Email problems and the incompetence of BT call cen...

Question

How come one can come on this forum and read threda after thread of people complaining about intermitant email problems yet when you ring the call centre you are fobed off with the usual excsue that it is your settings that are the problem.
For me, it was only after wasting 30 minutes of my time, in which the memebr of the 'technical' team tried to look at my settings, this involved him entering the wrong information on several occasions and needing to be corrected by myself. That the person admitted that there had been a problem.
What is interetsing is that I explained that i receive emails through my Ipad and sometimes collect by BT Yahoo, as well as my PC, none of which were working and all of which require the setting to lon on to the serever to be set individually, I also made it quite clear that was an intermitant problem, but that today it had lasted 8 hours. Yet still we went this through redicilous rigmorole of playing with the settings on my PC - why?
The gentlemen then admitted there was a problem with BT yahoo, so very unimpressed I asked to speak to the complaints department. I was put through to a 'manager' and I use that term guardedly because he was no more competent then the first person I spoke to. He said that perhaps his colleugue had failed to check the system status recently, I suggest that he had not chceked it for at least 8 hours as that is how long my emial has been down today! This man then began the fob of speech, refusing to put me through to someone who would help and saying he had all the authority to help me, afetr several questions it became clear he had no authroity whatsoever, he could not talk about bills, he could even get me the details of the complaints department in Durham, apparently it deos not exist!
Anyway I am sharing my story to see if anyone thinks that the call centre that BT farm their work out to are entirely incompetent and are seriously in need of some training, the first thing they need to do is actually listen to the customer and not begin the decision tree they think roughly addresses the problem.
'ah email'
step 1 - click 'email connection problem'
step 2 - check settings
It just might be that some of us do actually know what we are talking about, and have had experience setting up call centers so we know hoe they work.
Please, please allow us to speak to people who will help us with our problem it is the only way you will retain customers in a competive telecommunications sector.  
Just stop fobbing us off with the line, 'it must be your settings' but admit you have a problem and get it fixed!!
Ironically as I type 'fixed' yet another 0x800ccc92 falshes up on screen, showing that my issues still remain unresolved.

Answer 1

Hi Cross_Bug. 
First of all i too know how frustrating it can be being put through to some one who is less than compitent with there job. However with the steps that they do it is required before they can use any other protocols so unfortunately you would just have to bare with them. 
Second of all if you would like to write in to complaint about a certain product or service, then you can do so in writing to our corespondence center the adress is as follows; 
BT Correspondence Centre
Providence Row
Durham
DH98 1BT
Other alternatives for complaints are e-mailing in through the website via webform. http://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact_email/c/5642,5645 They aim to give a reply within 24-48 hours of receiving the form and will aim to do so satisfactory. 
I hope i have been informative and it aids into the problem being fixed for yourself. 
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