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Monday, January 30, 2006

Sky rant

Apologies in advance - this is going to be a good, old-fashioned rant at Sky's abysmal customer service department.

A couple of years ago I upgraded my Sky to Sky Plus, which gave me a whizzo satellite reciever/hard-drive combo with the ability to pause and rewind live telly, record entire series at the touch of the button, and all kinds of other cool things.

First let me say I've always been very impressed by Sky Plus, the user interface is incredibly well-written, powerful and easy-to-use. After a while I got very reliant on the ability to pause stuff when the phone rang, or record things on the off-chance I wanted to watch it.

Late last year I realised I was hardly watching any of the Sky channels I was paying for, and started to begrudge paying more than 25 quid for telly I just wasn't watching. As my contract was a over a year old, I decided to cancel it. Now I just get the "free to air" satellite channels like BBC1 to 4, ITV 1 to 4, Channel 4, CBBC etc.

Because I'd also stopped paying the £10 a month for Sky Plus, Sky turned all of the Sky+ functionality too. This is bloody annoying, I could understand them charging a tenner a month extra during my contract, they needed to recoup the value of the hard-disk powered set-top box. But why I need to keep paying me £10 a month forever, just to keep the extra functionality? I still have all the hardware sitting useless in the box, and I still get the Electronic Programme Guide which the box uses to plan it's recording. All that is missing is a little flag on the box that says "yes you can record."

The simple answer of course, is that Sky can charge for it, so they do.

That was annoyance number one.

After a while I was so annoyed at the lack of Sky+ functionality I was seriously considering re-subscribing to a Sky package just to get it back. Then after a little research on the net I found out I didn't have to: If I asked Sky nicely they'd turn on just the Sky Plus functionality. For a £10 a month fee, of course.

The Sky website makes no mention of this, that I can find. I suppose it's in their interest to make people think they have to have an expensive Sky channels package to get Sky Plus.

That's annoyance number two.

So I rang Sky's customer service.

Cue the Longest and Most Annoying Phone Menu System In The History of Mankind.

"If you want to order a movie... press 1. If you wan't to complain about the volume of the adverts... press 2. If you've poured tea over the remote... press 3. If your brain has started leaking out your ears... press 4."

I've made so many calls to Sky that I've memorized the menu buttons to get through to a human voice: it's 4, 5, 1, 6. So, that's four different list of options, all bar one of which you have to wait until the last option until they say the one you want. Annoyance number 3.

Then they ask you to key in your telephone number "so that your equiry can be dealt with more effectively."

Then the pleasant female voice says "Thank you. Your call will be dealt with shortly," a ringing tone... then another voice says "Your call is in a queue and will be dealt with in... Fifty. Four. Minutes."

In what dictionary is "shortly" defined as fifty four minutes? Annoyance number four.

If you decide to wait for that amount of time, you finally get through to a human voice. This is where the fun really starts.

"Hello, you're through to Sky Customer Services. Can I have your telephone number please?"

This is the telephone number I keyed into the system to "more effectively deal with my equiry" 50 minutes ago. Any reasonable person would expect it to held in the call-centre system and appear on the screen, wouldn't they? Annoyance four and a half.

A lot of housekeeping to confirm I am who I say I am, and not wasting the customer services person's valuable time (God forbid), I'm allowed to ask my question:

"Hello. I'd like to turn on just the Sky+ function on my box and pay £10 a month please."

"Certainly Sir, I'll turn that on for you now."

"Thank you! Goodbye!"

Well, that was easy, wasn't it?

Oh look, there's a lot more writing below here isn't there? Ho-hum.

The next day it's still not working, so I ring up again, navigate the menu system again, wait in the queue again...

"Hello, I was told yesterday my Sky+ functionality would be turned on, and it isn't."

"Oh yes, because you left Sky we have to send you a new card. It's in the post."

"Oh, the lady I spoke to didn't tell me that. Never mind. Thanks!"

