“I would not recommend BT to anyone. What should have been a simple and easy case of transferring my existing account and service to my new address when I moved house has been an absolute nightmare. They cancelled part of my order on my moving day took over two weeks to put the new order through (leaving me without a working landline or internet service for a number of days), billed me for an increased tarrif at my old address account after I'd moved out, assured me that they wouldn't debit my account for this incorrect bill but did anyway, they've also set my new account up on a higher tarrif then originally agreed, and have ignored my last six emails to the Home Moves Team trying to get this all resolved (who'd promised me a call back two weeks ago, but who still haven't called me). I've also spent hours repeatedly on hold also trying to get through to someone to get it sorted (I'm currently on the phone to BT in a queue and have already been on hold for over an hour this morning). I've lodged complaints which have not been dealt with, and this is still dragging on six weeks after first advising them of my house move. Absolutely unacceptable way to treat their customers! I'll be raising this with the Ombudsman if BT don't get it all sorted out soon. If you're thinking of moving to BT I'd advise you to avoid at all costs, I'd really wished that I'd just switched to a new service provider when I moved house!”
“Horrible service ! Have paid for my contract with them, a month has passed and they still haven’t implemented the equipment and the wifi in my place. Have had 5 arranged appointments with them, and every time the engineer did not show up and did not even inform ! Completely unacceptable, horrible service and reliability ! Every time you try and contact them you have to wait for one hour, and every time someone says they will fix it and then the appointment does not got through ! Also, they promise to call you back, but eventually no once calls you, so you have to call them again and wait for one hour until someone replies.”
“My sister and I have been trying to arrange appointments to get my vulnerable mother who is in her 80s set up with a phone/internet/TV package. We've lost count of the number of appointments cancelled at late notice or no notice at all. Each appointment means that my sister or I have to take time off work and the p/t warden of the housing complex my mother lives has to be available. We have spent over 20 hours on the phone, have been polite, begged, screamed and cried but all to no avail. Yesterday yet again after being promised for the umpteenth time by a manager that someone would turn up between 1-4, yet again they didn't. With no notice. When my sister phoned BT to talk to a manager, after being kept waiting for nearly an hour, she was hung up on. How are BT allowed to be in business? I genuinely thought that customer service from sky or virgin was poor but this is absolutely beyond belief.”
“Just amazing. BT cancelled both my line and broadband in error. I have now contacted them more than 6 times to reinstate the line without any success and spent 4 hours in the process. The issue is apparently that open reach consistently cancel the order. Its a shambles and one of the worst organisations I have ever dealt with . still not sorted. Its a standing joke and all you get is we are very busy at the moment !! So am I funnily enough.”
“BT had the wrong address for us. We updated them three months ago and three months later we had our internet connection cut off with no warning. This is called 'slamming' and BT are well aware that this happens all the time to their customers. BT tried to charge us £116 for this.
We spent hours on the phone being transferred to one advisor to another. We've used the online chat service in which the advisors were dreadful. This time cost my partner and me around £600 in lost income. We then had no internet for two weeks while we waited for Virgin broadband to be installed. (I would recommend Virgin over BT at the drop of a hat if you can get it.) This led to a further loss of earnings for my partner and me.
Overall the service received was terrible, we spoke to many rude advisors who were defensive and had very poor communication skills. Luckily we spoke to an advisor who waivered the fee for us but we will never see the money lost due to loss of earnings and we will never get our wasted time back.
Please avoid BT at all costs, avoid the poor-service monopolies.”
“Internet down for 2 weeks now. From first day promised will come back in 24 hrs - never did . Both my wife and I opened complaints and got "assigned case owner "- never heard back ( not even an email nor phone call ) - and now my complaint marked off as completed and resolved without any feedback or progress . Openreach staff told me outside on main road it was their fault as they mixed cables - transferring greenboxes on the first day of internet loss . I wish I could mark no stars on this - but Trustpilot only allows me to mark lowest 1 star - absolute appalling ( both of us rely on the internet at home for income - during covid . If my phone signal was good enough in area or if I had an alternative option - I would have swapped already .”
