. All they do is perpetuate negative sensationalism that only leads to further dissension -- the opposite of what this country needs today. Goodbye AOL, and if you don't straighten up, may the world see your gossip and anti conservative rhetoric for what it is... garbage.
Why do I have to wait 4-6 minutes for some lousy, unwanted ad to appear before I can complete logon or any other action??? I don't want to see any ads. I have "opted out of all ads" previously, but it doesn't mean anything to you! And your Customer Service telephone response is horrible ---- my experience is that even if I hang on and wait for a representative to answer for more than a half an hour ---nothing, no one responds to the call! Your service is getting disgusting --- and I'm paying for it!!!!
Thanks for nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is it that every time I sign into my AOL account I have to also type in my AOL password? I didn't have to until a few weeks ago, why now? I usually could get into AOL without supplying the password after the initial sign in as long as I didn't shut down the computer. This has become a pain in the ass. Crap like this usually happens right after an up date by AOL.
I am soooo disgusted not being able to read an article without all the advertisments shown with it. Next Page, Next Page, Next page......is all I get.
And it's slow. If you are posting something you want me to read, let me read it through. Will just use AOL for mail from now on.until I just get rid of aol altogether. Frustrated.....
I am92+-sick-disabled-have been a customer for many years.Have spent over 35 hours with tech etc. to fix aol computer checkup.deleted and reinstalled with technician still not working correctly.(hope i am not charged twice).Unless I can get a super technician who can fix problem i may leave AOL.Please make sure i am not charged twice and see if you can fix my problem.
561 372 5264
This is the worst service I couldn't even give AOL 1 star. Can't send messages, Another persons user name shows up on my emails and I don't know what the AT&T affiliation and that just as bad. Do I have to get another carrier, this is beyond stupid.
YOUR SITE IS SO ANTI PRESIDENT TRUMP.
WE STAY WITH YOU JUST TO SEE THE DEMOCRAT THOUGHTS, BUT IT IS GETTING SO RIDICULOUS.
i would like aol to check very bad langue towards other plaers texas olden limits player is tutty baker its impossible that your new regulations let this fowel langue go thru just read in the chat section in texas holder limit and you will see for yourself please
I have (had) McAfee free with my AOl acct Got too many viruses because they stopped protecting me for over a year.
sent messages to aol and McAfee so many times no help. I finally thought I had McAfee back what a joke still have all
the same problems Can not return you to AOL Lots of error message. Internet explorer had to close Tab Took 10 minutes
to read one e-mail. Computer changes what I am doing all the time.Feel so helpless at the mercy of these companies
who never seem to fix the many problems senior citizen fixed income
It is sad to see the AOL news becoming so biased and politicized with regard to Donald Trump. I have been 15 years with AOL , but it looks like it is
- time to move on. I do not need a provider bombarding me with selective political garb - I have enough from the rest of the media.
I cannot sign in to my email account....haven't been able to for days.....what is going on with this?>????????????????????????????????????
I suggest doing the AOL option for now to keep that old email address alive while you transfer everything over to new Gmail account. So later if you forgot to change an online account over to use Gmail address you will still have access to change it using AOL account which will still use same verizon.net address. I would NOT continue using AOL account because they will probably go away also. for more infomation: http://www.aolemail-support.com
Your new gold program could not be more FU--ed up
you have released this piece of SH-T without checking the program.
I am paralyzed with this and have no choice.
Get someone in there who understands cross platforms too--as nothing erased ever leaves your server...WTF????
and you have a nerve calling yourselves AMERICA on LINE
NO NE is AMERICAN
NOONE speaks American English
Wait times are more than 40 min only to be told WRONG DEPT...REALLY???
and your music SUCKS
I am a stock holder.
YOU ARE INCOMPETENT!
I am contacting investor relations
You should all be fired.
You made me upgrade to your new product. NO ONE in the history of the internet has ever required that of a paying customer, and then given them an inferior product. Here it is, December 9th and I still cannot print address labels as I have done for the past 5 years or so. Why would you insist your paying customers upgrade their aol version that has less functionality. Why do I continue to pay you a monthly fee for the privilege of using your product? I want my money back!!