Annoyance number 5: not being given full information.

Over few days later. No card turns up. I ring again, navigate the menu system again, wait in the queue again...

"If it's not turned up within a week we'll cancel that card and send you another card."

"Okay.. thanks."

Over a week later. No card turns up. I ring again, navigate the menu system again, wait in the queue again...

"We say wait five working days for delivery."

"Let me count on my calender... it's been eight working days since you said you'd sent it."

"It might be in tomorrows post."

"I don't care... send me another card."

"If I send you another card, and your first one turns up, you won't be able to use it."

"Look... in my experience if things haven't turned up after 8 days in the post they're never going to turn up. I'll take my chances and say that that card's gone AWOL, so send me another card!"

"Okay sir. That's done."

"What happens if this one doesn't turn up?"

"We'll send you one out special delivery. But it's unlikely."

Over a week later. No card turns up. I ring again, navigate the menu system again, wait in the queue again...

"No card. Lost count of annoyances. Send one special delivery. Then I won't kill you."

"Okay sir. That's been sent out today and will be with you on Monday."

"Wibble."

Today. No card with this morning's post. I ring again, navigate the menu system again, wait in the queue again...

It seems to be a foreign call centre. Now, don't get me wrong. Market forces and all that, if the Indians can do it cheaper then fair enough.

But I do expect the person I speak to on a Sky TV customer services to understand the meaning of phrases such as "what is the number of the special delivery item so I can track it?", "I want to speak to your manager" and "manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsiblity".

Finally I got put through to a manager. He's read through my file, he's so sorry that my card hasn't come yet. He'll send another card. It will be in my hands tomorrow.

He doesn't understand that I don't want the card any more!

Well I do, but that's not important. I need closure. I want to know what happened to all the other cards I was supposed to have been sent. I want to feel that I'm not just being fobbed off each time I ring up by people who don't care if I have a card or not, and just want to get me off the phone. I want to know why Sky have the most fucked-up customer services experience in the history of the World.

So my card's coming tomorrow. Please. Please. If not this might be the next thing I hear on a phone:

"Welcome to the Samaritans. Press 1 if you've bought a bottle of pills and you can't get the lid off. Press 2 if you're looking for a good random sniper vantage points in your area..."
Anonymous Fairly-Odd  Ahhh, they must be using the same call center backend as our friends at Dell... I love it when I can hear pages turning in their little "script manual" as they search for the answer to my question. 
Blogger Jessica  roll on the day when computers can understand human speak and search vast databases of knowledge in seconds and give you the exact answer you need, rendering all those call centre monkeys unemployed :) 
Blogger hannaviolane  well thats a prime example of 'rip off britain' strikes again becky! roll on the day when touch tone options are abolished altogether ( along with useless bar codes in supermarkets) in fact anything involving computers being in the way of people wanting to talk to people/compliants/bill paying the list goes on!! you should try calling british gas!!! ( i actually think the whole of brit gas is really skynet from T2 waiting for self awareness so it can take over the human race! 
Anonymous Serena Mayfly  Sky, I love 'em!

We had to replace our Sky box due to a slight mishap. Rang them up and asked for an insurance quote, no problem. Operator promised Sky+ at no extra cost as they had a special offer on. Wa-hey!

Insurance cheque comes through, I phone up to organize the visit, and they they tell me that they can only do like-for-like replacement.

Cue 90 minute argument with eleven people.

We eventually got what we were promised after I told them I could walk down town, get a Freeview box for £40, and be back and set up in 30 minutes. Tonight Sky+ has just eaten everything we've recorded for the second time in six months.

Apart from that, Sky+ is wicked :-) 
Blogger Joanna  Sky+ occasionally crashes on me too.. I lost last weeks Battlestar Galactica to an unspecified error.. just get "Recording Failed".. annoying as I was watching the footy on the other side (and we lost) 
Blogger Nick  This sounds a lot like the time my Sky box was faulty...except it wasnt the box, it was the LNB; and it took 3 engineers on 3 seperate visits to work that out!

