Complaints?

mcfc_ms

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Just wondering what the best option is for a complaint which will actually be listened too rather than just thrown in the bin?

Having an absolute nightmare at the moment with the pathetic customer services of three mobile.

Is the best procedure to just follow what they want you to do? or is it best to dig around for emails/addresses of their execs etc? and see how far it goes?


As a background for the complaint. Just under 2 years ago my dad took out a contract for the new iphone for myself as there was no stock in Manchester at the time and he was away in oxford and they had them. Set up the contract then a few months later he passed away. A month or so after he passed away I went into the shop in Ashton to make them aware and they told me to post a copy of the death certificate and they will be able to change it into my name or cancel the contract. I wasn’t interested in cancelling it, I was happy for it to be put into my name. Anyway, sent off the certificate and a covering letter asking them to change it into my name. Never heard a thing, so just assumed it was all done.
Went into the Manchester shop a few weeks ago and spoke to a terrible sales guy. Its shit customer service when they are too busy pissing about on their phones and texting while talking to them. I ended up just walking out. Went to the Ashton shop a few days later and they said there was no record of the death certificate on their systems and we would need to send another, which they offered to do while in store via fax, then said someone will call me within 48 hours.

No call after 5 days so called up their India call centre. Explained to them and they said email it over, which I did. Then they said he will call back within an hour. 4 hours passed and no phone calls. So called again and they said I will get a call back within 48 hours. No call again after 3 days of waiting.

Then at weekend I get a letter saying I can now transfer the account into my name, and just quote a ref number to them. Then I get another letter saying they have now cancelled the contract. The guys are idiots

Call them up today and ask what’s going on. They have no idea (must not be on their script). So he says I will transfer you through..... Then stuck on hold for 45 minutes on a phone number that is 5.1p per minute. Then eventually hang up

So three death certificates, 18 months, multiple calls to their clueless staff, days of no return calls, and the worst sales guy ever, and a possible cancelled contract. I am still getting nowhere near what I wanted.

I feel like just phoning them up and telling them to fuck off

Definitely getting away from these idiots when the contract finally finishes this month. However, I will still have to get in touch with them to do that. I can't bloody win

Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Register your complaint with the ombudsman and they'll start treating the matter as serious - if you don't do that then they'll continue to take the piss.
 
Slag their service off on twitter using their @threemobile ( or whatever their twitter name is) it might do the trick. My mate slagged off bt Internet on twitter because he was having loads of trouble with his online gaming and it kept freezing and cutting off etc. he went on twitter to vent not thinking anything of it. About an hour later he got a message on twitter from bt apologising saying they'd send an engineer round to sort it lol.

He was totally stunned
 
LongLang said:
Stop paying the bill. They will ring you back quick enough then.

Be careful, a mobile phone contract is a credit agreement and it could affect your credit rating if it actually is in your name. If its not in your name I'd cancel the direct debit immediately.
 
bobmcfc said:
Slag their service off on twitter using their @threemobile ( or whatever their twitter name is) it might do the trick. My mate slagged off bt Internet on twitter because he was having loads of trouble with his online gaming and it kept freezing and cutting off etc. he went on twitter to vent not thinking anything of it. About an hour later he got a message on twitter from bt apologising saying they'd send an engineer round to sort it lol.

He was totally stunned

I had a similar result with Paddy Power. About a dozen phone calls and Emails had no effect. One post on Twitter and it was sorted. The power of bad publicity.
 
hisroyalblueness said:
Register your complaint with the ombudsman and they'll start treating the matter as serious - if you don't do that then they'll continue to take the piss.


This
 
Simply e-mail the Chief Executive (someone has listed the address above). I've contacted the Chief Executive of companies numerous times and it always does the trick. simply list the complaint as you have above and tell them you will post a link to the whole story on twitter if they fail to contact you...
 
Thanks all for the advice.

Will get writing an email to the boss tomorrow and see where I get.

If no results then I will go mental on twitter haha
 
Had a look around this morning and found out the CEO's name

Thanks for the email address for the offices

Just sent one off asking if they could at least provide me with someone who has an idea of what they are doing
 
We had big problems with Three a few years ago. We ended having to go to CAB and getting a letter written by a solicitor. Even then it dragged on for several months but in the end after many very long and angry letters and phone calls we ended up speaking to someone relatively high up and it got sorted. They were a fucking nightmare, I wouldn't go anywhere near them again.
 
Contact the guy at the top as many take complaints very seriously. I had a problem with getting broadband set up when I moved a few years ago and the ISP couldn't get BT to accept the problem was at their end. So I emailed the then CEO and to my amazement he emailed me back to say it was appalling & that he would sort it out. His PA rang me later that day and it was sorted within 24 hours.

I also know from doing work for various bits of Barclays that the then CEO, John Varley, used to deal personally with customer complaints that came his way and often rang the customer himself.
 
check out moneysupermaket for help and tips on how to sort this out and also go with contacing ombudsman
 
Thanks very much for the advice.

Got a call off one of the people in the executive offices today explaining how sorry they were about the problems I have had. They have personally took on my case and sorted it within a minute on the phone. Written confirmation coming through the post. PAC code for a new network and unlocked my phone for free

Cheers Bluemoon
 

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