What a good start

Moved the whole lot from TalkTalk at the end of July following a catalogue of cusromer service disasters.
Now BT has:
1. Taken the wrong amount direct debit 2 months running (BB & Calls charges on free offer for first 3 months and charged)
2. Following bedding in period Broadband was good and stable until yesterday. Appointment made for engineer to investigate this afternoon. Took afternoon off (unpaid) NO ENGINEER. No courtesy call to cancel. Just didn't appear.
Manners please BT
Appointment made for tomorrow. I wonder what will happen?
Am I going to be let down yet again.
This industry stinks,
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Selectortone
I think you have it right.
I posted this elsewhere a couple of months ago:
My experience is, for what it's worth, that the broadband providers are about as equally bad as each other. Yesterday I felt like picking two of them up and banging their corporate heads together.
Here I am talking about the industry in general. We have to remember that we have something here which is in its infancy and therefore suffering from growing pains. As it matures it will surely find out that cutting costs to the bone by exploiting overseas call centres with staff whose first language is not that of its customers is a false economy; that being honest in advertising and with customers will make a positive contribution to customer satisfaction; that making false or unachievable promises will drive people away; that putting people on hold for anything up to 45 minutes and forcing them to listen to inane music will put them in the wrong mood for a meaningful telephone conversation. I could go on.
I am sure that anyone here who is in business will agree that if they treated their customers/clients as badly as the broadband suppliers do, they would soon be out of business.
Come on, all of you. Pull your socks up and give your industry a better reputation.
Rant over

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