TalkTalk Reviews

Name: TalkTalk
Rating: 1.19

1.2 Rating 1,569 Reviews

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Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Courier, Postal Service
Average Delivery Time	Over 7 Days
On-time Delivery	Greater than 40%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 84%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.1 out of 5
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Refunds Process	Difficult

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TalkTalk 1 star review on 29th March 2025

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TalkTalk 1 star review on 15th March 2025

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TalkTalk 1 star review on 11th October 2024

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TalkTalk 1 star review on 20th June 2024

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“TalkTalk Made Me Feel Unsafe & Violated As A Woman In My Own Home! Women please beware of this company! I just want women to be aware of my recent experience in relation to an engineer visit, particularly where women’s safety concerns are mounting in the current climate (i.e., women don’t feel safe outside), and my experience made me feel unsafe in my own home). 1. In June 2021, TalkTalk sent an engineer to my home. They told me that it was their engineer, but I later found out that this was a lie, and it was an engineer from a third-party company called QubeGB. 2. The engineer that TalkTalk sent to my home: (a) failed to show his ID upon entering my home. (b) when I asked him for his name he seemed reluctant to provide it and he asked me why I wanted to know his name. (c) he displayed clear intimidating behaviour, including the obvious endangerment to my health/life as a result of his continued refusal to wear a mask. 3. I found the engineer that TalkTalk sent to be VERY intimidating from the outset and I was distressed by his demeanour, attitude, actions, and by the statements that he made. He didn’t seem to have a clue about how to behave appropriately inside a customer's home, particularly a woman who is in her home alone. 4. I recorded my interaction with the engineer and this clearly shows him being aggressive and extremely confrontational. He even took down his mask, so that he could be more intimidating, and he was standing less than a meter away from me at the time. I had to ask him at least 5 or 6 times to put back on his mask. He then laughed at me before finally putting the mask back on. 5. I was very shaken and alarmed by the behaviour that the engineer displayed. I have never experienced anything like this before! 6. I forwarded TalkTalk CEO's office the recording of the incident. You know what they did? NOTHING! 7. I forwarded TalkTalk's CEO the recording of the incident. You know what she did? NOTHING! 8. TalkTalk has offered no formal apology in relation to this incident or expressed any concern about my well-being/health. They failed to acknowledge the distress caused by the incident and the clear intimidation I was subjected to. 9. After TalkTalk failed to deal with this matter properly and take the appropriate action, I referred my complaint and concerns to CISAS/CEDR (the independent adjudicator). You know what they did? NOTHING! 10. Both QubeGB and TalkTalk have failed to deal with this very serious incident. Both companies are hiding behind it's "relationship", which apparently means that this serious incident does not have to be properly addressed by either party! (a) TalkTalk asserted that it is not responsible because the engineer in question is a "third-party" (b) QubeGB said that they are not the service provider/don't own my account - so for this reason, I couldn't get any proper redress from them, or from the independent adjudicator. 11. This incident also raises questions around “duty of care” in the law of vicarious liability, which need to be clarified to ensure that TalkTalk customers are protected. The current "set-up" and "lack of accountability" obviously creates the perfect environment for incidents like this (and MORE SERIOUS) incidents to occur, and this cannot/should not be allowed to go unchecked! Stay safe and God Bless!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Staff do not speak or understand English, they withdraw money without permission . agreed to £30 per month contract and they take out on average £60 per month. with no one to talk to.... Scammers”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Shocking, online chat non responsive, customer service line NOT open until 8pm as stayed. Will be moving elsewhere as your service is SHOCKINGLY AWFUL”

