I'm a 75 year old pensioner on a fixed income and my BT renewal was Feb 9th, currently on FTTC, halo 3 with hybrid and repeater disks plus out of contract sims that have free BT sport. paying £71.53 a month, contract says I'll never pay more than a new customer.
A bit before Xmas the first renewal email arrives, to look at deals, looking to find a cheaper deal without hybrid and disks, I can't, account wont let me.
Keep trying until Xmas account always shows unable to show personalised deals, so phone in - yes will be fixed in a day or so, never is.
Fast forward several calls to 1st Feb, starting to panic on contract offers and January sales finishing, phone in to try and renew a cheaper deal without hybrid and disks. Agent cannot raise deal as account prevents them. Agent has bright idea trying to be helpful of telling the system I am moving house which should kickstart it. Deal raised on broadband with no hybrid and disks
Contract start date comes through as 14th Feb, looks good.
Feb 9th old contract expires.
Feb 12th bag arrives to send old kit back no mention of what BT want, just threat to charge me for failure to comply, problem is I am still using it! Oh dear worry gets worse!
Feb 13th phone in and am told this was the wrong thing to do, order for following day will be cancelled.
Feb 14th loads of texts regarding conversion of service still going through, but everything still working including hybrid. Phone in, cannot do anything open order, BT will phone back Feb 16th when closed.
Feb 16th calls back very early on mobile, not landline as requested, mobile turned off overnight for emergencies only, did not call on landline. Will call back early next day
Feb 17th, no call back, phoned in new contract agreed for fibre 2, no hybrid or disks, at a slightly reduced rate for inconvenience £27.99, simms HAVE to be moved to EE so lose free BT sport, added this to broadband @ £16 a month (ouch). At least I will be saving some money though less than I had hoped.
Renewal emails come through still with halo, disk and hybrid, plus BT sport now £87.53 a month and I'm trying to save money! Phoned in yet again, change requires manager's authority and intervention will be sorted overnight.
Feb 18th Guess what? no change still £87.53 a month. Phone in to cancel the lot as I've had enough and Vodafone offer the same deal I want for slightly less than BT, even though I don't really want to leave BT after 40 years. Also spot they have overcharged me for BT sport which should have been £10 on top of fibre 2 not £16.
The answer to the cancellation request after less than 24 hours? " yes sir that will be £360".
£360 to cancel something that BT have messed up and guess what? another anonynous returns bag has just arrived in the post.
I demand to talk to a manager, cannot and am put on hold for some time. The upshot being that I am told I will be called back on Feb 25th with regard to reverting everything to where I was. I just cannot see that happening.
Am I confident BT can revert me to a deal I am trying to end? - no. Is this causing me serious worry as I cannot afford £87 a month? or even £71 - yes.
Sorry for the rant. I just had to put two months of frustration and days on the phone somewhere for the record.
