| Address: New Delhi, Delhi |
I am writing to you as a distress customer who feels hard done-by the service provided by Idea. I am an Idea customer for last 9 years and as a consumer I have no hesitation to say that Idea network has been by far the best in Delhi NCR, however, your customer service is a lot to be desired. During all these years I have rarely called upon your customer service. However, my recent experiences with you helpdesk has left me baffled and have forced me to seek a different service provider.
My problem started in April when I decided to go for an internet plan for my Blackberry Bold 9900. I called your customer service and they suggested that since my main purpose was to access my office email and access Internet at the same time, the 399 unlimited Internet blackberry plan suits me best. The deal sounded fair enough and I subscribed for the plan.
Simply enough my internet plan was activated and my phone started to receive email and have access to Internet, however, I started receiving recurring text messages about “your data unbilled amount”. I called the customer service to inquire about the Text. Someone in the customer service told me not to worry about it, he told me it’s a generic message but once the bill is generated the charges will be for 399 and not what you see in the Text messages. Satisfied I went along by the words of your customer service rep but on the 3rd of May when I received the bill, I saw a charge of 818.64 for the GPRS usage. Once again I called the customer service, this time around they told me that my setting on my phone under APN was not configured correctly. It should say “blackberry.net” whereas it says internet, which invariably means that you have been using our GPRS service which fall out of the 399 plan. I argued that I called earlier twice, once when I activated the Internet plan and another time when I called to inquire about the text message I was receiving and nobody informed me about configuring my Phone setting. They tell me nothing could be done and I had to pay for the extra charge. I spoke to your supervisor “Vivek” who I must say was rude and ill-mannered and cut me multiple time during the conversation. He in turned blamed me for being ignorant, pointing out that it was my fault that I didn’t know the setting of the phone I have been using for years. I thought it was fruitless to talk to Vivek and spoke to another Supervisor “Prashant” who couldn’t help me either but was at least sympathetic and apologetic.
Anyways I reconfigured my APN setting to Blackberry.net but invariably the Text messages kept flowing in, each informing me about my increasing unbilled amount. I have been making numerous call to your customer service without receiving a single resolution. They keep telling me that my issue has been escalated and someone will reach out to me asap. Today after a really frustrating call, I was able to get hold of a supervisor”Raghav” who gave me a completely new piece of information. He told me that I will be charged for using application for accessing Facebook and WhatsApp. Now that’s really something. I am not an avid Facebook user and hardly use the webpage but I do use WhatsApp but to be fair that was the whole point of getting the internet plan. When I explained Raghave that nobody shared this information to me in my previous encounter, he was quick to inform me that he will go through all the call recordings and validate what I was saying and if he found my word to be true he will share the feedback with the concern agents. I thanked him for the consideration and not trusting my words but my issue remains I said.
I guess my question is why was this not told to me in the very first interaction or all the numerous calls I made to your customer service? Till this day I had made multiple calls to your service desk and I get a different piece information every time.
This whole ordeal has taught me lot, for one as a customer I cannot really trust anyone, not even someone who I have been doing business for last 9 years otherwise I can be left feeling gullible and naïve. I guess I ll be asking a lot more question when I get my next internet plan or for that matter any other service. Jokes apart, I feel strongly that as a service provider you need to be really clear about the expectations you set with your customers.
Well! At this point I feel cheated and i have realized that nothing can be done for the unfair charges Idea have made on my account and I feel the best resolution is to switch to different service provider. My attempt to write to you was simply to make the stakeholder aware of helplessness I feel as a consumer .
Please find listed few cases for the conversation I had with your representative.
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Regards
Gaurav Sah
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Idea Cellular customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
We deeply regret the inconvenience. We have noted your concern and we have your contact details. We will get back to you at the earliest.
Thanks & Regards,
Customer Care, Idea Cellular