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Vodafone complaints rocket despite Ofcom investigation (Tesco has least complaints)
Vodafone have been the most complained about for a while so much so that Ofcom had decided to investigate them. Despite promises by Vodafone to fix it the level of complaints has sky rocketed.
Tesco on the other hand generated the least complaints followed by O2 and Three. http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/news/t...mplaints-mar16 http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...s-q4-2015.html |
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That's an astonishing increase in complaints and the level of complaints is so high I had to question them. Vodafone has over ten times the level of complaints than Three or O2 and four times EE!
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No surprise Vodafone are worst network I have ever come across they steal from you lie promise things and then don't stick to it, some call center staff just hang up or swear at you and you won't get problems sorted.
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Well done Tesco as I have always said how good they are.
What has happened at VF - that is some serious spike |
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It probably doesn't help that they've downgraded their CS operation.
Even if the phone jockeys were clueless, you could usually get someone who knew what they were doing by posting on their forum. Now it seems that they've taken the giffgaff model to the extreme by not even having the staff as regular posters! |
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It probably doesn't help that they've downgraded their CS operation.
Even if the phone jockeys were clueless, you could usually get someone who knew what they were doing by posting on their forum. Now it seems that they've taken the giffgaff model to the extreme by not even having the staff as regular posters! Every time I needed them, it took ages to actually resolve the issue. Also, their forums are full of stories of people trying to find solutions without any luck. |
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My own experience with Vodafone is the arse end of everyone elses, that being said I don't call up to query account problems I use the online chat. I rarely have any issues with them, they gave me an early upgrade to the S7, which one can't grumble.
Given this is towards the end of 2015 I have a feeling the situation with Three will change when the figures are released for this quarter some time in the future. |
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Vodafone is a bit of a joke. I've got a PAYG sim with them and can't top up. They have NO data coverage where I live and the online thing just doesn't work. It craps out all the time. Waiting for EE to turn on 800 around here but now thinking I'll need to go back to O2 for my 'calling' SIM with 3 SIM for data. I did manage to top up the VOD sim once but that involved driving 10 miles to get a sniff of 3G and paying through paypal as the debit card thing just kept timing out.
That said, EE did try to relieve me of both my phone numbers (landline) last year and it was only a lady at Sky who got them back for me at the 11th hour. So, not impressed with them either. At the end of the day, the living wage should be £2.50 as that's what most people are actually worth in the UK at the moment. Bunch of lazy, uneducated, buck-passing fools living off the back of an empire and moaning about it on Facebook. |
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It doesn't surprise me - I have had an ongoing issue with them since last October (to cut a long story short they released a PAC code without telling me the contract hadn't ended and there would be a charge) and I have just referred it to the Ombudsman as I have spent 8 hours on the phone trying to sort the issue as well as sending 4 letters. They have ignored my legal right to have a copy of the original call and have given me the run around every time I have phoned.
They have their own thread on the MS forum for complaints! |
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That graph just doesn't look good for Vodafone does it?
Truly awful. IT issues or not. They don't even apologise in their response. |
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So you're 10 times more likely to have to take a complaint all the way to the regulator than the likes of O2 / Three etc and that's despite all the fuss over what Three have been doing over the last year.
That's 6,500 complaint cases that Ofcom have had to run through in just 90 days? It takes a lot of effort to get an official complaint to them as you have to follow the full network complaints procedure first. To put it another way, more complaints about Vodafone than every other operator listed in the chart put together. |
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Doesn't surprise me one bit - they have been a shambles for a number of years and its only getting worse. However they have finally decided to investigate in their network.
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I recently took out a contract on Vodafone for the S7 edge and had some nightmare conversations with the customer service team. Nobody really knew what was going on and it was shambolic at times.
The Live chat was a far more pleasant experience. |
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Strange Talkmobile has the least amount of complaints and yet aren’t they are owned by Vodafone?
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So you're 10 times more likely to have to take a complaint all the way to the regulator than the likes of O2 / Three etc and that's despite all the fuss over what Three have been doing over the last year.
