British Gas Reviews

Name: British Gas
Address: PO Box 4805, WORTHING
Rating: 1.21

1.2 Rating 3,035 Reviews

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1.2

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Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Own Driver, Postal Service
Average Delivery Time	Over A Month
On-time Delivery	Greater than 17%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 80%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.2 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult

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Phone:

0800 980 6005

Email:

customerservice@britishgas.co.uk

Location:

PO Box 4805
WORTHING
BN11 9QW

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“Worst energy supplier ever! Do not go near them with a 20-ft pole. We switched to another supplier and disputed the final meter reading British gas handed out. While the dispute was ongoing, they went ahead to mutilate my credit report. I called 5 times in 2 days to get someone to be responsible for correcting the issue. Unbelievable.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Do not Trust British Gas, I am flabbergasted by the fact British Gas have come up with an old bill from 2016 that I assumed was settled,when we transferred to Sainsbury's, no correspondence or reminders, just a text from a foreign call center 3 years later threatening late payment charges & reporting me to debt collection agencies,even though we are still with them via Sainsbury's, so what took them 3 years, just outrageous and to make matters worse they have reported me to credit agencies so it goes against my credit rating. And to add insult to injury their engineers failed to turn up on two occasions to fit a new meter, and all they do is say sorry and offer £30.00 odd pounds off a 3 year old bill I did not know still existed completely unacceptable.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I was kept waiting over the phone for over 25 mins to sort a problem out. I was then told that he could sort this out by giving me transaction credit. But i had to speak to 5 different staff before him. I dont like being past from pillow to post nor do i like to be kept waiting over the phone for a long time. I had to then go to the same shop 5 different times which caused me great problems the co op staff wasnt at all pleasant to me i felt because of british gas and british gas kept sending me backwards and forwards to co op with the same gas card all i wanted was £10 gas i ended up having to call british gas 5 times in the space of 4 hours to sort this out. The texts i received from british gas confused the co op staff and confused me. This should have been done a lot more better.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“On the rewards program over Christmas tried to access A weeks worth of free electric but was unable to . But it would let me logon to pay my bill not a problem but to get something for free not a chance . Rang a member of staff they tried to do it but unfortunately could not access. He rang me back the next day but still couldn’t access it so as a goodwill gesture you offered me 1 pound and 3p 20 years have been a loyal customer gas and electric seems a bit of an insult”

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Posted 6 years ago

“The British Gas is the most unbelievable expensive company! The customer service is terrible! They don’t know anything! If you want to pay a lot, go for it! Than the British gas will be the best option for You! Otherwise just go and find another company!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Made me sick of over billing for cross meter. I lodged complaints for 3/4 times and it took 18 months to give me their decision. At the end, I had to pay them £530 as excess. Awful department!!!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“very bad customer service. been with them 25 years. they put me on variable price after my contract was up. I'm elderly and partially sighted so I would have hoped they looked after my account honestly. I suppose charging unit rates at double the cost was too tempting. shame on them”

