Shell Energy Broadband Home Broadband Reviews

The department that sends out bills for broadband needs an urgent overhaul due to me receiving my last two bills AFTER the payment due date. Even though I paid the bills the following day after receiving them Shell has the cheek to send me letters telling me my broadband account is overdue. Today’s overdue letter is dated 2/7/22 today’s date is the 20/7/22. When I rang Customer Service to complain I was told it was due to the Post Office I disputed this and was advised that there is a problem. I’m sure I cannot be the only person affected.

You will be charged a "cease fee" even outside of your minimum contract period. Certainly not industry practice, buried in the t's and c's (section 5.11).

Also a terrible quality WiFi router which has the reach of a T Rex's arms.

Terrible, 4 weeks after they said they would connect and still haven't connected me. Internet worked fine with other company and they haven't come to fix whatever they are pretending is wrong, poor manners on phone and they even threatened to hang up the call after I said I'd be losing a complaint. They have even charged meand are not rewinding me for the pleasure of wasting hours of my time and money for 0 Internet after waiting 4 weeks. Someone needs to sue these jokers.

Avoid this broadband provider,doesn't go live when you are due to go live,customer service are patroniskng and rude. Constantly being spoken over,the worst broadband I have ever been with.

ex Post Office, still got PO router NO Customer service online or phone, incomprehensible bill/cust svc reply SORRY NOT AVAILABLE (since takeover, apparently) Why energy co thinks it can run BB anyway. THE WORST EVER

Didn't even connect, just swapped suppliers, waited 3 weeks late now, they still haven't fixed whatever isn't working, they even charged my first bill which they promised they wouldn't until it works. Awful.

My broadband account ended on 25th June. I called on 20th June to renew my contract. When I called Shell on the 26th June, they called me a liar and said I'd never renewed my contract. I waited over 2 hours to speak to someone. They said I could renew my contract, but it would be £50 renewal and I'd have to wait 3 weeks. I emailed to complain and asked them to review the recorded calls. Nearly a month later and I've heard nothing.

I was a post office customer and then Shell took them over. I recently had my broadband suspended (DD had failed in April) I called them up to discuss 50 mins I finally got through to someone. They had tried to take a payment twice and it failed but the email on the second failure said they would try again in 10 working days (money would have been in the account then. The call centre operative said I was on a manual payment.

So they had not been able to take any money since then. I am not one of those people who check every direct debit but know that each month there is a certain amount for bills that comes out.

But... they continued to rack up my monthly bill until today I had to pay £110 and there was no policy. They said their rules where it had to be paid. I work from home and need it so had to pay.

So long story short 1hr 40mins on the phone.
Held to ransom over their policy of suspended accounts
Billed for 4 months without knowing there was an issue
Filled a complaint with them.
Going to the financial ombudsman as I think their trading practices are a bit dodgy

If I could leave no stars I would. Please avoid this company, I wish id have known just how awful they were but I thought being owned by Shell they would be trustworthy. They are unprofessional incompetent and worst of all unscrupulous. You anyone but SHELL ENERGY

Been trying to contact over contract renewal spent 40 minutes on phone with only music and your call is important to us can't be that important if your not prepared to answer!! Will try one more time if no answer will switch come back post office

Post office was the best Internet provider i had ever had and then along came shell energy. They took over and what a shock to the system it was, our Internet speed plummeted despite us being on one of the highest speed pakages. I suspect we were down graded on the switch over and im lucky if i get a consecutive 5 hours of Internet without if completely dropping out. Overall its just not a good company. But thats not the worst of it. We recived an email saying the prices are increasing and we had 30 days to switch if we wanted to and we would get no exit fees. So we did just that the very same day, finding a cheaper more reliable company and set it all up. We even sent an email informing shell that we were taking them up on the offer to switch without fees. And then got an email telling us we ere gettng charged exit fees. I phoned and was told theres jothing they can do because its already on the system and its my fault because i was supposed to phone them before trying to switch and ask to be let out of the contract.which is not what ofgem states. I do not have to ask permission to switch, and the only time i need to inform them i am switching is if my provider doesn't use openreach cables. So no im not pleased at all with this company

Can't even login to my account. Was transferred to Shell when Post Office sold their phone and broadband to them last year. They must be the most incompetent providers on the market. Deal ends soon so I'll be outta here!

