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HI MOUTHS OF MUMS,
I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MY WORDS OF EXPERIENCE WITH THESE DOGGY UTILITY COMPANIES.It WAS 6 MONTHS THAT I LEFT MY RENTED PLACE AND MOVED TO MY OWN HOUSE . jUST BECAUSE I REGISTTERED MYSELF ON EMAILS FOR BILLS, I WAS GETTING BILLED AFTER EVERY 3 MONTHS THOUGH ALREADY I CLEARED MY DUES BEFORE LEAVING THE PROPERTY AND STILL THEY WERE SENDING ME THE BILLS. sO I THOUGHT I SHOULD RING THIS GAS COMPANY AND ASK WHY THEY ARE SENDING ME BILLS WHEN I HAVE LEFT THE PROPERTY AND REQUESTED FOR CLOSURE OF MY ACCOUNT. WHENEVER I USE TO RING THEM THEY TAKE MY CALL , WANT TO KNOW WHAT I WAS AFTER AND THEN KEPT ME ON HOLD FOR 20 MINUTES AND THEN THE CALL GETS DISCONNECTED. THIS HAPPENED TWICE THRICE AND AGAIN THE FOURTH TIME EACH TIME NEW CUSTMER SERVICE GUY/ GIRL I HAD TELL MY STORY AND JUST REQUEST CLOSURE OF MY ACCOUNT, AGIAN LONG WAIT ON THE PHONE AND THEN DISCONNECTIONS. AND THIS PROCESS COSTED ME 100 DOLLARS ON MY PHONE BILL .i WAS FED AT ATLAST DECIDED TO COMPALINT TO OMBUDSMAN AND GET THEM DEAL WITH IT. wITHIN A WEEK THE GAS COMPANY REPRESENATTIVE CALLED ME AND APOLOGISED FOR THE INCONVIENECE AND REQQUESTED WHAT SHE CAN DO FOR ME. MY ONLY WORDS WERE pLEASE CLOSE MY ACCOUNT.ATLAST IT WORKED SHE SENT A FORMAL APOLOGY LETTER WITH FINAL CONSENT TO CLOSURE OF MY ACCOUNT.
bIG & EXPENSIVE JOURNEY TO JUST GET I ACCOUNT CLOSED JUST BECAUSE I DONT LIVE HERE.


Posted anonymously, 14th May 2014


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  • That is terrible I had a similar experience with a company thankfully without the $100 of phone calls though or I would have been super angry

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  • Omg that’s terrible I hear ya hun I also had the same problem many years ago it’s shocking with customer service these days what ever happen to the way they use to help their customers I say lack of respect and communication these days.

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  • I think it is horrible to try and get you on double bill.s and I sure with you account number number and give them heaps even threated them with the provider

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  • I am so sorry to hear what has bean done to you and there is now way I would pay double bills

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  • How very disgraceful that it actually cost you money because of their lack of customer service. It’s terrible that you are out of pocket $100 because multiple people couldn’t do their jobs properly. I really dislike how as consumers we are kind of being treated like lemmings of late. These big companies think they can do whatever they like. I have been on hold to places for my whole lunch break at work and then of course when you finish work some companies you can’t contact because it’s after hours. Bring back good old fashioned customer service I say.

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  • How awful. It shouldn’t be that hard. Glad it’s all sorted now!

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  • What a pain,my don’t need that, it’s stressful enough moving.

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  • We used to have this all of the time at the office I worked at – so many companies claim not to have been told to close accounts. It took so much time and energy just to get them to close the account and then we had to argue about the extra bills which were sent after we’d first asked for it to be closed!

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  • I recently wrote a post very much the same issue. Glad you rang the right people as this is the only way to deal with them. But it is frustrating and I do know, why should we have to deal with it.

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