I am a very old aged customer of airtel from chennai, currently in bhopal on holiday.
I wanted additional talk time. I went through the best plans available and took a pack of rs.199 on 8th november 2017 which promised unlimited local/std for 28 days with some data as well. There was lack of transparency in the sense that we were later told by customer care that the benefits promised were not available when the phone was in roaming. Cleverly, this is not explained in the features of the scheme.
As i did not get any msg for the payment made on 8th november immediately, i once again took a pack of 199 on 9th november. Meanwhile, pack for the payment made 8th was received, i have not got any confirmation of the payment made on the 9th. My credit card however shows the amount spent.
Since i am 80plus and travelling alone next week, i opted for a talktime of rs.150/- on 11th november through internet banking. The amount has been debited from the account but it is still not reflected in my balance after about 3 hours.
I decided to call up customer care. An executive picked up and informed me that the recharge was unsuccessful. He reiterated the same thing ten times. While i kept telling him that this fact was already known to me and was the reason behind my call, he still could not help me in anyway and appeared totally helpless and uninformed. He could neither escalate the call nor give me the contact no/email id of the next senior person whom i could contact. Ultimately while i have spent money multiple times on increasing my call time, i have neither received the service nor any satisfactory reply to the utilization of the amount spent in favour of airtel on multiple occasions.
I would like to know
1) does airtel has only one person of a call centre responsible to customers complaints in chennai? Is there no responsible employee of airtel who could be contacted for complaint redressal.
2) is there a need to have a customer care centre, when the executive is clueless about helping the customer?
3) does airtel believe in harassing its customers? Does it not believe in transparency?
4) will a customer have to take to social media to redress his grievance?
To top it all i get a message hoping my complaint stands resolved with ref noconrc[protected]
When the executive at the customer care centre of airtel does not want to take any pains to understand the problem, how will the customer ever be satisfied?
Airtel customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.