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LATEST UPDATE: As many of you are majorly sick and tired of Skype’s BAD customer service and have talked for ions about suing Skype, I can help put together a case, but we need to establish that people are serious about seeing this through. If, therefore, you are serious about suing Skype or want to take the matter further, I suggest that you:

1. Post a comment with your issue;
2. Please file a complaint with the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection on https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en (if you get confirmation number, please include it in step 3); and
3. Please send an email to skype@asifism.com explaining what your issue was and how you think Skype either violated their terms of service or mistreated you, aside from the fact that they take your money but refuse to speak with you.

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The Skype Manager, which is supposed to allow businesses to manage numbers for business use, has had technical problems now for 72 hours. Skype has not had the decency to inform members of this. Users who’s numbers have expired are NOT able to renew them, and customer service refuses to help or do it for them.

I have had a chat twice with customer service. They refuse to help, give a timeframe for the solution, or even give the name or email address of someone to write to or compain. I have no sent a couple of tweets to Josh Silverman, the CEO of Skype. I am hoping he sets a better standard of professionalism than his customer service staff have done.

It is agains the law and the agreement Skype has with its customers to TAKE your money and not offer service. Our lines have now been down for 3 days, and Skype takes no responsibility. You would think a company like Skype would take responsibility for its actions, but here is an excerpt from my chat with an Andrea TB from customer service:

Me says
I will ask you one last time to:
Me says
Either renew our number
Me says
Get me a name and telephone number
Andrea T. B. says
Neither is possibly, I am sorry.
Me says
or just let me know your name and that of your supervisor so I can mention that in my email to
Josh.
Andrea T. B. says
*possible*
Andrea T. B. says
I cannot give you full names.
anawaz82 says
So you are refusing to help me or offer any service?
Andrea T. B. says
I am not refusing to help you, however, I am unable to do so.
Me says
You are refusing to give me a phone number and refusing to disclose your name.
Me says
Those are not things you are unable to do, those are things you are unwilling to do.
Me says
So, are you unwilling to help me?
Andrea T. B. says
I cannot give you a number as we do not have one and I am not allowed to give out full names.
Andrea T. B. says
In this case, yes, I am.
Me says
So in both cases you are unwilling to help me.
Me says
Can you give me a number?
Andrea T. B. says
In the phone number’s and full names’ cases, I am.
Me says
Basically, you are either unable to or unwilling to help, correct?
Me says
Despite the fact that I pay Skype money for service?
Andrea T. B. says
Yes.

And there you have it. For spending about £500 a year with Skype, this is what you get – incompetent customer service personnel. Perhaps we will be filing a small business claim for damages and switching to an alternative – as soon as possible.

  • http://blogs.skype.com Peter Parkes (Skype)

    I’m sorry you’ve had a bad experience with Skype Manager over the last few days – and I apologise that our support team weren’t able to help you.

    We’ve now identified the bug which is causing the problems you’ve had, and are working to fix it. I can’t make any promises as to timing, but anticipate that things should be back to normal within the next 24 hours.

    Let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help at this stage.

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    Peter, thanks for your response. I have had several emails from the Skype ‘President’s’ office and I am liaising with Marilyn there.

    None of this would have been necessary if customer service only told me what the issue was – it’s just bad customer service training and it’s not like we’re happy about the fact that service over the phone is non existent for even paying customers.

    For us, Skype service has generally been good, but when things do go sour, no one’s willing to help. Last time the terms and conditions changed about personal and business numbers and their ownership, Skype didn’t even send an email to customers to inform them of the change. For those of us who pay, I am afraid you simply have to do a better job than that.

  • Alfonso

    Please help, I am in the exact same position as Commie B. We have a UK telephone number that has already expired and cannot reactivate it since TWO months now.
    We have been chatting through the Skype Manager tool, over a dozen times and received over a dozen emails telling us that it was a browser security issue, or many other excuses to avoid admitting that this was Skype’s fault.
    We also have 7 other Skype In numbers that are following the same path: we cannot extend them, nor do anything about it. The phrase when you click the extend (or reactivate button) is the same since TWO months ago:
    “Oops, something went wrong…
    We’re having technical problems. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Please try again after a few minutes.
    Thank you.”
    Something has to be done to tell this company about how they work giving out their excuses.

