Fuel Broadband - www.fuelbroadband.co.uk

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Fuel Broadband - www.fuelbroadband.co.uk
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“Terrible Customer Service - Rude Advisors”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 15/11/2016

I have been with this company for just over 2yrs. Been very unhappy with their lack of response, when i had raised some queries approx 1yr ago regarding the poor download speed. Recently moved house , and took this opportunity to cancel my account with 'FuelBroadband'. 2 months on, and they still have not cancelled my account & are chasing payments from me. AVOID THIS COMPANY!!!!

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“On my case!”

★☆☆☆☆

written by 130English on 16/10/2016

If anything goes wrong with your internet you cant get anyone by phone and will be forever holding and if you e-mail you get a generated e-mail they are on your case! I had five days of this before being sent diagrams of how to check my internet socket. I cancelled , if you go with them good luck to you

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“Avoid like the plague!”

★☆☆☆☆

written by nnGarrett342 on 25/08/2016

Customer service dreadful, as others have said, they keep billing you after you tell them to stop no matter that you telephone or email. I recommend you send them a deadlock letter that will ultimately take you to the ombudsman because other than that you will be on a nightmare loop of stress when you deal with this firm. If you value your sanity, don't even consider having this firm as a provider for anything!

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“Terrible customer service”

★☆☆☆☆

written by SkylarMeredith on 14/06/2016

Just incompetent. Asked for a final bill in April but 2 months Later they are telling me I owe for June, despite huge number of emails trying to get a final bill!

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“avoid avoid avoid unless you have dial up?!”

★☆☆☆☆

written by stevieparussell on 04/06/2016

Please remember you really do get what you pay for. Fuel broadband in my opinion have been just terrible. Poor service and very slow internet. Constant buffering and terrible connection. In cancelling my contact early they now want me to pay a penalty despite me telling them I am only leaving because they are not providing me an adequate even minimal standard of service. I cant take the buffering anymore so am leaving them. Will see what happens next, you may see me with others on watch dog!!

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“stuck on hold for 1hour”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 29/04/2016

joined fuel after moving house in feb 2016 after signing up i received 1 letter welcoming me to fuel no other correspondence after that until they cut my internet off and sent me a text 20min after to tell me i was suspended for late payment this was on the 19th of the month trying to call up a week later when i got paid was fun 2 of there websites numbers are inactive lines and dont work and have no open and closed hours posted i was on hold for a hour before i started to think it was a dead line got frustrated and called sales as they should pick up. Sales was helpfull and connected me to THE SAME HOLD LINE I WAS ON FOR 1 HOUR!!!! i tried callbacks more waiting and at one point told the guy to grab someone from payments to talk to me so i can PAY MY BILL!!! in the end i payed 2x my normal bill agreed to they put it down to router charge and additional extortion charges but i didn't care at this point then i found out there only direct debit date is the 18th every month!!! who gets paid on the 18th!!!!!!!!!! im currently moving to plusnet because they answer the phone! yes fuel is cheap but expensive in charges and the amount you could pay in credit makes unlimited DSL from fuel the same price as a good fiber connection with another company i did ask to speak to a manager to give him customer feedback in how they might improve the service as expected i was told "We don't want your advice"

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“bad”

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written by 322Aguirre on 22/04/2016

have been with them sics dec. customer severes is so bad. every month have had to write. they took more money out of my bank . they should have. so had to close my bank now make shore you get every thing in whriteing . as I did not have a wreten contrite .qam now tacking them to ombudsman. about it all. will not be using no compeys when this sorted. soon as I can will leve

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“Appalling!!!!”

