[Resolved]  Reliance Communications — Unfair business practices and exploitation of customers

Address:Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600001
Website:r.com.co.in

Service: reliance broadband
Subscription id:[protected]

Dear sir,

I am writing this email to complain about the kind of harassment and exploitation reliance broadband team is doing with their customers. After reading people's review and myself being one of its victim i have decided to write to you.

On 15th february 2016 i lost my internet connectivity and registered a complaint via sr no.[protected] with them, which they closed in 2 days without taking any action and without confirming with me if my net is working.

I wrote to them again on 17th feb asking why the complaint was closed without technician even visiting. Instead of reopening the complaint and looking into it they sent me a new sr no.[protected] which they again closed in the next two days without taking any action. I wrote to them again and they did the same thing again with one more sr. No.[protected] and continued irritating me with more and more fresh sr nos. On my every query.

I thought i had enough so i informed them on 29th feb i will not make any further payment until i have their technician visiting my home as i pay the monthly charges in advance, but still nothing happened and every time i would write they will harass me with their same copy-paste responses.

Finally i got notification that my services (Which were anyway not working for a month then) have been suspended due to non payment and i will not be charged rental during the period of suspension, after this every time i would write to them they will harass me asking to make payment.

Then i asked them to provide escalation matrix and they bluntly refused to provide it. I was surprised at this attitude from them.

I took the appellate email id from the net and wrote to him. Finally the technician visited on 11th april 2016 and fixed the line. He confirmed that there were some issues with the server which couldn't get resolved for two months. I immediately sent an email confirming that my services have started working.

When i asked them to make an adjustment in the bill they issued credit only for the period 15th feb till 10th march 2016 and denied for the rest of the period stating i did not register any complaint after this period, though i never confirmed them my services were working anytime nor did their technician visit, in fact it was them who sent me an email stating my services during this period have been suspended due to non-payment and i will not be charged for this period.

Now, every time i would write to them they have again started harassing me with their copy-paste responses.

I do not know whom to contact regarding this, who can take a stern action against these kind of harassment because i am not the only one affected, they are treating almost every customer the same way.

One more thing is that their customer service agents are replying from the appellate's email id
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Oct 26, 2016
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Reliance Communications Customer Care's response
Dear Naveen,

Our customer service team has informed us that your concerns have been addressed. Let us take this opportunity to assure you that we strive to provide you with the best of our services, at all times.

Regards,
Reliance Communications
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Dear Naveen,

We have noted your complaint and the same has been forwarded to our customer service team. They will get in touch with you directly to resolve your concerns.

Regards,
Reliance Communications
I forgot to attach the screen shots.

1) Though they claimed the issue was resolved every time without taking any actions I repeatedly kept writing to them. In one email, I had asked them to provide the escalation matrix and they refused it openly (please see it in the screenshot attached). I was shocking as to how could a service provide refuse providing escalation matrix.

2) When I refused to make the payment until they send their technician, they suspended my service and sent an email confirmation stating my services have been suspended and I will not be charged any monthly rental during the period of suspension. (please see it in the second screenshot). Since they said I will not be charged, I thought there is no use in dealing with maniacs so I gave up writing to the email customer service team until I found the appellate email ID myself. Now they are using this as an opportunity to say I didn't register any complaint - how cunning that is? Why would someone register a fresh complaint for an ongoing issue????

From the screenshot you can see I did not make the payment for my bill dated 11/02/2016 for Rs.685/- due on 29th Feb 2016, so my services should have been suspended by 5th or by 10th of March max and I did not make payment until 11th April 2016 so where is the question of my service getting activated. If you still confused you can cross verify if there was any usage on my account for the disputed period.

Your customer service executive who called me regarding this said that she does not have authority and will escalate this to higher authorities and you are saying this has been addressed. Wow!!

I have attached the screenshot of the emails in the previous comment. Look at yourself and see if it is that hard for any professional to understand them.

First your team sends me an email stating my services has been suspended and I will not be billed, later they send me the bill for the same period and deny waiver saying that I have not registered any complaint. Amazing way of misinforming customers and billing them. Is this how Reliance makes money?

If it is too hard for you people to understand please ask any of the readers in forum to go thru the attachment, they will tell you I was indeed informed that my services were suspended in March 2016. Yet you have billed me for this period.

At least provide me the escalation matrix of your department if you can't do anything else.

I would truly appreciation if any of the users of this forum provides me the escalation procedures to TRAI or any other equivalent governing authorities.

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