806 Customer Reviews over 21 pages
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- Derby
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-07-24
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- Derby
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-11-28
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So I cancelled with JLB when they put their prices up. Paul Coulton (Operations Director) immediately emailed me to say they would charge me £105 as an early termination fee. I called Customer services who refused to let me talk to the elusive Mr Coulton but they said the charges were wrong and I would not be charged. Next I see they have billed me and were about to take the charges from my account so I cancelled my direct debit to stop this happening. I also called again to talk to Mt Coulton - not allowed apparently.
Now I have another threatening e-mail from the said Paul Coulton threatening court action if I do not pay within 14 days!
I guess I'm going to court. Perhaps Mr Coulton will turn up there but I somehow doubt it.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2017-01-13
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I've transferred from Plusnet as the John Lewis price was much lower, for the same service. (John Lewis broadband is provided by Plusnet.) The process has been pretty painless. I contacted Plusnet via their forum to get a refund for the days I had paid in advance, and they also sorted out a problem of my being billed twice for the first month by John Lewis.
The Broadband service is better than I was getting with Plusnet: speed is good at around 18 Mbps, and no problems dropping out or buffering with iplayer: I don't know if this due to the new modem they sent, new microfilter, or if there is some difference between John Lewis & Plusnet infrastructure
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2016-12-22
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Awful service from day one and only on day six!!. Transfered from plusnet to John Lewis which is all same company so should have been seamless!! On activation which i had to chase...JL issued another bill for £25 even though they had been paid in advance over £30. Contacted customer services who said "never come across this before" but can not stop the invoice, so probably best to cancel D/D. I asked for confirmation of this...adviser said no problem just cancel D/D and they will call me back in 3 days to set it up again!! So duly cancelled D/D. Then after the D/D had been returned JL then restricted my broadband because as instructed by them I had not paid the £25 which I did not owe them anyway. In restricting the broadband they also stopped my caller display on my phone as well as other features!! Contacting them again and getting rather heated at this point was told its a system error nothing we can do sorry!! This bunch of idiots can't stop something they created and then interrupt my service to add insult to injury!!! Still ongoing at the moment and all this in under a week of being with them. I am now contacting JL head office as I am sure they are totally unaware of what is being done or not done in their name!! AVOID AVOID AVOID
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-11-29
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Terrible connection (often nothing). Ridiculously poor customer service and serious lack of care and THEIR legal responsibility to resolve things yet they still think you should keep paying them! Stay clear everyone is my earnest advice!!
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- Devon
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-10-09
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Moved from Virgin to JL. As well as everything above they actually answer the phone quickly and actually get back to you if there's a problem. So refreshing after terrible service from Virgin.
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- Devon
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2014-12-05
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Absolutely appalling customer service from a company that boasts of its reputation in dealing with customers. I suggest that they may wish to review there partnership with Plusnet or lose loyal customers. I will never again shop with John Lewis in any respects.A shame after 20 years. Reputations are quickly lost.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-01-20
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I am into my second year with JL Broadband, my only complaint is their approach to customer loyalty, they aren't really bothered if you stay or go at the end of 1 year contract, they reluctantly agreed to allow me to stay with discounted rate for new customer but no cashback. Not the John Lewis never knowingly undersold approach. In terms of relaibility and performance, 5*.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-11-08
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Cannot recommend. Customer service is non existant. They do not answer phones or reply to emails.
Can't comment on whether broadband works as I am still waiting for a router to be delivered 2 days after service ( So Called) commenced .
They say that they are sorry for making me wait and I am tired of the musac.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2021-10-29
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Awful service. Helpline absolutely no help. I have spent day after day with no connection. Plusnet (who I believe are a BT subsidiary) run this shambles. Unable to give less than 1 star. They deserve no rating.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-05-08
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It appears time travel is possible. Having been with John Lewis for less than a month it appears that I have travelled back to 1989, today the ever loyal call handler suggested that 4Mbps was actually only possible with a wired connection!! If only I had not assumed that all broadband providers were the same, if only I had realised that the John Lewis name does not attach the same quality in all situations, if only I had realised that life is too short to worry about rubbish broadband!! Please think carefully before signing up to this shambolic company!!!