Still unable to make NEW FOLDERS, links do not work and I have asked about it for a long time.
Now I cannot put anything in MY FAVORITES, it does not show up in the My Favorites.
Unable to list mail, wait 5 minutes, has been going on a long time. I have reported it numerous times. Not only inconvenient but extremely time consuming.
Thank you,
Constance Hingert@Aol.com
I have been a member of AOL for more years that I can remember. I am a retired Federal Worker who was an Electronic Engineer and Program Manager at the FAA's Technical Center in Atlantic City. I was chosen to head the Agencies highest Technical Program at the Center by the Center Director with the following words:
"Al, you are one Hell of a good Engineer....and your Honesty and Integrity cannot be questioned. ...
I want you to take over the FAA's Testing program of "Airborne Collision Systems."
Additionally, during an Emergency call to Washington the Director placed me in charge of the entire Center with the following words to the Division Secretary. "Tell AL he is Now in Charge...I am heading down to the hanger where they are warming up a plane to take me to Washington for an Emergency meeting."
There were four other Divisions Managers the Director could have called upon as I was only acting while my for my Division Manager while was on leave and held no Supervisory position even though I was Center's foremost Program Manager.
During that period I also designed a "USER-FRIENDLY computerized Information Program for my Program. The Head of the Contract Department informed the Center Director of my program with the following words. "Al Lolli has developed a computerized program that he knows more of what is going on in my Division than I do". As a result I was tasked by the Director to develop a program for the Rest of the Technical side of the Center...and eventually for the entire Center - including the Administrative side. FAA National Headquarters in Washington somehow became aware of the system I had developed that the Alaska Region was tasked with the responsibility of copying my system and implementing it throughout the FAA. The system I designed tracked, in real time, via the computer every action related to an approved milestone program from the " Cradle to the Grave" ...every purchase..whether it be a product or Service, Including the letting of Contracts for material and services.
SO..when i am contacting you and criticizing your New AOL GOLD...I am pretty much an expert in User Friendly Computer programs .
YOUR NEW AOL GOLD IS FOR THE BIRDS..AN NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED BEFORE ALL THE BUGS HAD BEEN WORKED OUT. THE PERSON IN CHARGE SHOULD BE FIRED... IT SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE REMOVED FROM ONLINE AND REPLACED WITH THE LATEST FORMER VERSION UNTIL YOUR "NEW AOL GOLD HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED AND WORKING 100% CORRECTLY."
TO ALLOW IT TO REMAIN ONLINE NOW ..IS A DIRECT REFLECTION ON YOU PERSONALLY... AND YOU SHOULD GIVE ORDERS TO IMMEDIATELY REPLACE IT WITH A FORMER VERSION UNTIL THE NEW VERSION IS OPERATING PROPERLY.
OTHERWISE... YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS... (OF WHICH I WISH I WERE A MEMBER) SHOULD TAKE SERIOUS ACTION AGAINST YOU... INCLUDING IF POSSIBLE. YOUR TERMINATION.
Should you have any objections to this correspondence, I would be most happy to hear from you.
I would also be most happy to converse with you via my Cell Phone 856-300 4287.
Should you attempt to call me on my REGULAR home phone 856-691-0661...my system will block you since I do not know and have not entered your phone number into its memory of allowable calls.
Finally... Please have all your customers contacted, and for those that agree....have their previous AOL version replace AOL GOLD. For those who wish to continue with your AOL GOLD service...make no changes. That would certainly cut down on the long frustrating wait times now prevalent when trying to reach any of your AOL Services.
I sincerely hope you take this correspondence seriously and take appropriate action. I also suggest you read all the unsatisfied AOL customers that have furnished complaints online. Just search on "AOL GOLD COMPLAINTS.
THE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED
PLEASE HAVE A SUPERVISOR CONTACT ME AT 917-796-6444
THANK YOU,
THIRD REUEST
We have been experiencing problems accessing our mail for a few days. A call was made to aol support. On speaking to someone who said he was a technician, he stated that our internet was being compromise by hackers from Russia, China, and here in USA. I asked him why did he not inform us. He stated that we needed a software in the cost of 149.99. I found this very suspicious and proceeded not to accept this, based on his not informing us and then the cost he was asking. I made another call and spoke to another technician who told me differently. In the past we have had persons from or stated that they were from aol who stated we were experiencing problems and unless we pay to have them fixed, we would have internet issues.
