1,469 Customer Reviews over 37 pages
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- sutton in ashfield
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-01-31
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- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2020-04-19
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Avoid at all costs there a terrible ISP you will never get the Mbps you pay for your be lucky to average 10 Mbps even when paying for 75mbps there customer service is terrible I've been hung up on multiple times and have been told "the jokes on me we have your money" after they failed to connect me after 14 days and I threatened to leave I will be canceling and going back to virgin this is the most stressful experience with any ISP I've ever experienced there a joke
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- Northampton
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2019-12-31
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No customer service and no broadband service. I'm leaving!
Also, just called the cancellation line and they hung up on me straightaway.
This company is a SCAM.
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- Kent
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-04-11
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I work 12 hour days so am rarely at home to use the internet, maybe stream Prime or Netflix for an hour or two a night, occasionally Zoom and WhatsApp. I have no other devices that connect and it’s currently a one person household. Changed to Shell and the internet is dreadful. The modem switches itself off multiple times a day losing connection. For example watching an hour show on Prime- usually the modem will restart 3 times. This isn’t buffering - it completely loses connection. I called Shell and they told me they’d book an engineer as there was a problem with the line and I might have a faulty modem. I got cut off at the end of the call, they didn’t book the engineer and I called back. The next person refused to book the engineer and told me the previous person hadn’t followed the protocol and that I needed to take steps to fix the modem myself. They declared the connection fixed, which it was not. They even had the cheek to tell me I was a high volume user and I needed to upgrade to a more expensive package! I then got a call the next day (which was a reply from the email I sent 5 days before) from someone who had not even had the decency to read my previous two calls with Shell, basically told me I was getting the service I was paying for and wouldn’t escalate this to management. Again tried to sell me a more expensive package! I advised I’ve never had a problem with either of my two previous providers with this speed- and asked again how on earth they can classify me as a high user of internet when I barely use it?
Anyway, they haven’t sorted any of this out. I can’t leave because it’s £6.50 a month for every month I cancel plus they charge a £15 disconnection fee when you leave, even at the end of the contract! Surprised it’s not illegal to be honest. Shell is outrageous- one word- AVOID!
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- Belfast
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-12-31
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Absolute Garbage .. Internet Kept Dropping Out etc so I changed Provider ... Shell asked me to return Router or I would be charged £35 ... I Then returned The Router ( at my own expense BTW ) Recorded Delivery , but Shell are Still Trying to Take £35 from me .. Emails Text messages etc .. Now They Have put a Debt Collection Agency Mil Collections onto me To Try and Get The Money .. Also have Blacklisted me on credit File . This after a month or so from leaving Them ... Well They have no chance of ever Getting The £35 .. They Can Suck The Back of Them .. Avoid at All Costs .. Shell Broadband is Rubbish ..
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- Surrey
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-10-18
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For days and days unable to see bill, unable to pay bill; forces call to contact centre who can't answer, select to use call back but no one calls back. Website unable to modify call package have to phone in. Useless.
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- Glasgow
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2023-05-20
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Would not have given a star, not very good company do not care about their loyal customers only the money they can get even though you contact them about being in hospital for 4 weeks they still want to charge you for services you do not get to use
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- Manchester
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-08-04
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- York
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2023-03-02
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Avoid buying this broadband at all cost. Should be banned from comparison sites. I have had the broadband for 3 days, haven’t got it working yet. Rang up to cancel for free in my “14 day cooling off period” to be told this actually ended 2 days ago, the day the line was taken over by Shell. Currently trying to charge me £110 to cancel a service I’ve had for 3 days that hasn’t worked once. Only saving grace has been a couple of people on the phone who have been willing to try to find a way a round this.
