Plusnet Reviews

Name: Plusnet
Rating: 1.33

1.3 Rating 396 Reviews

7 %

of reviewers recommend Plusnet

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1.3

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Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Postal Service, Courier
On-time Delivery	Greater than 15%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Live Chat, Email
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.3 out of 5
Avg Email Response Time	-1 hours
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult

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Plusnet 1 star review on 10th January 2022

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I am being charged for services I don't use. No benefit to me or anyone for that matter. Not necessarily a scam but I would recommend you check them out before you commit. Buyer beware.”

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Posted 10 months ago

“Beware they increase the monthly payments without notifying you and refuse a refund afterwards. Be ware of this company .”

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Posted 1 year ago

“THIS COMPANY ARE JUST COWBOYS . Most unprofessional. Don't be fooled by their TV advert . Just imagine how many BUFFOONS like the TV advert works for this company .”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Moved places and was wanna stay with Plusnet they said to they will be move broadband for new place in 7 days after they starting changing date 3 times already I need internet to look for job in new place for emails etc but because Plusnet company letting me down again ... I don't know what to do before we moved we was thinking about changing company because was not once disappointed about the service and here we paying for internet what we don't have and we can't use ..”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Absolutely useless. AVOID. Signed up with them for phone and broadband as BT, with whom I'd been for over 30 years, lost my order. Advised three weeks ago that there was a problem with my order that they seem to insist on cancelling with Openreach. Whilst I have a phone line still no idea as to when broadband will be available. Moving house is stressful enough without having to waste time chasing useless customer services and arranging alternative internet access. Spent most of last week chasing. Have gone to an hotel so my wide can have a connection for training. Totally disgusted with their "we're doing all we can" attitude - nothing happens.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Horrendous. Plusnet have given me the worst anxiety this week. Having found out they have been taking two direct debits from me for the past two years. You cannot sign into your accounts easily. The passwords are a nightmare. Just being fobbed off continuously. Really horrific service. And I’m signed up for another two years. Feel like I’ve been robbed.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Absolutely horrendous. Internet always going off and sometimes for 2 weeks. They said they would pay compensation paid 30 days after faults is resolved however, keep opening the same complaint because it's the same fault therefore avoiding paying the compensation.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“terrible customer services even though I was not in contract they are refusing to shut my account down never use again or recommend”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Honestly the worst customer experience I have ever encountered. Insincere and utterly unreliable. Their customer service representatives might be extremely charming and say all the right things when you are on the phone with them but there is zero follow through and absolutely no accountability. Once they hang up, you are forgotten. We had three different installation appointments across December where no one turned up. We were then promised a dongle would be couriered across to us overnight to provide us with interim connectivity until they could book in a fourth installation appointment. That dongle never arrived. Umpteen promises of calls back to sort things out – they never materialised. So many broken promises. What makes this even worse is that this was for my mum who is registered with them as a vulnerable person due to health issues and yet they still left her without any type of connectivity for over a month. Just really, really disappointing.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Upon contacting your services in August, I was informed that, as I did not have an English bank account, I only needed to borrow a friend's account information and then, when I had a user profile, I could put in my Norwegian details. This proved to be false. Further, as I only entered into a contract based on the information provided here, this counts as "negligent misrepresentation" (if not fraudulent), please see section 2(1) of the Misrepresentation Act of 1967. I never received either a phone line or broadband router, as I have informed the customer service team on the phone several times. Not hearing anything for months, I was shocked when my friend told me that you had taken a monthly fee from his account. When contacting customer service (again). After apologising for not delivering the service, thereby admitting that it was not in effect, customer service still insisted that I kept paying until they could install one later in January (four months later). I would therefore pay a monthly fee prior to the installment of the service. By then, of course, I never wanted anything more to do with this company. Finally, I insisted on cancelling my "subscription" with Plusnet. Talking to a very apologetic young man on the phone, he tried urgently to convince his manager that I would be exempt from the cancellation fee since I did not actually cancel anything (since no service was ever supplied). Yet the manager, of course, insisted on the cancellation fee to be paid. This is shameless, fraudulent, and disgusting behaviour, to demand payments and fees for a service without ever supplying it.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Connection has been dropping out continously throughout the day for well over a month now. Anything from 5/6 connection drops a day to almost hourly and many times throughout the night. Issues happen, I understand and it's how these things are resolved that count. I've tried absolutely everything internally, swapped out every ethernet cable for new. Process of elimination removed every device from the router. Brand new filter. Removed phone connection. Tried several computers. Disabled wifi. etc etc etc. This was off of my own back by the way because plusnet sure haven't tried anything other than sending a new router (which didn't work by the way). Well it hasn't been resolved. Countless phone calls and hours wasted later, I have been promised engineer vists on 5 occassions over the past month and every single occasion not one engineer has arrived. Meaning I have had to spend yet more time on the phone chasing it up, promised the engineer would definetly arrive this time over and over. It's an endless cycle and the support team can not reassure me it won't happen again (although one did promise to personally take responsibility and call back to check in... which of course they didn't). One "Tech support team" told me it's not plusnets fault, they can only open a request for an engineer from open reach to visit the property. If they don't turn up it's out of there control. Well fine, you're service isn't fit for purpose in that case because if an issue occurs you have no power to fix it, then it's not fit for purpose. I had no option but to insist my account/contract be closed without fee or penalty. Which was agreed to, so far so good... Lets see if it goes as smoothly as promised. I'm trying to run an online business with a connection that drops out continously. Now I have the inconvenience of switching providers and potentially more down time running an online business. Ruined what should've been a productive start to a new year, instead i've spent it problem solving and sat in phone queues listening to ear piercing call queue music, having the same conversation over and over never to be resolved. Times are hard, everyones looking to cut bills down but you get what you pay for I guess, should've known better. Avoid.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Avoid Plusnet at all costs, awful service, rude customer service, I lost a week's worth of business, and to cap it all they have taken nearly £300 as a wrong direct debit but can only refund with a cheque!!. Does anyone have the email address of the CEO”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Awful connection, keeps cutting out, extremely slow.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“My internet connection was cut off on 22.12.22, no explanation. Mini box EE allows me to have internet on my phone but not my laptop. Yesterday 1.1.23 my son connected the tv, today watched catch up and it was cut off again. Plusnet blames Openreach and vice versa. Spoke to 2 engineers who said they will call me back but they don’t, I can’t advise anyone to use plusnet”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Technically, PlusNet are OK but their call handling methods leave a lot to be desired, as it took 5 months to cancel their SIM only service, even though they emailed a confirmation and the SIM stopped working. When I realised the Direct Debit had been increased rather than ceased, today's telephone call took 1 hour and 36 seconds to resolve with the first 3 operators (Erin, Nasa & Lauren) determined to prove it was my fault. Their supervisor, Paul, finally stepped in and said the service will be cancelled in 2 hours, as I last used the device 4 months and the mobile number no longer works anyway. Would I recommend you use them? Probably not.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Just want to get this off my chest. Plusnet are absolute c…. Tbh I’ve have nothing but problems problems problems, all I want to do is leave but I can’t because of the contract I cannot wait till it ends, the hole time I’ve had this tainted contract I’ve had to use my mobiles internet at home and even feather my telly off it, I’ve had it fixed multiple times then 2 weeks later it’s back to poo, they literally have just mugged me off and took my money and gave me no internet I hate plusnet with a passion, it makes me laugh the plusnet advert it’s all singing and dancing, but the fact is it’s basically a scam, I would not waste your time there c….”

