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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“Today the boiler sprang a leak in my 86-year-old Mum’s home - water pouring into the kitchen/blowing electrics etc. So, no heating or hot water. She has had a Homecare agreement with British Gas for years and pays a substantial sum for it each month. A phone call to the advertised number resulted in her being told - by the automated system - that an engineer could visit but not until ten days time. Attempts via the online chat service/Twitter to make contact and explain that she’s a vulnerable customer facing an emergency resulted in promises that an engineer would arrive today and would phone first. When the phone call came, it was from Dynorod who - on chatting with Mum - decided they had been asked to get involved by mistake, so we had to start the contact process all over again. Since then, we were told that an engineer would be with us by 6pm, then by 10pm - still no show. The system for making contact with British Gas is utterly appalling: how can they expect an 86-year-old widow to navigate her way through the online contact methods (which don’t seem to result in any effective action anyway). Disgusting customer service.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Just about impossible to have any contact with this company. They actively discriminate against people that do not have any computer skills/knowledge. Just trying to send a meter reading is a nightmare. It's as if they just don't want to speak to or deal with customers. My advice is if you are not that computer literate stay away from this company.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I am not going to waste your time by writing all the horrendous things that have happened over the past two years trying to get our central heating and hot water boiler system to work. Suffice for me to say that, when one of our Thermostatic Radiator valves stopped working recently it took THREE separate visits, with one engineer twice and two engineers on one occasion to get the thing replaced............”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Awful. They owe me £375 and will not pay it. They paid it to an account that has nothing to do with me but will right their wrong. Genuinely stealing”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I have had no heating for weeks. British Gas finally sent an engineer today, who said he had fixed the problem. After he left I turned on the heating only to find it was still not working. Immediately rang B.G. to get engineer back only to be told I have to wait another 2 weeks before they can fit me in. Disgusting service and way too expensive.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“British Gas has raised my Direct Debit from £65 to £102.29 pm and yet I am not in debt.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Dreadful company. Multiple engineers for a boiler fault, still not fixed. Multiple appointments where engineers failed to turn up or cancelled at last minute. Heating engineers don’t diagnose the problem, they guess what it’s likely to be, replace the part / component and then leave saying it’s fixed when it’s not. Save yourself the stress and pain, use another company.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Worst energy company I've ever experienced. Getting them to pic up anywhere in the world is impossible. I'm not exaggerating. Everything is wrong with Brit Gas. = Terrible customer service. Over pricing and wrong billing. I'm now well overdrawn because they are asking for payments for energy - gas and electricity which I've never used. Then threaten with bailiffs. A nightmare uncaring company who, in reality don't want houshold customers because they really want industrial customers. I can't wait to leave. If you take my advice stY well clear.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I have been with British Gas since 2019, had smart meters installed and paid by direct debit. Every bill I received said that my payments are on point to cover my usage so I thought nothing of it and continued to let my direct debit continue out of my account each month. I have recently changed supplier and got a bill of £900+ from BG saying I was in debit. When querying it, it turns out that there was a system error and my quarterly reviews hadn’t been carried out. I have permission for them to speak to my mam on my behalf as I work during the week and they have promised her at least 3 calls backs, two weeks later we haven’t heard anything and when she calls to ask what’s going on, they’re now refusing to speak to her. I finish work at 4:30pm everyday and their wait time on a call is 35mins, since they close at 5pm, I can never speak to anyone. I have been left with a debt of over £900 through no fault of my own and have no one I can speak to about it. I am absolutely disgusted by the service we have received and I’m a loss with what I’m supposed to do now to resolve this issue. This company is expensive and their customer service is shocking”

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Posted 3 years ago

“My elderly mother has a (expensive) service contract with them which is meant to include an annual service. It was booked last year and they phoned and cancelled, emergency calls only and they would credit £60 to her account. They didn’t. Letter arrived informing that a service was overdue and essential and needed to be organised. The normal challenge to get through but eventually organised it for Jan this year. No one turned up. Now April, still no service. Given up.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Completely useless support. Haven't a clue how to resolve issues and just guess if they don't know the answer. Now changed to professional provider.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I received a letter from debt collectors relating to a property I sold 4 years ago. They are demanding an amount of £651.75, which they claim I owe British Gas. I paid this when the house was sold. I now have to provide Bank Statements to prove this and I am appalled. In four years I have heard nothing from British Gas and the first I knew was a letter from Debt Collectors - disgusting. Steer well clear of British Gas - they are a disgrace.”

British Gas 1 star review on 7th April 2021

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Posted 3 years ago

“Booking a service on line is very good. But booking a repair is a night mare as the dairy is six or seven weeks waiting. We had a leek in the boiler and a bucket collecting the water under the boiler. It was a hard trying to explain on line that we wanted a repair ASAP and its also bank holiday. I phoned on Tuesday and spoke with a human who was very apologetic and undstanding an engineer was at the house within a hour and the job was fixed in a couple of hours. Well done BG”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Quite possibly the worst experience I have ever had in my life. Bought a property where the meter had been removed. So far, spent almost two days on hold to these loons and nobody seems to have a clue that they're doing. I must have spoken to at least 15 people in the UK, India and South Africa. Literally nobody has a clue. And they must be the only power company who close their call centres at 5pm. Completely bonkers. AVOID!!!!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Have home care 400 not had a service in 2 years constantly breaking Dow from lack of service keep calling they never show up so boiler packet up called by they came next day to replace boiler as spending £3500 but won't honour there contracted servicing and repairs which your paying for monthly”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I have had another hapless experience with British Gas whom I have been with for 25 yrs - so much for loyalty! If Covid 19 is causing so many delays, and British Gas can’t provide proper service, why aren’t we given a discount? My employer gave a discount to customers. If I have to listen to that automated service on the phone again, I’m going to go nuts! These ‘windows’ of 6 hours ( and in my case tomorrow it’s 12 hours) are just not workable for customers in employment and it’s surely only people in employment who can afford the huge cost of Homecare! I have no heating and no hot water and the first appointment I was given was five days from now. I’ve now managed to get an appointment tomorrow. However the 1st service appointment I can get is the end of May..... What a nightmare!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Absolutely shocking service. I don’t think anyone in this company cares if they do a good job or not, total shambles and has been for a number of years now. What is the CEO here do. I can understand why they promise so much and deliver so little. This company is going to go to the dogs, sell your shares now! I can understand how they can. Make so many simple, errors so frequently. I had a boiler problem and they sent Dynorod? You could not make this up .”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Phoned to book Homecare appointment. Told best do it on line. Then spent over an hour trying to get website to recognise my details, despite being a customer since gas was first discovered. Unbelievably unresponsive and clumsy. Why is the Homecare account number alone not enough to access the site? I only wanted to book a service visit. Awful, awful experience. Make your web experience better if you want customers to use it, or if you want customers at all.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“they are liars and thiefs,just love stealing yer money,and they hang up when they know your right.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“2 problem's - Have 2 homecare service presently trying to get a gas safety certificate appointment is useless, the online booking system allow for gas repair or gas service, cant find the link to landlords for gas safety certificate, have called them out on other jobs, but always refused to carry out the job because of other issues. 2nd problem, due to COVID - 19, or any other excuse, will not come out, finally they agreed to come out between 12 - 6pm....as predicted nothing happened - That's the final closure - no more wasting £500.00 for what?? Good Bye, somebody should be held culpable, but that wont happen. Don't ever sign up for this terrible company.”

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Posted 3 years ago

British Gas is rated 1.2 based on 3,024 reviews