Then there's this new "feature" that Sky have installed where you need to put your pin code if you want to watch a movie channel between 8 and 10. Yes, I know my pin code...but the remote doesnt work from the pub!! 
Blogger Nick  This post has been removed by a blog administrator. 
Blogger Lara tyg  Wow , nice rant.

Theres a grassy knoll outside the Sky TV customer services building.
I could lend you the high powered sniper rifle I reserve for the county council if you like. 
Blogger Connie Cox  First of all Digital Spy has a good forum on the joys of Sky.
I love Sky+ but it seems to be getting flackier and flackier. We had an update late last year that caused the Live Pause and rewind to fail and as of the new EPG update I have been getting sporadic failed recordings and the same message as Jo. It looks like there is an issue with Channel 101 (BBC1) that screws the EPG.
Sky have a huge monopoly and are interested only in new customers and not existing ones. I am waiting for Sky HD which is supposed to be on its way, but all we have at the moment is speculation. If they want even more money a month and £400 for the box (I would rather swap my current one) then they can stick it.
With the XBox 360 almost setup as a Media Extender I can stream video content from my main pc and the new Telewest HD box is looking tempting.... 
Blogger kim  http://www.petertyson.co.uk/topfieldtf5800pvr.shtml?googlecpc

You need that, love. Runs on a *nix core, so very very hackable :-) 
Anonymous Mrs Y  So have you got your card yet Becky? I'm just beating my head against a brick with Orange. Bought a cheapo PAYG to use as a backup. Registered it on Thursday and I still haven't had the network bar removed. Done the switching off & on and removing the battery so many times I'm getting RSI. Apparently although the Orange Indian call centre can register you they can't remove the network bar. They have to contact Orange in the UK to do that. E-mailed Orange at the weekend to see what number I should ring to get the network bar removed and still no reply. Rang Orange just now and I get the Indian call centre again. Doing the switch off and on again for their benefit but surprisingly enough nothing is happening.
Can I borrow the sniper rifle after you? 
Blogger Becky  Grrr... i've not finished with it yet Mrs Y! :-)

Guess what, the card didn't come yesterday! 
Anonymous Mrs Y  Couple of e-mail addys you might find useful Becky.

james.murdoch@bskyb.com

allcustomercareescalation@bskyb.com 
Blogger Joanna  Also handy is this to get round some phone menus

http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/uk/ 
Anonymous Anonymous  pardon me, but working for sky+ sales in a call centre myself I would just like to say some things

1) new customers get all the better deals? excuse me but you had your deal when you first joined us...why should you get another one?

2) Why do some people think they can get a free sky+ just because they have the sport or movie packages? - you don't shop at asdas for a year and say "i've been shopping here for a year now, do I get something for nothing because I'm so cheap?"

3) PRESS ONE FOR SKY+..its not that hard..so why do people come through saying they need an engineer to come out or some crap like that 
Anonymous Anonymous  1) No I didn't get any deal. I've signed up to Sky new schemes quickly and NEVER get anything free. Howsabout a loyalty bonus?

2) True but Asda's prices are reasonable. I've already paid £300 for a box that can record my tv, why do I then have to pay an extra £10 a month to be allowed to use it?

3) Don't know, i'm lucky enough to have not had to call.

4) As if 2) isn't a big enough rip off. Sky HD, damn they're squeezing for everything. Another £300 for another box, fair enough if that was it but noo, £10/month on top for 4 HD channels (Sky 1, Artsworld, Nat Geographic, Discovery) not really mainstream, 1 sports and a couple of Movies (assuming you already subscribe to their packs) and Sky Box Office which is pay-per-view anyway!! Absolutely ridiculous.

