I already had Interent with TPG for maybe 10 years now and it has performed well so I decided to port my Telstra phone line to TPG when moving to NBN on Jan 10. How stupid could I have been?
I have had nothing but trouble for 10 days and the Customer Service has been appalling. They NEVER do what they say they are going to do! I have had to constantly follow them up every day, somtimes multiple times a day. Thursday 17th I spent 4 hours on the phone (most waiting) chasing them after they NEVER did what they said they were going to do including calling me back.
Its so frustrating. You speak to a different person almost everytime and they just dont care. They are so used to not delivering they just say sorry, dont mean it, try to get you off the phone as soon as possible with another promise that "someone" will call you back with an update... which never happens!
I am at my wits end after not having a WORKING phone for 10 days now... My father is having chemo for cancer treatment and he needs to have access to a phone. He is 84 and not used to using a mobile and needs to use the landline to contact doctors and have communications in an emergency or have contact with friends as support.
But does TPG care? No, not one bit. They couldnt give a sh*t.
They have now decided that the new modem they sent me must be broken, as they advised me on Thursday afternoon. they raised the request for a new one - it just needed to be approved and I would get a text message on the mobile when it was approved. how long do you think it would take to do this given I have a sick father and no phone line for 8 days at that point?
Well, Saturday lunchtime, guess what? Yes - I call them yet again and spent another 36 minutes on the call to find out that it was "approved" Friday afternoon, but nobody knows why i was sent a text to advise me. Its a mystery! They will investigate!!
Thursday I set up a complaint for compensation and was advised a decision would be made within 24 to 48 hours and I would be notified. At the time I called to find out about the modem, 47 hours had passed since raising my complaint, so I asked what the outcome was... yep, not done yet and the person who raised wasnt in and, and, and... Yep, again TPG are sorry. Like I am SORRY I EVER MOVED MY PPHONE TO TPG.
Whatever you do, just don't do it. I think I must have been lucky with the internet all these years, not having to use their customer service at all.
If you a COMPLETE NIGHTMARE and NO CUSTOMER SERVICE at all, go with TPG. I never new what TPG stood for, but now I know the T = TERRIBLE for sure, P = Performance, and G=Grief you will have.
JUST DON'T!!