Shell Energy having taken over Post Office Home Phone are absolutely clueless! Cancelled my broadband because of an impending house move and received assurances that cancellation would be implemented after 30 days notice period. Not so. Invoices continued for 3 month for line rental. Spent hours on the phone trying to sort it out even though I had written email confirmation of termination date. Additionally wrote by email and snail mail but received no reply. All staff appear to be working from home. One phone call lasted 1 hour 31 minutes but still did not resolve the issue!! Because they are working from home if one puts you on hold you get the god dam awful music and then someone else eventually cuts in and you go through the whole security process again and again. If this company is serious about phones then they need to sort out their own ASAP! Take my advice and look elsewhere if you are looking for a broadband provider because if you get any sort of problem this lot couldn't organise a p***up in a brewery!
Post Office Home Phone certainly weren't the best but I'll say it again, Shell Energy are absolutely clueless and appear to know nothing about phones and customer service is certainly not their forte.

The worst company I have ever dealt with. Had no broadband since 20 May ( now 14July) . No explanation from Shell. They have not responded to letters or on- line attempts by myself . You wait on phone until you give up. Dreadful company.

Switched to Shell Energy Broadband. Lost my internet connection. Met with a wall of silence from customer services, despite trying to contact them daily.
After a month forced to switch to another provider. Months of arguing about my bill followed. Referred to Ombudsman, and reported to Ofcom. Awarded £75 for inconvenience caused.
There is a reason that they aren't part of Ofcom's automatic compensation scheme!

Unable to leave no stars. Cancelled broadband on 27th of April. Still took £25 out of my account in May. Was promised a refund on 16th June said it would take upto 10 days(when i finally managed to speak to someone)Didnt get refund. Surely keeping customers money is illegal. I hate the fact they have lied and cheated me out of my money but i know it wont do any good contacting them again. Wouldnt trust Shell ever again wouldnt buy energy or anything else from them. Worst company ive ever dealt with.Appalled how they can get away with it.

No problem with post office but once shell took over speed down 30 to 45 minutes on the phone to get through they cant help you put you onto someone else phone goes dead teriable firm will be looking elsewhere

I cannot fault Shell Broadband. After reporting a fault on the line of Friday, the technical team arranged for BT to attend between Tuesday - Thursday the following week, BT arrived at 9.00am on Tuesday and fixed the fault.
You cannot beat Shell Broadband the cost for Ultra fast broadband, and it works !
The call centre are professional in answering your queries, it does take a while to get through.

the most frustrating experience.
horrible customer service, they told me I would get a £20 compensation, plus £15 credit. When I call to double-check they told me that I said that I (myself) didn't want the compensation that was promised. Had to stay on the phone to try to get my money back.
To get this wifi I had 3 different technicians at my house and more than 10 hours on the phone, more then 2 months to get it.
Is 2022. I live in central London. this should be easy.

Disgusting customer service. In short I have had major issues with internet connection and phone line; the problem has mainly been since Shell took over from Post Office. Interrupted internet for 4 months and very slow or no connection for long periods, interference on landline also. After trying everything that was suggested and a total of 4 engineer calls to the property and a new router we eventually got a better service.
Due to the loss of a service that I was paying for and not getting, other than intermittently, and the amount of time wasted trying to get through to customer service I decided to ask for compensation. I started this process in April and, after various misinformation from customer service staff, I have found out today that I am not entitled to any money back! I find this strange as I had previously been told that the amount I had agreed on had been reduced and that it was approved and in the hands of the finance dept. I have made numerous calls in order to chase this up with no communication initiated from Shell; funny how quick they were to contact me to say they wanted money for the router I had supposedly not returned.( I had evidence of the return)
I strongly advise people NOT to use Shell as their internet or phoneline provider.