844 Customer Reviews over 22 pages
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- Norwich
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-25
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Avoid Shell Broadband at all costs .
Mis sold package 8 months ago charged me for fibre which has never been installed. Customer service a waste of time , just sitting in a queue to speak to someone… absolutely shocking AVOID !!
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- Manchester - Hyde
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-23
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AVOID AVOID AVOID. If I could have given Shell Energy Broadband no stars I would have done. Allocate yourself plenty of time when ringing Customer Service. All I was trying to do was inform them of a change of address. I rang several times on different days at different times of the day and after waiting for over two hours listening to their annoying music I gave up still not knowing what number I was in the queue. When I finally got to speak to someone they were not helpful, abrupt and cut me off even though I never shouted or swore at them, they didn't like me telling them how bad their service is. Their online chat and email service are just as bad. I have now terminated my contract and they are going to charge me an early termination fee of £125 which I am going to have to pay to rid myself of this rubbish service. AVOID AVOID AVOID.
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- Rustington, Sussex
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-23
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Beyond useless. Broadband keeps disconnecting, cannot get any help or advice or a resolution as unable to ever get through to customer services. Hours, and hours or trying. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
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- Manchester
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-23
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I have been with Post Office Broadband for over 5 years,, I always pay my bills 12 months in advance (I don’t have/utilise a landline), I have received my 1st bill from Shell!!!,, in October last year(2021) I was £268+ in credit, I pay £17 a month,,it’s now April, I know I have plenty of credit in addition to a £40 credit from the Post Office in the interim,, because of service issues. I have phoned she’ll over the last couple of days,,after 45 minutes the line is cut!,,needless to say I have not spoken to customer svs whatsoever, I also emailed Shell advising with proof of my credit with Post Office,, I received an automated email back stating I was not nor had any credit!!, I know I will be cut off for non payment, but I am in credit until at least the end of the year!!,, this is my first experience with Shell and would advise any potential new customers to STAY CLEAR AT ALL COSTS, I am unsure what to do now as I just would like to speak to somebody from Shell,,my login for Post Office will not work on Shells. Absolute nightmare
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-23
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Was with Post Office for years, could rely on their integrity and honesty.
While the service remains the same, they have lied and scammed me over new price structure.
Was promised a new reduced price if I stayed with them, didn't happen...still at old rate, can't talk to customer service, never have 2 hours to spare waiting for an advisor.
Don't believe a word they say.. obviously trained scammers employed.
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- Burbage
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-22
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The broadband won't connect to my phone. Im even in the same room as my router. 6 feet away. All I get is that I've got to buy an WiFi enhancer. It's not there responsibility. An absolute disgrace. The customer services is so shocking
It's an absolute disgrace from top to bottom. People do not sign up for any shell broadband connection It's so poor. You never get what your paying for .I wish I had never moved to them . I've got consumer direct and trading standards on the case
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- Shropshire Uk
- Reviewing
- 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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- Stoke-on-Trent
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-22
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Totally unacceptable service and internet connection. Customer service takes up to 45 minutes to speak to someone but unfortunately they don't appear to be able to help. Internet connection was lost for 3 weeks and I have switched provider. I'm now trying to explain the reasons and why I will not pay an early exit fee. My email address is not recognised for me to send a message, but it is on chat. Please, if you value your sanity, avoid Shell Broadband.
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- Belfast
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-22
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Its simply shambolic and any 5 star reviews are fake and being made by the customer service team. Avoid. They ignore you "resolver" complaints and are just woeful ive been trying to get a refund of £22 from Febuary. Shocking. I have contacted my solictior who is running a case againt them. AVOID!!!!
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- Braintree
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-21
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They don't reply to emails or complaints about end of service queries. Sent me a bill which I can't see, as account closed. They won't confirm receipt of router retained. They won't answer a query on the bill. The CEO has failed to help.