5) Further to 4) I notice BBC HD is now on the sky list but marked "BBC HD is a non subscription channel"...Can I buy the HD box, not subscribe to HD and still watch the world cup? I hope so but i'm sure it'll be a fight. 
Anonymous Mandie.  "Anonymous pardon me, but working for sky+ sales in a call centre myself I would just like to say some things"

......

Well... here we see exactly what everyone is griping about, the level of rudeness displayed by people who work under the monica "care" or "support" etc.

I have spent 3 days trying to get through to sky.... yaaaaaay! and I want an upgrade too! I actually want to give them MORE money.. This post really puts me off, seriously....

And as to Asda not giving freebies.... wot on EARTH is a customer reward card for that all supermarkets have these days???? Its a thankyou to their loyal long surviving customers, that hasnt been asked for, its offered.

I am really not surprised that this post was from "anon" because I would be copy and pasting it into an email of complaint to sky right now... I am so angry at this blatant display of all thats bringing sky and similar companies down.

I totally understand that these people are just doing their job... but they are as stated in their title "representatives" of that company... and I have never been rude or abusive to any of them, so I dont expect to be spoken to in this manner. I'm NOT cheap because I shop in supermarkets which offer discounts to customers with a loyalty card.

PS And Im Not anonymous either =) I can put my name to my arguement. 
Anonymous bernstan  Bernstan - I would love to put my thoughts about sky policies and after sales service in writing but what I have to say would probably get me arrested. I will say though that they appear to think all who become their customers are criminals and can not be trusted. 
Anonymous Anonymous  July 4, 2006

Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing with regards to the letter which I have received telling me that I will have to pay an extra fee for not having my satellite boxes connected to a phone line.

Yesterday afternoon was the third time that I have attempted to call the customer care telephone line to try and solve the problems that I am having with my system.
Once again it took me over twenty minutes to eventually get through to one of your representatives and I spoke to him for around fifteen minutes. He then passed me over to another department which took a further ten minutes and I then spoke to this person for around five minutes. She told me that she was going to check on some of my details and left me on the phone for over fifteen minutes at which point I hung up!

Not only was I angry at the fact I had been on the phone for almost an hour, I could barely understand the people that I was talking to as their English was very difficult to understand. A question that I have asked many times before to other companies who depend on telephone staff to answer phones and deal with customers is, what is the point in employing people who can not use clear and proper English grammar? Furthermore as with everyone in Great Britain including yourself, I have more important things to do with my time than spend an hour waiting on a telephone line. I, as a customer, should not have to suffer because SKY hasn’t bothered to employ the correct amount of staff to deal with all the calls/problems that they receive.

I have previously tried to contact SKY customer services with my problems and was left waiting for over twenty minutes and eventually hung up. I then tried writing to you to explain my problems to which my letter was ignored and I have never received a reply.

As stated this is now the third time and the second letter I have written attempting to remedy my problems. When you have decided to respond to my request for assistance with my SKY box I hope we can remedy the problems I am having. I hope I can look forward to speaking with someone who is both helpful and I can understand what they are saying. For your further information I will repeat the following details for the THIRD time.

1. My SKY + box IS connected to my phone line
2. I HAVE followed the instructions you sent on one of your letters
3. My second box is not connected to the telephone line because the engineer never installed my second box
as my kitchen is being extended and this is where my second box was to go and he told me he would come back and install my receiver when I was ready.


I sincerely hope that you do not take any added payments from my bank account.

Yours sincerely

Mr C. Anderson 
Anonymous Anonymous  I am a sky customer paying £42.50 per month.I joined sky 10 months ago and received a lovely slimline digibox and all was well until recently when it broke down.

As the box was still under their 12 month warranty, an engineer came out to repair or replace it..He replaced it with a 5 year old box that resembled an old vhs recorder, This didnt go down well with me and i contacted sky to complain only to be informed that the engineer replaces the box with whatever he happens to have on the van..strange that all his boxes were 5 year old large ugly reconditioed boxes.

