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Safeguarding issues

SusanRoberts
Member

Hello - could somebody help please? My 96-year-old father on a remote farm in Cornwall was sold a BT Cloud Voice business package with five lines in 2021 - plus BT Business Broadband in 2022 - at a cost of £239.66 a month. He does not need this system and did not understand what he was being sold (he is quite severely deaf). He had no idea that in the package, he was being sold four digital handsets at a cost of £30 each plus a month, plus training at £10/month.

My brother and I  have been trying for the past six weeks to try and sort this situation out. Without success, unfortunately.
We have just been informed (after a month of phone calls, emails and internet messages) by Paul Chairman & CEO Business Complaints Specialist that the only option is to reduce the bill by £31.89 a month. He offers no other solution.

This just ludicrous- and so wrong.

My father does not need a business package at all - he was just keen to have what he thought was the best possible phone service and was 'sold' BT Cloud Voice.

There are surely safeguarding issues here at the very least - he is a vulnerable, extremely old, man.

Does anyone have any advice please? Who else could we contact?
Apologies this is probably a bit left-field on this forum - but we are really at the end of our tethers.

 

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BethM
Administrator
Administrator

Hi SusanRoberts

 

I'm really sorry to hear about this. I can see my colleague Paul has it in hand. Paul will be in touch no later than 12pm today. 


^BethM

SusanRoberts
Member

Hello Beth

Many thanks for your reply - unfortunately however we have been in touch with Paul regularly over the past four weeks and he has failed to help. His response has been inconsistent and misleading:   he has totally failed to address the issues at hand and has chosen to ignore several immutable facts  - all of which incidentally are potentially PR disasters for a supposedly reputable company like BT.  One man in Glasgow in 2022 and another in Plymouth  in 2021 sold this enormously expensive communications package to a 93 year old vulnerable, deaf, man – a five-year contract due to expire when he was nearly 99 years old.  We would very much appreciate some real support in sorting out this situation.  Paul's response - four weeks after being alerted to this situation - was an email yesterday offering to reduce the bill by £31.97 a month. 

Hi SusanRoberts

 

I have arranged for one of my colleagues Adam to pick this up, he will call you today. 


^BethM