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Multi account madness - cancelled order

Haggini
Investigator
Investigator

So - as a BT customer I was moved to EE last year for my account management. “Seamless” i was told, “dont worry”. In December 2025 full fibre became available for my address so I used the EE app to upgrade my service to the FF500 package. Got my order email. Got a visit sms message from OpenReach. Had a visit from Openreach in January, had my drive spray painted where the fibre would go. Received a message openreach would be back in 3 months on the 26th March. Waited patiently for the day. No openreach. Go into the EE app to check my order - now cancelled. I phone EE using the number in the app, I’m told “openreach” didn’t accept the order so EE cancelled it. Then I’m told my account details look odd, I’m told there are four different accounts in my name, like a marvel multiverse. It is unclear which one is right. I’m put through to sales, they think I’m a new account, offer me a fantastic deal, 30 mins later the penny drops - I’m an existing customer looking to upgrade, fantastic deal reneged. They think they’ve identified the account issue. I’m offered a fixed price deal with some credit for my troubles. I’m told it’s ordered and that I’ll be passed to ‘home tech’ to get an engineer out. Home tech don’t know why I’ve been sent there - they can’t see an order on my account. They pass me back to sales ‘to fix’. A new sales person - they can’t see the order, they need the full issue history again. Apparently I now need to wait until Wednesday (1st April - an omen) before I can even speak to anyone about my account, no guarantee it will be fixed… let alone try and place an order or, more importantly, expedite an openreach engineer visit so that we get connected before 2027. Bewildering. Help appreciated. 

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Ali_A
EE Community Support Team

Hi @Haggini 

This doesn't sound like the type of experience we'd want anyone to have when renewing or transferring to. 
We want to give all our customers an excellent service but if you feel your situation hasn't been handled the way you had hoped we want you to know how we can fix it. Please visit our Complaints code of practice page for details about our handling process.

If you'd like to raise a case you can do so using our online form at Make a Complaint, where our dedicated team will look into the details and take ownership. 

Ali

Thanks Ali,

I’ll do so tomorrow.

I have to say the BT community forums were excellent for customer support and admins would regularly resolve genuine issues promptly, issues which formal customer service channels either didn’t understand, denied existed, or gave up on. So I’m hoping the EE forums are just as helpful.

Haggini
Investigator
Investigator

Not sure why a solution has been marked - it is not yet resolved. If raising a complaint resolves the issue I'll report back.

In fact - checking the app today, I can see that the order that was placed again for FF500 (on the 26/03), made it into the system but has now been cancelled again (on the 29/03)! To be clear, I did not request this cancellation! So this is very much not resolved.

Christopher_G
EE Community Support Team

Hi @Haggini 

I've removed the solution for now, but @Ali_A's advice is the best way to get this resolved. If you haven't already raised a complaint, I'd recommend doing so. As he said, a dedicated team will pick up your complaint and contact you directly to discuss it.

Keep us updated with what happens please.

Chris 

I raised a complaint on the 27/03 as recommended - but no EE contact on this yet other than email saying complaint was received.

I was advised today that the latest cancellation was due to a mismatch in data between the EE and OpenReach databases. The person I spoke too could not amend this, and I was told it was something Sales would not be able to fix either - "requires someone with access permissions to the underlying data to manually change it". I was told a team was scheduled to work on it today and would receive update comms (email/SMS) but nothing yet.