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Posted 3 years ago

“This is s as terrible company all round. The quality of the broadband is terrible and unstable, the customer service is atrocious, they have many different departments and none of them communicate with each other, they make it impossible to put in a complaint and make any sort of communication near to impossible! I spent 3 hours today alone on the phone to them and have still not gotten the service I was promised.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I was happy enough with the person I spoke to on the phone. Its TalkTalk I am not happy with. I agreed a deal on the phone last time round which the person on the phone assured me was fixed. I even have a recording of that. Then guess what months into the contract TalkTalk put the price up, no choice at the time. So the person on the telephone who is trying to make verbal deals has no authority to do that. No point talking to them, is there ? So now my contract is up I have exercised my right and finally after some 11 years I have left. I have had enough run ins with this company so through thick and thin they have finally convinced me to leave. So all I can say is 'Well done' to their sales prevention department. Sticky buns all round. I have arranged for Plusnet to give their sales director a lesson in selling”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Thank god I’m leaving Talktalk totally fed up with terrible customer service.Very frustrating as they all foreign their English dreadful so you are on the phone for far too long because of language barrier..If you have any sense don’t go with them”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Have waited in all day for an engineer no one has arrived even though I was given a slit of 8 -1. The man in customer services said it not his fault, well it's certainly not mine.! Their loss as soon as my contract is finished I'm off”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Quality of the service not as guaranteed. my broadband connection totally down for last 7 days, i have contacted them customer service around 15 times in the last 6 days. every time i contacting them different people answering my inquiries and keep doing the same test again and again and wasting my time. i was keep asking to send an engineer to fix this issue and they keep delaying it. today i have been promised that engineer will connect me between 6pm to 8pm. i can cancelled my works and waiting at home for engineer and NOBODY came!!. and no updates from talktalk about it. very disappointed. please avoid this people and give them a lesson about how important is a customer satisfaction.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Horrendous company Avoid at all costs!!! They will keep billing you after you have ended your contract also ruining your credit file if you don't pay whatever figures they decide you owe them.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Been with them for 7th months and am now into fourth day without internet due to equipment failure. There was also a major hardware failure after I'd been with them for just a week. Aside from these major breakdowns, the reliability is generally poor with regular smaller outages. Customer service is among the worst I've ever experienced, and seems designed to make you go mad. Avoid like the actual plague.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Holy moly, what a company. When everything works it's great, but God forbid you have a problem because you're almost guaranteed to be pulling your hair out by the time it's fixed, assuming it ever does get fixed. Been without internet at home for two weeks now. One engineer sent out to check our wiring who was baffled about why he was even sent as there was a record of an issue at the exchange and TalkTalk already knew about it - tried to charge us £50 for the pleasure (no thank you). TalkTalk then admitted that there was a fault and that we'd be updated when it was fixed. Well, multiple days later and still conectionless we called back and were told that the issue had already been fixed (thanks for telling me) and that it must be our router that's broken 3ven though the engineer gave it the all clear. New router arrives and surprise surprise, still doesn't work. Called back, guy admitted that there was indeed a fault at the exchange and that it would be fixed asap. Received a text the next day stating that an Openreach engineer had done work on the cabinet and that we should be back up and running - still no internet and nobody had been to the cabinet that day (it's right outside). Openreach van does actually turn up the following day and does something or other but we still have no internet. One more phone call and apparently we have to have our profile reset at the exchange for our internet to work but only one person is allowed to do it and they don't work weekends so "f*** you" basically. What an absolute shambles. I would've honestly recommended them prior to this issue but customer service is an absolute joke. Will be changing as soon as possible and I'd recommend that they be avoided.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Truly a company from hell, I had a nightmare with this company, last year i had daily disconnections, sometimes unable to connect at all, they made me wait 3 weeks for an engineer who never bothered to turnup, I called them, they promised me compensation, instead they actually penalised me £60, unbelievable but as I found out the incompetence, the total disregard for their customers is on a different level, surpassed only by their callousness, I am one of what they call "vulnerable customers" they claim to prioritise, what a joke, they crapped on me, for months I had the connection problem, they would not even call Openreach to investigate, they only did after I contacted an outside organisation, it seems talktalk, a broadband were too incompetent to diagnose a faulty talktalk router and they didn't care, I had an email from an employee in the Ceo office by the name of Helen Mu**** who led me to believe that she was going to help, she gave a phone number to contact knowing full well she had no intention of talking, she had a recorded message that "vulnerable " customers are her priority, knowing full well I am one, she never even bothered to reply to my many phone calls and messages, that is the kind of despicable people they have working for them and the CEO Tristia Harrison doesn't seem to give a sh**, the company for 2 years running is the most complained about broadband company in the uk but she still gets her half million salary, customers, vulnerable or otherwise don't seem to matter. You can see what bad reviews they get but they don't care. Watchdog should do a whole program about this disgusting company.