Direct Save Home Broadband Reviews

Can't emphasise enough how much hassle this shambles of a company caused me.

They persuaded me to go for a slower internet speed as I explained that I needed my broadband set up as soon as possible, to which they predicted it would be 10 days. 28 days passed before one of them bothered replying to any of my communications to which they fobbed me off and told me that they were 'waiting on engineers.' a month after that communication I finally get told that an engineer is coming to my property (so at this point I have waited 2 months) and the engineer doesn't even turn up, so that's one day I had to take off work wasted.

At this point I am sick of the company so email them that I am cancelling my account. The next day I get an email billing me for the 2 months that I have had no service and telling me that a router has been sent to my property. I decide that this is the company acknowledging that I have been forgotten about and that they are sorting my problem, so I call them to ask why I have been billed for time that I have not had internet and they apologise, tell me that they will give me the money back and that my internet will be up and running when my router arrives.

Any customer of Direct Save will not be surprised to find out that I didn't get the money back and that when I plugged the router in it didn't work. I call up again and ask what has happened and after 45 minutes on the phone of the 'technical expert' insisting that I am plugging the router in to the wrong socket(?) she realises that maybe this has something to do with the fact that the engineers never turned up the previous month (I told her this 45 minutes previously). So she apologises and books for the engineer to come the following week.

Shocker - the engineers don't turn up again and when I call up to ask why, the girl at the other end of the phone tells me that they were never booked to come. I ask if she can just book me an appointment with the engineers as soon as possible and she tells me there will be a delay because the engineers need to assess my property before they can arrange an appointment, even though this is apparently what created the initial 2 month delay.

At this point it is nearly Christmas and I have gone so long without internet in my property I decide to just wait until the New Year to see if anything happens. 4 months after the initial enquiry and I am no closer to getting internet than I ever was. So I call up the bank to get back all of the money that I had given them (bare in mind I'd been charged for these 4 months) and to cancel my direct debit. Well shockingly I get a phonecall the next morning from them telling me that I need to pay them back all the money or they won't do anything more. I tell them that they haven't done anything yet and they won't get a penny from me until they do. Well with 2 stubborn parties unable to agree on how to proceed from there unsurprisingly my contract got cancelled.

The next day I went with BT (who were only £2 a month more expensive) and 2 weeks later my internet is sorted.

Avoid Direct Save.

Appalling company, takes 3 months to reply to emails. I decided to switch to BT, whom I'd sworn I'd never use again, but anything was better than DirectSave. On two separate occasions DirectSave refused BT engineers access to my line to prepare for the transfer and in each case I had to place a new order with BT. Eventually BT installed another line, at no cost to me. Although I had told DirectSave when I planned to stop using their service, they didn't even notice that I'd done so, but phoned my mobile to inform me that they would stop the service unless I reinstated the direct debit. When I told them to go ahead because I wasn't using it anyway, they sent me a huge invoice including £30 for the router. I sent this back, taking the precaution of doing so by what used to be called Registered Post but have had no acknowledgement. Not have I received another invoice minus that charge. The service is a total shambles, I suspect it's cheap because they deliberately economise on staff, which is why the service is so poor. AVOID THIS ONE LIKE THE PLAGUE!

Absolutely awful and im tied into this contract for another 10 months yet!! Initially gave me the cheapest crappest router possible and after complaining numerous times about slow connection/ connection going away and coming back, etc they eventually sent me a slightly better one. But even now, not an hour goes by without the internet throwing a wobbly which is pretty damn frustrating when you can't even watch a film because it keeps cutting out. Wouldn't recommend this company to anyone and I'm kicking myself for not just paying the extra few quid to a better company.
The sooner my contract is up, the better. And I've heard they charge you for leaving, even when you've done the time, so that's just going to be the cherry on the shit cake.

This is the worst broadband & telephone & customer service I have ever had I have had so many issues with this company for different reasons. I wouldn't recommend them to my enemy as they would recieve the message as the broadband services are slow. Maximum 80mb for about £46 per month. It is a second rate service from a second rate company.

i can only echo the numerous points below. avoid...not worth slightly cheaper rates

Hands down, the worst company I have EVER had the misfortune of dealing with.

