It all started on the 19th of Feb 2011 when I went into my local Vodafone store to sign up for "Fixed line/Broadband + Free MySky upgrade, which would be a saving of about $45/month over my old Telecom + Paying for the MySky, I had a good chat with the sales lady who I will call “V-GIRL”
Being one for details I asked the following questions
Q1: Would the Data speeds be the same as with Xtra? A: Yes
Q: 2 how long is it likely to take to get the MySky? A: normally a couple of weeks but up to 4 weeks
Q3: Would the change over be seamless? Ie: no disconnection from the internet A: Yes
Q4: Would I be able to pick up the MySky decoder from the Sky TV store? A: Yes
The reason I wanted to be able to collect the decoder myself is this, I have a Home Theatre system with more wires than a space shuttle & I installed it and I know where everything goes, after a short phone call to Sky TV, V-GIRL said that wouldn't be a problem but I would still have to pay the $50 for the installation. I said “that’s fine”
So the following weekend (26-27 Feb) was the changeover to Vodafone, I was away on the Saturday but when I returned home on Sunday, NO INTERNET!!! I was a little bit pissed at this point but let it slide.
Early the following week someone from Sky phoned to ask me my address, as the address on the Vodafone work order didn’t match the address they already had for me in there system, I told them my address and they said they would have to send the work order back to Vodafone for it to be corrected. While on the line to the Sky lady I asked if my decoder was still going to be sent to the Sky Shop for me to collect, she said “sky don’t do that, a tech would have to come out and install it” I said I’m more than able to connect a decoder and that my wife and I both work 8-5 weekdays and would be unavailable on Saturdays for the next few weeks for a tech to come. I was bluntly told that that’s how they do it and there are no exceptions.
By this point I’m getting rather frustrated.
So the days & weeks go by, no phone call or any communication, on the 14th of March My wife E-mailed V-GIRL - no response, my wife then Phoned and managed to get hold V GIRL, she said she would check it out, she E-mailed later that day to say the decoder would be a week or two away
HOLDON, 19th of Feb I signed up and now on the 15th of March and it could be a week or 2 away!! It’s already been over 4 weeks
On the Thursday the 17th I decided to call Sky and ask what the hold-up was, they told me they had just received the work order that day, I think someone may have forgotten to follow up after the address debacle.
22nd March, I receive an E-mail from V-GIRLs Manager,
In brief
“…. Sky services have been switched over to Voda …. MySky can now be processes…. Blah blah your job has been escalated…. Unfortunately you cannot collect decoder, tech will call to make appointment”
Yay we will get it installed on Saturday 19th Feb, (my only free weekend for the month) OR NOT, no call… until Monday morning 8:30ish, the tech saying he would be at my house around11:00am BUT IM WORKING!!!!,
Me: what hours do you work?
Tech:8:00 am to 7:00pm
Me: Cool, can you pop over at5pm?
Tech: Oh no I only do paperwork from4:30
Me: Ok then how about Thursday?
Tech: I’ll have to check with sky, they set the appointments
Me: OK THEN, GOODBYE
Wife calls me and says she’s starting work at11amTuesday and Wednesday. I tell her to call the tech and arrange for him to arrive early.
Tech: Oh I’ll have to check with sky
Finally yesterday the tech arrives,
Tech: grrr, how do you f@#$ing work this thing (cant figure out my AVR or TV)
Wife: DO YOU NEED SOME HELP? (Sorts it out in seconds)
I get home at5ish, hmmm why isn’t my wifi working? Oh being changeover day maybe I have to install the Vodafone router, done that but still no internet, phoned Voda to hear that they were having “issues”
Well at least the MySky is working. I check the cables, THE DICKHEAD didn’t take any notice of the fact that I have the sky going to my bedroom via the RF out of the old decoder.
Now I have to call Sky,
Sky: you will need a RF modulator sir
Me: can I pick it up from the Sky Store?
Sky: No a tech will have to come and install it and they are $49
Me: are you serious? I will pay for it with my credit card and you can just courier it to me!
Sky: Sorry we don’t do that.
So today I spoke to a guy I know quite well who has been doing home theatre for 30+, he told me to go in to the Sky store, he picks up modulators all the time, so I went in to the sky store after work today
Me: Hi, I’m after a RF modulator
Salesperson 1: a RF modulator? What’s that?
Me: it sends an AV signal down the aerial cable to the TV in my bedroom, my old decoder had RF out by my new MySky decoder doesn’t.
Salesperson 2: They are $49
Me: that’s cool
Salesperson 2: but we will have to send a tech out to install it
Me: you mean you can’t just sell me one and let me take it home and plug it in?
Salesperson 2: No we can’t
Me: I just spoke to an installer and he….
Salesperson 2: (buts in) and who was that?
Me: (Told her the name)
Salesperson 2: Shrugs her shoulders
Me: He said he comes in all the time and collects Modulators
Salesperson 2: we can’t give you one, a tech needs to install it.
And this is where I finally lost it!!
Trusted
