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Pod George

United Kingdom

Reviews

Review of Octopus Energy


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

AWFUL customer service

What an absolute joke - possibly the most hypocritical company ever. All they do is bark on about how great their customer service is, yet in practise they are absolutely useless. We’ve been trying to get our gas registered to our flat since May and no one in Octopus has been able to achieve this. It is actually some of the worst customer service we’ve received from any provider in a long time now. Beware, they are not what they claim to be and need to be reported to advertising standards for false claims.

25 September 2025
Unprompted review

Reply from Octopus Energy

Hello,

My name is Sarah and I’m part of the Senior Leadership Team here at Octopus Energy.

I’m really sorry for the experience you’ve had and for how long it took to get your gas registered. I completely understand how frustrating it must have been waiting since May, and I want to sincerely apologise that our service fell short of the standards you rightly expected.

I’m pleased to confirm that as of 1st October, your gas has now been successfully registered and we’ve started supplying your property. I know this doesn’t undo the delay, but I hope it offers some reassurance that the issue is fully resolved.

Your feedback is incredibly valuable and we’ll use it to improve how we support customers in the future. Thank you again for your patience throughout this process .

I’ve also reached out to you directly by email to provide reassurance and further support.

Best wishes,

Sarah

Review of Cin7 Omni


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

We have been a long-time customer of…

We have been a long-time customer of Cin7 (over 3 years), and while the platform is generally OK, the support is just continuously poor and makes our whole team's life unnecessarily stressful and miserable.

I could go on and on, but a perfect summary would be the fact that their online chat just randomly disconnects you without a prompt. This has been going on for MONTHS, I've complained about it over and over again, and no one cares or does anything about it!
PLEASE FIX IT!

Dec 2025 Update - This issue has still not been fixed. I can barely believe I'm typing this(!)

30 April 2025
Unprompted review

Reply from Cin7 Omni

We’re sorry to hear about your experience. We’re trying to make contact with you to put this right. If there is a problem with the chat, we will work with you to resolve it. Please email us at [email protected]. We’re here to help and we’re committed to turning things around for you.

Review of Mobiles


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Mobiles.co.uk's Cashback scheme is an…

Mobiles.co.uk's Cashback scheme is an actual SCAM.

They deliberately make the process as cumbersome and pedantic as possible to make sure that you give up trying to claim your cashback so they can keep your cash as extra profit.

The whole process screams corporate greed and taking advantage of their customers.

I made a claim twice earlier this year, only to receive no cheque in the post, only by calling multiple times to their customer support team did I finally get my money. They should give you the option to pay the claim directly into your bank account, which would make sense from a customer ease perspective but if they did that, they couldn't scam you by never sending the cheque and praying on you forgetting to do anything about it.

Mobiles.co.uk also pray on you by never letting you know that the cashback can be claimed, they rely on you remembering and again just hoping you will forget so they can scam you out your money and keep the extra profit.

I tried to claim again recently, the claim was denied despite me fulfilling all the correct criteria. At which point I reply to the claim denied email and realise they won't let you send them emails to question your claim. I then tried to use their live chat, but nope, that doesn't work - it just says 'Busy'.

The companies cashback scheme is a scam and a disgrace and quite frankly whoever developed the claim process should be ashamed of themselves.

9 October 2024
Unprompted review

Reply from Mobiles

Hi

Thank you for your review

Customer feedback is vitally important in helping us to identify areas in which we can improve and develop as a business. I'm sorry for the issues with your cashback and I do understand the disappointment this would cause.

Thank you for taking the time to speak to me today, I will be in contact with you as discussed.

Kind regards
Roshni | Mobiles.co.uk



Review of Vueling


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Awful online experience and booking…

Awful online experience and booking process, you can't add a bag for just one passenger in a two person booking. They continuously try and trip you up to force you to pay for a seat and then the links to download your boarding pass in their emails don't work.

We'll not be flying with Vueling again for these reasons.

10 July 2024
Unprompted review

Reply from Vueling

Hello Pod. We are sorry to read that your online experience was not to your liking.

We confirm you that if you need to add the hand luggage service only for a specific passenger of the booking, you need to contact our Service Centre.
If you do it online, the system adds it by default to all passengers in the booking.

Anyway, we would like you to provide us with more details so that we can check and clarify the situation. We remain at your disposal through all our customer service channels, including social networks.
Greetings, Mario.

Review of Community Fibre


Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Average

Average. Prices keep going up and we've had a couple of outages. Zero communication, wouldn't personally recommend

25 June 2024
Unprompted review

Reply from Community Fibre

Good afternoon,

I'm sorry to hear of the poor experience you have had with Community Fibre. I would like to review this and provide an accurate response, so we will need more information from you (specifically, your address) which will enable us to locate you and review the issues you have raised.

I have, therefore, requested more information via. Trustpilot.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation. I look forward to hearing from you so we can see exactly what happened here and use this review as a learning curve going forward.

Kind Regards,
Miriam
The Community Fibre Team

update **

Good afternoon,

I have located your account and I will email you soon.

I appreciate your patience.

Kind regards
Miriam
The Community Fibre Team

Review of Mobiles


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Initial purchase experience was good…

Initial purchase experience was good but the cashback process is woeful and is clearly designed to discourage people from actually claiming at multiple steps.