“worst company I have ever dealt with our lines are constantly down having severe implications to our business. they don't care and offer no solution to the problems.”
“Terrible on all levels. Had a multiple problem with the service. Unprofessional customer support, after making multiple complains about the broadband I had to book a technician who never showed up. Definitely the worst internet provider I ever had. Would not recommend to my worst enemy”
“A truly disastrous company from start to finish.
This was a simple broadband order, that took over three months to be completed. Complaints were raised to no avail, my account was credited then my QuidCo cashback of the same amount was declined by BT.
I was lied to throughout my order process, a different excuse was given each time. I was told I was not connecting the router correctly (I'm a network engineer) and zero help was given. This turned out to be a line fault at BT's end.
I booked days off work and BT didn't show up.
A disorganised company that really needs to have some major changed enforced.”
“Since I opened account with them , the monthly price on what we agreed is 26.99 per month , so you have to pay 26.99 straight away and then 10£ for installation and 10£ for the BroadBand box,and it's just one time payment , so I paid, but next Month again higher than the price we agreed to pay which is 26.99 and like that went till September, every month I was paying more and different prices each month , on September I loged in to the BT app to check my bills and I saw that I have to pay 80£ straight for 3 month together and I didn't understood what's going on ,so I called them and asked plus I asked why do i paying every month so much money if the price was 26.99 each month ? So the agent explained , he said that I got applied for the monthly package which I never did and I can't recall, so I explained him that I didn't apply for nothing and that iam using just normal WiFi without any Channels and that I want pay as we agreed 26.99 , he said you are right iam not sure why this package been applied to your account and he refunded 25£ plus he said that the next bill will be only on December due to my overpayments, I was happy to hear that and I asked him are you sure that the next month there will be no problem? He said all set . So the next month comes October and as I knew I don't have to worry till December,but I just checked my BT account in case and what do I see there ? That I have to pay 39£ so I called them Monday on 19th October and asked why do I have to pay ? And the explained agent what happened previous month and what the agent said to me in September, so current agent as well said that the credit been applied to my account and don't worry, but he said something different from the previous agent , he said October don't need pay November we will take 1.79£ and December will be normal monthly payment 26.99 which sounds great ,but then after 2 days I checked again account and I saw that there been applied late payment charges which is 10£ all together 39£ so I called October 22 and I again explained everything to the agent and he said that I have to pay for October 14£ so I called 2 more agents after that and all they could say that I have to pay 14£ now and if I don't then there will be late payment charge added to my account and that next month I have to pay 39£ and on December they will refund everything what I overpaid for all months and I asked why 2 agents said that I don't have to pay till December due to my over payments each month and where did this money went ? Plus why I have to pay for November 39£ ? If my monthly payments is 26.99? And I asked what is going on ? So they said that there been error that's why previous 2 agents said that the next payment gonna be on December and for the November I have to pay because system monitored payments like that , and I was just shocked . Every month I been paying more than usually just because someone added package to my account and they got no shame to tell me that I still have to pay higher price than usually for the November just because computer generated like that ,I just don't understand what kind of company is that ? How they can do that to the people's .”
“Absolutely disgusting, staff putting phone down on you after waiting 45 minutes on numerous occasion. Not turning up for appointment, the distress they have caused to my 89 year old mother in law is totally unacceptable.”
“On checking my account there was a note to say(we have made some changes to our prices so your bill will be higher.how unfair to not let the customer know and just take extra money from direct debit.shocked and disgusted.”
“I rang BT on 12 October to enquirer about payment for premier games. The adviser gave me the answer but then said he could get me more channels at a lower price. I agreed and he said he would send me two new routers that I would need. I thanked him for the advice but then noticed the next day I had lost Comedy Central and some sports channels
. Since then I have tried to revert but am told it is impossible! Rubbish!!!”
“So applied for broadband on 16/9 due to moving house and because my existing provider did not service the area we were moving into. On 23/9 BT cancelled my application without warning. Called them the same day for resolution and “resolution” involved a hard search. So essentially a second hard search within a few days. Because the “resolution” was essentially a new application the activation for pushed hence applied with EE because I had enough. And EE didn’t do a hard search btw.