That's 6,500 complaint cases that Ofcom have had to run through in just 90 days? It takes a lot of effort to get an official complaint to them as you have to follow the full network complaints procedure first. To put it another way, more complaints about Vodafone than every other operator listed in the chart put together. I would never go back to VF .... even if they had 100% geographical 4G UK coverage
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I've been with Vodafone for 17 years but cancelled earlier this year. My wife has been with them 12 years and had an ongoing issue with them since last October.
They cancelled her DD in error and then made her take out a new one, then they hit her with a late payment charge. She's spoken to several CS ppl, all promising to refund it which they haven't done. She then wrote them a letter which they ignored. She phoned them yesterday to cancel her contract, when they looked at her account they didn't even try to retain her. CS guy told her he didn't blame her for wanting to leave. That's 29 years between us. Tara Vodafone & good riddance. |
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I've been with Vodafone for 17 years but cancelled earlier this year. My wife has been with them 12 years and had an ongoing issue with them since last October.
They cancelled her DD in error and then made her take out a new one, then they hit her with a late payment charge. She's spoken to several CS ppl, all promising to refund it which they haven't done. She then wrote them a letter which they ignored. She phoned them yesterday to cancel her contract, when they looked at her account they didn't even try to retain her. CS guy told her he didn't blame her for wanting to leave. That's 29 years between us. Tara Vodafone & good riddance. |
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I've been with Vodafone for 17 years but cancelled earlier this year. My wife has been with them 12 years and had an ongoing issue with them since last October.
They cancelled her DD in error and then made her take out a new one, then they hit her with a late payment charge. She's spoken to several CS ppl, all promising to refund it which they haven't done. She then wrote them a letter which they ignored. She phoned them yesterday to cancel her contract, when they looked at her account they didn't even try to retain her. CS guy told her he didn't blame her for wanting to leave. That's 29 years between us. Tara Vodafone & good riddance. |
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So you're 10 times more likely to have to take a complaint all the way to the regulator than the likes of O2 / Three etc and that's despite all the fuss over what Three have been doing over the last year.
That's 6,500 complaint cases that Ofcom have had to run through in just 90 days? It takes a lot of effort to get an official complaint to them as you have to follow the full network complaints procedure first. To put it another way, more complaints about Vodafone than every other operator listed in the chart put together. |
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Its probably to do with the fact that complaints put to Vodafone go nowhere. So people have no choice but to escalate them outside the company.
They are the only company I know in the UK currently that have offshored their executive complaints department. I mean, who does that ? Some of the stuff Vodafone do beggars belief. They're supposed to be the pinnacle of UK telecommunications and all they seem to do and have been doing for the past decade now is disappointing customers and "maximising shareholder dividends". Useless. |
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Its probably to do with the fact that complaints put to Vodafone go nowhere. So people have no choice but to escalate them outside the company.
They are the only company I know in the UK currently that have offshored their executive complaints department. I mean, who does that ? Some of the stuff Vodafone do beggars belief. They're supposed to be the pinnacle of UK telecommunications and all they seem to do and have been doing for the past decade now is disappointing customers and "maximising shareholder dividends". Useless. |
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So the concensus of opinion on here and just about everywhere else I lurk discussing mobile telecommunications is that VF are terrible both for data coverage and CS. They are the network for old people who know no better, like my sister. So why is anyone on here signing up with them? Fair enough if they are the only network that gives you a signal where you live, but that must be rare, but for the rest of you I have no sympathy.
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So the concensus of opinion on here and just about everywhere else I lurk discussing mobile telecommunications is that VF are terrible both for data coverage and CS. They are the network for old people who know no better, like my sister. So why is anyone on here signing up with them? Fair enough if they are the only network that gives you a signal where you live, but that must be rare, but for the rest of you I have no sympathy.
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So the concensus of opinion on here and just about everywhere else I lurk discussing mobile telecommunications is that VF are terrible both for data coverage and CS. They are the network for old people who know no better, like my sister. So why is anyone on here signing up with them? Fair enough if they are the only network that gives you a signal where you live, but that must be rare, but for the rest of you I have no sympathy.
I'll still stick with EE or three until O2 and Vodafone have bucked their ideas up, nationally (they've still not done very much where I live) |
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