Do sky really think that customers with modern slimline digiboxes are going to lie down and accept an old reconditioned 5 year old box in place of the ultra slim one they first had that complements their other expensive equipment..well not this one, I have written to sky demanding a new box or a reconditioned box that is less than 12 months old or i will take my custom elsewhere.

All the other sky members i know do not know of this policy..its a disgrace.
I will keep you posted on my result, otherwise its bye bye to sky... 
Anonymous Anonymous  sky customer service worker here. sky customers are thick as sh1t. the all time classic that idiots cant remember their password. do you want us to discuss your bank account details with anyone that says they are you?. secondly, would you call the bank without your account number and say "get my account up with my postcode". thirdly, manners don't seem to be in the order of the day either. appears that if you don't get your own way swearing is in order and making personal remarks about scottish accents, i've reported a few custs for racism, i don't see people swearing in the queue at the bank because they've been charged extras because you've overstretched yourself. IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD SKY WORLD AT £43.50 PER MONTH DON'T TAKE THE PACKAGE. also if you aren't the account holder i don't give a f*** if you're the wife, sky ain't cancelling your exes account on your sayso. it's not sky's fault you cant keep your man, and my old favourite, telling people there's no offers when there maybe, but as you've been bending my ear over new customer deals i just say no. i'm off now to enjoy my FREE !!! YES FREE HD. ttfn XX 
Anonymous Cathy  That's encouraging. Maybe I won't switch to Sky Broadband 
Anonymous Michael  I have signed up to SKY HD and it took 2 months to get it installed. However, I am still wating for the viewing card with no luck and I asked Sky to resend the card 3 times!! Since I don't have the contract or viewing card, I might cut my losses and sign up with Telewest HD.

SKY are fecking fools and I'm a fool for signing to them! 
Anonymous Anonymous  yes michael, sky mabe be 'fecking fools'., but we've stil got your money. !!!. 
Blogger Becky  Even if they can't spell, or use puntuation. 
Anonymous Bob  WHy is it that we Sky+ customers have to pay another £10 to utilise the PVR when we have paid £220 £99+ £120 for the first year?

If I bought a PVR from Sony and hooked it up to my digibox, would I have to pay Sony for the right to use its recording functions?

When I bought my Sky+ box there was no mention of this fee, only that I had to pay for it for one year only.

If I do not pay the £10 fee Sky will make the PVR a useless brick.

Why is this allowed and is this legal? 
Anonymous Anonymous  sky are con artists. they charge us an extra £4 admin charge just because we dont pay by direct debit. we cant do that because we have a low income and cant be sure of having the money in the bank for the due date. we have the sky movie world package and if we want to watch a match on premiership plus we have to pay more than sport subscribers. while sport subscribers dont have to pay more than us to get a box office movie.
we have been a customer for 15 years and we get no reward for our loyalty while new customers get everything.
i wanted to say all thsi to them but their feedback page is limited to 128 characters. anyone know an emailaddress for their customer services? 
Anonymous Anonymous  Hmm, well at least i don't feel so bad about Comcast's near monopoly of services and the $200 a month i pay them for HBO/Cinemax and High speed internet. Evben though they have shut doown the entire State of California for a whole 24 hours 3 times in the last 6 months. It sounds like telecomm companies don't discriminate solely against americans. 
Blogger Johnathan  Soem more useful email addresses that I have found for various directors for SKY. Does anyone know a good assasin to shoot all teh w4nkers that work there?????

james.murdoch@bskyb.com;
allcustomercareescalation@bskyb.com;
Brian.Sullivan@bskyb.com;
Stephen.Nuttall@bskyb.com;
james.baker@bskyb.com;
jon.florsheim@bskyb.com;
robert.fraser@bskyb.com;
ian.lewis@bskyb.com;
corporate.communications@bskyb.com;investor-relations@bskyb.com;
Jeremy.Darroch@bskyb.com;
rupert.murdoch@bskyb.com;
beryl.cook@bskyb.com;
customer.care@bskyb.com;
all.staff@bskyb.com;