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-07-21
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Simply dreadful on all fronts. Lower speed. No service. Terrible set up. Terrible customer service. A complete joke. Bt cost more but at least it worked.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2017-11-16
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I do not usually complete reviews for products or services but this time I feel that I need too. I had not seen the reviews on this site when I ordered the product 2 months ago and when I did I became quite nervous about what service I was going to receive as it appears many people have had issues which I know is very frustrating as I had no end of problems with BT. The service I have received however has been great. The router arrived when it was supposed to, on changeover day I did have to phone the helpdesk as one of the lights did not go out, but I did not have to wait long and it was sorted within a couple of minutes. We live in a rural location so the speed is never going to be great but it is faster than what we were getting with BT. I have also just had an issue with the phone line due to work that Openreach were doing but John Lewis have dealt with it in a timely manner and kept me updated on progress. Overall I am very happy with the product and service received to-date.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2015-11-14
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Admittedly fibre optic broadband has only just been installed and I was warned speeds my go up and down initially, but since I've had it I've had to phone John Lewis 4 times; each time I've waited in a queue for around 45 minutes; my broadband connection keeps cutting out; and the last few days my speed has fluctuated between 0.56mbps and 2.84mbps instead of the 34-40mbps advertised!! Not at all what I'd anticipated based on reviews read etc. Sorely disappointed.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2019-01-08
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We left this company before the year was up as our Broadband was so slow. We were told we would not pay a termination fee as that was the reason we were leaving. They then sent a text and an email asking for money for the months left. Our new company agreed if we paid they would credit our account. Today I went to pay and was told my bill had been passed to a debt collection agency. I have never in my life been in debt or owed any money. Disgraceful...Beware of this dreadful company
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-12-12
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Absolutely terrible - DO NOT USE JOHN LEWIS!! The speed is flakey and drops all the time. When you try and cancel they make it next to impossible - you can't get through to their customer service department, or when you do the call drops - then they over charge you in the hope that you give up trying to get a refund, which you will because they are unbelievably painful to deal with AVOID AVOID AVOID!!
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2022-07-08
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stuck with John Lewis for a year ,low speed, website that jitters so can never read bills fully, changed to new provider at end of year informed John Lewis .JL then sent email to tell me they had stopped my transfer to different provider, rang them to ask why as they had no right to do this ,put me on hold for ages, dismissive unhelpful before admitting mistake.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-05-01
- Comments
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Fast & cheap!
I get a solid 20Mbs all day every day - no need to pay extra for fibre.
Customer services are excellent. It's provided by Plusnet, who are owned by BT.
Plusnet has got a good web forum where the staff moderators are v helpful.
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- Devon
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-02-06
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Dear John Lewis, please separate yourselves from JL Broadband. I'm so sad that you have ruined the good name of your store by associating yourselves with PlusNet. I recently switched to JL Broadband from BT partly because of competitive price but mainly on the basis of the John Lewis brand and an expectation of exceptional customer service. How wrong was I. I urge anyone thinking of switching to JL Broadband to avoid this at all cost. Reasons: complete failure to switch on our broadband service on the first day of the contract (BT had switched it off, so we were without broadband for a few days); failure to send out a router so that it arrived before the switch over date; customer service and technical helpline people who were the most incompetent I have encountered in quite some time (example: when eventually up an running on the internet, the max speed I could get was 0.41mbps, yes, only 0.41. The week before with BT it was 3mbps (not great but very acceptable where I am in Devon (rural). The Technical Support chap I spoke to could only say: "Oh, that's unusual, I don't know what to do about that, yes, really unusual and beyond me". I asked what he would do next and he said "I don't really know, I don't have the ability to resolve this one". I had to really push him to escalate it, and whilst he raised a ticket online, I heard nothing more for a few days so I chased. No one was actioning anything. Instead they managed to lower my speed today to 0.16mbps). I give up - I will now try my best to cancel this onerous 12m contract but having read other reviews I suspect this could be quite a challenge. John Lewis - if anyone from your wonderful organisation is reading this, please remove yourselves from this ridiculous arrangement with PlusNet.
