Six weeks and counting!
Welcome to the community forums @mkhall.
I'm sorry to see you're experiencing problems with your orders. I've had a look over the account and certainly agree we could have done some things better here (I have passed feedback on to the relevant people regarding this)
Initially when the account was signed up, it was signed up to take over an active service at the property.
Unfortunately it appears that the previous provider of the line, ceased the service, which caused automation to fail as there was no longer an active line to take over.
- Generally when this happens, a notification of the order failing is raised on the account for someone to look in to further and take the appropriate action.
I'm sorry to see this did not happen on this occasion.
When you contacted us on the 27th of January, we placed orders to try and re-activate the service while trying to retrieve the number from the line that your previous provider had ceased, however this later got rejected by our suppliers.
We then replaced an order to restart the line with a new telephone number on the 6th of February, and as you've said this completed on the 10th. Following this, we had to allow time for our suppliers records to update to reflect fibre availability to allow us to place your fibre order. We placed the order as soon as we were able to.
In regards to an activation date of the 21st, this does not appear to be something we advised. I've checked the order and our suppliers advised they had to work on routing the fibre connection and would provide a further update on the 21st, we were later advised to expect further updates on this on the 23rd.
- This could and should have certainly been explained better. I'm sorry to see it was not and have made sure feedback has been passed on to the manager of the advisor that simply put the ticket on hold until the 21st, instead of clearly explaining why while doing so.
I do sincerely apologise for the experience you've had with Plusnet. I see you've cancelled while I've been typing this out. I do wish you all the best with whichever provider you chose to go with moving forward.
mkhall wrote:
I am looking at a text message from plusnet right now that says "You broadband service is due to become active by midnight on 21/02/2017. Please don't set up your router until we confirm your service is active"
Ah right, I'd not noticed the automated notification that had been sent out advising this on the 13th. Apologies.
What should have happened, is the advisor that updated the ticket on your account on the 14th should have explained that the order had since gone in to a delayed state awaiting routing of the fibre service by our suppliers and that we'd been given the 21st as a review date for this work.
Further to this, the update on the ticket we provided yesterday (Or what again, should have been an update but instead was just a poor internal note) should have advised the review date had been pushed back to the 23rd by our suppliers.
@mkhall wrote:
So when I call back today having yet again no update contact from plusnet, and be told it's now 2nd March
I'm not sure why anyone has mentioned the 2nd of March. As far as I can see on the order (As it's currently awaiting cancellation) is the next review date for the routing work was expected tomorrow. This wouldn't have been a completion date, but it is possible we would have been advised the routing work had been completed and been provided with an expected completion date.
@mkhall wrote:
I'm afraid I've lost all confidence in the company.
I appreciate why this is. Again, I do wish you all the best with whatever provider you go with moving forward and I do sincerely apologise for the experience you had with us, it was certainly not to the level of service I expect from us. While we couldn't really got you online any sooner, the communication could have been much better.