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- BEDFORD
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-21
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Absolute garbage customer service useless slow speeds cuts out drops
buffers on netflix getting 2.5 to 20gb speed instead of 40gb
online chat a joke they cut you off
phoneline given is now an answerphone
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- Southport
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-21
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What a complete joke this fibre plus broardband,keeps buffering, unreliable and customer service,what service.constantley put on hold and the tech team won't fix the problems.find a better company who have great service,reviews on here tell the same story rubbish and very slow broardband.
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- Plymouth
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-21
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Customer service is absolute useless. I was on the phone for an hour then cut off resulting in me wasting an hour of my time. Called again and still nothing for over an hour. Once you do get through to someone it is an Asian call handler I had to constantly ask to repeat themselves as I had no idea what they was saying. Moved over from Post Office Telecoms which were a lot better compared to this rubbish company.
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- Northern Ireland
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-20
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Endless problems with the telephone line - eventually we were unable to receive incoming calls. Telephone customer service representative continually talked over me, not giving me the opportunity to explain what the problem was and was extremely patronising.
I was a Post Office customer for years but the takeover by Shell has been dreadful. Am now in the process of changing provider.
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- Ayrshire
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-19
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Where do i start
Speed max is 20 mbps
Emailed multiple times to complain. No reply.
Phoned and Put through to technical. 1hr20mins im still on hold.
Have now cancelled and moveing to new provider.
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- London
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-19
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Shell Energy is the worst company I have ever been with for Broadband Customer Service.
During my contract they tried to upgrade me to Fiber "at no extra cost"
When I pointed out that had I wanted Fiber I would have applied for it the guy replied but it's free.
I then pointed out this would tie me to Fiber deals in the future if I wanted to move company.
After going off to check he said yes it would.
The guy said he would cancel the upgrade however I got another email saying that BT were unable to do the change over and it had been delayed by a week. I called and again they cancelled the upgrade.
About a month later I got a message to say the upgrade was happening the following day. Again I called them to cancel. The guy could see the messages on the account and said he couldn't understand what had happened.
I have now left Shell Energy so they sent an email to say they had asked for the Router back and not recieved it.
They then sent a label via email however not having a printer I had to find somewhere to print it so took a few days before I posted it.
They recieved the router well within their 30 limit yet 12 days after the P/O confirmation saying they had recieved the package I got an email to say they were charging me £35 as they still hadn't recieved it. I spent 45 min on the phone on hold to be told I needed to prove I had sent it. The credit which was due as I left halfway through the month has now been delayed as they added on the £35 charge to my bill & refunded it the same day.
I called today to speak to complaints but the guy couldn't do much or put me through to anyone higher.
I have given 2 stars for most things as I needed to give a worse score for customer service.
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- Kent
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-19
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Terrible service - a number of outages which made me decide to find another provider. Two months later I am still waiting for a refund from Shell despite numerous emails & chat. Their latest excuse not to refund me is that they are claiming I didn't return the hub, despite it being returned tracked. Useless "customer service". If I could leave ZERO STARS, I would. AVOID.
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- Tamworth
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-17
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Avoid. I moved to Shell Energy as the provider is was with said I couldn’t upgrade to ultrafast broadband but Shell Energy said I could. Shell said if I moved to them after a couple of weeks I could upgrade. Since I’ve moved over, devices keep dropping out, sky drops out every night so we can’t watch TV, the internet is totally unstable. I’ve rang customer services and asked to upgrade and they’ve said I’m on the highest broadband speed available. So they lied to me to get my custom. I complained about the instability and Shell said the problem is with me, but I never had this problem with my previous provider.
I’ve put a complaint in about lying and the instability still waiting to hear from them. I’m really not impressed and will move away from Shell as soon as I can.
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- Birmingham
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-16
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Awful customer service. I had no internet for a month. I had 4 unanswered emails and had to spend hours on the phone to them. They never called back when they said they would. Complete incompetence. Avoid!