I sent an email to all of these and had no delivery notices to say they didnt work 
Anonymous Anonymous  Yeah you do know, that those e-mail addresses are not for public use, and internal only, as a TL with Sky CS, I can assure you that you can send as many as you want to those addresses and no one will reply. Do you guys really want a hint, read your TERMS AND CONDITIONS! Everything you lot complain about, is in there, listen to our Cs agents, do you think they just make it up? If you're calling, have your account number, answer Data Protection, it doesn't matter how much you argue, if you don't confirm it, you aint getting in! yes if you upgrade the next bill wil be higher, yes there's a £4 admin charge, but that's cause half you tits, don't pay your bills so we have to issue out Invoices to you, if you can't afford it don't take it! You do also realise, that if you ask to speak to a supervisor, we're just going to tell you the exact same thing, don't forget, it's us that tell our agents what to say. So get a grip, follow your terms and conditions, have phone lines connected, pay your bills, and stop viewing porn and letting your wife call up to see why your bill was £75! 
Anonymous Anonymous  Hey Anonymous. I got a reply. Wanker. 
Anonymous Anonymous  I receive fascinating emails from sky customer services twenty four hours after contacting them. They ask me for my address and post code when the email they sent me contains my address and post code.

Sending an email can be an unforgettable experience. The message field turns pink and you are told there are invalid characters in the field. You check it and find it consists of letters, numbers, spaces, commas, full stops and is well within the character limit for the field. Puzzled by this, you send the briefest, simplest message possible. If it gets through, you receive an email complaining about the brevity of your message.
You reply and absolutely nothing happens but perhaps this is not surprising when the chief executive cannot take the time to reply to emails. Is the job too much for him also? 
Anonymous Anonymous  Fucking tits, the lot of you. Sky do jack, our call centres sit there and laugh at you screaming and yelling down the phone, what's more is when you ask for a supervisor, they laugh aswell. THe lot of you need to sit back, and think about why your phoning, and wether or not you want it sorted, then think about your attitude before dialling! 
Anonymous Anonymous  i work for sky, other day i got called a 'bullshitter', a lying wanker and a fucking cunt because a customer could not wait the 14 days maximum which we advise for a refund. the majority of the time customers are great, have a chat and are curteous..even the ones who have problems are fine, the people who have the attitudes you always notice are on invoice for not paying bills and have been blocked, always the same case, or the ones who cant confirm data protection WHICH IS THE LAW IDIOTS!!!...yes ill let you into the account when youre not the account holder and not authorised so i can lose my job and get a prison sentence and a fine!!! wankers 
Anonymous Anonymous  Everything on sky is so annoying, i wanted to register for the sky hd package and buy the sky hd box you need to have the package with. I have had the normal sky package for quite a long time but i am not sure how long we have had a subscription with sky. It says the longer you have been with sky the cheaper the sky hd box will cost, underneath that on the sky hd subscription website it says find out how much sky hd will cost for you, i entered my surname and some account number that i found out by clicking on need help but then it asked for the number on my viewing card so i took it out punched in the number and put the viewing card back in its slot in my sky box. Everything seemed fine until i pressed find out how much it will cost button basically a button to submit the information and find out the cost and it said there was an error, i followed all the intructions and tryed nearly 100 times and still didnt manage to do it. I want the sky hd box and dont mind paying £10 a month for the sky hd package but it really annoys me how expensive the sky hd box is and if i buy the box on another website it could have any problems even though its reasonably cheaper. I dont want to chance it and why should the sky hd box cost anything when the sky box is free. HOW ANNOYYING!! 