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Posted 6 years ago

“No show YET AGAIN . Lose time off work and don't show up. Each time complain and am asked to reschedule what is the point. Been with BG 30 years and the last 2 have been dreadful. Engineers blame the office”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Scheduled 3 appointments with engineer: 1. They were late could not make appointed time. 2. They forgot to book the appointment so engineer never came. 3. They call me to tell me they could not fix the problem as they are not qualified. Worst company ever.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Dreadful. Their billing and invoicing systems are appalling, leading to constant harassment for invoices already paid, invoicing for properties which no longer exist two years after demolition, inability to match up meter readings by Siemens to British Gas billing department! Quite hopeless.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Disaster after disaster over many years, they are unreliable, contradict themselves, downright give wrong information and refuse to provide any sort of reasonable customer service. When called for an emergency breakdown unless you have a child in the house you are likely to be reprioritised and appointments cancelled including when you have taken the day off work.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“British Gas Business is totally rubbish and discusting. The tariff is even more expensive than other suppliers and they even charge you 50 pounds for late payment despite their bill keep missing. Avoid this horrible company and their fixed term plan!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Having tried to hike my annual HomeCare cost by more than 25% but then agreeing to “allow me” to continue paying more than £300 for the privilege, two months later I learn they have cancelled my account. Learning this fact itself was not easy; I spoke to three different customer service executives, being passed from one to another without warning, only to be cut off by the last. I then resorted to on-line chat but, eventually, realised this was futile as I was communicating with someone who either had not a clue what to do or who was trained in customer frustration tactics (I have the transcript to prove it!). Anyway, the point is that British Gas HomeCare is without doubt the worst company with which I have ever had the misfortune to engage.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I call for an emergency and the offices are closed at 8pm on a Monday. Also called yesterday and it was closed, reasonable as it’s Sunday but I can’t top up at all because the app is forever down and no one is available to help me. It’s ridiculous!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I've been a BG Homecare customer for over 30 years and feel compelled to comment on their ever decreasing customer offer. Firstly there is the annual pantomime of the renewal process where they unsuccessfully attempt to increase my premium by +30%. The most recent farce involves booking a service. Having received both an email reminder and a prompt on my customer account web page from British Gas, I find that the next available appointment is the 12th of March, two months away. Apparently there is a shortage of engineers and "they're very busy just now|". This and the annoying habit of increasing and then dramatically decreasing my monthly direct debit despite my account being always in credit has finally persuaded my to change suppliers for both my energy requirements and Homecare. There is just another case where customer loyalty is not appreciated.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I have BG Home care have done for 8 years first time call out week before xmas and told need new exchange unit. Came to fit it and did not seal pipes flooded my house. 2nd eng came to fix it broke the front panel on boiler and blew electrics. 3rd eng came to service it not to fix it. 4th eng tried to fix it but broke it even more and said he would order parts. 5th eng said no parts had been ordered and fixed it by applying black gaffer tape to it. 6th eng was very apologetic tried his best got it all working and said he couldn't get the parts to fix it. Raised an official complaint told will contact me in 48hrs. A week later and no contact was made so I rang them back and was told I will defiantly be contacted within the next day. That was a week and 1/2 ago. Just rang again and they still had not processed my complaint. Please do not use British Gas customer service worst I ever experienced. Engineers Skill very Poor. Complete waste of money. So from a Boiler that was not working the central heating to a complete mess and completely broken boiler all over Xmas.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“would give them a zero star if the option was available.Have appliance breakdown insurance with been with them 3years or so on recommendation of friends.Never needed to call them until my washing machine broke down on 21st December,rather than mess about on the phone booked the appointment online.This appointment was for 3rd Jan.between hours of 8am -1pm.Well 1pm came and went.2pm came and went.Then at 230pm i spoke online (via chat live)on my account.First of greeted with good evening since when was 230pm evening in the uk so reminded this person it was afternoon in uk.Really useless speaking to them.Then spoke to another person who did actually get Mark from british gas to phone me at 320pm.Mark assured me that their had been a mix up my appointment wasn't the morning one i had waited for but because it had been contracted out to ANS it was an all day appointment and they had left a message on Tylers phone for him to get back to me with ETA,but rest assured an engineer would be with me before 6pm,and due to the fact this engineer was possibly busy fixing someone elses appliance or even driving and that could be why they haven't got back to me.Well 6 pm came and went and yes you got it no one turned up.7pm called british gas again engineer could still call but if you feel it's too late call us back and we will rebook your appointment.Contacted online live chat again number given for ANS call them leave message (still no call back from them) spoke via social media its A & S another company number given call them no joy there either. At 830pm called them again this time getting through to Isabelle,very polite and trying to be helpful,she doesn't think the engineer will call now so she will start raising a complaint and rebooking an appointment.Comes back with the appointment 15th January asked her if she was having a laugh 4 weeks without a washer how do i do my washing for the previous 2 weeks ? take it to a dry cleaners how do i get it there where is there a dry cleaners locally to me?The cost of dry cleaning.Puts her manager on who just as useless as what Isabelle was again reiterating the same date for an appointment reschedule.Utter useless and a waste of my day and time,my complaint had been submitted and someone will contact me about it.If i like i can phone up at 8am to see if there is an earlier appointment..At 1030pm (ish) my appointment is still showing on my account and still showing that it was still going ahead.So 7am today get online to my account spoke again to chat adviser who let it slip that my appointment was never going to happen because due to issues with the system.So they knew yesterday that no one was going to call to fix my washing machine but decided to use that little old chestnut of LIES.Still waiting for complaints to get in touch with what they are going to do to rectify this matter.If anyone is thinking of taking out British Gas appliance cover don't avoid at all costs.Rogues and LIARS.On social media trying to fob me off with they do not lie biggest joke of all time.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“BG engineer burst our main water pipe while fixing our heating, in the night flooded our new kitchen through the ceiling electrics and side units. Took almost two days to fix after 5 different engineers turned up saying they didn't have the tools!! no working toilet or hot water for almost two days! absolutely atrocious service from British gas home care. The final guy was from Dyno, he was brilliant didn't have to smash up our new bathroom tiles to access the pipe as I was told by other engineers! this caused so much stress, we lost money on pre paid for events having to keep waiting in for someone else to arrive from BG only to be told he didn't have the tools again! and apparently he was told to come to us anyway even though he told BG he didn't have the tools and he wouldn't be able to fix the problem! Still waiting for a manager to call me back about my complaint!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I don’t usually write reviews but I have just started using British Gas online & I must say how user friendly it is. Not only that but when I need to speak to an advisor on the phone there call back service was really quick. I have always had good customer service from them but they could give some of the so-called communication companies a run for their money!”

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Posted 6 years ago

British Gas is rated 1.2 based on 3,035 reviews