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coolspidey

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#64655 19-Jul-2010 23:27
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So I was happy with your service. Speed is pretty good. On occasions it's better than my previous ISP (on others it's slightly slower, but hey). When I had issues, they were resolved reasonably quickly.

Then, I found myself recommending Slingshot to a mate who's thinking of switching ISP's. (wow!)

I decided to write you a little (ok maybe not that little) email just to say it's been great, keep up the good work!

THEN... I received an invoice with an extra charge. Found out that it was that antivirus software that I already told you I didn't want when I joined (which you acknowledged by the way). But it's all good, all I wanted was a credit (and maybe a note somewhere in your system to remind you that I don't want the software?). I never wanted the antivirus as I've got my own.

Never received a reply about the positive feedback, like a "Thank you, we've hardly had any customers that went through the trouble writing things like that about us!". But maybe you do get a lot of customers singing praises? Who knows.

So far I haven't received a response about my overcharged invoice either. What's up guys? You're normally pretty on to it? Or it has been too good to be true?

Look forward to a response maybe here? (fingers crossed) 

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hellonearthisman
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  #353723 20-Jul-2010 04:32
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Wow did you phone the helpdesk about this?
Have you quit it, there is a tick box for that on the Slingshot homepage,
it's under My Account -> Account Services -> Cancel Services
(I don't know why they don't have it under My Account -> Internet Services -> Nod32)

Calling the helpdesk will be the fastest way to get your money back, good luck.



Northland
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  #353732 20-Jul-2010 07:04
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That's not too suprising to me, slingshot have not once answered my emails sent to them in regards
to any of my issues and ive only been with them 3 weeks pretty slack service from them

i gave up calling them their customer service is poor and or someone foreign who i couldn't
understand

and she had the cheek to tell me to vote for them as best website i just laughed and
asked if she was kidding, hope u get ur prob fixed good luck with that

coolspidey

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  #353750 20-Jul-2010 08:51
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No I haven't had the chance to ring the help desk. I'll probably do that at some point today.

By the way, that's a very good piece of information. I didn't know that I could cancel services through My Account. When I spoke to them on the phone a couple of months ago enquiring about another overcharge, I told them I didn't want the software and they said it would be removed and the charge credited (which it was the following month), but they failed to inform me that I should/could cancel it myself through My Account.

Well I've cancelled it now, thanks for that.

Now about the emails, Northland. I guess I'll give them credit where credit is due. Yes it could take a while for them to respond (normally more than the 2 days that's advertised). But so far (not including the most recent incident), they responded to most of my emails and most issues were resolved. When I rang their help desk, I don't think I got a foreign person (or if they were foreign, they spoke perfect and clear English and I could understand them). But of course, I'm sure they have people from various backgrounds.

At any rate, gonna try and call them and see if I could get this resolved today.

Cheers guys.



coolspidey

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  #353766 20-Jul-2010 09:19
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Update: rang them (got a Kiwi person by the way) and got it sorted... well they said they're going to credit me, but I guess I won't find out til next month. But should be all good :)

Northland
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  #353798 20-Jul-2010 10:41
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That is good to hear glad you got things sorted for you!!!!!! :D and you got a kiwi even better
I am still working on my issues with them
I will hang in there with them a little longer only cause i dont want to pay 149 termination fee lol

I just noticed you can cancel services through there (my account) too although if i
wanted to cancel my homeline with them
does that come under tolls?

I have my homeline tolls and broadband with them didn't see an option to cancel
my homeline
if i ever wanted to....

P.s I am glad I looked into my account settings all this time ive only been going through
to visibill to see my account payments and usage data when I should of been looking
into my account otherwise I wouldn't of seen the option to cancel the automatic
upgrade to more data if I go over i wouldnt of thought that would be their default setting


coolspidey

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  #353813 20-Jul-2010 11:01
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If you are cancelling your homeline, are you considering another provider or ISP?

If you are, you can sign up with them and they will arrange the disconnection for you. If they can't do that, then you shouldn't go with them. Most ISP's, if not all, are happy to transfer your account from the competitor. By transferring I mean closing the account with the other provider and opening an account with them and you don't need to do anything else.

Yeah I'm glad I saw that too when I was playing around with My Account. While I like the option to purchase data blocks, I didn't realise that feature is turned on by default.

But anyway, good luck with your attempt to get your issues resolved. Call them now, who knows you might get the same guy I did :)

hellonearthisman
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  #353820 20-Jul-2010 11:22
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Glad I could help coolspidey and that you got it sorted.

 
 
 
 

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Northland
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  #354009 20-Jul-2010 16:10
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coolspidey: If you are cancelling your homeline, are you considering another provider or ISP?

If you are, you can sign up with them and they will arrange the disconnection for you. If they can't do that, then you shouldn't go with them. Most ISP's, if not all, are happy to transfer your account from the competitor. By transferring I mean closing the account with the other provider and opening an account with them and you don't need to do anything else.

Yeah I'm glad I saw that too when I was playing around with My Account. While I like the option to purchase data blocks, I didn't realise that feature is turned on by default.

But anyway, good luck with your attempt to get your issues resolved. Call them now, who knows you might get the same guy I did :)



Thanks coolspider . Was going to go back to Telecom rang them last week but they said I had to pay the reconnection fee of 59.00 for the homline plus id still be paying 149 termination fee with slingshot I was kinda upset because I was a loyal customer with telecom for 10years or so I thought they might want to get back more customers too but its okay I will stick it out with slingshot and hope when I need their advice I get that person you spoke with :D

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