This company are flooding Twitter with their 'satisfied customer' threads. If you are still having a problem with them, then you may wish to comment on one of their threads.

I will certainly be commenting. I hope you will as well.

First year no issue, I even left a positive review on trust pilot, no I didn't get a month free, second year couldn't arrange a service without the contract being auto renewed due to dates so I gave notice. Cancelled dd thinking that's it.
So then they write a threatening email saying I owe 144 for having a service and giving no cancellation. Provide evidence they back down, but trying to raise a complaint, their process bars public forums, social media comments until the complaint has been looked at by them. I don't believe this is allowed

I posted a comment on this forum, in Spetmeber last year. This was to report how poor the engineering standard that 24x7 used. I eventually cancelled the contract as I deemed they were in Breach of Contract for not supplying a fully trained competant engineer, instead of an egocentric person more interested in the time it took to get to the call than servicing my boiler.
I have now received this email:-
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Our records indicate you have cancelled your policy WS0102156 before completing the minimum term. As a result of this you are now subject to a cancellation fee of £144.00 Inc. VAT as highlighted in the terms and conditions of the contract you entered in too;
If you cancel outside the cancellation period and have made an accepted claim or have had an engineer’s attendance (e.g. boiler service) you will be subject to a cancellation fee. The cancellation fee repayable is £120 excluding VAT (£144.00.)
Please respond to this e-mail or call 01254460054 in order to resolve this issue urgently and avoid any further charges.
Regards


Billing Team


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Bearing in mind the cost of callout for a competant person of over £100, I find this outrageous

DO NOT USE THESE CLOWNS

Well if that dont beat all. After my strongly worded rebuttable to their unsolcited request for money. I received this response:-

Thank you for your response,

We have taken the time to review your account. We can confirm that after doing so there is no cancellation fee present. As a result of this we have cancelled your policy and your balance is £0

We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards

Customer Care Team

Tel: 0345 3192 247

www.247homerescue.co.uk


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Still no name, but it appears that the strangely named Billing Team, not sure if thats Mr or Mrs or Miss or MS Team, is now called Customer Care Team. Wonderful company to avoid doing any business with! (sorry for the grammar)

These scammers seem to be making this mistake a lot lately. I suppose some people will just get frightened and pay!!

Dear Hayley

The circumstances of your complaint have been addressed very carefully and examined. A full explanation has been provided to you. I set out for clarity the position:-

1. Your boiler was serviced in accordance with Gas safe Regulations by a qualified and competent engineer. You were provided with the relevant Gas Safe Certificate. At no stage did you raise any issue with the standard of the service or any perceived defect by the engineer.

2. 6 weeks later you made a claim under your agreement. You indicated at this point that it was your view that the engineer who attended at the service caused the defect. You suggested initially that this was deliberate and then changed your mind to state it was negligent. You were advised properly that there was no evidence at all of your assertions and if you were making these allegations corroborative evidence would be required.

At this stage 247 interviewed the relevant engineer who rejected these assertions.

3. You decided to complete the repair yourself and contacted the customer services helpline. You spoke to an adviser and indicated that you had repaired the defect and expected 247 to pay for the repair. The customer service representative indicated that you should send the invoice to the Complaints department who would look into this matter. At no stage were you offered a reimbursement. The person you spoke to does not have the authority to refund any amounts this has to be passed to higher management as it was.

As part of the investigation process the customer service representative was spoken to and clearly rejects any suggestion that she promised a refund. Further the contemporaneous notes of the conversation have been considered and sent to you which do not confirm and indeed conflict with your account.

4. Your complaint was escalated to the legal department and you were spoken to in length by Mr Hakeem Ali. Mr Ali raised the issues as stated above and quite fairly said to you that if you were able to adduce evidence from your engineer to confirm that the defect was caused at the service he would review the position.

I note at this stage you refused to co-operate further and raised the issue of legal representation.

5. I understand you have made a Subject Access Request which will be dealt with by the company. I would reiterate to you as you are alleging impropriety/negligence it is upon you to establish this quite simply if your instructed engineer can confirm to the requisite standard that the 247 engineer was at fault this matter will be reviewed. As stated by Mr Ali if you refuse to or are unable to provide this information the decision of the company stands.

I hope the above is clear for you. Please provide what has been requested and we can resolve this matter.

247 Management

Thank you for your review

I can confirm we had a glitch in our system and this sent out emails that where not intended for certain customers.
I apologise for this error and as we have highlighted to yourself we will not be charging you a cancellation fee.

Kind regards

247 home Rescue

Thank you for your review

I can confirm we had a glitch in our system and this sent out emails that where not intended for certain customers.
I apologise for this error and as we have highlighted to yourself we will not be charging you a cancellation fee.

Kind regards

247 home Rescue

Get a load of the latest con from theses scammers........


Taken from TrustPilot.




Saurav







This company makes you sign a disclosure that you can't post regarding your complaint on social media. If you refuse then you can't make a complaint to them.

Was told to send my complaint by email. Did so, then got another email asking me to send it on a form online or they'll ignore it.

All they do is mislead. I have over ten policies with these and I'll be cancelling them all if they don't sort out my issue.


A all-time low!!

Looks like Hakeem Ali is back here again. Did Lauren quit in disgust?

I think she sold her nan and used the money to go travelling!

With the same grammatical errors I noticed, please see corrections below 24/7 home rescue (corrections highlighted):

Now, where do I send my invoice to?

And if anyone else notices errors that I've missed, where can they send their invoice(s) to?

And their posts all read like a copy & paste template (Canned Response in Google Mail).

Took out a policy with these scamsters in December 2017. In April 2018 tried to make a claim as my heating was churning out boiling (scaldingt) water was told this is not covered !!! I have had many policies with British Gas and Homeserve never had this kind of issue previously.

Stay well clear pay the extra and get proper cover as more than likely you will not be covered in the event of a fault or partial or even full breakdown. This company will try their best to worm their way out of fixing and or even sending an engineer out.
Pay the extra and get proper cover not some cowboys with opt out clauses . YOU'VE BEEN WARNED .. STEER CLEAR FROM THIS COMPANY ...

It has been months and I haven't had the resolution of my demand to refund back my excess and also the money I spent (elsewhere) to get the boiler repaired. This is after their engineer verbally informed my tenant that 'he's sorted out the issue'; but for some strange reason forgot to mention in his report.

So far, there have been tens of emails back and forth - from their front desk and also with Mr H. There have also been the social media agents (from Facebook and from here), who have initially taken this case as 'let me look into this' and then ditched me cold and square in the middle of nothing. From what I conclude, they are just here to waste my time. They have all gone quiet on me, in the end.

1) Does anybody know what further option have I got in the matters of going down legal route ? What process do I need to follow ? Who do I need to speak to (Watchdog ? Trading Standards? Ombudsman?)
2) I do have a Legal-Advice+Costs covered under my landlord's insurance. Has anybody got any experience they want to share regarding the legal route + expenses covered ??

Regards.

Small claims court mate... Letter before action first on paper & sent by post. See my posts above about 24/7's name & address for service.