As bad as I expected
Unfortunately, there is no minus star rating for me to award to this company.
I was a customer of Shell energy from 2020-21. Owing to the very poor customer service I received during this period, I transferred to Green but unfortunately the company stopped trading within a few days.
Ofgem transferred me back to Shell and after a number of long telephone calls, I managed to get an account number from them.
I had to call Shell's customer service on 7.12.21.
as I was trying to check the rate of their night-time tariff.
After a wait of 5 mins, I got through to a male customer advisor and when I explained my query he said he couldn't help me, and transferred me where I was answered after another 7 min wait.
The operator, Sherelle, said she couldn't verify my ID, this despite the previous calls when I had been asked to verify my address etc and there had been no problem.
Again, I was transferred, fortunately no wait this time.
The third person could still not answer my query but stated that he would ask the relevant team to call me back, if not on the same day most definitely the following day.
It is now three days later but no phone call as yet (5 pm).
I submitted a written complaint and details of my query.
I have now received a reply from Shell stating,
"to find details of your CURRENT tariff (no mention of my actual query re the night rate), please call **** to speak to our customer service - a joke in itself.
I don't think the operators are there to help or know what they are doing.
During my previous year with Shell I had several times requested a smart meter only to be sent various links of why this could not happen or to be blinded by science re " first generation" meters etc.
The first page on the Shell website states something like " if you do not have a smart meter please click here and someone will be in touch within 5 days". During the whole year, this never happened. The website still states the same.
As regards my current contract with Shell, I just wonder how much more poor service I will get.
Having said this, I must say that there was one person, Jacob, who did go out of his way to be helpful. Thankyou very much.
December 10, 2021
Unprompted review