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- Wales
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-15
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When you see SHELL name RUN! RUN WITHOUT LOOKING BACK.
Shell is one of the worst internet providers if not the worst. They give you a cooling off period so you can cancel the contract without any fees, but they will not provide working internet until the cooling off period is done, and when you see how slow and bad their internet speeds are and how customer service is bad, then you are stuck you can't leave because they will ask you a penalty fee that will make you cry. RUN RUN RUN don't look back.
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- Nottingham
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-15
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Couldn't recommend this company ever month chasing them for a bill was a post office customers before shall be looking for a new supplier full of false promises never get paper work just a nightmare each month will not admit there's a issue with the billing
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- Bristol
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-15
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What a joke. Don't waste your money. Drops out all the time, every 5 minutes or so throughout the day, making it impossible to work from home smoothly - even sitting next to the router. Seemed to get even worse once in our final month of contract since we told them we were switching to another provider!
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- woking
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-14
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Shell energy customer service is hopeless.At least 1 hour to wait before they pick up the phone.At least an hour to wait till you through on a chat line.never less than 40 people in queue.Hopelessly understaffed.
Could not solve a simple phone problem for me in 2 weeks.Said it was solved but it wasnt.
I have had enough and am moving every thing to talk talk.I was through to their customer service immediately....no wait
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- Manchester
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-14
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DO NOT USE! Took over a week to get us set up after the go live date because no one wanted to do their job, took filing an official complaint before they even looked at it, then when trying to leave placed a cease order on our account so no one else can take over, trying to leave us without internet for two weeks. Frankly 3 mobile provided better internet when I had to use 100GB of mobile data in a week when it wasn't live.
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- Teignmouth
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-14
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Changed from post office without being notified. Post Office overcharged me on renewal of contract. Although I paid an amount agreed upon after much aggravation, I then received a small amount bill from Shell. On 28 March, I see that none of the discounted amounts I had paid to post office had been deducted. Chat is dismal.. 46 people in queue and 25 minutes on hold on phone. 2 chats later, nothing resolved. Then got email from Shell saying if I didn't pay outstanding amount from post office, broadband service would end and further costs incurred. I view this as a veiled threat to pay up, esp as I had not defaulted on any payments. Finally received an email today from Shell after I had said I wanted to lodge a formal complaint. They have picked up that I was overcharged and will credit me with the difference.
Fearing that I would be cut off and out of sheer frustration, I paid the full amount. This was before I got the email stating they'd picked up the error. Will I be credited with the paltry amount? Who knows? Will be looking for another provider when contract ends.
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- Peterborough
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-13
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I have been with Shell B/Band for a couple of months since they took over from the Post Office B/Band and I HATE it!
It is slower than it was, I get “Loading” problems on YouTube - never did that before and whereas it was easy to login to the Post Office website I have had nothing but problems with this lot.
Tonight, in order to see my bill, I made SIX attempts.
Each time I was told that I had entered the wrong address or password.
As I cut and paste my details into the relevant boxes and eventually they work, the fault must be Shell Energy’s, not mine.
The moment I am free to leave this cursed company, I will.
Don’t go near this mob.
Stay well away.
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-13
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Customer service is very if not impossible to get hold of,
Don't go with these guys...
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- Bristol
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-13
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Just pray you never need customer services. Impossible to get hold of and beyond frustrating. Will be off the very moment our contract ends of not before at this rate.
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- Hertfordshire
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-13
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I was a Post Office Homephone customer who had to move to Shell Broadband. Since joining it has been nothing but problems trying to log into my account to view my bill. I get the email to advise my bill is ready. I can log in to read emails but when I try to log into my account to view bills it says the password is wrong!
I've logged complaints via their website and all I get is automated emails saying they are busy....perhaps they should have done more testing and got things fixed before moving all of Post Office Customers onto their systems which clearly are not up to scratch. They take my money by Direct Debit but I cannot access the bill to verify they are charging me correctly! What a mess!
