Klacht: Terrible internal communication and terrible customer services including their terrible website.

Seed op 29 januari 2021 over Eneco in de categorie Energieleveranciers

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Klacht opgelost op 3 februari 2021
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Dear miss Seed, Thank you for your patience and sending your clientnumber. I have filed this as an official complaint. We will contact you within 7 working days to sort this out. This is why I am closing the file...

Klanttevredenheid: 1.0/10 ★☆☆☆☆
Bedrijf Eneco
Status Opgelost
Datum 29 januari 2021

Een klant van Eneco heeft problemen ervaren met de website, waaronder het niet kunnen inloggen en technische fouten. Daarnaast is er onterecht gefactureerd voor energieverbruik, ondanks herhaaldelijke communicatie over de juiste meterstanden. De klant beschrijft de klantenservice als slecht, met onprofessionele medewerkers en gebrekkige interne communicatie, en voelde zich gedwongen een hogere maandbetaling te accepteren om extra kosten te vermijden.

Mijn Klacht:

1.Signup problem on their website, account details not recognized, errors, freezes and you can’t submit or do anything there.
2. Wrongly billed for my energy usage, Even though, I gave it to their customer services the correct meters several time, still no help or answer. To even make it worse, their customer service admitted that i will probably get money back, there did not change it and proceeded to charge me for the false open amounts.
3. Terrible customer service, terrible internal communication and unprofessional employees.

to avoid extra charges, I made an arrangement to pay 30 euro per month monthly bill of 93 euro until they sort my readings out. I was informed that 30 euro was not enough and was forced to accept to pay a higher amount of 46 euro plus the new monthly bill that was calculated based on wrong energy usage which is 93 euro/month. Even though, I did not agree to it, i had to pay it just to avoid their extra charges until i get back to the Netherlands. I requested from them to send me an email with any developments. Instead of ation email, I received reminders that i still had to pay the monthly bill and annual usage. shocked and confused, I called them to inform them that i have made an arrangement twice and that I already paid for December 2020 and January 2021 plus the agreed upon annual usage amount. They ed that they received those amounts but they don’t have a record of the payment arrangement so they will look into and let me know. I did not get any reply and when i called, got transferred to different customer service employees and in every time, I had to explain the situation over and over again but there was no solution offered. I called several times, still no help and now, they are denying that i had an arrangement and said the paid amount went directly to pay the end amount of the annual usage so December and January monthly fees are open you got extra charges.

This is taking too long for no reason and it is really frustrating. I tried to submit an official complaint on their website when i got back explaining the situation, but they told me they cant answer complaint summited in different languages other than Dutch and asked me to contact their customer services to solve this. Like what the ….? This is really unprofessional and very frustrating, why would you take international clients if you cant offer support in English?

To add insult to injuries, they keep on transferring you to different employees/departments, put you on hold for a really long time or just hang up on you. The customer service employees of Eneco are very incompetent and they will try to blame you for their mistakes because they don’t want to get blamed and get fired for it. So, they would rather deny it and make you pay for their mistakes.

They are forcing me to make a new payment arrangement because they don’t want to validate the previous one Knowing my reading were wrong thus my new monthly bill were wrong and i most likely overpaid them. However, here where things get even more crazy, they told me that i don’t have another option but to make this payment arrangement otherwise they will charge me extra fees again. But, in order to make this arrangement, I have to contact a company called Certin because they have my file .I called the company and they told me they don’t even have my file and i was not the only one who got forwarded to this company by Eneco. Confused and frustrated, I contacted Eneco again and they acted surprised that they said that, but offered me to forward me to a different department where they can help me. Again, no help, put on hold for long time or just hanged up on me. I was promised that an employee will get back to me this week about my case but instead i was called by another employee asking me to make a new payment arrangement but when i asked for update, they said its not their department and i have to call the customer service then. Called the customer service again but again, same story, no update, put on hold and hanged up on. called back, sorry, we can’t help you and transferred me to a different employee who transferred me to a different company which they can’t not disclose the name of or the reasons behind the transfer. I told them if this doesn’t get solved this week, i will cancel my contract but they did not care and today was my last straw and i am really tired of this so I decided to submit my complaint here.