When you claim it takes 28 days for a cheque (yes, really) to come in the post. I hate to think how much unneeded CO2 is pumped into the atmosphere by printing and delivering cheques to their customers when it could all just be done electronically.

Stop destroying our planet and praying on people, make the process easier and more environmentally friendly.

12 March 2024
Unprompted review

Reply from Mobiles

Hello Pod

Thank you for your review.

Customer feedback is vitally important in helping us to identify areas in which we can improve and develop as a business. I can advise customer use their online accounts to claim for cashback and all information is given in their online account. We clearly provided information on our website advising how claims work and how they are issued.

We are currently unable to provide payment electronically and this is due to security reason as we are unable to hold customer’s details.

I’d like to assist you today and help provide a resolution, however when leaving your review, you haven’t provided us with an Order ID. I’ve sent you a message, could you kindly respond with your details so I can investigate the issue and get in touch with you.

Kind regards
Roshni | Mobiles.co.uk

Review of Shiptheory


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Support is always exceptional and the…

Support is always exceptional and the product is solid. UI/UX needs a fair bit of work but hopefully, that will come.

26 April 2023
Unprompted review

Reply from Shiptheory

Hi there, thanks for the kind words, we're very glad to hear you're enjoying Shiptheory! As for the UI, we're always happy to look at improving. If you'd like to discuss further, please reach out to [email protected] or give us a call on 0117 403 4313.

Review of Vodafone UK


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful!

Awful!! Can't speak to a human being on the phone every single option on their automated phone system just sends you a text and hangs upon you. I've been a Vodafone customer for over 10 years and the lack of service is atrocious. I will be moving to EE ASAP.

Be warned!

29 November 2021
Unprompted review

Reply from Vodafone UK

Hello Pod,

This isn't good to hear and not the experience we want you to have. If there's anything we can help with, please come and chat to us via Facebook at www.facebook.com/vodafoneUK or via Twitter @VodafoneUK

Thanks,
Vodafone Social Media Team

Review of Shiptheory


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent service with a solid product

Excellent service with a solid product, being able to rely on Josh has been a breath of fresh air when compared to so many appallingly run providers we seem to deal with on a regular basis.

Happy to recommend to anyone who is looking to streamline their dispatch process!

2 November 2021

Review of Randox Health


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Atrocious

Iconclusive test result, phone lines close an houe earlier than they say, no one replys to your contact form requests.

A waste of my time and money!

7 October 2021
Unprompted review

Reply from Randox Health

Hi George, Our customer support lines are open Monday - Friday 9am - 7pm and weekends from 9am to 6pm. On occasion the testing process can return an unclear result. This is exceptionally uncommon. If you carried out the test through through a Randox partner please communicate with them directly. We advise all customers to carefully follow the instructions provided with our Home Sample collection kits. Not following the correct procedures can mean that the sample will not be suitable for analysis with an unclear result provided. Examples of incorrect procedure include but are not limited to; not including the swab in the sample tube after swabbing, cap not adequately secured resulting in loss of buffer or removing the buffer from the sample tube. Kind regards, Lynsey

Review of Goodlord


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

As a tenant

As a tenant, they require far too much information from you to the point where it becomes invasive. The whole process is complex and challenging to navigate especially if you're involving guarantors and so on.

Once you've got through the process they then just try and force you to use their energy suppliers and hassle you by trying to sell you things you don't need or want.

The phone call trying to sell me insurance was the final nail in the coffin, this platform just seems to have been set up as an excuse to up-sell products and services to vulnerable tenants rather than actually help or care about them.

1 September 2021
Unprompted review

Reply from Goodlord

Hi there, I’m sorry to hear that you had a poor experience with us and thank you for taking the time to let us know. Your feedback will be passed on to the relevant teams at Goodlord. Sophia

Review of Autotrader UK


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Thoroughly disappointed with Auto…

Thoroughly disappointed with Auto Traders Service. I listed my car for sale and paid £37 for it, for this I got one single telephone call from a guy who wasn't really interested. A bloody joke.

I phoned customer service and expressed my disappointment for this poor service, at which point they thought my advert was good and couldn't see any way of improving it.

Furthermore, they were unwilling to offer any sort of compensation or refund for their poor performance. Even if you do agree to their terms on their website, this quite honestly feels like theft. Just another big corporation taking peoples money and giving nothing in return, I am thoroughly disappointed.

11 December 2019
Unprompted review

Reply from Autotrader UK

Hi George

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review of our service. I am really sorry to hear you feel this way and I can understand your frustration.

As the advertising platform, the paid service is for us to display and advertise your vehicle on our platform. We are unfortunately, unable to guarantee a sale or a response within the current market.

The overall performance of an ad can be based on a few different factors. This could be from the quality of ad, desirability of the vehicle in your area or the time of year just to name a few. Our company ethos is to be fair and transparent with all consumers and so we do have a set of Terms and Conditions which outlines that, due to the nature of our service, we do not issue refunds based on a low response.

We do offer a 20% discount if you wish to advertise your vehicle again with us and this is available on all our advertising packages. Please contact our Support Team on [email protected] for more information and we can apply this to your Auto Trader Account.

I hope this helps,
Kind regards
Jessica