Result is that because of the two hard searches my credit score through Equifax, dropped 180 points. Thanks a lot BT.”
“Well I phoned b.t. Tues 12/10 to report a fault was informed would be fixed by23.59 on wed 13/10/20 felt ok about that 13/10 pm open reach van appeared ,then minutes left then came back a guy went up both poles attempting to fix .came and knocked entered to check handset not wearing mask went away saying its ok now. Within mins no service again I rang and was assured all would be well by23.59 well it’s not despite several calls to b.t. Today and a new appointment for fri pm I suspect b.t.are as useless as ever.polite tele staff and that’s where it ends”
“Had an online advisor mis-sell my mum, who is a technophobe, a new 2 year contract and upgrade to the Halo1 package, under the promise it would solve our connectivity issues. It turns out, after speaking to a technical advisor over the phone, that it was a hardware fault and that the Halo1 package would not have helped in the slightest.
BT have promised the world in the last two weeks, guaranteeing new upgraded packages at no cost, guaranteeing to get one person to take control of the matter and resolve the issues. Two weeks later, nothing has been resolved. They have breached the Data Protection Act by giving full access to the account to someone who was not the account owner (myself). All because one person who was meant to get back in contact with me, decided he would be better suited to pass the buck onto the Billing team within BT but never told them the details of the complaint.
They also managed to delete our home phone number, which we've had for nearly 20 years. Then took over four days to do a simple reservation of the phone number to get it back..
Now having problems canceling the package and canceling BT services all together. Been on the phone with over six advisors in the past two weeks, all of which promise callbacks and never do.
Now waiting for a managers call back who was meant to ring within 2-3 hours, now nearly 4 hours later....still waiting...
Tried making a DSAR (Data Subject Access Request) four days ago, to get all of the information which BT holds about our account to pass onto a legal team to investigate. Been chasing it up for three days, just to get an email with a link on how to make the request.
YOU DONT NEED TO DO THIS YOURSELF..
Ring up BT and they can do this for you over the phone, I tried to do this four days ago, but they didn't do it properly. Best advise for dealing with BT is get email communications and get a paper trail. You can also do the Data Subject Access Request and get all information held by BT on your account.
Now 4 days late in getting the information from BT to pass onto lawyers to get us out of this ridiculous contract with zero support from any BT advisor.
Definitely distance yourselves away from these fools.
Attached is a photo of the email, names blanked out, of a response which came after four days of chasing the information request, which I made on the phone previously.”
“I am an employee and just like how customers feel, employees are treated like dogs. They only chase for scores and nothing else. Because customers are mad at BT, the advisors are put in mental and physical pressure everyday. In these tough times can’t even leave jobs, but they are not supportive at all.”
“I have moved house and have now had 11 cancelled orders trying to get broadband. This has been going on now for over 3 weeks and every time it takes me about an hour to raise a new order and start a new account. After 24 hours the whole order gets cancelled and I am back at square one.
I should have had a working connection on 11th September and I am still without. They have promised me a 4g mini hub on three separate occasions but none have ever been dispatched let alone delivered.
I have a wife who works from home and has been unable to generate any income for herself for the last 2 weeks and now she is losing work because of it. BT keep telling me it is one thing, then blaming another department, then saying its a technical fault. The company are disgusting.
They have no incentive to get better because the only compensation they are ever liable for is the £1 a day loss of service refund. Without doubt one of the worst companies I have ever dealt with.”
“From start to finish and everywhere I between, this company hands down the most incompetent lazy scammers..
To go through everything they failed and lied about ...everytime they ignored me over my contract would take far too long and they si ply are not worth it ..
Stay well clear ..dont believe any the bukl about valued customer ...a ine off bad experience ..we value your custom...they dont ...they are scammers...deliberately not noting things so they can extend contract and say it's not thier fault..
Thieves scammers useless......a few of the words I would use to describe every person in that company....with the exception of the amazing Charleen from Glasgow call centre and Becca from stockport .....
BT YOU WANT A PROPER JOB DONE RIGHT .....MAKE THESE 2 THE BOSSESS I guarantee job will be done .”