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Awful customer service. I phoned up and got passed around different people until finally i managed to talk to someone. I was then spoke rudely to and spoken over as I tried to explain what was wrong. Terrible company don't reccommed at all”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I attempted to switch to Talk Talk from Sky as their services were £20 a month cheaper. It seemed too good to be true...and it was. Signing up seemed fine, I asked for 2 tv boxes, BT & Sky Sports, agreed installation date for the TV and a switch date for the broadband/phone line, exactly what I had with Sky but minus a bunch of channels I don't actually watch. A few days later I got a txt from yodel saying my equipment was due to be delivered on the Thursday that week. I waited in all day Thursday no one came, I got a txt saying they'd attempted to deliver and had left a card. I called and was told I had to use a web chat...After an half an hour of talking to the web agent they arranged for another delivery the next day. This time I was hot on them, regularly checked my tracking number following the sat nav they provided. I could see I was next and the driver was in the housing estate opposite ours, approx 400 or 500 yards away. Suddenly I get another notification saying they'd attempted to deliver! Shocking. Again I went through to an agent, after an hour I was told the only thing I could do was to drive to Farnborough (approx 25 miles from my house) to collect the router. I then spoke to talk talk to see if there was any other way they could get the router to me as a 50 mile round trip was insane. I was told they couldn't they'd log the service I'd received from Yodel. So reluctantly as I was saving £20 a drop to Farnborough and got the router. 10 days later my tv services were due to go live, to give them some credit they sent me loads of txts reminding me and letting me know what time the engineer was to come. Finally he arrives, with no TV equipment. He was surprised I hadn't been sent it already. After about 2 mins he worked out even if I had the equipment he couldn't install it as I live in a block of flats with only 1 access point to the Ariel...Something no one had every mentioned to me before. I wouldn't have signed up if I knew I couldn't have a 2nd box. So I immediately called up and cancelled. I was told it'd be 2 and half weeks before they could switch the broadband back to sky. Then this weekend after all of that they've sent me a bill including installation charges and paying in advance for services I've cancelled already. I've just spent 40 mins arguing with their agents on the phone they won't cancel the payment in advance I have to call them back next month for a refund....They have 'agreed' to cancel the installation charge...They want to bill me though for the broadband despite the appalling service they have provided. Shocking, I guess you get what you pay for. Anyone thinking of switching from Sky/Virgin/BT. I'd recommend staying put, Talk Talk might be cheaper but there is a reason for it....”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Very bad 👎”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I had to end my TalkTalk contract early due to moving home. The experience of doing so was appalling. I have spent approximately 7 to 8 hours on the phone and online chat to TalkTalk in order to accomplish this. I was passed from department to department to complete different parts of the process. They have made errors then charged me fees for this, which I have then had to challenge. Multiple times I have been reassured that everything had been settled only to receive another bill with additional charges added. Ironically all the while I have been receiving calls form the retentions department asking me to stay! This is the worst customer service experience I have had in years. TalkTalk should be ashamed of themselves and potential customers should steer clear.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“What an absolute joke of a company. Have been using their service for 13 months and I have had at least 19 issues with them where my connectivity was lacking. With working from home, having internet is quite important. Have spoken to their awful customer service multiple times and they give me the exact same dumb questions over and over again. 1 week ago I was given a new router (because that was obviously going to resolve everything) and not surprisingly I have already had issues twice. FIX THIS... Im stuck on a contract with you, and I will take action to void the contract if you dont solve this issue immediately.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Worse Internet and TV provider ever. Been charged for an engineer that came out when I was informed I wouldn't be so now have to wait 48 hours while they investigate. On top of that they want me to buy a booster (£85) so my devices will connect to the WiFi. Roll on March 2023 as I won't be renewing my contract.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Was with talk talk for 8 year they updated my connection but it did t work for nearly 2 months I had a sick child bed bound with no WiFi or any service called up every day no help at all had me distressed and In tears still nothing went with a new service n talk talk still taking money as I should have cancelled they said absolute joke of a service and people are useless was so disgusted in the way I was treated”

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Posted 3 years ago

“it is so slow and laggy i play fortnite creative on 50 ping we get below avarege download and upload speed cuts out alot and alot of lag spikes not recomended”

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Posted 3 years ago

TalkTalk is rated 1.2 based on 1,569 reviews