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Title: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: adamr8965 on May 21, 2010, 18:15:00
i dont think so..

http://www.talktalkmembers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37417
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: DorsetBoy on May 21, 2010, 18:20:48
Do they have the same staff as Alliance and Leicester... ???
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 21, 2010, 18:21:05
That is unbelievable. Clearly they have a tag on the line, it can be cleared in five days.  :shake:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: adamr8965 on May 21, 2010, 18:23:41
i like alliance and leicester best bank there is.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: DorsetBoy on May 21, 2010, 18:24:06
I'd rather have an 18 month contract with BT than that shower........
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: vitriol on May 21, 2010, 18:31:32
Complete numpty's. 

Hope that guy got sorted in the end
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: adamr8965 on May 21, 2010, 18:35:01
no doesnt look like it at the moment
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: sobranie on May 21, 2010, 21:32:41
Quote from 1st post the poor chappy made;

I am emailing as I don't want to get stuck in a cue  yet again or speak to someone who does not understand what I mean.
Unquote///

'scuse the pun but I reckon he's well and truly 'snookered' is he not!!!

Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Steve on May 21, 2010, 21:34:39
  :grn:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 22, 2010, 10:11:26
I thought he was just making a rod for his own back, Rick. ;D
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Technical Ben on May 22, 2010, 12:38:10
My oh my. I would have not waited that long. I cancelled my connection with O2 when they took longer than 3 weeks to fix the problems I was having. As I was not getting stuck in a 12 month contract with a problem that has been on their forums for 2-3 years!
At least I had a service though. That poor person has paid for a service he has not received, and IMO deserves a full refund, plus costs, and compensation for stress. Not only have they failed to provide a service, but they have left him tied into a contract, and on a "stuck" line (so he cannot swap providers). It's like ISP imprisonment!
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 22, 2010, 12:55:46
It is, Ben.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: zappaDPJ on May 22, 2010, 14:21:41
I hope the TalkTalk web masters have done a good job on getting their site promoted with search engines. That thread should be at the head of every search as a testament to incompetence. The attitude of the TalkTalk rep is astounding.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 22, 2010, 15:45:37
That's a polite way of putting it, Zap.  :shake:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: adamr8965 on May 22, 2010, 15:47:27
i've ordered talktalk llu for my new house!!!!
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 22, 2010, 15:48:16
I'd order some diazepam from your doctor then, Adam. ;)
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: adamr8965 on May 22, 2010, 17:12:27
Whys that then rik? ;D
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 22, 2010, 17:13:42
You really need an answer? :eyebrow:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: adamr8965 on May 22, 2010, 17:15:05
Nope, was only teasing would go to them anyway.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Niall on May 22, 2010, 18:16:45
Sadly that's not the first time I've heard of that with Talk Talk. I've seen people 'lose' phone lines completely using that shower. Talk Talk cock something up at their end, stopping other providers from doing anything or even telling them anything and Talk Talk deny they have done anything wrong and are waiting on something, not clearing the issue and in some cases they've actually been charging the customer for providing absolutely nothing.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Inkblot on May 22, 2010, 18:35:55
Amazingly though there are people sticking up for talk-talk after somebody quite rightly points out that Marieke (Sounds like a girl to me) is wasting his/her time talking to Emma about the problem - he was even polite about it:

QuoteI have to say,this is incredible!!

Talking to Emma on this forum is clearly a waste of time. She's trying her best but clearly she is unable to influence the resolution of this problem.

I wouldn't have been that polite - and I'm usually pretty laid-back about things but that is just pure incompetence!
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 22, 2010, 18:38:23
Incompetence with malice, Inky. :(
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: pctech on May 22, 2010, 19:09:40
I've had a couple of experiences with the mobile retail arm of Carphone Warehouse and neither have been good so this kind of thing doesn't come as news to me.

Another good reason why the data transport network between the customer and the ISP's edge router should be managed by a non-profit third party that while serving the ISP allows the customer to raise a dispute and have it investigated in cases like this.

Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: dujas on May 23, 2010, 00:53:34
Someone needs to tell him to email a complaint to Charles Dunstone and CC it to the BBC's Watchdog programme.

QuoteAnother good reason why the data transport network between the customer and the ISP's edge router should be managed by a non-profit third party that while serving the ISP allows the customer to raise a dispute and have it investigated in cases like this.

I doubt it would make much difference as TT have most likely taken ownership of his telephone line and stuck him on LLU.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: pctech on May 23, 2010, 20:24:25
Hence my point.

If they don't own or control the transport network they cant hold a customer to ransom.

Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: dujas on May 23, 2010, 22:11:42
Well technically they don't, for the price of £125 BT Openreach would switch him to a new provider of his choice. Unfortunately we can't trust state ownership of our infrastructure, they tend to leave them chronically underfunded.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Colin Burns on May 23, 2010, 23:55:18
the OP should phone them with the words of fix it or give me a MAC code or i will ring OFCOM

and then no dowt thek issue would be fixed alot faster
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Technical Ben on May 24, 2010, 17:27:23
Quote from: Colin Burns on May 23, 2010, 23:55:18
the OP should phone them with the words of fix it or give me a MAC code or i will ring OFCOM

and then no dowt thek issue would be fixed alot faster

I think part of the problem is there is no mac code. They seem to have stuffed up/lost the paperwork/broken the exchange so much that they have no clue what to do or what is going on.
It's like the problems such as:
Customer :"I want to cancel my contract because you did not supply me with a phone number!"
Cust' Support:"Ok Sir, please give us your phone number first, so we can cancel your account..."

You are forever going around in circles until someone with half a brain, or the authority to take action steps in.
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 24, 2010, 17:32:59
Rare to find the two in the same person, of course.  :whistle:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Bill on May 24, 2010, 18:08:19
Quote from: Technical Ben on May 24, 2010, 17:27:23
It's like the problems such as:
Customer :"I want to cancel my contract because you did not supply me with a phone number!"
Cust' Support:"Ok Sir, please give us your phone number first, so we can cancel your account..."


Some years ago I received a letter from a company I'd been dealing with for years that said (in summary):

We do not seem to have your address in our records, would you please supply this so we can maintain our service to you.

:doh:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 24, 2010, 18:10:22
You should have sent it back marked 'addressee unknown'. ;)
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Bill on May 24, 2010, 18:12:23
I didn't think of that, nice one :thumb:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 24, 2010, 18:13:31
 ;D

I'm devious. ;)
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Bill on May 24, 2010, 18:16:39
Ah, that explains it, I don't have a devious bone in my body... :whistle:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 24, 2010, 18:21:26
There's a few in FC would argue that, Bill. :)
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Bill on May 24, 2010, 18:25:40
Not until their bans expire :rub:
Title: Re: A happy talktalk customer???
Post by: Rik on May 24, 2010, 18:26:31
:rofl: