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Old 26 April 2005, 08:39 AM
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Angry NTL Digital

Moving house in 2 weeks and decided that I'll get rid of NTL and go for Sky+ instead.
Phoned up NTL yesterday afternoon to give notice for cancellation of service. After 10mins on hold I get an answer. Then after another 12mins I came away happy knowing that the TV/Phone line would be disconnected 2 days before I move.
Later on I decided to go and surf the internet. It was annoying to discover that my landline had been disconnected! I tried the TV which was still working ok.
Now without a landline how would I now get back in touch with NTL? I know, I'll use my mobile! Oh dear, message to say that 0800 numbers are chargable from a mobile . So thinking that the call would be another 20mins or so, I decided to go to the local phone box. After waiting another 15mins, the friendly guy at NLT took my mobile no. so he could ring me back. I went home and sure enough, my mobile rang...
Turns out the guy says that it would take up to 10 days to re-instate the landline! What a load of bollox! He said that if I was not happy with this I would need to contact their Moves and something or other Department and if I was not satisfied to ask for their Manager, then if I was still not satisfied ask for the Manager's Manager etc....
I could be on the phone all feckin day doing this.

Rant over!

Nick
Old 26 April 2005, 08:45 AM
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Don't get me started on NTL I left the UK last August and they still haven't got my account finalised. Solicitor's involved now as well.

Anyway, thought you'd like this...

Below is a copy of a letter that won a competition in UK as complaint letter of the year...have a laugh and read on.

Complaint Letter of the Year. The British do have a way with words.... A real-life customer complaint letter sent to NTL (to their complaints
dept....)

Dear Cretins,

I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:
My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat **** waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website....HOW?
I alleviated the boredom by playing with my ********* for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it.
I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers.
I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme.
Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important ********-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration's in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue.
I thought BT were ****, that they had attained the holy ****-pot of god-awful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of *******s you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order.
British Telecom - ******* though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver
- any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees.
Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of *****.
Old 26 April 2005, 11:07 AM
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Brilliant
Old 26 April 2005, 11:10 AM
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PMSL - bloke in the office had that letter yesterday - was gonna post it up but you beat me to it...
Old 26 April 2005, 12:35 PM
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LOL - I'm getting strange looks in the office - nearly lost my last mouthful of coffee over the keyboard.
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