Fido
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Category: Services
Contact Information British Columbia, Canada
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Fido Reviews
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Jarin Tasnim
February 12, 2011
Bills
Hi sir,
My name is Jarin Tasnim I am the daughter of Khandaker Moinuddin whose cell phone number is (514)578-2273 .I have played a game on internet and I didnt know that they will sent us messages and I didnt understood about your charges .So when I had played the game they ask me to give cell phone number so without my father's concern I gave his cell phone number .They sent quizes in his cell phone and charges too much money which i didnt understand soo the bill came and it was 140.95$ that time my father called Fido customer service they told to discuss with your company, ans my father is angry with me and told me "u have to solve this problem " nor"i will beat u"soo please can u give me the credits of that money andstop sending messages on my father's cell phone, help me in this situation .So please please please help me .
I am thanking u
Jarin Tasnim
Age:11
Grade:6th
Sckool:Barclay
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angrykidatextrabilling
December 27, 2010
88788 METQZ
Recieved a third party charges just from recieving a text messange about a quiz. Got billed over $15 in just two months. Contract doesn't even cover it.
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KREM
December 22, 2010
bogus charges
So, I had a plan with FIDO on a 2 year term. During this 2 years my bill was constantly increasing, many of the items I was billed for I had to phone and dispute with success. It was annoying but this time with my change in plan..FIDO has really stepped over the line. The new plan that I agreed to over the phone, I asked that the operator make note of all of the terms.previous experience taught me this. Unfortunately, when I questioned my first bill I was told that I was rude because I questioned air time charges where calls were not answered or were even nonexistent. Also, we had agreed to a long distance plan that included their expanded network and they reneged on that. They also reneged on dropping the system access fee. After reading the complaints on this website, what I am reading is that they are on commission, and I guess will ultimately tell you anything. Fortunately I am not under an agreement and will be moving to another carrier, perhaps Bell. With that will go my Roger's internet and cable. What remains is the constant bad-mouthing in the office for this company and its parent company Rogers. But alas, they have earned it...
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abpsalm23
May 4, 2010
Malicious and Unethical
Fido’s bogus invoice schemes, after the end of cellphone service contract, had affected countless Canadians who had nowhere to turn to for help. Worse, to bully their ex-customers to pay up, they often destroy the credit rating of good people by submitting false claims of collections on bogus invoices, leaving hapless consumers with no choice but to pay up to protect their valuable credit. Fido, owned by yet another greedy telecommunications company, the juggernaut known as Rogers, is a massively inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its path. We were no exception.
Our point is, if we legitimately owed Fido any money, we would have paid it — we had paid each and every bill in full each and every month in advance (Fido’s policy) for the 3-year duration of our Fido contract, which ended in Oct 2009 because we value our credit very seriously. So, why would we destroy our good credit for a measly $178.71? Our payment history at Fido and at Equifax, showed we never have had any late payment for the length of the contract. What Fido did to us was extremely unethical and a shameful and blatant disregard to proper business practice. They simply didn’t care (regardless of their motto).
No one at Fido could give us a straight answer to any of these simple questions.
— Why did Fido never inform us of a purported amount we allegedly owe by invoice, statement, email, or telephone, when they knew how to contact us? They had no trouble contacting us in the past and sending invoices for the previous 36 months; our adult children still lives at our old address to this day (the address recorded at Fido). Fido had no answer why they failed to send it to us if we legitimately owe them a penny. Worse, when we asked for the statement, they wanted a $5 fee.
— Why did Fido purposely wait three months from Oct 2009 until Feb 2010, before notifying us of an alleged invoice and without details? Fido’s notification came only after we contacted them when CIBC Visa alerted us of Fido’s bogus collection scheme submitted to EQUIFAX.
— Why did Fido send the invoice only after we asked for it? As a courtesy, my CIBC Visa card alerted that Fido had apparently submitted to EQUIFAX a surprise bogus invoice on collection.
— Why did Fido repeatedly ask for $5.00 when we demanded to have a copy of our alleged bogus invoice or statement? Fido claimed we had to pay this $5 in order to receive our final invoice. Apparently, it could be the reason why we never received the invoice. After intense argument, Fido agreed to send their bogus invoice without the $5 cost.
