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1.5 Rating 576 Reviews
11 %
of reviewers recommend Utility Warehouse
1.5
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Utility Warehouse 1 star review on 14th March 2025
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Utility Warehouse 1 star review on 14th March 2025
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Utility Warehouse 1 star review on 14th March 2025
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Utility Warehouse 1 star review on 14th March 2025
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Utility Warehouse 1 star review on 15th December 2024
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Utility Warehouse 1 star review on 24th September 2024
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!! Multi-level marketing at its worse, agent sells you what seems like a great deal then leaves you to fend for yourself with the most appalling service. You will waste days of your life being on hold to speak with someone because they are so incompetent. I would love to know if they make money from keeping us on hold for so long. They have caused us SO MUCH STRESS!!
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Posted 3 years ago
Absolutely horrendous! Would not recommend to anyone. I joined in 2019 and had endless issues which were eventually resolved (took endless amounts of phone calls on my part) but luckily I did not have any further issues. I moved home in June and was told that I could simply transfer over all of my services to the new property and my bills would continue without paying any lump sum from the previous property. I was also told that all I needed to do with my broadband was to plug in the router and be good to go. This was not the case. Once again, after multiple phone calls (which I had to chase as no one knew the answer) I was informed that they were not able to provide my broadband, but even if they could it would take a minimum of 30 days to be active!? So just plugging in was completely false. I have now had to find another provider elsewhere which has affected my bills with UW as it is a reduction in services so my discount of being a triple gold member was no longer valid. Once again, endless phone calls to resolve and eventually we came to a solution. It is now august and I have received a gas & electricity bill from another company stating I have an outstanding balance with them, even though I have been paying UW for these services. I spoke with an advisor on the 6th and informed me that he would get a refund processed for the bills paid and would investigate further as to why this has happened as he could not understand why I was being charged for a service they are not providing. I was promised a call back and email on the Monday but of course, I received nothing. I have made multiple phone calls throughout the week chasing for an update and have had to wait over an hour for someone to answer! Still no joy in finding a solution, and I have been passed from energy team, to the billing team and then back to energy. Still haven’t received an explanation or solution to this error. Absolutely shocking service! I am now requesting for my account to be closed and compensation for the errors, incorrect information and general experience received as it has been beyond shocking.
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Posted 3 years ago
OMG I can not believe the incompetence. 4 times I spoken to them so far. Calling from overseas and one thing I’m told something else is NOT done!! Everytime I talk to them I’m glad I left the country. I just feel sorry for my tenants who are really struggling to get things resolved. I can not believe the low quality service and even lower quality people who are working here. There’s no respect whatsoever for customers. Do not touch!!!
Utility Warehouse 1 star review on 10th August 2022
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Posted 3 years ago
Possible New customer, as provider for my new property but can't get through on phone (57 minutes) and no live chat available
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Posted 3 years ago
I spoke to one of their representatives yesterday to set up a payment plan for £5 a week Can not set a plan up until I pay £10 to set the plan up I've got that frustrated I know pop said forget it and I'm not planning I would not recommend your company to anybody
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Posted 3 years ago
I am in ongoing emails with you about what you say I owe you from when I canceled my account with you on the 20/04/2022 I told you I am going to live abroad but I have been here nearly 3 months and you still have not sorted out this mess, I canceled my payment method with you when I thought everything had been closed you even gave me a refund of what you owed me but then the emails came saying I owed you you managed to get access to my credit card details and take a payment from it and now I have another email off you saying what my next monthly bill will be are you for real 😳 every time I get an email off you it is by a different person why can you not put one person on this distressing issue and get it sorted out for me please please please sort this matter out I am living in another country now
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Posted 3 years ago
A sales rep called Alan came into our home and mis-sold us a full package. We were told we could switch from pay as you go to direct debit on our gas and electric. Ended up spending 24 hours without gas and electric because they havent been swapped and theres no emergency number that deals with pay as you go metres, puting tropical fish at risk of death. The wireless broadband was meant to be 3 times faster than when we were with vodaphone but it's 3 times slower. Don't switch to Utility wearhouse, it's not technically a scam or pyrimid scheme but it may as well be. Trying to cancel the phones since it was stolen this weekend and currently been on hold for an hour. Nightmare company, avoid at all costs. If anyone tells you theyre good theyre just trying to get 50 quid off their next bill-told ya may as well be a pyrimid scheme.