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Posted 1 year ago

“I was with Plusnet in2018 to 2019 and was very happy with their service. Unfortunately, when the contract ended, they didn't tell me and put the price up so I moved to another provider. When that contract ended, I came back to Plusnet. I phoned and was told I could return on a 24 month contract on my original terms. Just what I was looking for. Unfortunately, someone from Plusnet then contacted me and told me that what the agent had told me was incorrect and that I would need to rejoin as a new customer. He did say however that I could keep using my old email address, so I was happy as I had been using the original email address. Then, a couple of weeks later, they deleted my email address and couldn't reinstate it. They suggested I set up a new account with a free supplier like Gmail. That meant I had to notify all my contacts of the changes and I had to try and remember all my account passwords to change them' They then told me that I owed them £6.99 postage for my router. They kept threatening me with additional charges if I didn't pay so I eventually paid them to get them off my back. This payment has now been refunded as it wasn't payable. When I rejoined, I signed up for full fibre broadband as fibre had been installed by the previous company and I told them that. When I was set up, they installed the service via my phone line and it's still like that. They say they'll be in touch when fibre is available in my area. Really!!! They have now messaged me to return my router. I have to assume that they are referring to my old router because they say that I am no longer a customer. That router was last used in 2019 and 3 years later they're asking for it back. I'll need to try and find it first. I made a big mistake coming back to this company and I would strongly recommend that anyone looking for a broadband service to look elsewhere. I gave them a 1 star rating because there's no facility to give lower.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“lost of connection and during the night times most nights bt have been out changed faulty rusty terminals etc said theyde found my fault HA !! nope few days later same old same old funny how all plusnet customers get n have the very same issues whats the chances of that huh ? we cant all be wrong , lying, mis staken oh and then its oh the line needs to re profile its self its this its that , its a pain in the bum is what it is like they are id rather bin my pc and mobile fone than ever be with these fools again and bt own them ??? bt said even there modems they send you out are 3 be hind theres and bt casts offs ,,, i cannot wait for my contract to be done with cus they wont let me go or id be gone !! they are awful dread ful broadband service and fone line”

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Posted 1 year ago

“attempted to switch to plusnet from sky,they switched of my broadband on 28/09/22 but had not sent a router and kept sending message order delayed eventually told they could not supply phone or broadband due to a problem with open reach.then switched my phone line off 24/10/22 have eventually had my phone and broadband reconnected 08/11/22.Customer service will take hours to get hold off highly not recommended . appalling service. was left for over6 weeks with no broadband no netflix etc 2 weeks with no phone.Totally disgusted.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Constant drop outs got told may be my microwave ??? Lmao they get worse so much for we.ll do you proud should be changed to we.ll do your head in ! They blame everything but them selves when they work it's ok when it don't there a pain in the botty worse broadband I've ever had and that's with leads plugged in to your pc!”

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Posted 1 year ago

Plusnet is rated 1.3 based on 396 reviews