BT Tightwads
I can never pass up an excuse to have a good rant at BT.

For reasons i'll not go into I had to cancel by BT broadband some 4 or 5 months before the "minimum" period of 12 months. For the privilage, they want to charge me the remaining period of rental AND and extra £45. So instead I transfered my broadband account to the phone line of an elderly neighbour of my parents where I get to pay the remainder in installments AND avoid the mystery £45 fee.

Suck it, BT cunts
(Amos Moses, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 19:52, 12 replies)

Doesn't this
Make you the tightwad for trying to get out of the contract you entered into knowing full well it was for a minimum 12 months?
(Jimmy Large Is huffing Jenkem on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 20:22, closed)

He did state "For reasons i'll not go into"
Perhaps there was a justifiable reason as to why he had to cancel his contract, which was outside of his control.
Let me give an example. My girlfriend had taken up a 12 month contract with another landline phone company, and she had to cancel her contract before she got to 12 months. The reason was because her landlord had evicted her. Why? Because she withheld her rent payments. Why did she do that ? Because the landlord had refused to accept his responsibilities to fix the staircase which had rotted, and partially collapsed. So in this situation, is it her fault that she had to break out of her 12 month contract?
She was also unable to make a complaint to the letting agent, because the letting agent had ceased their arrangement with the landlord for being an utter cunt.
( turb0t, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 21:46, closed)

BT
Are simply the worst company in the world to deal with. I would gladly fellate an orangutan with questionable hygiene issues to avoid having to deal with them.

Bastards.

BASTARDS!

*shakes fist at the phone wall socket*
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 21:06, closed)

Agreed
Both at home and at work BT plague me with their terribleness.
(Jimmy Large Is huffing Jenkem on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 21:25, closed)

Well you would be surprised
but BT as shit as they are, are not the worst.
In my job I deal with all the major telecoms players around the world, including all Europe, Middle East, Far East, former Soviet Countries, and all Africa.
Of all these, BT is the best, with T-systems(DT) coming a close second. Their customer service is better, they are faster at making repairs.
They may not be the best company in the world, but when they are compared against their worldwide competition, then they are.
( turb0t, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 21:54, closed)

I have dealt with
BT, and their Spanish equivalent, Telefonica. BT are unequivocally better at everything - service, deals, repairs, telephone customer service.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 23:24, closed)

My colleague...
is in the process of trying to get a BT line with O2 broadband installed in a new office.

BT have successfully missed three appointments to terminate the line due to nobody being there, in spite of being told noone will be there unless they phone ahead.

They've also put BT Broadband on this non-existant line, which they can't cancel because the line doesn't exist.

So once the line is fitted, they will have to terminate their BT broadband contract, which has now been in 'existence' for a month, wait five days for it to be taken off, then another 5 days while O2 broadband is installed.

I pity anyone who has to deal with a company worse than BT.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 13:18, closed)

I well believe you
But I don't think other companies being worse is a valid excuse for their ineptitude, nor for their attitude towards customers. And as far as I'm aware things aren't so bad in North America.
(cherrynicola, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 13:14, closed)

I have met worse, actually.
Start looking at letting agents, They tend to be cunts of the worst sort.
(Not him., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 12:25, closed)

I work at a web dev company
And BT fucked up their DNS issues, meaning BT customers can't access some of our clients sites, and BT wanted to charge US to fix it! What a fucking cheek.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 23:09, closed)

They have every right to charge you all the money they want.
Why can you plebs not realise that the corporations are intrinsically right and you are all wrong?
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 1:50, closed)

It will all be laid out in the contract you signed
Making your point completely invalid.

In future, remember to read things before you merrily go signing up to them. A contract is a legally binding document.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 11:17, closed)