— Why did Fido claim we still owe $240+ (final amount they were not sure) but after speaking with them, mysteriously changed to $178.71 without explanation?
— Why did Fido send that invoice for collections sometime in Dec 2009 even before sending it and notifying us? They never gave us any chance to peruse the alleged invoice.
— Why did Fido tell us we needed 30 days notice to cancel our service after termination of our contract, which we did, giving them more than 30 days notice, and still charged us with some kind of bogus penalty?
— Why did Fido refuse to accept payment for the alleged bogus invoice? Finally, after much heated discussion, and after refusal of a Fido manager to speak to us, making us wait for over 20 minutes, had connected us to their Accounts Receivable clerk to accept our credit card payment, which proved the purportedly bogus invoice, was not even on collection?
— Why did Fido inform EQUIFAX that they had sent the alleged bogus invoice for collections only after a supposedly one month in arrears?
— Why did Fido tell us we owe them nothing at the end of our contract in Oct 2009, yet penalizing us with a bogus $178.71 bill in Feb 2010, bullying us to pay it to protect our credit?
Is it a malicious payback for us leaving Fido’s extremely bad cell phone service?
On a sadder note, on Feb 23, 2010, we paid the offending bogus invoice to Fido (and not to a collection agency), only to protect our credit. However, as if it was a never-ending nightmare, Fido still weaseled to submit an *R9* rating (the worst) against my credit information at EQUIFAX. They notified EQUIFAX, which showed on my credit report, that the bogus invoice was paid in full only in April, 2010 when it was obviously paid in Feb, 2010.
The saddest part, apparently, is that Fido had been using EQUIFAX to destroy good people’s credit ratings to promote their dastardly deeds by submitting bogus invoice and collection claims, and getting away with it. (Google the Internet for links of massive complaints against Fido).
Canadians should be aware of Fido's bullying tactics, but the bigger question is, who could they turn to for help?
Alex
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HanD54
December 17, 2009
Gave wrong info then charged for it
My home phone is not working so I called Fido to confirm how many minutes a day I have under my plan. The rep said I have 200 minutes between myself and my husband. When I asked him, is this 200 minutes a day, he confirmed YES. As I'm working from home, I had to attend long conferences and I figured I will be fine if I keep it under 200 minutes. However, my monthly bill this month came to $357 ($25 on something I don't even know what it's there for). When I asked her to listen to the call I had with the rep, she said they can't pull the calls, they're only there for quality. Well, if this is not a good reason enough to listen to the calls, I don't know what is! She even said, I can see from your history that you never went above your minutes and you always paid on time. So what does that tell you? That I'm lying? What's more, I can't use my Fido dollars toward the bill. This company is just useless. I can't wait for my contract to end in one month so I can switch to Globalive.
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Maria WA Ong
December 14, 2009
Customer Service
Client services do not exist with FIDO. The company makes it as difficult as possible for their customer agents to assist with your requests and/or difficulties because they are forced to work without the necessary tools. Consequently, they are always UNHAPPY or ANNOYED to talk to you which results to a bad experience altogether. This is a vicious and unacceptable cycle.
I've been with FIDO for quite a number of years especially because they're now the only company that uses SIM cards (my experience with Rogers was not ideal either to say the least). I've been good and paid my bills on time. The only other time I had a serious complaint (since I don't like paper wastage) is when I couldn't log-in to the client portal (after they migrated to their most current interface) which took forever to get fixed and several phone calls much to their dismay (as they thought the problem would just simply go away). Since I couldn't (or wait to) print out my invoices to submit my company expenses, I had to order a paper copy which costed me something like $10.00 CAD. Of course they would not re-imburse me even after saving them $$ by choosing online billing and the fact that it was their fault I couldn't prit out my invoices. Imagine how upsetting that is!
This time, I requested to cancel my account when my contract expires on January 31, 2009. Apparently they can't process an advance notice and I HAVE TO CALL ON DECEMBER 31ST TO ENSURE THAT THEY CANCEL MY SERVICES 30 DAYS LATER. The customer service agent on the phone even said, "Well I would put it on my personal task list but I can't be sure if I'm even working that day." (ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! I HAVE A LIFE DURING THE HOLIDAYS TOO YOU KNOW!!!) So, they require a 30-day notice for cancellation BUT YOU CAN'T CALL IN ADVANCE. How absurd can that be??? Based on my experience with them, I can bet you a million dollars that if I call on New Year's Day that they will refuse to cancel it on the expiry date. Don't count on me paying you a million bucks though since it is as fake as their customer service.