Anonymous Anonymous  You should all praise your selfs lucky.
I have spent 90 days (that is nine zero days) trying to order skY. 
Anonymous Anonymous  I sent the following email:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sky for all you have done for me over the last 12 weeks and at the same time explain in detail some of the events that has led to me writing this email.
Day 1 I rang Sky Ireland to order Sky TV but was told that since I live in a building with a communal dish, I was through to the wrong department and that I need to get in touch with Sky UK.
Since I had no phone number I logged on to http://www.sky.com/ hoping to find a contact number there but all I could find was an email address. I sent my enquiry to the general enquiry inbox.
Day 7 I received an email with the contact number for Sky UK and rang to place my order. But I was told that I was through to the wrong department.
Let me cut out some of the more tedious details here.
Day 35 I received the contract via Post and filled it out
Day 37 The contract was returned by post to the return address stated on the contract.
Day 41 (According to an employee with Sky UK the contract was received)
Day 60 I rang the contact centre to enquire into the status of my order. The employee that answered my call could not find any order in the system and gave me the phone number to Electro Plus in Dublin saying this was Sky's partner in Ireland that should handle my order. Electro Plus had not received any order for me, but they gave me a contact number for another contact centre belonging to Sky UK.
I rang this centre and was given the information of the events of day 41. I was promised a quick resolution to this issue and that everything was now under control.
Day 67 I rang the contact centre to enquire into the status of my order. The employee that answered my call could not find any order in the system and told me that she would escalate my case to another department, and that someone would ring me up in the next few days with an update on my order status.
Day 69 I rang contact centre to enquire into the status of my order. The employee that answered my call could not find any order in the system and gave me the phone number to another contact centre belonging to the Sky organization. I asked for a transfer but was then disconnected. I rang back and spoke with another employee of yours that informed me that he wouold speak to someone in another department and that I would receive a call form someone in this department shortly.
Day 71 I rang the contact centre to enquire into the status of my order. The employee that answered my call could not find any order in the system and told me that he would have to escalate this issue to another department. At this stage I had had enough of escalations and un-kept promises and asked to speak to a manager. The manager promised to talk to the manager of the other department and to call me back as soon as she had.
The manager rang me back an hour later and told me that Electro Plus in Dublin would get in touch with me to sort out my order. Elector Plus rang me an hour later and told me they could send me a contract and that they would look after me. I suggested that they used the one I had sent 39 days ago, but after some investigation it turned out that the contract could not be found so I had to fill out a new one.
Day 84 / Today I rang Electro Plus in Dublin to enquire about the contract that I still have not received. I was told that the contract was sent 9 days ago and that they had no knowledge as of why I had not receive it yet. Electro Plus will send me a new contract today.

