Joint action against plusnet

[#1]

We recently moved house and a month later we still have no Internet.  We have decided to cancel our contract and go with another provider but now fully expect to receive a bill from plusnet. We believe they are in breach of contract as they did not provide the services promised and that we were within our rights to leave. If you are in a similar situation with plusnet and are feeling powerless as an individual please email us an account of your dispute and contact information at consumersagainstplusnet@gmail.com or tweet us at @usvsplusnet. We intend to put together a dossier of cases to present to the communications ombudsman as well as other consumer organisations (which etc) and will be seeking legal advice regarding further collective action. We do not have to stand for this and we do not have to allow them to harass us as individuals. Thanks.

[#2]

Flooding the forums with the same message is only causing work for our moderators - fellow customers like yourself.
I'm investigating your case, and I'll update this thread shortly.
Matty

[#3]

We are simply trying to get this message out to as many individuals as possible. We do not feel as though we have been treated as an individual with a life to conduct or that our contract has been met on a company to individual level, hence the move towards collective action. Thanks.

[#4]

and 17 of your posts have been removed - why not just stop landing the moderators with more work and obey the Forum Rules

[#5]

Ah, I see. You'd like us to honour the contract we entered into when we joined the forum? Shame plusnet don't feel the same compulsion. We'll hold off, here.

[#6]

Jim is also a customer like yourself. It's just that it causes work for others.
For a bit of background:
It seems that your service has never worked since the house move, however it has been signed off as complete by Openreach, meaning that the provision should be resolved and you have a working asset.
We could see that you had no sync, so we arranged for a broadband engineer to investigate. They advised that the issue was fixed, though this wasn't the case. It was at this point that it was believed that the line was crossed. A test today suggests that there is a loop fault. Typically, it's likely to be the internal equipment at the property that may be the issue. The next process would be to retest with all equipment unplugged. If it still tests the same then book a engineer to the property.
From what I can see on the ticket, you don't want to accept an engineer charge if the fault lies internally, and subsequently you have cancelled your account (which has left you with a cancellation fee).
Personally, I'd much prefer to investigate the issue, partly as it seems physical and you're likely to have the same issue elsewhere. And of course partly because we'd want to keep you as a customer.
I do have a colleague who has personal ownership on your ticket still, so let me know at your convenience if you're happy to cancel the cessation of your account, I'll get that actioned for you along with making sure we investigate the fault accordingly.
Finally, really sorry for the outage. We'll be refunding any service not received (at the moment it's being subsidised from your cancellation charge). Given that it's been a lengthy time to go without, we'd probably of some form offer goodwill for the inconvenience caused.
Matty

[#7]

We just received a call from a neighbour calling her own number as her phone line hasn't been working. She is at no.2 on our street - we are at no.129. She will be calling you tomorrow to try to get this resolved.
We have been without internet for a month. The engineer you sent messed up our phone line, as well as a neighbours. We waited in for five hours for them to arrive and then they spent a further two hours coming and going to "resolve the issue". We believe we have made a reasonable effort to allow you to meet the provision of service in the contract.
You are now suggesting we wait in a further five hours to allow another engineer to come and fix the problem. A problem you are suggesting is internal, although the phone call I just received suggests otherwise. This is not acceptable.
As individuals we are members of Which, as well as union members. We are therefore entitled to free legal advice, which we will be seeking if, once the contract is cancelled, we incur fees. You breached your contract. You did not provide us with the service and have left us in a worse position than when we started.
It would be right and we believe legally just for you to cancel the contract and waive all fees as well as refunding us for the provision of service we have already paid you, as this is your error. I suspect you will have to send out an engineer to fix our neighbours phone line regardless.
As stated above, this is not an issue we will merely be taking up as individuals. Plusnet are clearly in breach of contract on a systemic level and a dossier of complainants (many of whom are probably suffering great stress due to unfair cancellation fees) will also be part of our tactic to prove that you are failing to meet industry standards.
Thanks.

[#8]

Please note, the email address to contact is consumersagainstplusnet@gmail.com. Don't tackle this alone!

[#9]

It's not just you, they also hide my price increase "email" which was never sent most likely because I've had issues from the off, so I (foolishly) told them I wanted to leave when I had it. They obviously are denying this (great customer service okay...). Then after I post all this on their forums my phone lines have gone dead, could be a coincidence but Ive never been one to believe in a coincidences.
3 days to get an engineer out is ridiculous, and thas if that even fix it then! I'll probably get a whole £1 refund for my inconvenience.
I'll gather everything I can and send it through, I will not be bullied!

[#10]

Great! If you send us a quick run down and then at a later date we can gather more detailed information.  Being in contact/getting together a database of complaints is a really good start! Sorry you're going through similar issues!

[#11]

if plusnet have any sense they'll cut this doofus free to go annoy some other company.
clearly has delusions of grandeur.
personally i hope the fault is internal and they are made to grovel their way into some other ISP with a hefty time-wasting charge levied against them.
oh, and you stupid little gmail account, i hope it gets spammed to oblivion.
yes plusnet as far from perfect, but so are the customers.

[#12]

+1

[#13]

fully agree.

[#14]

Whilst it is really surprising that people with hundreds of posts on the plusnet forum are against collective consumer action, your opinions don't change the fact that plusnet do leave plenty of people (including my third party neighbour) high and dry. It isn't ok. It isn't anything to do with "grandeur" to challenge them or try to stand up for yourself.
We hope they "cut us free" too.

[#15]

it was an openreach engineer that cocked up the work at the cabinet, not plusnet
the same engineer that would have been out regardless of which ISP you had chosen.
but, of course, you knew that didn't you.
if you had any sense, which you don't, you "collective action" would be against openreach and ofcom.
but then, there wouldn't be any financial gain in it for you if you did that.