DPD pin nightmare

Matt2711 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:26:44 GMT

Hi-

Ive been an o2 customer for many years and this is my first post within these forums due to a situation that is riddled with lies, incompetence and downright terrible customer service, the like of which you really couldn’t make up.
Some context-

My wife and I have 4 contracts - one each for us and the remaining two which are for 2 of our children.

On the 13th September, I upgraded one of the handsets via ‘switch up’ to an iPhone 16pro max.

Fast forward to last Friday, and DPD turn up with the handset and duly asked for a pin (no mention of this process during upgrade).

I had no pin, there was no pin attached to tracking and the driver had to leave, with a rescheduled delivery date the following Monday.

After numerous calls to O2 it transpired that the pin had been sent to a dormant number that hadn’t been in use for over 10 years!!!!!

I have made numerous calls to rectify this, and have been assured on each occasion that the number has been updated, however upon checking with DPD they still have the old number on file.

I have been assured on each occasion that the number would been changed and would be reflected “24hrs later” but still the number is the same.

One advisor even advised taking out another line!!!

A majority of calls have resulted in agents who are clearly in another country putting me on “hold” and then either transferring me where the process of explaining again what’s happened begins, or I’m cut off.

I’ve had to keep rescheduling delivery in the hope that this simple task has been completed, the handset is due for delivery tomorrow and guess what???

Having made yet another call yesterday and been assured the number has been changed, it’s still the wrong number.

O2 customer service has declined rapidly.

Re: DPD pin nightmare

Enlli — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:28:58 GMT

Yours is not an unique post, unfortunately.

Agents have now been withdrawn from even here so there is little we can do.

Many of us advise using Switch Up in store to eleviate many of the problems that arise by doing it online

Re: DPD pin nightmare

gmarkj — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:10:23 GMT

We are asked to point people to use o2 social media channels, and in fairness they do seem to help in most cases @Matt2711

All of the links you need are in the below guide

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