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BT visit charges
Just thought I'd share a very unpleasant surprise I had with the arrival of my BT phone bill.
I am with Sky for all my call charges etc so I should only have to pay for line rental. Imagin my surprise when my bill was for £330.26. I naturally phoned to complain and get an explanation. It turns out that shortly after I moved in I callen to complain about a very noisy line. An engineer was sent out to investigate. I was told that if the fault was with 'my' equipment there would be a charge. The enginner duly called and I had to urge him to check all conections to the master phone socket as he was not going to do anything. He was in my home for less than 20 min. The only thing he did was to change the master socket, which is BT's property not mine. NO mention was made of any charge. When I spoke to BT to complain they arranged for a return call to try and resolve my complaint. It turns out that the ebginner had put on his job sheet that he had....... Moved phone sockets. Rewired the phone line in my home. Replaced the master socket. I explained that none of the work stated had been done apart from the master socket which was not my property. The lady I was speaking to, indian accent so possibly a call center, said on this occassion she would remove two of the charges but I would still have to pay for part of the work. I could hardly contain myself and very firmly told her that I would not pay any part of a fraudulent bill. I added I would immediatly cancell my standing order and look forward to BT taking me to court. She insisted that I should pay some part of the bill and I againmade it clear that any bill based on a fraudulent claim was not binding. I had at NO time been told of any charge rates. I had not been told I was going to be charged and indeed as the fault was with their equipment I should not have been charged at all. I invited her to check the recordings BT make off all calls and added I hoped 'this' call was being recorded. Eventually I was told that she was prepared, on this occassion, to drop the charged. But I should be aware that in future any call out be be charged at £90+, can't remember the exact figure she stated. So nice of her to do me a favour!!! on this occassion Has anyone else been subjected to this sort of shoddy behaviour from BT. I can imagine there are lots of charges that are simply missed and paid..... If I could I'd drop BT, but that's not an option at this time. |
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Just thought I'd share a very unpleasant surprise I had with the arrival of my BT phone bill.
I am with Sky for all my call charges etc so I should only have to pay for line rental. Imagin my surprise when my bill was for £330.26. I naturally phoned to complain and get an explanation. It turns out that shortly after I moved in I callen to complain about a very noisy line. An engineer was sent out to investigate. I was told that if the fault was with 'my' equipment there would be a charge. The enginner duly called and I had to urge him to check all conections to the master phone socket as he was not going to do anything. He was in my home for less than 20 min. The only thing he did was to change the master socket, which is BT's property not mine. NO mention was made of any charge. When I spoke to BT to complain they arranged for a return call to try and resolve my complaint. It turns out that the ebginner had put on his job sheet that he had....... Moved phone sockets. Rewired the phone line in my home. Replaced the master socket. I explained that none of the work stated had been done apart from the master socket which was not my property. The lady I was speaking to, indian accent so possibly a call center, said on this occassion she would remove two of the charges but I would still have to pay for part of the work. I could hardly contain myself and very firmly told her that I would not pay any part of a fraudulent bill. I added I would immediatly cancell my standing order and look forward to BT taking me to court. She insisted that I should pay some part of the bill and I againmade it clear that any bill based on a fraudulent claim was not binding. I had at NO time been told of any charge rates. I had not been told I was going to be charged and indeed as the fault was with their equipment I should not have been charged at all. I invited her to check the recordings BT make off all calls and added I hoped 'this' call was being recorded. Eventually I was told that she was prepared, on this occassion, to drop the charged. But I should be aware that in future any call out be be charged at £90+, can't remember the exact figure she stated. So nice of her to do me a favour!!! on this occassion Has anyone else been subjected to this sort of shoddy behaviour from BT. I can imagine there are lots of charges that are simply missed and paid..... If I could I'd drop BT, but that's not an option at this time. |
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totally true, no point blaming bt, they dont raise the charges, openreach are totally seperate and are used by every phone provider out there that provides phone services via a bt phone point, bt simply add the charges onto the bill that openreach have set for that call out etc etc
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totally true, no point blaming bt, they dont raise the charges, openreach are totally seperate and are used by every phone provider out there that provides phone services via a bt phone point, bt simply add the charges onto the bill that openreach have set for that call out etc etc
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