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Posted 3 years ago
Moved into a house that UW supplied. 29 days after the previous tenants had left. They have charged me for electricity I haven't used despite proving to them I didn't move in until the date I said. Contacting customer service on the phone on average the wait is 40 minutes only to get passed to another department to wait again, very frustrating, the letters they send are intimidating threatening bailiffs/ debt collection agencies. I have paid them what they said I owed however now they owe me money they are even hard too speak to. DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS COMPANY!
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Posted 3 years ago
£40 top up not going on metre. Past 9 days I have spent over 12 hours on hold and still no joy. £1.86 emergency credit left so God knows whats going to happen. Been a customer for 10 years and as soon as I can leave I will be doing.
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Posted 3 years ago
In preparation for moving house UW confirmed that we could take our existing number - essential as I run a small business. But throughout the process, they keep assigning us a new number. The date that we should have gone live (27 June) with phone & broadband, came & went, delayed because they needed to ask us if we were okay with std broadband as ultra not in our the village. After numerous phone calls, some going round & round in circles for 50 mins, told that it would be another 5-7 working days before we go live. Today now told we won't go live until 14th July & with a new telephone number!! UW customer service used to more or less top their competitors - sadly that's not the case any more - we've been customers for 20 years or so but we're very disillusioned now!
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Posted 3 years ago
Customer service, which they used to pride themselves on has gone completely down the pan. Totally shocking, 4hrs plus and still no joy, topped up £55 electric so far this week and still not registering. Total joke, and I have been with them over 10yrs
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Posted 3 years ago
They don't pick up my call, everytime I call them it's say your call is in the que, last time i waited was like 2 hrs. Poor service
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Posted 3 years ago
Do not believe the hype about how much they get awards for x, y and z. One if their leaders contacts all the partners and more or less pushes them into voting for UW, so as it's partners who have a vested interest in the business the votes aren't worth anything. I was a distributor/partner in 2014 but the company have rapidly gone downhill in my view. Do not sign up with them as a partner under any circumstances.
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Posted 3 years ago
For 3 months in a row I have had to ring this company regarding their billing! Every month it is being sorted but they are OVER charging me! We agreed a monthly amount which for some reason they feel it okay to promise and confirm verbally but can never update their system! Just don’t let anyone from this business to convince you to move from your supplier!!!!!!
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Posted 3 years ago
I signed up for electricity in February, the account has yet to be set up. It is now June. On the second of June I revived a letter saying that the contract would go live immediately. This did not happen. Having spoken to multiple advisers over the phone for over 1h I was informed I had to pay a £100 deposit (this is not a thing, this is not the first time I sign up to an electricity provider) and also that the contract had probably been cancelled and the tariffs might be different. In other words they get to change the rules as and when they want. I, of course, did not proceed. I suspect that given recent energy price hikes they have decided to stop onboarding new customers (at least a the tariffs they were quoting in February) and rather than be upfront about this, they prefer to exasperate new customers with an impenetrable process and misinformation so that it is the customer who choses to walk away. Don’t wast your time. Whatever you are quoted on the website will probably not be honoured and if you are asked for a deposit after the fact, do not accept this, there is no guarantee they will honour it!
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Posted 3 years ago
Was on the call with an agent today by the name of Mohammed, found him extremely rude and obnoxious, would not let me speak and did not fully understand the point I was making, Mohammed was working from home and we could hear the children shouting and screaming in the background, this is not the issue but it's extremely unprofessional for a conglomerate a company to employee such a person. Spoke to an agent called Stuart and made a lengthy complaint about this person.
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Posted 3 years ago
Absolutely disgusting and unprofessional customer service Paid my bills and they have cut my internet off I phoned them on the 1st of June to be told that my internet would be on today and now telling me 20th June
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Posted 3 years ago
Shocking Company, 45 minutes in the telephone queue and gave up, 15 emails and rubbish responses, unable to call customers the dial system not working - avoid at all costs. UW your customer service is in the gutter.
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Posted 3 years ago
None existant customer service!
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Posted 3 years ago
Shocking customer service . Extremely rude and unhelpful people dealing with cash back card enquiries. Good luck to anyone trying to get a refund transferred from the old cash back card to the new one, or even getting the refund at all !
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Posted 3 years ago
Utility Warehouse is rated 1.5 based on 576 reviews