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Technical Error on Website and App

devifenn
Investigator
Investigator

I get the following error message when trying to access certain areas of the website such as 'Shop':

Sorry, looks like a technical error
Please call us on <a href="tel:08009566000">0800 956 6000</a> and we’ll try to get things sorted.

It only occurs when I'm logged into my account but prevents me upgrading/adding new products. I've called ther number but there's no option for technical issues like this, no department I spoke to has been able to help.

Has anyone else experienced this or know how to get it resolved?

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archercj
Established Contributor
Established Contributor

Totally agree with the recent posters. It's quite clear what the issue is. If you value your customers business, and remember a customer is someone who is paying hard earned money to your company which in turn means it pays YOUR wages so you can socialise, get a mortgage, eat EVEN have an EE contract 🙂 then get it sorted out.

My Virgin contract is up for renewal at the end of the year. Their customer services skills make you lot look like the Samaritans so i will be moving. Do you want my £100+pm?

Peter_W
EE Community Support Team

@Karmik Whilst several customers within this thread may report similar issues, at a surface level we can't say for sure that the cause of these are identical for each person. 

We always recommend contacting our tech team, as that way they can run the necessary checks and troubleshooting so we can be sure everything has been tried, then raise this further if it can't be resolved at a frontline level. 

All tickets raised are monitored to identify any potential wider issues too.

Peter

Ollmall
Established Contributor
Established Contributor

I think what everyone is getting at here is that no matter how many times you speak to tech support, they never fix it. 

I've been promised callbacks that never happen, timelines for fixes that never go ahead (I was last told that it would all be fixed first week of March) and it all just falls through.

Then when you do call back yourself it takes forever to get to the right person, on average I'd say I get handed to about 4 or 5 different people before I get through to 'the right team' or 'new EE support' that can actually look at your account. A couple weeks ago I was on the phone for 2 hours before I was told that basically my account can't be fixed and that I should create a new email address so that I can have 2 EE accounts, one for my phone and one for Broadband which is such a bad solution.

Ultimately one of the most frustrating issues is the sheer lack of communication not only between EE and the customer, but also internally at EE. During the time I've been passed round on the phone your team have blamed each other saying things like 'I'm not the right person, the last person should know better and not have put you through to me' or 'the last person doesn't know what they're talking about they're wrong'. It doesn't inspire confidence at all when you hear staff speaking about other members of their team like that and it's really unprofessional. 

It's just mind boggling that those of us who are having these issues have had them for the best part of a year now. My account broke last October (that I noticed) and I still am non the wiser as to what the solution is or when it will be applied. You are arguably the largest telecoms operator in the UK. You increase my prices each year 'for investment purposes' yet you can't even give me a working online account or web experience. 

After my last call I'm giving up trying anymore and I've decided to end my contracts with you early because of it. I don't even care about the early termination fees at this point. That's how poor the whole experience has been.

planetf1b
Established Contributor
Established Contributor

This frustrated me over the last few weeks. I did call in about it for the second time to specifically ask it was logged as a problem.

Amazingly I persisted and signed up to a new BB service.... but this nearly drove me elsewhere.

But it is the same issue. Logged in account holders cannot access the deals. Log out, and you can see the broadband prices.

I hate calling customer service at the best of times, but to obtain a price it's just not going to happen.

I actually managed to get it to work. But the deal I got was £6 more
expensive than the deal when you’re not logged in. So why do customers of
10 years not get the better deals than new customers? So safe to say I’m
definitely changing now.

How did you fix it @League?

Hello planetf1b,


- I don't know if this answer is going to help you, it's just that I
have noticed over the past few times that I have had similar problems. What
I have found out is that when I tried to do anything with the EE app, I
would get the same type of response as you. What I have found out is that I
have got " Total adblock " installed on my android phone. When I get a
problem with virtually anything, all I need to do is to close down the
adblock app while I finish what I was originally trying to accomplish. This
seems to work most of the time for me, and I hope it may help you too
(assuming you have got Total adblocker ) installed on your device ! I just
hope that this may help at least one person to sort out the issue

Paul Marshall
CerebralMusings
Visitor

Just thought I'd jump on here to tell you what I learnt over the phone today (I have the exact same issue - can't see my broadband page when logged in, but can when not logged in)

It turns out the reason is because since getting my broadband EE have switched to a new online system, and my account is classed as a 'legacy account' (EE's words, not mine).  The legacy account includes names for broadband packages that are no longer in play (I have Fibre Plus which no longer is sold). What I didn't ask is when t he change happened. My account has been with EE for many years across several addresses, but the current broadband contract has been running for 20 months.

The difference between the legacy system and the New EE system means that the shop function does not work and will never work again for legacy accounts. He explained that the only solution was to call and talk to someone about what deals are available for my account. 

This is true for both browser and app versions. 

This information was given to me by calling 150 and speaking to an in the home moving department who was just very helpful and put me on hold so he could find the right answer for me. 

 

So there you have it. nothing you can do if your account is considered a 'legacy account'. 

Unfortunately I don’t have a legacy account. I upgraded a few weeks ago to
full fibre which I did over the phone. But yet when I log on to add on EE
tv or gaming deals I still receive the same error. Therefore, this reason
cannot be the case.