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Pleas help me deal with fooking Vodafone!!!

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MsJamieFraser · 20/12/2016 22:17

Please help as my stress levels are through the roof!

In my job I need to have outstanding credit rating.

My contract was up with Vodafone in August, I emailed my months notice in July. last payment came out 30th August. I received email and written confirmation my account was cancelled in August and received letters saying my sim was now on PAYG monthly, I've been with them 10 years... never had a issue until now.

Every month I am getting my monthly contract bills plus ££ added to it!

We are spending hours on the phone, (when we eventually get through) and via web chat, emailing the complaints obudsman complain line also. We get letter confirmation to say it's all sorted, we get post to say it's all sorted etc... and here I am on my 5th month dealing with the issues again.

When you call they will not transfer you to manager, and if you do your on hold and then get told you cannot be connected due to a local emergency Confused...

I went into my local branch and the store manager was as frustrated as I was he tried to help me also, put notes in the system, I was in there for 2.5 hours dealing with this incompetent company, been advised its sorted, got the letters in the post and via web chat transactions saying it's all sorted, we don't owe any money etc...

I've emailed the customer service director,,, no response, I've emailed the obudsman, no response, any communication via phone or web chat, to no avail.

We have spent 4 hours tonight and we are no further forward.

I need to speak to someone English! I know that sounds bad, however they all read from the same blatant script, it's all automated and when they are forced to type talk the writing skills and spelling is very poor.

I've a consultation with my companys solicitor in the afternoon tomorrow, if anyone has any ideas. PLEASE HELP Xmas Angry

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e1y1 · 20/12/2016 23:21

No Problem :)

Good luck - can't believe how bad Vodafone have got, their rep has been declining a while, but I'm not on Voda and no longer work in the communications industry.

Nicesunrise · 21/12/2016 08:27

Their customer service is the worst I have ever experienced
Was with them a few years ago The major problem I had with them only got sorted when one guy in the shop took it upon himself to help me Their customer service on the phone is awful :-(

MargotMoon · 21/12/2016 08:38

Resolver is your friend. I had incorrect bills for 6 months running and was getting nowhere. Logged my complaint with Resolver and it was sorted within days

holidaysaregreat · 21/12/2016 08:43

I too am having problems with Vodafone. Have wasted hours of my time. Thanks for the link thread.

PingPongBat · 21/12/2016 08:56

A thought - you mentioned credit ratings...

You can ask for a notice of correction on your credit files (callcredit, experian and equifax) to explain about any disputed entries. Their websites will tell you how to add this.

Hopefully you can get Vodafone to sort this out and make sure you remember to ask them to remove any adverse marks on your files.

You can get free credit files from Callcredit (via Noddle website) and Equifax (via Clearscore website) with no obligation to pay and no 'free trial then we charge you £15 a month' thing either. I think Experian also has a free report you can get but I'm not sure it's as comprehensive as the other free ones. Or you could pay £2 for a free Experian report.

Good luck today SmileXmas SmileFlowers

Pollyanna9 · 21/12/2016 08:59

Also, presuming they have Facebook and Twitter, I've sometimes found that this very public way of raising issues is the only one that gets you to someone who will actually help. It puts them in a very bad light and thus they want to resolve. When you phone/email/chat etc you're just one of multiple thousands of calls. It's worked for me a couple of times when using their contact centres or complaints processes just wasn't getting me anywhere. And as part of what you want them to do you need them to give you evidence that this has not affected your credit rating (then double check that's the case with a credit scoring outfit just to be sure).

Rrrr, companies like this properly wind me up - it is SO frustrting.

GinIsIn · 21/12/2016 09:04

We had MASSIVE issues with Vodafone that dragged out for nearly 2 years and damaged our credit rating, nearly preventing us from getting a mortgage, over an error THEY had made.

We did all the things you had done. In the end, I wrote an email summarising all the fuck ups they had made, and all my attempts to contact them. I attached copies of all previous correspondence and sent it to them, cc-ing their CEO, customer services director, the communication ombudsman AND Which?, Watchdog, the Daily Express and the Daily Mail. Strangely they cleared the complaint pretty much instantly after that!!

MsJamieFraser · 21/12/2016 11:02

I've logged a complaint with the ombudsman this morning, when I get to work I am going to email all the emails I've been given on here... CEO, Directors etc...

I'm also going to CC in the telegraph, the daily mail, ofcom, citizens advise Facebook, twitter etc....

I've been on the phone to the twats this morning yet again being passed to 5 different delta before loosing the plot to some poor sod who terminated the call in me!!!

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AndNowItsSeven · 21/12/2016 11:07

Try this link op
www.otelo.org.uk

AndNowItsSeven · 21/12/2016 11:08

Sorry I think link may have changed to this one
www.ombudsman-services.org/communications.html

MsJamieFraser · 21/12/2016 11:12

That's who I logged my complaint to today, woman very helpful, they even have their own Vodafone complaints line Confused

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PingPongBat · 21/12/2016 11:17

Glad you've done the Ombudsman complaint now. I complained on behalf of a client of mine after they messed up her account and they gave her compensation too. Fingers crossed for you

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