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Bonnie Buck
November 30, 2009
Customer Serivce
I have never been treated so rudely and disrespectful in my life. This company has absolutely no people skills and they do not do anything to go out of their way to help their customers nor do they care if there customers are considering going to a new service provider. If it wasn't for the fact that my credit is not the greatest I would be gone in a New York second. This comany should be ashamed of their treatment of their customers. I always leave my conversations with Fido feeling totally humiliated.
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Hina Zainab
October 23, 2009
Charged without signing up
Hi there,
My name is Hina, Im new in Canada, I came here on Sep 8th 2009. i signed up for fido few days after coming here, but never registered my self to Premium Text Trivia, neither was informed by fido about any such third party services .
I have recieved my fido invoice on Oct 11th 2009, which also includes Premium Text Trivia, which has charged me $28!! .. and because of this i had an increases in the taxes as well as the whole fido bill! ...
I called the trivia customer service, they say that i signed up for it on Sep 16th 2009, but i didnt register myself into such services and nobody has access to my cell phone!!.. neither i typed in any 4 digits for this service ! iam not earning .. so each penny is important rite now !
Iam writing this complaint keeping in mind that my complaint will be looked forward ! iam not ready to pay for any thing which wasnt signed up from my side ! Please wave the said amount as per fido bill !.. im looking for a fair consent from the Complaint Board !
Please contact me as soon as possible !!
Thank you
Your Si
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Kwok Leung
October 23, 2009
unethical lies lies lies
Worst company I have ever dealt with.<br />
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I was an iphone 3g customer and ordered a 3gs back in AUG 24 and way promised first that the phone would arrive on sept 11 then oct 03. The sales rep that i placed my odered with that day confirm that I would have a total of $300 dollars taken of my bill ( 2oo from FIDO dollars and 100 form there 3g customer promotion )<br />
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Well an iphone did arrive on the 11th but for my sister who is a rogers customer ( she ordered a week after I had ) A quick call to customer service confirmed that since Rogers held a bigger account with Apple their customers get first dibs. Again he confirmed my phone will be delivered by Oct 3 and with all the price adjustments. <br />
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Come Oct 3 my phone didn't arrived and since I was still dazed from my trip to Vegas i sent in an email instead of calling. Waited till oct 10 and finally got a reply back from fido csr Brandon. Who claims my iphone was relieved and singed for on Sept 11. even gave me tracking number. ( in your face says Brandon ) Another call to Fido Crap-SR questioning why the iphone that was supposed to be mineworks on the Roger network and why i have never been charged for the phone. cleared that up really fast and was promised again i would receive my phone no later than Oct 22 with all the price adjustment. Also it seem as CSR Brandon had put down on his notes that i had called in earlier that morning and he had talk to me on the phone for half an hour clearing the problem up - very unethical -<br />
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Wishful thing had kept me waiting for this long and again was disappointed when my phone did not arrive.<br />
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I swear i much have called in to customer service 5 yesterday. The first i was put on hold for a good 45 min before i have to hang up and call again. The second time to my surprise i got a pleasant CSR Kieth nice guy, ask for him if you ever have to call. Keith explained that the sales person back in Aug never put in order for me - funny how the csr's i talked to after aug never advised me of this nor put in an order for me - Again was promised that if i was to place an order now with him i was still to receive all my price adjustments since i had tried to make an order back in Aug. <br />
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Had the pleasure to talk with supervisor Tammy afterward, who felt it was her responsibility to shield her company from accepting that this was their fault. She claimed that they were not taking orders in Aug for the iphone, that i myself had provided the reps with the tracking number for the phone which arrived in Sept, and that since I am ordering now I am not eligible for the price adjustments from before. I explained to her that they were taking order in aug but just not processing them till the phone arrived, that the tracking number that was sent to me by a Fido csr, and that from consumer point of view this is totally unacceptable, how they were not taking any responsibilities for their faults. She retracted her statement that I was not to receive the additional discounts for my phone and said I have two options. I can order with them now and my phone will arrive by Nov 18 or I can pick it up at the store and have they put the price adjustments through with when I pick it up. My reply was, you are telling me to wait for another month to get my phone and take your word that it will be delivered this time. She was like why would I lie to you come on imp a supervisor here. – I almost wanted to puked –<br />
