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“Fine when it works”

★★☆☆☆

written by Jazmine321 on 18/01/2015

I've been using this service for about a year now - not every week but had been fairly happy with call quality and the price is good. BUT it's a dreadful service if things don't go right. It's impossible to contact anyone and the website is one of the worst I've seen in a long time. Today, after just 25 mins, I was cut off mid-call with the message that "for security reasons" I'd reached my limit for the day and to try again tomorrow. Tomorrow! Well gee, thanks. That's kind of you letting me have my telephone privileges again tomorrow! My calls usually last about 50 mins and had no problems before with this - and as the first time I'd used 18185 this week, it's not as if I'm a heavy user. Off to someone else now. I'd rather pay 0.5p a minute more and have a reliable service that doesn't end calls arbitrarily.

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“Skype for Landlines is Cheaper and Safer ”

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written by Bainhe87 on 09/04/2014

The 18185 service worked fine for me for a while, the call quality was good and had no issues with double billing from my phone service provider. However, as 18185 require you to set up a debit order and if there are ever any problems with billing, say goodbye to your money and forget ever being able to sort it out. If you click customer services on the website it just sends you to FAQ and one goes in circles. Once you finally do find the page where you can send a message, there is no guarantee that anyone will ever get back to you. A mistake was made on my bill and I was never able to sort it out. Thank goodness it wasn`t a large amount taken from my account. Needless to say I cancelled the subscription and also the debit order. Upon looking for a new option for my international calls I discovered that Skype charges less per minute to German landlines than 18185, and it is much safer too! I was never happy about the security issues with my sensitive information on the 1815 site. A Skype subscription for unlimited calls to land-lines in Europe only costs £5.74 per month and if you subscribe to a quarterly payment they offer a discount on that. Calls can easily be made from an app on your smartphone. So I suggest that one looks into calling international landlines via Skype as an alternative.

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“ quality has deteriorated”

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written by BrightonVoyager on 10/03/2012

We have been using 18185 for the past three years to call Thailand Europe and Australia, we were delighted with the possibility of making cheap calls for family and business purposes; the bill at the end of the month was always surprisingly low; an unusual occurrence. Australia is still ok, so is Germany but unfortunately calls to France and Thailand, have been rendered impossible by the poor quality of reception. we can hear the correspondent but he or she can’t hear a word we say. We’ve tried registering complaints on the 18185 website but just receive formulaic replies telling us they have checked their system and there are no problems and to address our problems to BT. We did in fact call BT and they called us back to say the engineers checked our line and found no problem. If we use BT (at great expense) the quality is perfect, if we receive calls from Thailand the quality is also perfect, so we can only assume the problem is with 18185. We are looking at alternatives for cheap calls like Skype at present. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

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“can't register with 18185”

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written by nanma9 on 04/09/2011

How do I fill in the registration form completely?. Halfway through it just clicks off and I start again to no avail. Been trying all week.

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Written on: 01/11/2011

I am having the same problem

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Julessh99's Response to nanma9's Review

Written on: 27/09/2016

Well it's September 2016 and it's still happening. I notice someone had same issues in 2011. Have been trying to persuade my Mum for years to use this service as I haven't had any issues in 8 years but looks like they aren't bothered about any more business - they must know about how difficult it is to register and contact them

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Martyn4526's Response to nanma9's Review

Written on: 11/12/2011

I have just managed to register. You must do so using Internet Explorer only.

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Martyn4526's Response to nanma9's Review

Written on: 11/12/2011

I'm having the same problem, and, as I am not registered, I can find no way to contact them to report the problem and seek advice. Does anyone know how to do this ???

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“Used to be an excellent service, but has gone...”

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written by androobe on 12/03/2010

Used to be an excellent service, but has gone massively downhill in the past few months. I use them to call abroad from my mobile, so have to dial a London number to get through first. In recent months the number is frequently engaged, or answers and gives me a silent line. Their customer service insist it must be down to my mobile provider, but it's not because I have the same problems from two networks and never have a problem calling anyone else - they clearly just don't have capacity and don't care. I used to spend £30 per month with them, now it's down to about £5. I will soon be switching to my mobile providers discounted international calls - I'd rather have a 5p/min reliable service with no echo on the line than a 1/p min service that only works about 1 in 3 times now. In summary, sign up for them, but don't rely on them and don't expect any help if it doesn't work. PS: If you regularly call abroad from home, try Vonage instead, much more reliable and they offer unlimited calls.

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“Very low rates for Canada and Italy that I use a...”

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written by on 18/02/2009

Very low rates for Canada and Italy that I use a lot.Advertises 4p per min for Ecuador for months on end on rates list on website but this service has never been available, one is referred to another number which charges 8p a minute.
IMPOSSIBLE to contact customer services, "webpage unavailable" or endless loop to back where one started.
Reliable invoices I appreciate that a no frills service attempts to cut "Service" costs but I would like to make a serious complaint about advertised rates not existing in reality to Ecuador and I cannot email this to any form of Customer Service

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