Question : are some of your tech support maliciously creating problems internet wise so they can rob customers?. Why if aol was aware that we had the problems he mentioned, why did he not inform us?
We await your response as we intend to report this to a law enforcement agency. I now wonder if some of your tech support collude with hackers to impact customer service for monetary gains.
On the News site you a President comment site. You should read the name calling and hate. It should be taken down cause AOL is respontable for it
The new AOL GOLD SUCKS!!! You took AWAY!! all the things that I liked about aol..
Easy photo Editing right in emails!!
Seeing who mailed you without opening the mail file.
Easy access to setting!
I HATE IT!!! I want the old version back!!!
AOLGold is terrible after my 31 yr membership!
Installed & uninstalled twice. Imported from File
twice. And still:
1. Lost All Favorites & keep losing after 3 AOL Gold installs
Favs on list keeps disappearing
2. Select All (Edit Button) doesn't work (Must use CTRL+A
3. Tool Bar Edit & Download Mgr "Coming Soon Notice"...When????
4."Mail Error Try Again in 5 Minutes Notice" keeps appearing
5, Email & Browser Pages = 10 seconds to appear. Slow. Slow. But not my computer.
6. Takes forever to save mail to File Cabinet
7. JUST SUCKS ... GUESS I MUST TO SELECT A DIFFERENT PROGRAM AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
AOL Finance folder which is run by SIG FIG is not a reliable service to track a portfolio. Some NYSE stocks are not updated or be added to a portfolio. I have been complaining to sig fig about a certain stock and the send me a canned answer that the are working on it. For almost 2 months I cannot update a stock (BRK'B BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC)
I have been a member since 2003.
I am unable to navigate the mail system in AOL Desktop Gold. No one is happy with this!
If you do not allow me to use my previous desktop, I will have to drop AOL and I am not alone.
I have been with AOL for close to 20 years. Now, as I open an AOL news article the video that opens up has nothing to do with the news subject. That video should only be about the subject of the article. I get tired of searching the page for the video that matches the news piece I chose to read and or watch. I am seriously considering leaving AOL due to the way you have your news videos set up. It is a waste of my time to start watching a news video that has nothing to do with the subject and I don't appreciate it using up my allotted time on the internet. Change you methods.
It is obvious AOL corporate are favoring Hilary Clinton by the way they operate. It is extremely difficult to look up anything that has to do with people that are republican. I refuse to look at Hillary appearing on my screen. Besides the fact that she is ugly and dresses like a man. She lies about everything and is a crooked as they come along with her husband.
I would greatly appreciate NOT seeing Hillary Clinton's face and related ads when I sign in, (nor would I appreciate seeing any other candidates' faces on my computer screen). I suspect the Clinton campaign paid for this exposure, which is their right, but it would be far better for companies like AOL to decline such political ads or at least provide the customer a way of opting out of seeing them. We get enough ads as it is, and certainly do not need these!
l observe that you have not posted my complaint about the new badly designed game site on AOL. I would like to lodge a second complaint on that subject. It requires me to check off a box before the site opens, and then requires me to identify myself. The games that I regularly play no longer appear where I can find them. Considering that AOL has so many delays due to glitches in your software-- articles that do not match their titles being a favorite error, ads that precede any and every news video; half-articles that require one to switch to a new page to get anything that relates to the title, thus giving you a second chance to bombard us with more ads; ads that stutter and stammer and never finish, but flip to new ads. Are you trying to drive customers away, or what?
I have two main complaints against AOL. First, Hillary Clinton is now all over the website including the home page and sign in page. Get her out of my pages! Second, I receive a lot of e-mails from adultsites. I believe my x is signing me up for these sites. Is there a way you can check into this and see who is sending me all these e-mails? If this is wrong department could you please forward this to the correct department. Hope to hear from you soon. If anyone has successfully contacted AOL customer service I would like the best phone number and hours of operation.
