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How can I file a complaint?

6 years ago

Hello,

First of all, please excuse me for writing in English, my German is not very good yet.

 

Can someone please explain to me how should I write an official complaint to Deutsche Telekom Headquarters office? I am really angered by the customer service and would like to file a complaint and if it's not possible I will file my complaint to Verbraucherzentrale.

 

To explain why the upset, there was a good offer this weekend on taking a subscription with Telekom, but it was only online or by phone. I chose the online one, because I am not very good with German yet and you don't always find someone to talk in English. So I went online, filled in all the requested information and there was an option for verification, via Post or via Video. And here I chose via Post. All good and submited my order, received an email of order confirmation, everything went smoothly. This way happening Sunday evening.
Yesterday, on Tuesday, as I didn't receive any more emails or mail via Post, I verified the status of the order and to my surprise it was cancelled since Monday evening with reason 'Unknown'. I tried on Tuesday calling the customer service, no one spoke English and told me to come back today, on Wednesday, as there will be someone that speaks English. In the meanwhile I also tried using the chat in the website, again no English, and tried my luck again with an email, thinking that maybe someone will answer, but there was another issue there, that I had to fill in a number to be called back and my number didn't work there (I don't have yet a phone number in Germany, I finally decided to take up a number with a subscription, and it seems with bad experience..)
With no luck on Tuesday, I got back today to customer service and got on with a lady talking in English. Finally, she said that the order was cancelled because it was decided to not go with the post verification, but with the video verification and that a mail was sent to me to do this verification within 3 days, otherwise order will be cancelled. And I stopped her there. First of all, by who was decided? Second of all, the only email I had in my inbox from Telekom was the order confirmation (so the email address they had was good), and finally, the order was cancelled in just ONE day. The lady said that there is nothing they can do, and a big round of NOs in our conversation. I asked for the email to be sent once again to me and I will do the verification, the answer was NO, the system already generated the email. She then suggested that I should make another order, but I said that is not possible, because the offer in the weekend is gone and that this order was cancelled without any good reason. If there was a good reason, I would have understood, but like this and only NO and 'the system', this I cannot accept.

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    • 6 years ago

      First you speak with a german company in german, there is not everytime english support available.

      Second, that sounds boring with verification but this is completly automatic

      When the offer is over there is nothing you can do and get the offer again.

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      My problem wasn't that there was no one to talk in English, I understood that and I had patience and called in again when I was asked to, so that I would find someone to talk to in English. I appreciate that, but the rest, not so much. And I tried in german on the chat, and there I was redirected to a phone number to customer service.

      I also understand that there is an automatic process, but a process can be overriden. And after saying that I was notified by the system and actually I wasn't, and that I had 3 days to do the verification, but my order was terminated immediately without notice, it seems that there is a problem with the process or in the system, right? So, the common sense here would be to try to find a solution, not throwing a NO and sticking to it.

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      6 years ago

      Don‘t waist time on discussions with somebody that has an opinion but is not an official Telekom Team Member. Just be a little bit patient and wait if somebody from @Telekom-hilft-Team jumps into the discussion.

      Good Luck!

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    • 6 years ago

      Good morning @charita_marina,

      welcome to our community.

      First of all, I beg your pardon for answering this fatally late, at the moment we have very few english speaking agents here, too.

      As far as I understand it, you tried to order a mobile contract, we missed to send you the correct verification mail and failed to resend it or solve your problem other then telling you to order again, which you couldn't, for the special offer you had ordered had already run out. Did I get you right?

      Have you meanwhile found another solution, or may I still try and help you out with this?

      What I would ask you for would be to save your callback contact in your profile, find the direct link here: http://bit.ly/Kundeninfos Those informations are only visible for yourself and us as the official support team members.

      I'm looking forward to your reply!

      Kind regards
      Anna Si.

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      6 years ago

      @chirita_marina,

      thank-you for the call-back.

      I am glad that we could solve your concern.
      If you need my support again in the future, just get in touch with me again.

      You are welcome. Fröhlich

      Kind regards
      Anja W.

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      6 years ago

      Hello,

       

      Thank you for your call last time. Finally, I tried my luck again and again my order was cancelled without notice. What am I doing wrong here? Is there no possible way to acquire a mobile subscription with Telekom?

       

      Regards,

      Marina

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      6 years ago

      Hello @chirita_marina,

      thanks for writing us.
      We would have to check on why it didn't work out again.
      At what point of access has it been cancelled? Was it at the same point as last time?
      Did you receive the confirmation of the Video-Ident?
      Please let me know.

      Thanks and regards,

      Jana K.

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      @chirita_marina,

      thank-you for the call-back.

      I am glad that we could solve your concern.
      If you need my support again in the future, just get in touch with me again.

      You are welcome. Fröhlich

      Kind regards
      Anja W.

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    • 3 years ago

      I tried to call them 3 times.  I asked 'sprechen Sie Englich" and the just close the phone!   

      I will move to Vodafone.  They always have someone to speak English.

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      3 years ago

      Hello and welcome to our community, @davburrows.

      What is your issue?
      May I can help?

      Kind regards
      Carolin L.

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