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- Colchester
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-07-04
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Absolutely awful, the product that the sell in my particular area is unfit for purpose, their customer service team is atrocious and I sometimes have to pay for a service I don't receive for a week at once. Avoid like the plague
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- Folkestone
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-03-23
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We were in the process of changing to shell but our present company as they offered a good deal and we were not gaining anything. I rang to cancel or rather not go ahead , I was on the phone an hour and he was extremely rude and told me I couldn’t cancel without a charge as I’d passed the calling of period . Most of this time I was on hold . When I said I was within my rights to not go ahead I was cut off. Vile person , very bad customer service. I will look into changing my energy as well now.
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- Walsall
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-07-22
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Honestly - don't bother! I hardly ever leave bad reviews but Shell Energy Broadband are the worst. I'm meant to have fibre broadband but my speeds are always between 1-3MB. I asked them for help several times and they either told me that it was a problem in my area (it wasn't) or tried to charge me to get someone to come and look at it. I've finally cancelled and found a better provider. But despite being out of contract, they've still charged me £12 for the pleasure. Terrible.
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- Bournemouth
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2023-05-22
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expensive, poor connection, poor customer service, expensive termination of contract, unreliable - very much not recommended
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- Shropshire Uk
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-22
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Absolutely shocking service!! Please read the reviews on this broadband company before you make the mistake me and many others have made!! My contract started 3 months ago and I don’t even have router at my address. The have sent me 3 routers (2 to the wrong address and the 3 one is the wrong router) after countless hours and I mean COUNTLESS HOURS on hold and talking to customer service advisers they have yet to provide me with a service yet take £25 a month out of my account. I have threatened to contact trading standards and there response is ‘sorry to hear that’. I am told it’s impossible to cancel the policy without paying the full £280 contract.
TAKE MY ADVICE AND AND GO WITH BT OR SKY FOR AN EXTRA £2 A MONTH!!
Poor poor poor service. Should he embarrassed of themselves
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- London
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-03-04
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Transferred from post office and moved home.they offered new contract which i accepted.
When engineers visited,they could not connected to my existing cable and wanted to make more holes on front windows which i did not allow and they left
Upon calling shell,i was confirmed that contract will cancel itself in couple of days.
I called them up today and they want me to pay £350 cancellation charges.
Note: cooling off period has ended 7 days before they sent engineers and we customers have not right if thier engineers fail to carry out thier jobs properly
I am devasated and can not pay £ 350 for the service they never provided.
Please advise
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- East Midlands
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2024-01-04
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Quite genuinely the worst company I have ever had the dissatisfaction of dealing with. I don’t even know where to begin.
Firstly, due to their absolutely dreadful customer service, I am coming up on a month with no internet. I would normally say that if they are busy over the Xmas holidays then fair enough, but no, that is not even where the problems begin. On multiple occasions I have been outright lied to by call centre agents about things that Openreach have been saying on our account to them and also about when they will send out an engineer.
They first (around the 8th of Dec) told me that they would send an engineer out to our house to connect the router up and go to the box nearby and connect us up, few days go by, still no internet, we call them and they tell us that “extended work needing doing on the box and they’d get back in contact with us to set up a day for the engineer to come do the work” not sure what that means (I’m of the opinion this was total rubbish and no one came near our house), but ok.
A week or so goes by, still no internet. We contact them again, they throw out a day that someone would come by, that day comes and goes no engineer. We go back and forth over the next few days, they eventually said the 28th someone can definitely come out, can you guess what happens next?
So come to a few days ago (start of Jan) they say once again that they’ll get someone out, and on the day of, it gets to about 4pm and I call them to confirm they’ll definitely be coming, the guy says “yes I’ll call Openreach now and confirm your appointment” at which he puts me on hold for 7 minutes, then comes back and says “yep Openrach will definitely have someone out to you by 6pm”. Shocker, 6pm rolls by and nothing so I call again and the agent I spoke to down right lies to me and says “Openreach left a note on your account at 10am this morning saying they couldn’t make your appointment and requested to rebook”. Despite the fact that supposedly someone from Openreach confirmed they would be there a full 6 HOURS after they said they wouldn’t be. So either the initial guy lied and never actually called Openreach, or second guy lied just to cover their back and get me off the phone.