At this point, to say I am angry is an understatement because Eneco employees would rather lose you as a customer instead of having to admit their mistakes or help you properly. The company down fall will be because of their terrible internal communication and terrible customer services including their terrible website.

Gewenste Oplossing:

1.They need to hold their employees accountable for their mistakes
2. The first two payment arrangement should be fixed regarding the jaar nota, I paid 30 euro in December and 46 euro in January. Also, the monthly energy bill for December and January were paid and that needs to be fixed in their system. So, the total amount paid for December was 9330 123 euro which was paid 2nd of December and for January 9346 139 euro which was paid 29th of December 2020.
3.Extra fee charged is not valid and I should not be charged because of the mistakes made by your customer service employee.
4. I need to receive a written update about my case via email which states the correct numbers Jaarnota, subtract the payment i already made to Eneco and refund me the difference.
5,Cancel my contract, I cant not deal with your customer service anymore.

Beoordeling 1/10 star-1 (10)

Bericht van Robin van Klacht.nl

5 jaren geleden - Ik heb een email gestuurd naar Eneco over deze klacht.

Bericht van Robin van Klacht.nl

5 jaren geleden - Deze klacht is zojuist door Eneco in behandeling genomen

Bericht van Eneco

5 jaren geleden - Dear miss Seed, Thank you for your message. I'm sorry that you had such an experience with our customer service. It is true we do not communicate with customers in languages other than dutch, because we cannot guarantee quality service in that manner. I can imagine that does not work very well for people like you who live in the Netherlands. Still we would like to try and help you with this problem. Before I can go any further, I need your Clientnumber because of compliance procedure. Can you send this by typing it in the extra information field which is only visible for us to see. As soon as I reaceive this, I can send out a request to find someone who can speak good English to help you sort this problem out. I look forward to receiving your reply. Kind regards Reo Eneco webcare

Reactie van de melder van de klacht Seed

5 jaren geleden - 42197532

Bericht van Robin van Klacht.nl

5 jaren geleden - We hebben bericht ontvangen dat Eneco een oplossing geplaatst heeft bij deze klacht

Eneco

Heeft op 03 februari 2021 om 11:45 geantwoord

Geboden Oplossing:

Dear miss Seed,

Thank you for your patience and sending your clientnumber. I have filed this as an official complaint. We will contact you within 7 working days to sort this out. This is why I am closing the file here.

We look forward to speak to you soon.

Kind regards,

Manon
Eneco Webcare

Seed

Heeft op 09 februari 2021 om 23:58 geantwoord

Beoordeling 1/10 star-1 (10)

I was called back today from eneco but still there is no solution. I had to explain the situation again and its been really stressful. They told me that my case was sent to another incasso company while i was waiting for an update?! how is this possible? I called several time and they told me that someone is busy handling my case and when i got the call today they are telling me that i should expect an incasso letter. on top of this they cant explain why they had different meter readings and they will not change it and can only change the ending meter readings but not the start. Basically, it is a mess and they ignored the readings i sent and at the end, they want me to pay according to whatever they put and I could be charged very highly for this. Please cancel my contract with eneco and I am done with this. I changed energy supplier and forwarded my case to a lawyer and if anyone has the same issues contact me so we can share the costs together.

I dont even cook and to top it, i have an electric cooktop not even gas and I only use my heater in the winter period, so the rest of the year i dont use much gas but they still charged me so high even after i sent them my data.

Stay away from this company if you can, because if something goes wrong they will waste your time and energy and will offer you no solution!

Bericht van Eneco

5 jaren geleden - Dear miss Seed, Sorry for the stress this is causing you. As we agreed on yesterday, I contacted you today by telephone little after 11.00 o'clock. Unfortunately you were not able to pick up the phone. Of course I am happy to help you. I will try again to contact you soon. Have a nice day. Kind regards, Joan Eneco Webcare

Bericht van Eneco

5 jaren geleden - Dear miss Seed, We handled your file by phone. It took a long time to get clear about possible solutions. I'm very sorry about this. I apologize for this. By telephone I gave you the choice for a solution. Based on your choice, your file has been processed by telephone. I ed this by email as scheduled. I would like to compliment you for the patience you have had in helping you. Thank you for this. Based on our telephone agreements that I have ed by e-mail, I will close your file. I wish you an enjoyable day. Kind regards, Joan Eneco Webcare

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