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written by Crouch183 on 26/03/2016

I have just written this to the ombudsman.....I took out Fuel Broadband for telephone and broadband out in December when I moved house. I didn't hear anything apart from a 'welcome' email until the 29th December 2015 which was a text informing me that the engineer would be coming out to me on the 4th January. As I was on Christmas shutdown from work and the 4th was my first day back I had no way to book that date off so I rang customer services on the 31st December to cancel it. He told me another department would be in touch with me to rearrange. Over the weekend I received texts telling me the engineer was still coming out and on the 4th January, the openreach engineer telephoned me to tell me he was on his way! When I explained to him that I had cancelled the appointment. I telephoned customer services to inform them that I had cancelled this appointment well before the 24hrs that had been specified and they assured me that I would not be charged as it was on my notes that it had been cancelled. I then receive emails telling me I was being charged so I telephoned customer services who again assured me that I would not be charged. It then turned out that an engineer could not come out to me until nearly the end of January so I cancelled the account and the direct debit. They have been trying to take money from my account and are sending me emails saying my account is arrears and I owe them money. No line was ever installed in my house whilst I was going to use them as my broadband and telephone provider and they never provided me with a service so I feel that I don't owe them any money and they have just caused me a lot of stress and telephone calls where I am fobbed off and assured everything is rectified only to receive emails telling me I still owe them money so my credit file will be affected also. Although they are cheap they are not value for money!

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“The worst company going”

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written by Makayla91 on 25/02/2016

Appauling company. Incident No1: Once I joined, within just a few days my landline lost its connection and having contacted Fuel Customer Services over 3 weeks ago, I am still awaiting a response. I still to this day do not have a land line! INCIDENT No 2: Before I had realised that my connection was lost, I had recommended a family member, FUEL arranged, cancelled and then at the last minute re sheduled the connection date. They turned up at the wrong address, have gone along with the connect for an incorrect address and have fined my Mother £59 because she informed them of their mistake. PLEASE LISTEN TO CUSTOMERS THAT IN GOOD FAITH HAVE TRIED NEW COMPANIES SUCH AS FUEL ONLY TO PAY THE COSTLY PRICE. I share this, so as to prevent you from going through the same problem. DON'T RISK IT. Besides anything else the Broadband is more like DIALUP speed! Two cans and a piece of string would be faster.

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Billhudson44's Comment

Written on: 05/03/2016

Haha same here ,they "wired" my mothers landline at the "green box" to the WRONG house 2 mile away !! .Took them 4 weeks bearing in mind she had no internet or phone in those 4 weeks to fix the problem .
Now the problem has been resolved ,i have asked for compensation (only want a months free phone line to make up for the 4 weeks my mother had nothing) they have went quiet no reply to emails nothing even after waiting 1 hours + on hold to Fuel customer "serviceless" they only tell you they can't do resolve any repayment/ compensation queries by phone it has to be by email ONLY.
How stupid pathetic customer service is a joke

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Yamma's Comment

Written on: 05/03/2016

My Mother told Fuel "I can't believe that you're more desperate to make £59 fine than you are to gain a life long customer", Fuel responded "Well if you pay then £59, then you can start a new contract with us!". They then excalated the fee to £117. So I googled Fuel Reviews and then wrote on every single one. I took to Fuel's Facebook and commented on absolutely as many customer complaints comments as was possible. Fuel then got in touch and said on further investigation etc etc etc they now wouldn't charge anything. Companies would rather make anything now, by any means, than just let you walk away. I think all companies believe that with the right deal, they can always get folk back on their side. Tell your family and friends. I have never gone back to RAC, TalkTalk or Virgin. They operate in exactly the same way. Hope you get it sorted.

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“Buffering, intolerable connection, screen freeze.”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 16/02/2016

I liked the price and options which is why I chose Fuel Broadband but sadly it is not worth the hassle. For months I have put up with what is intolerable screen freeze, constant messages saying due to a long running script we cannot continue. I have never had this with one other provider who I intend returning to.I do not recommend this internet provider. When I am on Facebook my screen freezes then I get locked out and disconnected from there - Facebook. I am logged out by force. My computer keeps crashing therefore I ran a programme to trace possible conflicts, there were none. My anti virus soft ware conducted root scan to trace possible corrupt files, this proved the computer is up to date and free from malware , Trojans, worms etcetera. I have also ran an internal scan to test all drivers for all programmes, Addobe, IE v 11, also changed PIO Programmed input/output to DMA Direct Memory Access, again all this testing has been successful. So, it would seem Fuel broadband is at fault. As I said I have never had this problem with the other internet providers. My OS is up to date.