Sorry for the ramble but I am just so frustrated at how both Shell and Openreach have both given me the runaround and left me without internet for a month. Luckily neither of us work from home or really rely too much on WiFi at home, but even still this is unacceptable and if I don’t have internet by this coming week I will be forced to go elsewhere. Wouldn’t recommend it to my worst enemy.
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- PE7
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2020-11-11
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Read all the negatves before risking a price deal via the MSE link for fast fibre. All good until box arrived, old style box wifi was poor. Contacted CS and after discussion new box sent. Am now a happy customer and in my case would advise switch. EE was far worse for more money.
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- Derbyshire
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2019-12-11
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Plugged in and worked straight away, excellent speed too. Impressed.
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- uk
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-12-13
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worst internet i have ever had DO NOT GO WITH THEM please save your money and you time cause you will be on chat with them every week or resetting your router every day just to get the speeds you pay for there customer service is horried they lie to you and offer help that they end up charging 100s for. the worst internet service i have ever had
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- Basildon
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2018-12-20
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- Durham
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2023-03-10
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Worst service I've ever known in my life do not get. Being waiting 6 weeks for broadband keeps getting automatically cancelled for unknown reason... Keep away.
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- Marylebone (Central London)
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-08-15
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I live in central London and the broadband just doesn’t work, spoken to the call centre several times and the restart methods provided work for 30mins maximum. AVOID AVOID AVOID
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- Surrey
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2020-01-20
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This has got to be the worst internet I have ever used I’ve not even had it a month yet and I will be getting rid asap.
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- dunfermline
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-11-15
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appalling service if your looking for broadband DO NOT GO WITH SHELL,look elsewhere,shocking customer service,broadband signal is terrible constantly disconnects,speed is nowhere near what it is supposed to be,constantly disconnects worst broadband service i have ever had
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- dunfermline
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-10-07
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if your looking for broadband do not go with shell,service is appalling and the customer service is even worse,biggest mistake i made!! speed is terrible constantly cuts off been a joke from day 1 tried to cancel within 14 days but they refused saying speed issues are my fault because of too many devices connected at 1 time??
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- Stafford
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-08-27
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Constant ‘drop outs’ and then the most useless Customer Service
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- Glasgow
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- Shell Energy
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- 2023-09-17
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DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY
An absolute joke when it comes to customer service,
My Broadband was ment to go live on 4th Sept,
4 days later nothing !
Spent over 2hrs on phone being passed from one department to another to then be told my order was cancelled then told it was still live
Agent asked me to unscrew faceplate at wall and try and connect inside,
Never heard anything like this ever,
Then told an engineer would call a few days later but he never showed up,
When I called them they tell me he was at my door ! NO HE WASNT, then they tell me he called me ! NO HE DIDNT,
Then then said he would call back following day which he did in his own car, no tools, told me he was off day before as he had to take dog to vet,
Something told me he was at it,
Told me the router was refurbished and faulty and I would have to call to arrange another router to be sent out,
When I threatened to cancel they assured me I’d get router within 48hrs which I did,
Again it didn’t work, closer inspection it was another refurbished one,
Then after spending another hour on phone to cancel order I was threatened with a £300 cancellation charge,
I’ve had no service from day 1 and very poor customer service,
At that point I said I would be paying nothing and proceeded to cancel DD,
This is undoubtedly the worst company I’ve delt with, I’d urge anyone reading this to not use this company as your stress levels will go through the roof,
Worse two weeks of my life ever.
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- bishop auckland
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-08-13
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Anyone looking to use these look elsewhere speed was awful kept saying it would get sorted and never did got fobbed off till the 3 weeks ran over so I had to pay the full contract off or baliffs were coming to the door never worked once it was that slow.
