This is what I get for “taking over” management of the checkbook from my wife.

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Rodrigo.24784: Hello Steve, Thank you for contacting Comcast Live Chat Support. My name is Rodrigo.24784. Please give me one moment to review your information.

Rodrigo.24784: Hi Steve, what is your query?

Steve: There seems to be a missing payment for this account. Could you tell me which month’s payment you are missing?

Rodrigo.24784: What missing payment? Have you paid recently and referring to that payment that is missing?

Rodrigo.24784: Could you verify me the last payment made and how much?

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Rodrigo.24784: Did you receive my last message?

Steve: We paid 158.97 in May. Comcast shows a missing payment previous to this, as our current balance due is 322.13.

Rodrigo.24784: Let me check that for you. One moment please.

Rodrigo.24784: How much is that missing payment? And when did you pay it?

Steve: That’s what I’m trying to find out. Do you show payment in April?

Rodrigo.24784: I have a question for you…

Rodrigo.24784: Did you settle or pay that missing payment? From what I am seeing, there has been a payment that did not show here in your account? Please confirm that.

Steve: Again, I want to know if there is a missing payment in recent months. Your new invoice shows us as past due, with a balance of $322.13.

Rodrigo.24784: None that I could see here. You should verify me how much and probably an estimate of the date that you had that missing payment.

Steve: Let me put it this way, why do you want $322.13 from me?

Rodrigo.24784: For the security of the account, could you verify me the last four digits of the Social Security Number listed on it?

Rodrigo.24784: Confirmed. Thank you.

Rodrigo.24784: That is your charge for past due and existing current balance.

Rodrigo.24784: It has been unsettled for the past 34 days to be exact.

Steve: What’s past due?

Rodrigo.24784: Unsettled amount of payment that needs to paid right away. Otherwise the service might be interrupted. It is best to settle this to avoid that.

Steve: I understand that, what amount is past due? That’s what I’m trying to find out, as we paid in May.

Rodrigo.24784: $163.16

Steve: From which month?

Rodrigo.24784: 34 days … presumably last month

Steve: We paid last month. That’s what I’m trying to get at. Which month did you not receive a payment?

Rodrigo.24784: The month before May. April, I think.

Steve: Please verify.

Rodrigo.24784: One question, did you pay last April?

Steve: I haven’t figured that out yet. That’s why I’m “calling.”

Steve: It should have been made.

Rodrigo.24784: You should remember that, if you really paid last April.

Steve: You should know if we paid last April.

Rodrigo.24784: I know, Steve. But basing on your claims that there was a missing payment, you should know the date and how much.

Rodrigo.24784: If you have disputes, better call your local office and verify it there.

Steve: No, not yet. Simple question, can you verify with certainty that there was no payment made in April? That’s all I’m asking. There is no dispute — yet.

Steve: And there is no local office and the toll-free number on the bill is out of order.

Rodrigo.24784: I can give you a number.

Steve: So you cannot tell me if Comcast shows or does not show a payment made in April?

Rodrigo.24784: No.

Rodrigo.24784: I am certain that the records here are accurate.

Rodrigo.24784: I can also tell if there was a payment made and the payment did not push through.

Steve: Thanks. That’s the answer I was looking for. What is the telephone number for Comcast that actually works?

Rodrigo.24784: One moment please…

Rodrigo.24784: So just one question, did you pay for the month of April?

Steve: I don’t know for certain yet, we normally do. I usually don’t do the accounting.

Rodrigo.24784: What number are you referring to that did not work?

Steve: 1-877-824-2288 has been changed; the new number is not in service.

Rodrigo.24784: Okay

Rodrigo.24784: Please wait.

Rodrigo.24784: Call 1-800-COMCAST

Rodrigo.24784: We have just the same number here.

Rodrigo.24784: Any more questions for me today?

Steve: Okay, I see the problem now. There is no missing payment.

Steve: This invoice includes next month’s charge

Rodrigo.24784: Is there anything else that I could possibly help you? Besides that issue?

Steve: What issue?

Rodrigo.24784: Okay.

Rodrigo.24784: Is there anything else that I could possibly help you? Besides that concern?

Steve: Call 1-877-824-2288 right now. Then tell me how to proceed by phone. It’s not in service.

Rodrigo.24784: Call 1-800-COMCAST. If that number is not working.

Rodrigo.24784: Unfortunately we support for chat only.

Steve: Wow, this has been quite a lengthy experience in… solving nothing. Thanks for your non-assistance.

Rodrigo.24784: You are always welcome.

Rodrigo.24784: Analyst has closed chat and left the room.