| Address: Solan, Himachal Pradesh, 173214 |
I went into the airtel store to buy an airtel connection for myself, that i am going to use as my personal. Also, my existing airtel bill was pending so wanted to pay that as well. As a matter of fact, i use airtel money to do my utilities, so wanted to add some money into the account.
When i inquired about getting a new number, i was given a choice by the lady (Manisha) to select from a few numbers she was looking at that were available in her system. I specifically asked her for some unique numbers in the "98" series. The lady was humble enough to help me get numbers that sounded fine to me. I bought a number "[protected]" for inr 300 and got a number free "as per the system"[protected]", i claimed that too.
I did all the formalities as asked and happily returned with an assurance that the numbers shall be activated latest by monday (11th june, 2018) or tuesday (12th june, 2018) positively.
In the mean time, i feeling delighted, started circulating my new numbers among my family, friends, close acquaintances and the business associates too.
The number[protected] which i"luckily"got was the one i circulated & kept for my usage and passed on the other one to my operations manager.
Post monday (11th june, 2018), i started the verification process after ms manisha's call reminding me to get the numbers activated.
The nightmare begins when i call the"95095"activation number up as i was asked by your representative since she had made that ([protected]) a"parent"number.
The airtel people seriously need to look into your contact centre operations. You might be cost conscious and everything however, what i sense from the little knowledge i have of the sales & marketing, that airtel wants to continue being the leader in the domestic as well as the international market.
The kind of service your contact centres provide will someday give a heart attack to someone and the demise of the customer will be on airtel.
The contact centre agents, senior agents, supervisors, floor managers & the operations manager confirmed to me that my number ([protected]) is already showing activated in their system, however it seems that they are all having the ball of their life. Do a couple of random surprise visits to these places and listen to a few recordings. Leave no scope for data manipulation, you will be shocked to your professional core.
In a nut shell, the contact centre plays a major role in a company's good or bad reputation. I am sorry to say but airtel's rapport is majorly tarnished.
If i try to describe the horrible unprofessional behavior on the contact centre, then i will end up writing another long story. Maybe you should listen to the calls i have made to the contact centre if they haven't deleted the evidence for"quality assurance".
I received a call from the store manager ms. Ankita rawal after a few days, who sounded pretty courteous and assured me that she will get back to me in 24 hrs. However, after waiting for the turn around time as promised and after no call, i tried calling on her number. This time, to my surprise, i was blocked by the lady, my call didn't go through, so, i called on another number i had for the solan store and spoke to her (Ankita) and i was told that i will have to pay for the number.
Respected sir, i expect a little bit of professionalism from airtel and at least want you people to support for airtel to stick to their commitments and not cheat innocent consumers like this.
I feel embarrassed and cheated, as now, when i have proudly circulated this number, i am asked to pay or else i lose the number.
Till date, i have not been provided with a resolution even after escalating it to the ceo level. Their behavior and attitude has been utterly unprofessional.
This definitely isn't expected out of airtel.
Please guide me as to how i can get what i was committed to.
Airtel customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
Nov 02, 2018
Updated by DhongiBaba Dear Forum,
I think that you're least concerned about what the complaint is and how is it resolved.
I seriously doubt that you even read the complaint thoroughly, I assume that you forward it to the company it is related to & let them take a call on it.
Did you realize that this complaint is about " FALSE COMMITMENT, CONSUMER HARASSMENT, CHEATING & EMBARRASSMENT"???
It is very unfortunate that NO one is reading these complaints and is doing something about them.
If these were seriously done, the private companies and all the government and non-government organizations/units would've been afraid and no one would have been cheated and harassed by them.
Such a waste & shame.
Regards,
always network failure.
Now it's time to change broadband to other service..
Literally this guy name jeevan from airtel customer support made me change my service.