I have registered a complaint to the ftc about this ongoing problem. All of the mail I send to the Aol folks is being returned to me by you folks. Yet all of their mail (Aol mail) is delivered to me. Seems myself and friends are paying for a service and not receiving it.
Is AOL news from the old Huffington Post? We AOL users had a choice between the socialist left (Greek Politics in America Huf Post) and other news outlets. Why did you change that? I would estimate that there were 99 negative Trump and 3 or 4 negative HRC stories over past two weeks alone. It getting to the point the Greek Socialist point of view of the AOL news is too much to bear. AOL news is more like Pravada - constant propaganda from the left without a single dissenting view.
AOL news is very liberal and bias against the Republican Party and Donald Trump. It is obvious that AOL supports Hillary and the Democrat Party. Also they have at least 2 or 3 crazy articales on the Kardashians. What makes these people so important for so many articles? Most people could care less about the Kardashians.
I received an e-mail stating my Aol service I have was being increased to $23.09 it is now $20.99. When I started with AOL my service was free. I am finding it hard to pay the $20.99 as I am a widow on Social Security and really cannot afford what I am paying. I know people who do not pay for the AOL service they have.
I don't know why I have to pay for mine. I had a computer and had Mc Afee but I have a Apple laptop for the last 5 years. I also do not use other features. I just use your face page. I would like to keep AoL but the price is too high. Please answer me ASAP, as I have tried calling for two days and they have told me I would have to wait on the line for 25 minutes. Not happy that I could not talk to anyone.
When I tried to connect on my AOL account It was denied. It gave a number to call which I did. After a 45 minute discussion on hacking, virus etc, etc it was brought up I needed a $499.99 program for my computer. When I found this out I ended the conversation on the computer, and on my phone. The "Tech Rep" still stayed on the phone, even called me up saying I needed a one time fix at so many dollars. After several scams, having my identity stolen 3 times, I am not willing to do this. Was AOL aware of this?
Just spent over 2 hours writing a very difficult and complicated email to a client. just as I was getting ready to send it something erased the entire email except for the address of the recipient. I am absolutely furious. I can find no way to restore the info. I can not believe there is not a two step process that can stop an accidental deletion of an entire email or at the very least a way to recover info that just suddenly vanishes. Now that I look online I see more AOL complaints than I can count. Wow!
I want to complaint about Donald Trump's AOL advertisement that was on my AOL page today. September, 6, 2016. The ad resembles Hitler giving his "Heil Hitler" arm signal. I am deeply deeply offended by the ad and I am surprised you did not censor it. I tried to copy the picture to post it to Facebook so I could take a survey among my friends, but I could not copy it. I will complain to my Congressman and Senator if I see it on AOL's main page again; I consider it a hate crime.
I am tired of being "knocked" off line by AOL constantly and many times in a matter of minutes. This must be a problem as AOL as an "apology" and reconnect message. Then as you get back on it happens again....got knocked off 5 times in a matter of 3 minutes. I am also tired of the constant advertising messages that last for 30 seconds with no option of having to tolerate. I pay a monthly fee and have for years to enjoy Internet Service provided by AOL Why should I pay for the fee to have some "junk" ad crammed down my throat for 30 seconds. Then when I get on line there is the pop up "crap" in the upper right corner that blares out with sound...at least I can click it out.
I expect an answer and after some 25 or more years with AOL am ready to do something else.
I am a long standing customer with AOL. I always have been. My problem is not so unique but I thought I would share my experience. Yesterday on the cover page you had advertised Truth Finder. I was curious as I'm sure many were. I took the bait and signed up for $22.86 per month, thinking I would be able to check on myself and others. The site showed it came up with a lot of info on me. I then discovered that to gain access to the info that I had to upgrade for an additional charge.
The bottom line is that I cancelled the account within 15 minutes. I agreed to have the payments charged to my PayPal account. I asked for a confirmation email so that if I was charge next month I would have a back up of proof that showed my actions. While I understand that advertising dollars are very important to a companies operating expenses this program is a real scam, and I am surprised to say the least that you would set your customers up with such a SCAM! Very disappointing.
I'm offended by that lying liberal rag called The Huffington post. Please use a different news agency to report the news. If you continue to use this garbage news agency I'm cutting all ties to AOL.