All I can give you lovely people is some tips so as you don't get caught out by these morally banktrupt salesmen.

1) they typically sign you up with Vodafone - Go direct, they usually accept poor credit history and you'll get the contract cheaper than going through DST - And without the hassle! It's amazing when you get a bill and it's actually for the amount agreed!

2) Record ALL your calls with them, they constantly change their story and will pass you around like a joint in a hippy session.

3) Send the "Free" router back, or you'll get charged at the end (the sheer cheek!)

People, please put your trust in me when I say AVOID this company. It's not worth the stress in the long run.

Appalling service from DST. Internet not working for a month now! And logged 3 calls with no call back from an engineer. Rude and arrogant customer service ... one of which disconnected the call when she heard my frustrations!

Pity I've only just read all the terrible reviews about DST as I would have never signed up in the first place.

In 2007 I took them to court and won a judgement against them. They kept over charging me and would not resolve the situation. The customer service I received was appalling. Trading Standards said they could not help so I resolved it myself.

AVOID AVOID AVOID
Clearly the 2 or 3 positive reports are bogus.
We've experience a very poor internet service. Drops several times a day, as an ebay seller its almost impossible to upload photos etc - this is reminiscent of dial up which is staggering in 2017.
If you want slow internet that drops all the time and is almost unusable then this is the company for you.

I made cancellation on last October in 2016, but Direct Save still charge 35 pounds so far.. I told 4 times already about my cancellation. I'm exhausted..

Have been with them for more than 8 years now and they have always been helpful and so far have been able to provide excellent service to our house.

Shady as f**k, flipped me onto a different contract than the one I paid for, took months of chasing to set me up then they've started taking incorrect direct debits which when I've challenged are ignoring me

Direct Save should be avoided (and ideally stopped from trading!) They cheat & mislead the customer into paying far more than for any of the supposedly more expensive providers (e.g. £54 charge for not returning the router which never worked and they didn't ask for the return of!). Also the contract defaults to a far more expensive one at the end of the initial period, but they don't tell you when this is about to happen, or when it HAS happened! Don't bother to complain either - "customer service" consists of a gang of rude oiks who will pretend not to understand their own language before helping.

Terrible services, and really disoriented and unhelpful customer service! My internet drops once a day every day for about an hour, and customer service told me that this is very normal and I should only call them for help if it starts dropping more than 2-3 times a day. Speed is also not very good, and I am surprised they ask for that much money for their service... An advice to people checking it out: just go to another provider.

All those with a complaint, contact
[email protected]
or [email protected]
these are the mediation service and ofcom themselves. Direct Save will not willingly tell you of these.
I would encourage all grievances to be referred to these people.
Hopefully if enough people complain then these crooks may lose their license which would protect others?
I received the money they owed plus another £65.00 by using this service.

Terrible customer service, they may be slightly cheaper, but they tie into their contacts and leaving fees without full explanation. Avoid at all costs.

The worst utility provider ever experienced in my lifetime. Four times wrongly billed and then cut off for reclaiming a debit. They suggested I leave without penalty and fortunately I insisted this in writing. When I left they sent a bill for £234 for breaking contract
then another for a different amount with threat of Court Action. I got in touch with Ombudsman Service who investigated and agreed that Direct Save actually owed money to me. They ensured that this was returned plus a £65.00 Goodwill Payment and a statement that said they had been told to apologise. Not a very convincing apology. Avoid this company at all costs. They should have their license revoked and should not be allowed to trade.

The customer service when you actually reach an engineer is pretty helpful, just don't call after 8pm or you get a a promise of a callback that never materialises.

The broadband itself is an absolute omnishambles, 5 times in the space of 2 months myself and my family have had to call because something in their system keeps slowing the Internet down to under 1mb/s each time they say it's fixed only to happen again a couple weeks later.

The first two years were good! But now these scam artists are raiding my bank account for random payment's! I paid for a year up front and they took monthly payments too!!!!! I emailed the owner and it was (kind of) dealt with. And these gangsters started taking random payments again!

I will change 'providers' as soon as I can!!!

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Terrible service from broad band to customer service can get a call back cant cancel currently communicating through the ombudsman as it's so bad complained to CEO many times DO NOT USE THEM PLEASE