TalkTalk win Wooden Spoon for customer service

From experience I can only suspect that this was richly deserved.

In reference to www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346322/TalkTalk-wins-award-worst-...:

Why TalkTalk takes your wooden spoon: Award for worst customer service

* They're rude, aggressive and even tell lies
* Charge for services they've NOT supplied
* Don't EVER return your calls
* Harass you for money that you DON'T owe

Speaking to someone in the same office, they will even not charge for services supplied!

He's made so many phone calls to get it sorted out, its just plain silly.

Perhaps they should sign up for the course mentioned here

They also enable an exchange, transfer new customers first until there's no more capacity and leave established customers on the old BTw service. Then they remove the discount on the BTw service because the exchange now supports LLU.

That was my Dad's experience anyway. That and having extra services activated that he never asked for. They weren't even clever about it. I could believe they'd asked for CLI but forgotten but to suggest that my parents asked for 'International Friends & Family' is ludicrous.

Edited by Andrue (Wed 12-Jan-11 19:39:56)

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

Perhaps they should sign up for the course mentioned here

Comical page full of nonsense really.

Lived and worked in Canada and it's not different to the UK. Essentially it's more fake. As a result you get more awkward and demanding customers milking everything they can get. You also get your fair share of lifeless people serving you too so I don't know what criteria was used for judging here.

In the UK I prefer to go into a store, not be harassed with fake smiles and pushy sales people, look around, pick something up, pay and be done. Essentially, if the only words uttered to me the whole time are the price and perhaps thanks I'll be glad. At the same time the only words I expect to use are "thanks a lot".

I note customer services for telephony is better in Canada but then you are paying a kings ransom for the privilege. In the UK it's cheap as chips in comparison so realistically you'll have a fair chance of getting a dullard on the other end.

Basically it boils down to this. A lot of customers are idiots...so it shouldn't really be a surprise to see you're fair share of clowns on the other side of the counter.