British Gas Reviews

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

1.2 Rating 3,024 Reviews

5 %

of reviewers recommend British Gas

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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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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Home care?? What a scam. Take money every month and when needed (boiler won’t work with sub zero temperatures outside) British Gas does not answer the phone. Hours later and in excess of ten attempts to speak to British Gas I still have not managed to speak to someone-my boiler still doesn’t work. The website chat does not respond. No email contact. What a scam. Not surprised British Gas are going bust. Do not get Homecare, buy thermal underwear and plenty of warm jumpers and gloves. Welcome to London 2021. Utter disgrace............ Danny, self styled vigilante of truth”

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Posted 4 years ago

“The WORST service I have ever experienced with a company. They got my tariff completely wrong and over-charged me for the whole of my contract and refused to listen to me when I contacted them. They said they booked for an engineer to come out and fix my heating and they never turned up leaving my house cold over Christmas. They are so slow at responding to their customers problems and I will never be using their dreadful services again.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“DISGUSTING My 82 year old mother has no heating and underline health issues. We got an appointment for the next day to have it cancelled two hours later as it was not an emergency JOKE...was told it would be 28/01...or go online and book a local engineer pay them and claim it back from British Gas. Why is my mum paying monthly for cover .”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Phoned British gas regardin the app wouldn't allow me to top up neither gas or electric. Not the first time this as happened and after nearly 15 mins on the phone an agent finally answered. After explaining the problem I was promised an agent would phone me back to assist me in topping up. However the call never happened I'm still no wiser as to why I can't use the app. Terrible service the amount of gas and electric I use and yet I can't get any help at all with this problem. I am now seriously thinking of changing my provider as I can't rely on this app.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Price increases now upto £120 extra on monthly payments was £136 Now £256 leaving them”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Firstly, British Gas is totally useless if you manage multiple energy accounts, as they do not allow different supplies to be linked up to one email login. On top of this, I was told I could not discuss an account on which my company is named, and was given the incorrect email address to send a letter of authority to on four occasions by the chat team. They've sent an operative to read meters on our site who's read the wrong meter leading to bills of thousands of pounds that have taken months to remedy. They send notices demanding payment without stipulating which energy account it pertains to. Web chat team are rude and ineffective. Prices are among the highest on the market. In short, the UK's worst company, move any and all accounts you can away from them.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Worst gas and electricity supply ever, after you leave them they send you bills claiming you own this much. Don't join this company.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I was with British Gas years ago, and all I ever got was threatening letters. I left them vowing I would NEVER go back to them and I haven't. I live in Bristol and I only use DHS Heating Services, tel 0117-924-7200. They recently installed a new boiler and radiators for a reasonable price and did an excellent job. If you have a good plumber you don't need all these repair plans. DHS come promptly and on time. Engineers are polite and hard working. I do not know anyone who has had a bad experience with them.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Oh fear...putting a bad review on websites is becoming second nature to me now. Wtf has happened to BG??? My hysband has been trying for HOURS to get thru to a person to make an enquiry. Was put thru to south africa (WHAAAAAT????)....she couldn't understand let alone deal with enquiry!!!! Plus had an 'oops' letter telling me they didn't let me know i cd switch to single rate tariff....it is a reflection of what has become of the UK.....Shambles....😭”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Our heating is too high, uncontrollable, and they can’t send an engineer for fifteen days. Bear in mind with the photo submitted that the outside temperature is 4° C... Their South African CallCenter is manned by people who don’t understand English and hang up on people when they can’t do their job.”

British Gas 1 star review on 6th January 2021

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Posted 4 years ago

“Boiler broke down on 2nd January no hot water or heating. We have Homecare with BG so phoned only to have the phone put down on us after a lengthy wait. Person on the other end was not at all interested. Also did live chat again lengthy wait only after a couple chats he disconnected. In both cases we were told the earliest attendance date would be 6th January. We are both pensioners. BG advert for Homcare just appeared on tv has a really good laugh. We will be cancelling our Homecare with them. Would not recommend them.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“The customer care is always second to none and have helped me tremendously to arrange a new tariff this year”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I have paid for 2 years of cover and have not received one service visit !! I was text 6 times in one day to say the engineer was on his way but did not turn up !!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“boiler broke down on wed 30 Dec 20 leaving two 75 year olds with no heating or hot water with an outside temperature of -3. We have had a british gas homecare policy for many years which guarantees quick repair!!. The telephone numbers on the homecare policy do not now exist!! eventually got their emergency 24 hour number only to be told by a robot that the office was closed. 24 hours later managed to get an appointment via an automated system which said that an engineer would call sometime between 8am and 6pm - no one turned up and no contact was made. Day 2. managed to get another appointment. Engineer called at 7.30 pm to say that as it was a bank holiday it was not worth coming out as he could not get spare parts, he advised us go turn the boiler off!! it was not on as it had broken down. Day 3. got an engineer at 3pm who fixed the problem. Shambolic service, no telephone numbers to be able to speak to anyone. Now cancelling my homecare policy. Service could not have been worse had they tried. Find another supplier.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“We were moved to BG because they took over our previous supplier and we are now looking to escape as quickly as possible. There is a minor error on the bill but the company has no telephone number to enable us to discuss it. They have sent us a clutch of letters telling us the obvious about the changeover but none of them has a sender's address or telephone number. These are the signs that I use to detect a rogue organisation and BG certainly behaves like one. Be very wary of using this outfit.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Absolutely discussing what this company is doing. I changed my supplier back in October. BG then said I’d missed a payment which had gone down on my credit file. They have now sent through a threatening letter for a dept collection company for £1000. This is daylight robbery at its best.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“I have the top package and pay a premium every month, which I got for peace of mind really. It's a waste of money though.The customer service is appalling and they dont understand basic instructions like arranging a time to visit. This has just happened again and now with bank holiday, we have no heating until Sunday when hopefully they will turn up. Save your money and use a local company. British Gas need a shake up!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Appalling customer service and try to sell boilers unnecessarily instead of repairing them. Liars and crooks.”

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Posted 4 years ago

“Absolutely appalling service. Pay for homecare to be told the soonest someone can come and sort the boiler without heating or hot water is the 13th January! We have a 4 and 8 year old in the house and were told to put on lots of thin layers drink hot drinks and have a hot water bottle! It’s zero degrees outside and just not good enough! They should be ashamed!”

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Posted 4 years ago

“They've been trying without success to get my Gas smart meter working for 18 months. The app is absolutely useless, can't send them my gas meter reading. Every time I go on it I set up a 4 digit pin number which it doesn't ask for on next visit. Avoid them I am changing when my contract is finished, useless company.”

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Posted 4 years ago

British Gas is rated 1.2 based on 3,024 reviews