All of a sudden I am getting Hillary Clinton banner advertising on AOL instead of the normal ads. I live in Canada a few months out of the year and I do not want the US politics in my face! Do I have to call the international customer service line now and complain?
My e-mail address was shut down by AOL.com and will not let me retrieve my e-mails and contact list. I had to create a new e-mail address but cannot retrieve my contact data base to tell my customers of my new address. My business has come to a stand still and my customers are not able to contact me.
Why does AOL play politics? Your journalist are getting to be so left leaning it's pathetic. You pick and choose stories that support that unethical lying Queen of Corruption Hillary while picking stories that take shots at Trump. I'm an Independent and I want neutral reporting not left sheep deciding what and how I read it. Even the complaints that are posted and political in nature are nothing but left sheep whining about Trump.
Where are the stories of Hillary's unethical behaviors, stories of her deleted emails, posting of her passing out and needed to be carried off. Either hire some decent journalist or find some with a shred of ethics. 20 years a customer and I'm about to call it quits with your company. I'm not going to fund piss poor journalist that are lap dogs to the left. Find writers that stand in the middle and have no bias that can actually write about news.
Why does AOL play politics? They have a news section. At the bottom of the news there is a place to enter a comment. I like to write comments about Trump and how bad he would be as president of my country. What I notice AOL does is put a pending approval on my comment, or just deletes it. This is an issue about freedom of speech. It's not fair that AOL censored my comments and allows the most anti-Obama comments to be posted. If anything, AOL should be neutral about politics. I'm hoping that someone connected with AOL puts an end to favoring a presidential candidate. I'm also hoping that someone in our news media investigates AOL's prejudice in politics.
Each and every day I get bombarded with anti-Trump articles when I log on to AOL. I get it AOL, you don't like Trump. OK already!! But, how about listing all the loot Hillary and Bill stole from the American taxpayer when they left the White House. It's now common knowledge they took everything that wasn't nailed down to pay off Paula Jones (850,000) and all the millions in lawyer's fees from Bill's countless bimbo eruptions. Thank God they had to return it all. For most everyone else, that would be enough to keep a close eye on any politician named Clinton but not AOL.
Hillary has lied about Benghazi, lied about her private email server, lied about being shot at in 1996 in Bosnia, supported the war in Iraq and was called out by the FBI for her reckless behavior as Secretary of State with respect to her handling of sensitive and classified material. To AOL however, Hillary is the second coming. Follow the money! Where does AOL get their funding? So much for fair and balanced reporting.
Have been an AOL customer for 19 years, and its service gets from bad to worse. Every month I am paying $4.99 for tech support, however, those offshore agents are difficult to understand and/or solving problems. While using my PC, I very often have been getting a message "AOL not responding", and again today, I called AOL customer service number at 800-827-6364 again, being connected to another offshore location and being told that "I am having possibly corrupt files", while PC matics' scans prove otherwise. It seems like a hassle to change all of my emails to another service.
I also like to mention that I have been getting error message that another (person in my household) is still using my PC, which is not true. It's also strange that when calling AOL repeating the first 5 letters in my screen name, that one of them has an "1" behind it, which we never had and nobody has the same screen name. There seems to be more than enough shortcomings and mistakes.
AOL Web pages are horrid. Jumps up and down, all over the place as it loads and displays. Can get sea sick from watching it bouncing around. Quality control is non existent. Obviously was not tested on more that 1 platform or more than 30 seconds. They farmed out web design to cheapest bidder and least qualified. Good grief.
We opened a subscription approximately 15 years ago, we unsubscribed, notified our bank to cancel the subscription, as well as AOL, a few months later they went back in to my wife's account and carried on taking the payment, Santander allowed them to do it! Years later when we spotted it on a statement, we contacted AOL. Santander, after we contacted them said they would set up a challenge, we never heard about it again. f For the last 2 to 3 years we have received demands from multiple collection agencies who have all declined to take it further, we have been charged for signing up to AOL broadband, we never did.
