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Vodafone "automatic compensation" for Home/Broadband

Zaf00
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City Fibre was a week late to setup Broadband on behalf of Vodafone down where we live.
It happens, nothing dramatic, but still, delays and absence of service are falling under Vodafone's scheme of compensation.
Appropriate billing discount usually appears on the second billing (as you are paying the first two months of subscription upfront).  -This is what I have been told by Vodafone chat support team.
3 months ago.
On my second bill,  the automatic compensation discount was not indicated.
I was told by the chat support team, this was indeed a problem and that the information had been reported and the automatic compensation would "surely show" on my next bill.
On my third bill, compensation discount was still not indicated. 
Chat support team, told me this was not right indeed, but that I should to look out for my next bill, as it would show up this time.
My bill arrived today and guess what ? no automatic compensation yet again. According to chat support team, I should wait for next month as it is too late now and nothing can be done about it.

I think I can recite you Vodafone chat suport team's script by heart by now. 
Understanding, apologetic, reassuring, garantiing all is done to improve on customer experience.
But at this stage, I start to wonder WHERE lies the problem ?
And I do wonder if it could it be that the chat support team is a complete bogus interface to do away with Vodafone service failures in an inconspicious manner:
As a matter of fact, if you want to complain about Vodafone chat support service, the only way to do it is -apparently- to use ....Vodafone chat  support service.
Carress a circle a watch him becoming vicious....

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Bozarama
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Did you ever get your 'automatic compensation' in the end? I too am awaiting the same thing, promised in an email sent whilst waiting for my broadband set up to be finalised.

Ripshod
16: Advanced member
16: Advanced member

Bear in mind only openreach connections qualify for the compensation. 

There is a way to get past TOBI without the AI - just a few security questions. 

https://vodafone.co.uk/bbservcd 

Getting around TOBI is not complicated indeed
But the poor chaps answering in its place are barely any better, not to mention they are bound to use a very constraint answer script.
On 4-5 occasions I tried to address issues of this kind through Vodafone online chat,  I was bounced over 3-4 differents operators.
Each of them will take 5 mins to read the log from the chat  "so you don't have to repeat yourself" except you WILL have to repeat yourself plenty.
The result varied but never succeeded in the end: I was told either
-everything has been done, and should reflect in my next bill (Nope)
or
-there is nothing they can do about it (they don't deal with billing services and cannot get me in touch with the service in question)
Long story short Vodafone online customer service is a sham.