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- Herts
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- Shell Energy
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- 2021-11-16
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- Cornwall
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-02-11
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Absolutely terrible service,internet connection is off or drifting all the time,not fit for purpose,avoid this company like the plague,cannot wait for the contract to end,no such thing as customer service from them.shameful treatment to their customers and crap internet provision give them a wide berth.
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- Scarborough
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2020-11-29
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Very poor customer service, broadband and sound cuts out on a regular basis, sometimes for long periods. Can't even get Netflix to load. All other providers leave the line active until you fit your new router, NOT SHELL they cut us off early morning. They charged £15 leaving fee even though my contract had ended. Never sign up with Shell
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- Northern ireland
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-03-10
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I HAVE NO WORDS ON HOW BAD THIS BROADBAND PROVIDER IS FROM THE BROADBAND ITSELF TO THE CUSTOMER SERVICE AVOID!!!!!!!!
Im now used to waiting over an hour to thorugh to someone. Oh and the superfast broadband is as fast as there terrible customer service.
AVOID!!!!!!!!!
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- Wilmslow
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2023-07-14
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My service is more off , than on!! Very unreliable! I certainly wouldn’t recommend them. It would be impossible to work from home!
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- Kent
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-05-01
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Recently spent over an hour on a phone call to Shell Energy to let them know I was moving house. I was informed that I owed them £180!!! Cancellation charges apparently because I wasn’t transferring the internet to my partners house as he already has internet with Sky! I complained and got the charges reduced to £80. Read the small print and the “27” pages of terms and conditions folks! Better still find another internet provider. I certainly won’t be going back
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- Motherwell
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-09-15
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I would have given it 0,I’ve been waiting 10 days for another ROUTER to be sent out1st router didn’t work,12 days & 4hours of telephone calls,& STILL NOT SENT OUT,BEING CONTINUALLY LIED TO by the PERSON WORKING FOR SHELL B/BAND.WITHOUT FEAR THE WORST EVER ON ALL LEVELS,but your BILL( 4 non USAGE) DOESNT FAIL TO ARRIVE
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- Surrey
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-11-26
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Appalling!! Was with post office, brilliant but they sold out to Shell. Wish I had left then. Just moved home and as stuck on contract decided to stay with Shell, huge mistake!!! Told them of move 2 weeks before, rang to check day before move to be told no record of original call. Had to wait 2 more weeks and start new contract so stuck with them now another 18 months!!! Got new router and of course it doesn't work!!!! No Internet, no service at all. Complete shambles of a company. Avoid at all costs. Complaints are totally ignored. Rude staff on phone and emails ignored. Government should pull plug on them as Broadband provider.
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- Sutton Coldfield
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2021-03-31
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Just finished an 18 month contract with this useless Broadband supplier. I would not recommend it to anybody. Broadband speeds and downloads are appalling. Phone calls to their Customer service is a complete waste of time. Nothing is ever resolved. Accused of not connecting the router correctly and wanted to charge £65 for an engineer to visit. I had nothing but problems trying to remedy the slow speed and was paying for a service which wasn’t fit for purpose. Now using another provider and the improvement is staggering to what it was with Shell. I do not recommend this company and would advise people to avoid being ripped off and disappointed.
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- Berwick
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2023-04-20
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If i could i would give them zero stars. Quite the worst company i have ever dealt with. Young inexperienced staff on receiving end of phone calls with no power to resolve problems. When the engineer didn’t show up - despite a text telling me he was on his way - the only response was that ‘I would have to” go through the process again to book another visit. After sitting in an empty property for 3.5 hours. And who knows whether they would turn up again as they couldn’t tell what happened.
Apparently this multinational company has no supervisors. And if they did the operators have phones that don’t allow calls to be transferred and they hung up on me after a 47 minute call.
For your sanity go with any other supplier.
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- midlothian
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-10-18
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this company is ok if you dont want online for more than 10 mins, constantly disconnected , biggest mistake i have made ,roll on the next 16 months
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- Romford
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-10-24
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