BT seems unable to cancel Digital Voice order

[danjen]

I am out of contract, paying far too much and wish to cancel my very expensive TNT Sport. However, BT have told me that I can make no changes to my service while my (their) order for Digital Voice is open.

I do not wish to convert to DV until I am on my new service - possibly EE - because I may not even stay with BT.

I have rung BT 6 times. On 4 separate occasions, the "guide" has told me that they will cancel the DV order (2 of them claimed they had done it actually during the call) and I would get an email or a callback to confirm.

They have not cancelled the order; I cannot cancel the order online - the DV order is still open after 3 weeks of trying.

This is ridiculous, after 26 years as a BT Broadband customer I feel very poorly treated. How can I get this sorted?

[jac_95]

Hi danjen,

Thanks for the post and welcome to the Community.

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[Kodikid]

In BT land if there's a sniff of an order then literally everything stops. Until the order is completed it's literally impossible to change anything. It's the classic "computer says no".

Also has anyone else noticed front line call centre staff are completely powerless/usless in the decision making process 

[gg30340]

I have notified the moderators of the forum about your problem. They do not have account access so may be of little use but they should be able to point you in the right direction in order to get a) your DV order cancelled and b) your expensive TNT Sports package cancelled.

If the can help they will let you know on this thread. 

[Christopher_G · Accepted solution]

Hi @danjen 

Welcome to the community.

It sounds like the open order is blocking anything from completing on your account. The only way to resolve this is through our Customer Support team.

If you're not happy with the way things are progressing through that route, I suggest following our complaints code of practice.

Chris

[danjen]

Thank you that is most kind

[danjen]

Called BT again - 7th time. The guide was very polite and apologetic but informed me that 2nd line support had already looked at this more than once and  had been told on 25/06 it would take a month for the order to be resolved. So there was nothing more they could do: I should let the DV order go through on 17/07, then re-contract if I wish and lodge a complaint to receive compensation for the time that I could not re-contract to reduce my bill and have been stuck with services that I no longer required (to say nothing of the time and effort wasted  trying to get this resolved).

I might keep this thread open to post what actually happens...

[Kodikid]

What actually happens....from my experience I could take a wild guess 

[rogerreed]

Had the exact same issue BT kept saying the DV order was cancelled but it never actually was. Took me contacting them via the complaints form on their website to finally get someone senior to sort it. I'd suggest raising a formal complaint and asking for it to be escalated seems to be the only way they take it seriously. Good luck!

[danjen]

It came as no surprise to me when the DV migration yesterday failed - outgoing calls OK, incoming calls not.  So I am now totally in limbo - cannot change any services while the order is active, order has failed, but 4 attempts to cancel the order so far have also failed. After a few futile attempts, I eventually managed to speak to a human being in BT Connections, and after 53 minutes on the phone trying to fix it himself, ask his supervisor, contact Openreach etc he decided to raise an IT case which he is confident (I'm not) will be resolved by July 28th, whereupon I can try again ha ha. Why has no-one raised an IT ticket before, you ask? Maybe they have, says my wife!  Time to cut my losses and run (from BT)? Watch this space.