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- Dingwall
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2016-09-15
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We moved from BT to JL because BT was so slow and expensive (our contract having expired) and we didn't think things could get any worse. How wrong we were! We can barely browse the web now whereas the problem with BT was the odd stutter when streaming. Whether it is the cheap looking router or throttling of the network is unclear. Their customer support is awful - phoned Technical Support a few days ago who said it would get better. It didn't. Phoned them again today waited for half an hour and then gave up. Then called Customer Services who said they'd jump me up and the queue and guess what was put on hold until I had to hang up. Before he transferred me he told my that my 14 day cooling off period actually expired before my service even started! What an utter farce and rip off. Completely despicable it makes me sick. AVOID AVOID AVOID
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- DN213JF
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2016-10-13
- Comments
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Reasonable service but quite slow
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- Doncaster
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-02-02
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I have just moved to a new supplier after a one year contract with John Lewis was over. I couldn't wait to leave.
From the outset, they botched the transfer when I first joined, leaving me without internet. The claimed superfast broadband was woeful - slow, unreliable and expensive. Despite several online customer support requests, they just did not help or appear remotely interested. After telephoning to inform them I would be leaving and now being with a new supplier, they have just sent me another bill - two hours on the phone to them yesterday to try and sort it out and it’s still not resolved - utterly incompetent. They do not reflect the good name that John Lewis, the retailer, has. This is Plusnet in all but name. I would not recommend John Lewis broadband at all and I’m glad to see the back of them.
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- Dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-09-17
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- Dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2017-02-09
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Not what i expected from a company such as John Lewis, however it very evident when contacting them and being passed to either the technical or provisions dept that you are talking to Plus.Net personnel, especially when they respond " Plus Net, how can I help you".
They have in only a matter of days screwed up the billing process by billing me false invoices for which i have not received the services or that are included in the package i took. Adding to this the fact that i didn't pay them they have now restricted my service to what appears to be 0.1mb.... Not impressed, having been a customer of Plus.Net too I will most certainly consider not going to either of these suppliers in the future, I just wished i read and paid heed to the reviews previously.
I am now one dissatisfied customer.
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- Dorset
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2017-03-04
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I was with Waitrose.com for 10+ years and apart from little glitches had no trouble at all. From the time John Lewis started the amalgamation of Waitrose and Green Bee to JL, things started to slide. At the change-over (totally unannounced, to me, anyway) I found myself with a screen that looked like old 1980s computers, with no way at all of marking several emails at once in order to delete (can only mark minimum of one page at a time!). Also, 400 plus emails that I had kept disappeared overnight and JL infer that this was me, and they have no "cloud" facilities for deleted emails which is probably true; deleted emails disappeared from their box for hours at a time and suddenly reappeared, I am still in e-correspondence with JL but I am not at all happy considering my happy years with Waitrose.
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- dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-09-19
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within days of signing up they informed me of a price increase. so for 10+ montha i have had to pay an extra £2 per month. under new rules i could have cancelled but i had already paid the connection fee of around £70. now my contract is nearly at an end and i have contacted via account query 3 times and not even an acknowledgement. would definitely not recommend....i am going direct to plusnet who at present dont increase charges during initial contact.
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- Dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-02-20
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Been with John Lewis about 6 months. Pretty happy - speeds generally good. I have needed Customer service three or four times. Sometimes slow to answer but found helpful and reasonably knowledgeable when they do.
Surprise at number of poor reviews on here - wrt John Lewis hiding the fact that Plusnet provide the service it is clearly stated that this is the case on their website. When I signed up JL offered better deal than plusnet for me.
If you want a high quality service you simply have to pay more - try Zen internet or some such.
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- dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2015-10-13
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TERRIBLE experience. Had to chase to get it set up again and again. Finally live and 3 days later they "accidentally" cut me off - no phone no broadband! The support line has a wait time of minimum 30 mins but usually longer and I held for ages on 4 separate occasions. They couldn't reinstate the line for over a week due to their error. I've asked other providers and it will cost £59 to reinstate my line and I have to have a new number too - unbelievable inconvenience. Worst of all they just didn't care less. So now I have no BB for another 7 days!
