How about another zen promise?

I�ve never had any real problems with Zen since I joined back in 2005 but I recently got an email offering fibre and phone for what I�m currently paying for just fibre.

So Zen dropped the price at some point and yet again it seems loyal customers are forgotten about instead of automatically receiving the price drops.

So maybe Zen�s new policy should be...
�we promise there will be no price rises and if we lower the prices you�ll automatically receive them� 😉

Just waiting to see if I can get the new price, which I guess is a 12 month contract but want to make sure I can regrade to ultrafast IF it ever comes to this dead end of town. Still, be nice to see companies drop prices for long time customers. 😞

I was able to re-contract on the new prices as an existing customer, even got a fritzbox 3750 router as well. Zen will get you upgrade product without penalty so going from vdsl to ultrafast is fine.

Thanks, I did send an email asking but don�t really want to move to another contract and find out BT suddenly rolls out decent speeds around here. Usually my luck 😛

I�m guessing we won�t see anything for a while round here but I keep praying to the FTTP gods! 😞

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Edited by techguy (Sun 19-Jan-20 20:13:57)

I been with Zen since Jun 2005 and never got so much as a 10 year anniversary mug so this is no surprise really. Never understood the whole �screw the loyal customers� mentality.

If I didn�t have the 5 static IP�s or could take them with me somewhere else I�d be seriously considering moving but sadly, I like my IP�s! 😤

Humhle pir time, just rechecked the site prior to calling sales and there is no reduction for FTTP.

Happy to publicly retract my earlier comment, my bad.

�If the ultra-fast FTTP becomes available within the contract term and you wish to upgrade you will face a termination fee.�

Hmm, that clears that up. If you switch to the lower price and FTTP comes out your stuck for the remainder of the 12 month contract or get penalised. Lovely!

Apparently it was in a newsletter last September and Zen won�t switch to lower pricing without consent... which is really stupid thing tbh since I�m guessing that went to the SPAM folder. 🙄

Zen: Oh look, we reduced the price on the service you�re already getting but we need your permission to change how much we charge you.
Customer: No thanks, I love spending more money for the same service I�ve always had!

I mean, just... 🙄

Guess it�s save money and find out FTTP is coming next month, or wait and it�ll take 5 years! 😤

It's actually common sense when you think about it, that businesses can't just move your packages around without getting your permission. For one, it will usually need a change to your direct debit amount (bank account holder's permission required), and two it will usually involve the start of a new contract.

Imagine this scenario: You're looking around for a change of ISP, perhaps one that offers full fibre that your current one does not, you decide to go with a new ISP, and contact your current one to give your cessation notice, only to find a few hours/days before they have placed you on a higher speed package, possibly with a reduction of your monthly payment, which has reset your minimum contract period to another 12 or 18 months, and an early cancellation will require a large fee. You would not be happy that they had not asked you first.

I'm entirely for businesses contacting me for my permission regarding any tiny little detail change on my account, to not do so would be stupid and bad business sense for them.

After all, it's no hardship to look at package prices every so often and contact your ISP if you are paying more than the current going rate, and ask them if they can do anything about it.

Automatic alteration of packages and payment amounts without informing the customer? It's a NO from me.

Imagine this scenario: You're looking around for a change of ISP, perhaps one that offers full fibre that your current one does not, you decide to go with a new ISP, and contact your current one to give your cessation notice, only to find a few hours/days before they have placed you on a higher speed package, possibly with a reduction of your monthly payment, which has reset your minimum contract period to another 12 or 18 months, and an early cancellation will require a large fee. You would not be happy that they had not asked you first.

Except I�m not asking them to move my package, my complaint is every company now reduces prices for the SAME service and doesn�t apply them to loyal customers.

This has nothing to do with changing anything EXCEPT lowering the price of the SAME service... why do people jump in with scenarios that have NOTHING to do with my point?

Also I don�t see any reason why Zen can�t reduce a direct debit, it�s not a standing order so they should be able to modify the direct debit, every other company I have direct debits with have no problem charging me both less and more in the past.

CAPS just to make clear before someone else jumps in with scenarios that completely miss the point!

This is why I rarely waste time posting, within a couple of posts it�s gone from being a suggestion to Zen that the price promise should include price reductions for the same service, to Zen automatically moving customers to higher packages without knowledge. This isn�t Comcast... yet! 🙄

In reply to a post by paulcdb:

I�m not asking them to move my package, my complaint is every company now reduces prices for the SAME service and doesn�t apply them to loyal customers.

During my time with AAISP, several things happened to do with pricing.

(These may not be in chronological order).

All customers on the 80/20 package had the price reduced to the same as the 40/10, and simultaneously all 40/10 were upgraded to 80/20, whether or not that upgrade would benefit them.

Data allowances were upgraded several times for various allowance options.

A partial rollover of unused data was introduced, of 50% of the unused in a month being added to the base allowance for the next month. This rollover was cumulative, not time-limited, in that say you used 80%, next month your allowance was 120% of base. If you used 80% of that, the following month started with 124%. And so on.

These changes were announced on the website on in forums, and the charge reductions were reflected in the monthly invoice pre-direct debit being taken.

No new contracts were imposed.