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“Rotten Service”

★★☆☆☆

written by Rose167 on 05/02/2016

Recently signed up for ADSL basic phone & broadband package 2 Months ago .Phone has never worked Broadband connection no existent numerous calls still not resolved issue ,technical help unhelpful.I just need to speak to someone clued up at Fuel to resolve tho issue sadly no one can help despite many hours of phone calls .

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“So far so good ”

★★★★☆

written by Renfrew1314 on 08/12/2015

I joined fuel broadband because tesco broadband were selling to talk talk and I did not want to go with them because they have such bad reviews and the person I talked to regarding joining lied about why they were taking over from tesco which did not bode well. I found fuel broadband through a site called getonline@home who were giving a free computer to customers on low income who joined a provider through them so sign up for fuel broadband and got a fire TV stick as well. The wifi router arrived a few days before my switch over date and set up was really easy did not even need to call to be talked through set. I would point out that fuel broadband router has a switch on the side that you have to make sure is set the the right setting before it will start working took me a while to work this out. The wifi signal is very good a lot better than tescos. I'm very happy so far let's hope it stays that way

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“Good so far ,hope the service remains that way ”

★★★★★

written by Familyman5 on 13/11/2015

Just signed up family member to Fuel Broadband partly due to good deal at present time ,anyway everything was straight forward good easy set up managed to contact customer service easily broadband speeds weren't throttled B.T Talk Talk Virgin all guilty this practice murder when streaming movies .

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“rip off merchants”

★☆☆☆☆

written by 329Moody on 16/02/2015

customer for 6 yrs.told them to drop broadband as i dont use it.wanted to charge me 59 pounds.even thouth i only paid 1 pound a month.given them 30 days notice.now they want 100pounds for leaving.

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“Axxounting is rubbish”

★★☆☆☆

written by Rees109 on 17/12/2014

Although broadband provision ok accounting needs a lot to be desired. Despite paying for year up front got charge suddenly after a couple of months full amount. Customer services not helpful and no clarity on it being refunded. Bills at time did not follow on, balances from one bill to the next did not agree. Call charges have lots of stats but not the basic information enabling customer to identify if they should have been charged e.g date and time to identify if call during free time or not. Need blind faith what they are charging you is correct.

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“Appalling company NOT Recommended”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 22/11/2014

Nightmare to get get through to customer services, staff not capable of resolving my queries. Go over your usage & you'll get hammered with extra charges. I gave 30 days written notice to close account 3 month later still receiving bills with threats of legal action even though they acknowledged my notice to cancel. Spent hours on the phone & emailing to get resolved, went with this company to save money but it's cost me more than ever. I would not recommend this company to anyone.

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“Fuel broadband”

★★★★★

written by bordertide on 21/10/2014

Fuel - once known as Primus/One Call are brilliant. I have been with them since spring. I have very fast unlimited broadband plus landline, my average monthly bill is circa £14 - £18 inc of all calls. Recently (Friday) the connection failed for the 1st time. Imagine the relief when I got connected to a UK call centre, the staff were polite, patient and understanding - despite my giving wrong details 3 times (by mistake). They did an immediate landline check to confirm the problem was not indoors as BT Open Reach would charge if the fault was inside home. Fuel confirmed there was an exterior fault and told me it might take until Monday to resolve but that they would do their best for me, the person I spoke with assured me she would be my case officer and follow everything thru until fully resolved; I just knew they would come thru for me. BT turned up Friday afternoon, discovered the fault then fixed it. I reported this to Fuel. Fuel then did another check I was unaware of and BT turned up again on Sunday morning! The BT engineer told me my supplier was the best they have ever dealt with! What more can I say other than if you do not switch to Fuel asap you will be spending more than is necessary - and probably getting frustrated by call centres all over the globe except where it matters most.

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