I end taking the second option and located a store that did have my phone in stock, but was told that they may run into a problem with using my fido dollars at the time of purchase since I need to add a data package for them to do so and that a call to customer service to have them override that can clear things up for me. I advised him that that was not part of *Fido Rewards iPhone 3GS promotion* that I was eligible for at the time I ordered. Any how I called customer service once more to have them override the problem and was promised again that all my discounts will be applied. Arrived at the store and was disappointed once again after the store rep talk to a csr and explained to me that he can apply my fido dollars but cannot guarantee that it would go through. So I’m at home with my phone and have to wait till tues to see I what I was promised since aug with every rep I had talk to goes through. If not I’m going to cut all my options and downgrade to the lowest priced plan I can or just cut my plan and go with TELUS when their iphones arrived next month.<br />
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Really don’t know why I believe the csr this time around since I was lied to so many times when I originally purchased my 3g in last year. Lies about how I can get it at this certain price if I went with this plan or how I can cut my data option with a cancelation fee with I went to another plan with data.It seem that the company encourages it CSR’s to make up anything to get the customer to buy and afterward they are bounded by a contract so what can they do. <br />
Sorry for such a long post and not making sense at times I just had to let this out
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Ira
October 10, 2009
Dishonest Charges & Terrible Customer Services
I've just spent 1 hour on the phone speaking to FIDO customer service. I've never got such a terrible customer treatment in my life. The woman on the phone spoke to me in such a rude manner as if I was a lier.
I bought an iphone a month ago & on about a 3rd day of joining Fido I've got a welcome call from them. The guy with strong anglo-african french accent was interested if I was Ok with Fido services. First thing I asked him was if this call was free & getting a positive answer I spent about 20mins giving him feedback & asking questions. Not mentioning that he couldn't answer to any of my questions, seemed very inexperienced & that only answer he gave me about free evenings & weekends on my plan as I found later was wrong, the guy as appears now didn't even register my complaints about SMSs getting late through Fido. Anyway, now when I've got my first bill I found out that I was charged for those 20 mins incoming welcome call from FIDO!!! I phoned 611 to confirm the number behind that incoming call, but as appeared their policies do not allow them to reveal it!!! From what I was told it's impossible to see the number behind incoming calls, meaning I can't dispute them!!!??? I have another phone from Bell (where I can see all the incoming numbers on the bill, by the way) & I bought an Iphone only for 6Gb data plan. I had to pick Fido as they offered the minimal voice plan ($15 for 50 mins), which Rogers unfortunately didn't have. I've spent 1 hour trying to explain to the woman in 611 that there is absolutely no way I would allow someone to speak to me for 20mins, knowing that they would appear in my cell bill. That guy welcoming me from Fido was the only one and now I have to pay for it! I wish I'd send him to hell right away! What's even more disgusting is that women from Fido customer services today talked to me in such a rude manner as if I was lying to her, though as she admitted she wasn't even aware of Fido practicing such welcome calls. She didn't want even try to beleive me, neither she was willing to help as their system doesn't allow to see the number behind that 20 mins incoming call. I don't have an issue paying extra dollars if they could prove that call wasn't from Fido. That's not a big money for me - it's just the fact that they are trying to charge me for something they shouldn't & then talking to me in distrusted manner is what drives me crazy.
There are 3 problems I see with Fido right after my 1st month with them & want everyone be aware of it when considering Fido as a provider:
1) Inexperienced staff who dares to make welcome calls, not even being able to answer questions or register their calls in the system correctly, resulting in customers being dishonestly charged for it.
2) Not disclosing the number behind the incoming calls allows Fido to manipulate the data on the bill - this is a possible Fraud issue, as there is no mechanism for customers to check or dispute the fact of the call (as in my case, for ex.)
3) Terrible customer service - it seems Fido trains them not to help customers but rather keep them away. Very, very, very disgusting treatment!
I'm glad Bell & Telus start offering Iphones next month. I'm so disappointed in Fido that will definitely consider switching to one of them even for the cost of cancellation fees.
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