Companies you don't like to buy from, and why

[GusB]

TalkTalk seems to have been mentioned a few times in this thread. While I've never been a customer of theirs, I was put off by their door-to-door sales staff who blatantly lied about the broadband speed I could achieve (our telephone exchange hadn't been upgraded to deliver the faster ADSL speeds at the time). Having had to deal with the consequences of lies from sales people, it's a completely no-no for me.

 

[3rd rail land]

TalkTalk seems to have been mentioned a few times in this thread. While I've never been a customer of theirs, I was put off by their door-to-door sales staff who blatantly lied about the broadband speed I could achieve (our telephone exchange hadn't been upgraded to deliver the faster ADSL speeds at the time). Having had to deal with the consequences of lies from sales people, it's a completely no-no for me.

Sky and Virgin used to send me loads of junk mail advertising the fibre broadband they were able to offer me. Problem is fibre is not available in my area except via fibre to the home and neither of these companies offer this service.
False advertising at its best!

 

[Energy]

Sky and Virgin used to send me loads of junk mail advertising the fibre broadband they were able to offer me. Problem is fibre is not available in my area except via fibre to the home and neither of these companies offer this service.
False advertising at its best!

Virgin use their own network (unless you are talking a long time ago) so they aren't lying.

 

[3rd rail land]

Virgin use their own network (unless you are talking a long time ago) so they aren't lying.

It must have been at least 3-4 years ago that it desisted. Thing is I went to the Virgin website and checked availability using my postcode and all they could offer was standard up to 16mb broadband.