When I open web links in AOL, I am getting advertising panels that drop down with Hillary Clinton ads and obstruct the view of the page I am attempting to view. As a result, I have to scroll up and down in order to see all of the page that I have opened. Even then, the obstructing advertisement will frequently follow, and continue to obstruct the page I am viewing, while I attempt to scroll around it.
Today, the Auto Blog (with new cars, for sale, news and reviews ownership, videos and merchandise, and Coastal.com advertising), along with a Coastal.com advertisement (Glasses from $19, Includes Lenses and Free Shipping) completely obscured the screen I was attempting to view. And you can see on the right side more Hillary Clinton ads!
This is completely counter productive advertising, that obstructs the material content of the information I am attempting to view. Furthermore, there appears no way of getting rid of these horrible obstructing advertisements that follow you whenever you try to avoid them. I am attaching a screen shot that is the typical instance of this problem.
Today AOL offered a chance to vote on the question of women's abortion rights. The choices were slanted -- specifically "Would you support women's health clinics if abortions were not paid for by the government?" Outrageous.
All women's health issues should be covered, including anything to do with reproduction. Not all fetuses are perfectly created -- Mother Nature often provides for such mistakes with what is termed miscarriage or spontaneous abortion. At other times a dead or non-viable fetus remains for nine months in the womb. Before Roe v. Wade, a woman in such a situation had to get certification from two psychiatrists that she should be allowed to have an abortion, and it was still often difficult to find a qualified physician to perform it, even in towns with highly educated populations like Princeton, NJ.
A friend of mine knew that her fetus was dead before the third month of pregnancy, but she was forced to carry it for a full nine months. In my own case, no anomalies were detected, but after nine months I delivered an infant with multiple complications incompatible with life outside the womb, including lack of a brain and other unformed organs. My husband and I were even harassed by a right-to-life pediatrician who threatened to sue us if we didn't allow him to start surgical procedures to keep it alive. Luckily, it died a few hours later, but my Ob-Gyn team first had to forbid him access to the ward. It was traumatic enough without that!
So all you bleeding hearts with no medical or practical experience of the realities that may be faced during a pregnancy should think again about interfering in punishing ways. If we get a woman president, maybe she will propose a law refusing to pay for certain other procedures, like treatment for prostate cancer. Would you like a trade-off such as this?
You certainly should remove that cutsie questionnaire and pretend you never posted it, or else apologize.
Within the last 5 or 6 months the following: Way to many ads. Trying to opt out of ads causes AOL to jump around, while you are trying to read an article it switches you to another article, page, or an ad. AOL e-mail sign in page pops up while viewing news and when you try to back-space to where you were it kicks you out. Trouble opening AOL.
Main computer windows works fine. I have an iPad and approximately 2 hours ago went to internet and received an error message which doesn't allow me to do anything. Windows Firewall Warning *** your computer may have adware/spyware virus *** call 1-844-415-0000 which apparently is a bogus number according to reviews of this number on the internet. I called AOL and waited on the line 25 minutes and someone answered and then I was disconnected.
--Initially calling the 844-415-0000 4 times I was disconnected when I asked who I was speaking to. A person named Matthew called be back from 844-416-7294, said he was the manager and switched me over to another person in Illinois who kept putting me on hold as he couldn't help and then was disconnected again. Talked with another person John Martin from Texas 844-587-1470 in which once again I was disconnected. I am frustrated, disgusted and as I'm writing this complaint a person John Matthews from Manhattan called me back and wants to know what the problem is.
I am asking you please to have someone with any authority call me back directly. Thank You for your help!
The local news doesn't display local news, everything happening elsewhere. Get my local news back to local.
I paid for live help on the phone from Aol and I have been on hold for 43 minutes waiting for someone to pick up and help me. so far all i hear is some terrible music that is loud and annoying. You have charged me for this service and I am getting no service at all!
For the past couple of weeks aol is not responding or there is a long wait until it finally does respond. I have just had a computer scan and there doesn'y seem to be anything wrong - so please tell me what is going on.
I received a notice that AOL will start charging $750 PM after the 16 of April. After that a series of new connect was demonstrated, and now my emails are interrupted slowed down. At times I can not receive or discard messages. It really a disgusting mess.