Don't risk it with JLBB until they have got their act together!
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- Dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2014-11-28
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For the higher price we expected a better customer service from John Lewis however the service is no better than a much cheaper provider. Yes you speak to a uk call centre but only if they answer the phone - after about 5pm it will take an average of 13mns to get an answer. Overall all companies seem to be the same -at the mercy of Openreach and therefore you should just choose the cheapest provider.
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- Dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-09-22
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Appalling customer service.
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- Dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2021-08-11
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Go to another provider.
Happy to allow a customer, willing to accept an 18 month contract, to leave.
Been paying an out of contract rate of over £40 for 2 months. Asked for a refund, as should only be paying £25 and told no or I could get the woman sacked. £30 refund… and they’ve lost out on an 18 month contract with a loyal customer.
Go elsewhere!!
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- Dorset
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2017-11-19
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- Downpatrick
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-04-18
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Stay away from them 1 month still no broadband the date it was meant to be turned on still didn't work said there was a problem with my line and that an engineer was calling out I took a day off work and the engineer didn't show phoned them they said he changed the date and they could of told me I cancelled the broadband service and they still took money from my account I went with ee broadband two weeks broadbands in and working great
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- Droitwich
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2015-04-30
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We thought we might be taking a chance having read all the reviews on here about John Lewis Broadband.
But, as it turns out, everything is up and running exactly as it should be and have had no problems with customer service. It is easy use the online support, and they do get back to you. Honestly! I'd recommend them. And at a very fair price for rural areas with everyone paying the same.
I have the Standard 20gb, and Anytime phone package
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- Dumfries
- Reviewing
- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-12-01
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Been with them for nearly a year. No problems switching. Moved house recently and took only 6 days to connect phone and bb with no hassle whatsoever. Plus net took over 2 months with many calls to sort it and refund overpayments. Very very satisfied and would recommend
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- Dundee
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2020-09-14
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I placed an order for a connection and router one month ago. Money was immediately taken from my account and then... silence... Any questions asked in the online query system they recommend go ignored, the average hold time on the phone is 30+ (with potentially the worst hold music I have ever heard), customer service tends to just tell you its all going to be sorted and to wait 24 hours, and proceed to do nothing about the problem. I've now jumped ship and am trying another company with no sign of a refund happening any time soon.
Funnily enough when I phoned to cancel the agent on the other end was more than happy to, the entire call took no more than 2 minutes. He sounded like he wanted to die.
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- Durham
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2018-10-29
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Absolutely appalled. Cancelled my account today after waiting ONE MONTH for them to install our broadband. They constantly lied, saying it would be installed in the next few days. They strung us along promising compensation for our troubles but now I have had enough. DO NOT GET JOHN LEWIS BROADBAND UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Me and my house mates have spent around £100 on data add ons due to their incompetence - we have not received any compensation. Customer service is awful, had to wait on the phone for at least an hour every time I tried to get through to them. Don't waste your time or money on a company that is clearly inept. Only wish I had read these reviews sooner, have been without wifi for about 5 weeks now. Shocking.
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- Durham
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- John Lewis Broadband
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- 2019-12-26
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- Durham
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2022-03-19
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I signed up for broadband on 10th March 2022. Late evening of 10th March I got a text saying there was a problem to contact you lines were closed so I had to wait until the next day. I was made to believe the matter was resolved until Wednesday 16th March when I got another message to say there was yet another problem. I again had to telephone where I was told my land line was a different sort to what JohnLewis use so my order had been cancelled and upon calling a new order was placed. Then today 19th March a further message relating to yet another problem… this isn’t looking good lines are not open on a weekend so I now have to wait until Monday to try and resolve the issue. It should be three strikes but we will see. When my service should be going live from signing up it is looking like the order keeps being cancelled and resigned from JohnLewis side. it is just constant delay and hassle I could do without.
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- Durham
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- John Lewis Broadband
- Date
- 2020-12-06
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I have been trying to contact my supplier for ten days now without any response. I would like to change to fibre but because I cannot speak to them I cannot move forward. Will probably move to another supplier.
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