DrGravity
Member
Hi All. As the tile says I'm currently in a nightmare situation with Sky and am hoping someone can advise on how to resolve.
Long story begins with my father passing away last week. Not sudden, he'd been ill for sometime but I've been helping my mum and sister sort everything out. The Sky (TV, Internet and phone) was all in his name and he was paying an extorinate amount having been with them years and just left it run after his contract and any deals expired. I spoke to Sky yesterday and explained the situation. They said they could either transfer the contract to my mum or cancel it. The price they quoted was still expensive so we decided to cancel, with the plan to find a new provider or better deal sometime in the next month when we'd had the funeral and sorted stuff out. The Sky colleague actioned this on the phone and only then told us after confirming the cancellation all our services would stop within 24hrs! We had been expecting 30 days notice as normal and it was not explained beforehand that it was different due to the bereavement situation!. I admit I was caught of guard (been going through a lot) and ended the call only to realise that there was no way we could just have our phone and internet disconnected while we were still in the midst of everything!
I immediately called back within a few minutes and spoke to another colleague who understood the situation and supposedly stopped our phone and Internet cancellation until the end of December, giving us some breathing room.
Flash forward to this morning and my sister, who is staying with my mum to support her and working from her house, calls me to tell me the Internet and phone have been switched off. Immediately call Sky who tell me as it's disconnected there is nothing they can do. Asked for a call back from a manager which they agree and nothing. Ring them again, same conversation and same result, still waiting for a call back.
We have a lot going on and to sort out at the moment and don't need this stress. We have the funeral next week and my mum / sister not having phone or Internet is a nightmare, making an already awful situation worse! We need the phone and internet reinstated ASAP due to Sky's mistake but I can't seem to get anywhere. I refuse to believe that given this is their error, they can't speak directly to Openreach / BT and resolve as a priority! It's been 24hours but I'm just hitting a brick wall! Any advice on escalating routes or something I can go back to them to drive a resolve would be massively appreciated.
Long story begins with my father passing away last week. Not sudden, he'd been ill for sometime but I've been helping my mum and sister sort everything out. The Sky (TV, Internet and phone) was all in his name and he was paying an extorinate amount having been with them years and just left it run after his contract and any deals expired. I spoke to Sky yesterday and explained the situation. They said they could either transfer the contract to my mum or cancel it. The price they quoted was still expensive so we decided to cancel, with the plan to find a new provider or better deal sometime in the next month when we'd had the funeral and sorted stuff out. The Sky colleague actioned this on the phone and only then told us after confirming the cancellation all our services would stop within 24hrs! We had been expecting 30 days notice as normal and it was not explained beforehand that it was different due to the bereavement situation!. I admit I was caught of guard (been going through a lot) and ended the call only to realise that there was no way we could just have our phone and internet disconnected while we were still in the midst of everything!
I immediately called back within a few minutes and spoke to another colleague who understood the situation and supposedly stopped our phone and Internet cancellation until the end of December, giving us some breathing room.
Flash forward to this morning and my sister, who is staying with my mum to support her and working from her house, calls me to tell me the Internet and phone have been switched off. Immediately call Sky who tell me as it's disconnected there is nothing they can do. Asked for a call back from a manager which they agree and nothing. Ring them again, same conversation and same result, still waiting for a call back.
We have a lot going on and to sort out at the moment and don't need this stress. We have the funeral next week and my mum / sister not having phone or Internet is a nightmare, making an already awful situation worse! We need the phone and internet reinstated ASAP due to Sky's mistake but I can't seem to get anywhere. I refuse to believe that given this is their error, they can't speak directly to Openreach / BT and resolve as a priority! It's been 24hours but I'm just hitting a brick wall! Any advice on escalating routes or something I can go back to them to drive a resolve would be massively appreciated.