I wrote a complaint that I was never told that my old AOL email address would be no good after AOL changed its name to mail.com. Since AOL never gave me a new email address, I do not have a good one,so I gave the old AOL address. Now, after writing a complaint on this issue, I got a message that they would have to check my identity at my email address (which is the old AOL one which is no good). Therefore, my complaint will go nowhere and hundreds if not thousands of people will be right royally screwed by AOL's incompetence and lack of caring about the kind of job they do.
I am aol user for long time but yesterday I could not use it due to poor care about customer. I need to talk someone who can change this attitude and fix my problems. I need to open my aol mail. you are descrimating with age and race.
I have been customer of AOL for 20 years
there email is getting worse and worse.
When I send out group mailings to my customers i am continually challenged.
I called years ago and go set up to do large group mailing
I recently had my email blocked and had to fill out these forms out to send group mailing and then sent a form letter saying my request is denied.
All my friends have moved to Gmail I guess aol is trying to force people to Gmail.
I asked for personal help or a phone call and just get form letters.
The customer service department has been so bad. Obviously I will be leaving Aol like my friends
When I try to log on using my screen name it shuts AOL down. Also when I sign on with my wife’s account I can surf normally. but when I try to change to my account it shuts down. This has been going on for months now. By the way it will sometime flip and I can sign on an my wife can’t. This is ridiculous… fix it or I’m leaving.
AOL, cancels my POST remarks about ever things. AS a consumer of AOL. I'am WASTING my money and right to complain. Need I cancel AOL??
Hey guys you should publish on aol sight that is pg approved. we share the email with my kids and sometime i notice that news area is only for adults. please put some thing is not watchable for kids. i hope you will listen and stop this.
Email system is the worst.
Constant error messages that they have encountered a technical error.
Cannot open emails, cannot send emails.
This happens constantly and it stinks!
I am not receiving notifications in my email when I comment and get likes or when someone replies to my comments in the comment section of the articles. This has been going on for about 6 weeks. I previously made this complaint and was advised by AOL to click on my name at the beginning of a comment section and check the settings. I did this, and all the setting are checked to receive notifications. Just to make sure, I unchecked them and then checked them again and clicked to save them. I just checked again a few minutes ago, and all of them are still checked; yet I am not receiving any notifications. I used to get loads of feedback and then suddenly they just stopped. Can someone at AOL please see what is happening and try to correct this situation. I spent an hour with a tech who couldn't resolve the situation, and this is my second complaint in this online complaint section. I can't believe it is so difficult to address something that should not be that complicated.
Important emails sent to me are not arriving, WHY?
I actually pay a monthly fee to have to put up with your self-serving format, which I resent greatly. In almost every story or article I want to read, you make your customers read a few sentences and then click to go forward to the next page. Of course it takes several seconds because all of the advertisements you sell have to load. I would think you would make a no-advertisements version available to those subscribers who actually pay for the service. GREED, GREED, GREED!
Why can't I drill down to lower levals
I've been a PAYING customer for many years! I read the news every morning, but for the past month to a month and a half the service is
horrible. I click on a great headline and all I get is a BLANK PAGE, there are a few Head Lines that do link, but most are blank page! Please advise what the problem is and how it can be rectified! When you solve this problem, I will rate AOL.
AOL is an unbelievable stupid company and I am unbelievable stupid user. First most of the news that comes with pictures only reveals 1/3 of the pictures because the rest is blocked out by ads. Second, if you want the whole news story you need to train yourself to block out the ads and speed read. Thank you AOL for the first time in my 73 years on this earth I am able to speed . AOL is about the most unethical or maybe you can say smartest if your a money monger. It makes it's customers pay to fix its own dysfunctional software.
Finally discovered why aol mail is so horrendous !
They start off hassling one aspect of your webmail account: for example, slow linking to your Email. Then add another aspect, such as sending slews of ads to Inbox; and so on until you get so fed-up you find a way to complain to their Customer Service. Here they very sweetly commiserate with your problems and finally tell you they'll give you a 30 day free Tach Support --- for which you must give a Credit Card number. At the end of that month, as we all know, there's no way to cancel (despite their promises). When you refuse the free "favor" -- or try to cancel the paid tech service at the end of the month -- the hassling increases to the point of making the webmail nearly impossible to use altogether. In addition, If you Search "aol+outage+map" you'll see that the outages are ongoing most populated parts of the county.
