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ZEN have terrible customer service and over charge you

I signed up to Zen for phone line and fibre last month, Since I was with TalkTalk for fibre, Zen told me I had to first switch to Zen's ADSL and then they will put the fibre order through once that is live. So I went for the "Home Talk" line rental at £11.22 a month and "Zen Active" ADSL at £25.52 a month. I ordered on the phone and was told the total price would be £36.74. Once that was active the fibre order would go through for "Unlimited Fibre 2" and after a few weeks once that was live I would start paying £45.44 (Line rental £15.44 and fibre £30). On switch over day to ZEN ADSL from talktalk there were problems and I had no phone line or internet for 3 days. Once that was sorted they put my fibre order through and I confirmed with them the line rental price would be £15.44 for my 12 month contract as I ordered before they put the line rental price up to £15.98.

Zen then started sending me proformas charging me £15.98 for line rental for the time I was on ADSL with what was supposed to be the £11.22 line rental and for the future months fibre line rental instead of the correct £15.44. I tried replying to the emails from accounts on the 5th September but no one replied to them. I tried various other emails customerbilling and customerservices but they only bothered to reply once without properly answering my email or sorting the problem. After that they would not reply. Even tried the live chat but just got "all agents are busy" every time I tried it.

I signed up to ZEN because they are supposed to have a good reputation here and else where and I was sick of how bad TalkTalk were. Although TalkTalk's customer service is also bad at least I always got a ticket number and a response every time I emailed them. Sure TalkTalk's replies consisted mostly of random copy and pasted script and didn't sort out the problem most of the time but at least I actually got a reply!

Not happy with being lied to when ordering on the phone, emails ignored for nearly a month and over charged. I really expected better from ZEN.

So now I guess my only option is to go through the Alternative Dispute Resolution process.

If anyone is thinking of paying the extra to join ZEN then I have to say they are really not worth it, I really miss quality ISP's like "Be Un Limited".
 
I see you've posted this on other forums that Zen staff frequent more often, hopefully you get a resolution. I'm with Plusnet (FTTC) and find the service reliable, fast, and the staff(UK based) helpful and approachable - might be worth a look. :)
 
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Hi Leki,

Sorry for the bad experience you have had with ourselves, would you PM me your username or any account details so I can look in to this for you or pass it on to the relevant people to look in to please?

Thanks

Lee
 
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Some one should be contacting you tomorrow, it has been looked in to about the 45p price increase internally but you wasn't made aware of that for which I do apologise.
 
I didn't hear anything back today so far.....will I be contacted by email as I most likely wont be around to answer the phone, so email is the best way. Thanks
 
I think it will be via email, but I cant be 100% sure.
 
Plusnet is owned by "BT Group" which is what kept me away. so far Zen is ok for me no big downtime speed is always good.
 
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@LeeH

I got an email on Friday and it looks like it is all resolved now thanks, I do hope ZEN will look into replying to emails as it is very frustrating to be ignored, even if it was just a reply to say you are looking into it and will reply in a week or something would be better than nothing at all.
 
I will feed that back to the relevant people, glad it got sorted for you.
 
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