First the preamble, years ago when people started to get mobiles I took out a contract phone for my mother so she could phone people on the mobile instead of the landline, thereby saving money, and also giving her a phone for when she went out around town or anywhere. Fast forward 10 or so years and I switched to PlusNet (transferring the number from Vodafone), sim only, that was a few months ago.
I have no complaints about the PN service, it does what it said on the tin, provides mobile phone service at a fantastic price.
Sadly though, my mother has passed away a couple of weeks ago, because of this I no longer required the phone service for her, I phoned up the cancellation number and the first chap I spoke to was really nice, can't fault him in the slightest, he put me through to cancelations/retention(?). The guy there was also nice, but tried to retain me and my mothers number. Bear in mind this is a ported number so my mother has had it for 10+ years.
This is where my problem lays, I strongly feel that if the reason to cancel a contract is due to a death, there should be no attempt to retain the customer, true, it's not my death and I am the contract holder, but I would not want to retain a number which would be constantly called by people asking for my mother and having to explain each time that she has died. So I think that's my feedback, generally the call was good but the attempt at retaining left a bit of a bad taste in ones mouth.