BEWARE !!! aol is among the biggest SCAMS on the web -- and any so-called rating services (such as "hissingkitty.com") that gives it a high rating, you can be sure is being paid off by aol (or Verizon --- aol's new owner) itself.
I've been locked out of the AOL account for the last three days and none of your representative have been able to get a resolution for me to gain access to the account. I've had the AOL account for many years and they're telling me that they can get the account back open; unfortunately, since Monday, June 24, 2019 not one representative has been able to successfully reestablish the account. I've been on the phone, daily, since Monday, June 24, 2019 trying to gain access. I'm back on the phone with a representative and she just informed me that her system will not allow her to give me a temporary password and she just hung the phone up due to my asking to speak to a supervisor. I've spoken to Cel, Vee, Fee, Vin, etc. and none of them seem to know what they are doing.
This is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever experienced in my life that AOL is this antiquated that no one can help you gain access to an account that AOL blocked out. Can someone get the account reopened so I can gain access to my emails, immediately. This verification process is antiquated and when a representative is unable to get the account opened they then tell you to call back. How I check my emails, what type of equipment I use to sign in to the account, emails that I sent in the last two weeks, etc etc.
SLOW START UP ONCE IT IS UP NEWS CAPTIONS STAY THE SAME IF IT CHANGES TO NEW SUBJSCT
I TELL EVERYONE THAT YOUR SERVICE IS CRAP !
ill be changing to some other service !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On 6/11/2019 I was responding to a reply to a comment I'd made on an AOL comment thread and while typing my response I saw all my previous comments on the thread deleted. I have always followed the AOL guidelines and write thoughtful and considerate comments. Apparently the moderator was mad because my original comment was criticizing a Yahoo writer for taking Trump's words out of context. Verizon bought AOL and Yahoo so maybe that's why the moderator was offended or maybe it's just political bias.
Regardless, the moderator took it much further and deleted ALL of my comments from more than the past 2 years when AOL implemented their current format for their comment threads. I found this out by going to my profile page and all that were there were the 15 comments from April to June 2017 that I posted to other sites who used that same format for their comment thread. The moderator has also blocked my comments from posting and did so in a sneaky way. It appears that my comment has posted but if I reload that particular news article, go to the comment that I was replying to, my comment is not there.
I spent 30 minutes on the phone today with AOL help personnel. They recommended that I go to the AOL feedback site and make my case. It was the only recourse they could offer. I posted my issue on the feedback site. Went back to see if anyone had responded to my post only to find that their solution to my problem was just to delete my post. I've looked at the Verizon Media and AOL sites where they talk about putting customers first and about "human rights of free expression" but it doesn't seem to apply to me. I have been a paying customer at AOL for more than 20 years and a paying customer at Verizon for more than 15 years and get treated this way. There was even a Verizon section that was titled "Always Fair" on the page that starts with "Customers first."
It's pathetic that there is no way to contact the moderators of AOL comment threads and it would seem they could send an email to let their customers know WHY they've had 2 years of comments deleted and are now blocked from posting comments. Wouldn't that be "fair" and putting "customers first"?
I know to help pay for the service I have to accept pop up ads on AOL, but recently the pop up ad had a picture that I consider porn. I emailed Aol told I agreed to get pop up ads, no reference to the content. I then called and this guy had no concern about the vulgar ad, he tried to SELL me virus protection. It is not a virus it is a company they advertise for. I can not have children seeing an ad like this. Shame on AOL...I guess after decades I am going to have to go to another Email service
cannot read my mail from today May 30th. Plus when I went on to read
had no date said only yesterday. Called customer service had to talk to 3 people before I got to where I was supposed to be and that was the worst now it only comes up with the time and was told by the rep from
(Romania) that's the way it is. Well I've been dealing with Aol for more than 25 yrs and that's not the way it is. Plus this happens every couple of months I need to spend hours on the phone with you and to boot you
increased my bill to $21.00 dollars a month. This needs to get rectified and soon.
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