Nightmare on Queensway - My Horrendous Experience with Three Phone Service
Two and half years ago, I made a grave mistake that haunts me to this day – stepping foot into a Three phone store on Queensway in Bayswater, London. Little did I know, I was about to embark on a journey of deception, incompetence, and sheer frustration.
The salesman, if you could even call him that, was nothing short of a con artist and a swindler. With a silver tongue and deceitful promises, he convinced me to sign up for a phone service package that included a main number and three additional SIM cards, all for a whopping £100 per month. Little did I realize that this would be the beginning of my descent into telecom hell.
Firstly, the salesman failed to even bother collecting my email address, resulting in me never receiving a contract or a bill throughout the entirety of my two-year tenure with Three. Talk about shady business practices.
To add insult to injury, he erroneously assigned one of the SIM numbers as my main number, rendering my actual main number practically useless. This blunder led to a myriad of problems over the years, complicating communication and causing endless headaches.
But the nightmare didn't end there. Despite being situated in the heart of London, the service provided by Three was abysmal, to say the least. My apartment might as well have been a black hole for reception, with my kids refusing to even touch the extra SIM cards due to their utter uselessness. Meanwhile, my American phone with T-Mobile enjoyed stellar reception, leaving me baffled as to how a UK-based provider could fail so miserably.
Fast forward to last November when I finally decided to pull the plug on this debacle of a contract. Despite explaining my predicament and expressing my desire to terminate the contract, the customer service team displayed nothing short of incompetence and hostility. They not only failed to close down the main number and one of the SIMs as requested but also had the audacity to accuse me of lying about ever contacting them to cancel the contract when I called them in febraury after discovering that they had charged me £100 pounds 2 months after closing down the contract???
It's as if Three is operating in some alternate reality where customer satisfaction is a foreign concept. They continue to charge me unjustly, dragging their feet in closing down my contract while I'm left in a state of perpetual frustration.
Attempting to reach customer service has proven to be an exercise in futility, as the only numbers I can recall from the four provided are mysteriously absent from their system. It's Kafkaesque, reminiscent of a scene straight out of "Brazil."
Three is not just a phone service provider; it's a cautionary tale of corporate greed and customer neglect. If you value your sanity and hard-earned money, steer clear of Three at all costs. As for me, I'll be taking them to court in a last-ditch effort to escape this ongoing nightmare. Three, consider yourself on notice – your days of preying on unsuspecting customers are numbered.
In the meantime I switched to EE which is perfect in every possible way you could dream of how a phone service should operate.