In my latest complaint I have made it clear there is no way I would have chosen to move, and now I'm locked in for a year as I'd locked into the Post Office plan and that has just moved across. One not happy customer!
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- Hexham
- Reviewing
- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-13
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Somehow we got disconnected after we paid the bill online. We usually pay over the phone but it would not let us. We have rang and were told it was a fault on their end. And to wait the usual 24 hrs blah blah, 24 hours has nearly passed and just to see what's going on we have rang again, only to be hung up on and no further info. Absolutely appalling, and receiving out next predicted bill during this time, oooh do one
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- Stone
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-13
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This outfit must surely be the worst for phone/broadband. It’s impossible to actually speak with anyone. Post Office, my former provider, did their customers no favours when they sold their phone/broadband operation to Shell Energy. Avoid Shell Energy like the plague (or Covid).
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- Doncaster
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-13
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Customer service team want find a new job. They don't listen to the customers. When asked for help you get past around there colleagues. Because they don't know what to you. With your query.
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- Maidstone
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-13
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Just awful customer service - would never use again
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- London
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-12
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The worst customer experience you could imagine. Passed to 4 different people none of whom knew what they were doing. Just kept passing me on and behaving in a totally robotic way. One of them in particular should never have been allowed near a customer.
Do not use this company
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- Leicestershire
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-12
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My wifi is so shocking and very poor. The wifi justs keeps going down . Customer services is very poor. I'm cancelling my wifi and don't recommend it to anyone.
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- Newcastle upon Tyne
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-12
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I have been a customer with Shell Energy Broadband since June 2021. It was recommended to me by a staff member at Curry's who must have been on commission to recommend Shell Broadband. The Broadband service is very poor. I have to reboot the router 3 to 4 times a day as it I lose connectivity every day. Shell Broadband do provide a FAQ to fix connectivity issues but this did not work for me. I would recommend that you do not change to Shell Energy Broadband even if it is cheap as you do not receive good service.
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- Kenilworth
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-12
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Took 3 individual engineers visits 2 set up broadband morning 8 to 12 apointment came at 4pm 3 weeks later phone still out of service. Takes min 30mins before they answer HELP line very poor
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- Norfolk
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- Shell Energy
- Date
- 2022-04-11
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If you don't mind waiting on the phone minimum of an hour plus all the other hassle that goes with this shambolic company then fill your boots!
Since they took over from Post Office the service has been appalling.
Nothing has been made clear re the new online account to check bills and neither has the billing process and amounts either.
Internet often cuts out, there is no customer service, they wanted to charge me £30 a month for standard broadband to go on a rolling one month contract (I don't need a 12 month contract again as I am moving in with my partner in a couple of months and did not want to incur a large get out clause/fee).
Got so fed up holding on the phone for so long (with a chronic pain condition too) that I just decided to cancel the contract today which is up at the end of this month and make do without for a short time. Due to billing dates and notice period my disconnection date is 11th May which quite frankly will be a huge relief.
I could not go through yet another call with this lot any more as my patience has worn too thin with them now and I do not trust them either.
Life can be stressful enough without Shell adding to it all.
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- Wales
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-11
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Dreadful. There are no parental controls available which every other internet company provides. 100% do not go with this company if you have kids and would like some control over what they are exposed to. The actual broadband is also unreliable and drops out frequently.
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- Falkirk
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- Shell Energy
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- 2022-04-11
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Shocking service. I am currently on hold for the last hour. My bills have been irregular and not the amount agreed monthly due to Shell amalgamating with P.O. I should pay £25 pm but was billed nearly £70 over a 2 month period and it should not be my problem if they cannot get their 2 systems to work!! I then spent over 1 hr trying to resolve what is happening. My contract finishes in Dec 22 and I will be looking for another provider!!!!! My advise is DO NOT TOUCH SHELL Broadband!!!!!!!!!!
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