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I’ve just had an email saying “we’re sorry to see you go” and all that goes with that, including an out of contract cancellation charge.

Called BT but no one can help at this time of night.

They suggested I try find out more…! Gave me some reference numbers and the supplier “Telecom Plus”.

I live in a house with a name, on a road with about five other houses with the same postcode all with different addresses and names - so quite difficult to get an address wrong on an address picker?

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Oh woah, that takes me back.

In my case, it turned out that a provider setting up my neighbour’s connection had mistakenly removed the cables connected to my house from the cable management box and reallocated them. Even though I alerted BT about the issue in advance, I was still disconnected on the exact date mentioned in their email, which was incredibly frustrating.

I’m not sure if your situation is the same, but I’d strongly recommend pushing for a technician to check whether your cables are still intact (although they might still be in tact because I am not sure when they would do the change, but thought its worth letting you know). We work from home, so being unexpectedly cut off had a big impact until it was finally resolved. BT compensated us later, but the whole experience was a nightmare. Hopefully, yours gets sorted much more smoothly.

Since Telecomplus is using the Openreach network as well, I’d assume you might be going through the same. When the BT technician visited, they were quite frustrated, saying this wasn’t something that usually happens and they couldn’t understand why someone would take my cables to connect someone else.

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@davidmbell

 

You'll need to call during opening hours tomorrow to stop the transfer.

 

https://www.bt.com/help/contact-bt/account-and-billing

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Try using message now https://www.bt.com/help/contact-bt/account-and-billing/broadband  and see if they can help



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Yeah will do, I tried as i only got the email from BT at 7.44pm

will call tomorrow 

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Hi there @davidmbell 

Please let us know how you get after speaking to the team and getting this email looked into. 

Speak to you soon. 

Leanne.

 

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Spoke to Utility Warehouse themselves, not remotely interested, said I needed BT.

Called BT, first person wasn’t sure, second person just didn’t totally get what was going on. Third person did. Explained as the transfer request was “so new” he wasn’t able to “press the stop button” (his words, but I appreciate the simplicity he was putting it as. I don’t care about the technicalities.

He’s scheduled a call back with me Monday to confirm the stop is in place.

I just can’t believe it’s that easy for someone else to start this process without me, the current occupant and bill payer somehow approving it first?!
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You'll probably need to phone them again on Monday, as call-back seems notoriously unreliable.

I agree the system seems a little ridiculous at the moment.  The ability to at least reply to the "goodbye" email with a stop order would be a start.

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Hi @davidmbell 

Thanks for coming back to us with an update after getting in touch with the team. 

Once you get the call back Monday, please let us know how it goes. 

Thanks. 

Leanne.

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Now had a call from the retention team offering to save me money by staying.

I explained the irony of that and that I don’t actually want to leave… but he said despite all that’s going on he could save me £4 a month on a like for like deal.

Ive no doubt added another layer of complexity to this situation….

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