As you now may understand, I will NOT be a good ambassador for Sky as a company, Sky's employees, Sky's customer service or the same for Sky's partner.
I have never in my life tried so hard to purchase a product without being able to, and at this stage I think I will settle with a book rather than continuing this insane and tiring task it has become trying to get Sky installed.

So my sincere thanks to you all at Sky for making your outmost to ensure the worst customer experience one could possibly imagine and for preventing me from staying at home watching TV.

I hope that some day I can return the favor.



All I got in return was "I have now contacted Electroplus", and "They will get in touch with you."

I will NOT be ordering anything from this company. 
Anonymous Anonymous  I Hate SKY, I have read thorugh every post ever posted about SKY and im waiting for my engineer to come out i was ment to get sky plus on tuesday, no one came in my time slot phoned sky there with you in three hours didnt come, phoned again there be with you at 6. 6.30 no one has come kept waiting- phone Sky oh yes the engineer broke down at 9:45 this morning yea great thanxs for telling me day one wasted- call tommorrow to re arange your instalation.

Called on wednesday waited 65 minutes before i could speak to anyone- instalation re scheduled for today- got a text last night ur skiy engineer will contact u before 9 am- at 1pm im still waiting, phone SKY theres nothing on your account- get transfered to another department- wait half an hour while they try to get through to the engineer and prob have lunch- enginer will be with u betwen 1- and 3 ok 3:40 still no enginerr phone SKY new guy on the block transfered me to 3 different people to get the same answer not our problem, get a it angry now get told engineer will come between 3-6 whether they do we will wait and seee- NOw u SKY workers see y we get annoyed- i have wasted 2 days- phoned in sick wont get my whole wage packet let me guess ur send me rude notices when i cant pay it at the end of the month- UR FAULT NOT MINE- 
Anonymous PC  Did you say MAXIMUM 14 days for a refund. They tried to install sky for me on the 24th September but could not get a signal. Promised me a refund straight away. Three weeks later nothing. Called customer services, was cut off twice, could not find an option for refunds. Eventually was told they could not see why I had not got my refund, must have been a mistake. Would take 14 days to refund again. That was 18 days ago still nothing. I am so glad that they were unable to get a signal and that I upgraded to Virgin V+. I think I may go to small claims court next to get on SKY's back. I really believe that those of yu who are complaining about SKY and who do not like the customer services comments should hit them where it hurts and leave them. 
Anonymous Anonymous  to those customer care workers at Sky who have posted here - my husband works for a company that will shortly be transferring your jobs to India. It seems that your bosses have the same contempt for their employees as they do their customers. It might be a good time to check the terms and conditions of your employment contracts!! 
Anonymous Anonymous  14 days for a refund? Why should we have to wait that long? Sky took a direct debit out of my a/c today for £10 more than they were supposed to, without giving me the required notice that they were doing so. Quick call to bank, explain that Sky aren't playing ball and taking too much without notifying me, and DD reversed. I'll ring up and pay on my card later, the correct amount, and NO I wont pay the £4 charge. 
Anonymous Jimbo  A new card just to use recording facility? Thats not right, I did the same thing, Went down to the Free to air channels and asked sky to let me keep the recording facility and it didnt require a new card. All they did was send a signal over the air and zap the recording facility is on in seconds.. Funny how they tell one person one thing and someone else another. Get BT Vision the recording facilities are more reliable and FREE, they dont cut off 2 munites at the end of every episode of Corrie also, Series link corrie on sky+ and it forgets to record the second episode on Mondays and fridays where as BT Vision remembers.
Also with Films, Continues after the news and all that, Sky+ wont record the part after the news, good old BT remembered to add that into their software!!

Sky also have a habbit of telling you that if you move house, you need to pay them to reinstall at your new address even if there is a satellite dish there already! Thats a Lie also they tell you that you cant do self upgrades to sky + or HD and they need to come round and change the LNB and cables ALSO ANOTHER LIE because you can do it yourself by buying a Sky HD Box and LNB then ringing up sky and telling them you just bought a SkyHD Box and to add it to your account.
ALSO if you are on the Free to air channels, note they will tell you HD services are £10 a month. BBC HD is free and so is Channel 4 HD 
Anonymous Jimmy Stocks  Now this is the read deal. I have a full sky sub, and have read all the comments.

I understand that sky customer servs peeps, get annoyed at people constantly complaining to them.

BUT BUT BUT if you/sky all did ur fucking jobs properly (you know what you get paid for) and people didnt have to queue for as long as they do, and call so many times then you might actually find that customers who pay your fucking wages, would be polite, wouldnt moan and would actually have some sympathy for you when you do have the odd arsehole giving you grief.

But reading what i have so far from you all then I hope at the next battle for the prem rights, satanta win, and you have fuck all sports rights left, then watch everyone jump ship to virgin.

So the moral is, do your fucking jobs properly, and you might get an easier ride, if not then hope you all end up on the dole. 
Blogger laurie  I called Sky today to establish why my bill was so high (£73 per month!)... After 20 minutes I got through to a guy called David who was on his first week. He answered all of my questions and helped me get rid of the bits of my subscription that I didn't need. I was really pleased with the service I received once I got through and think that although Sky obviously do not assign enough resources to their CS dept, it isn't fair to take it out on the rep who answers the call. 

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