  • Rob

    Honestly, Skype’s customer service is a joke.
    I have been trying to fund my Skepy account thru PayPal for a couple of days and all my payments are getting refunded..
    Skype continuously tells me to talk to PayPal who reassures me it’s Skype’s problem.
    Emailing Skype back and forth only gives scripted replies and they don’t even bother reading the emails I have replied to them. Keep asking the same thing over and over again.. This was the last time I tried funding my Skype account. I’m switching to Google Talk.

  • Maggie Lee

    I was promise 24 hours to receive solution when I am not able to view the usage record for 31 March. But now is the 4th day, I still not hearding from skype to get me the usage report.

    When I chat with the customer service the try to give me wrong feedback and to to brush me away.

    They quoted on the chat.:

    1. Due to subscription not credit usage, I am not able to view the usage record, which is not true. I been using subscription and viewed my usage record.

    2. Due to GMT time zone so it will take sometime to load up the record. Wrong again. Why would I been getting 1st April usuage record but not 31st usage record?

    3. All my accounts are link with skype manager, customer services ask me to check each individual account on the usage record, which is not possible, the usage is only able to view through skype manager.

    Attach are the conversation log for your review. I need the 31st March calling log, it would be great, if you can email to me or fix the account so I can view.

    I think skype customer service has no knowledge of skype product at all. Just by giving lies and try to sweep dust under the carpet is so bad.

    Is this how skype treat their customer?

  • stupid

    yea whats wrong with skype

  • Henrique

    Hi, I’m having a problem with Skype and I would like to sue them, but don’t know how. Here is what happened very briefly:
    Last saturday my Skype account was highjacked, they associated my account with several fake account on Skype Manager (I have never used Skype Manager before) and started puchasing skype credits with my credit card and passing it in small amount to the fake users. Skype kept all my data from my last puchase with them (more than an year ago) and that’s how they could use it to buy Skype credits.
    I talked to Skype and they say they are not responsible and refuses to refund me. What can I do, what should I do?
    Thank you!

  • http://www.asifism.com Commie B

    I fear they may be right unless you have evidence of informing them immediately of the highjack and them ignoring you.

  • Henrique

    As soon as I received the email telling me of the purchase I accessed my account on Skype, seeing some suspect activity I immediately contacted support via chat, warning them. They blocked my account but it was too late.

  • Anonymous

    HELLO, I HAVE HAD MONEY I BELIEVE TAKeN BY SKYPE BY BARCLAYS Bank in the united kingdom  by my bank account with santander & i keep on losing money my skype account says i have zero credit and i still can’t after over a week use skype am being charged as seen on my bank account lets all of us sue skype get in touch with our governments & put who owns this company out of businewss &# in prison & get our money back as consumers globally by by skype  

  • Anonymous

    HELLO, I HAVE HAD MONEY I BELIEVE TAKeN BY SKYPE BY BARCLAYS Bank in the united kingdom  by my bank account with santander & i keep on losing money my skype account says i have zero credit and i still can’t after over a week use skype am being charged as seen on my bank account lets all of us sue skype get in touch with our governments & put who owns this company out of businewss &# in prison & get our money back as consumers globally by by skype  

  • Anonymous

    HELLO, I HAVE HAD MONEY I BELIEVE TAKeN BY SKYPE BY BARCLAYS Bank in the united kingdom  by my bank account with santander & i keep on losing money my skype account says i have zero credit and i still can’t after over a week use skype am being charged as seen on my bank account lets all of us sue skype get in touch with our governments & put who owns this company out of businewss &# in prison & get our money back as consumers globally by by skype  

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  • BillS

    I just spent an hour trying to cancel and get a $20 refund. They are ridiculous. It hit me while I was waiting and waiting. Here is a company that provides a service that you can be face to face having a conversation with someone on the other side of the planet and yet, if you need customer service it’s like going back to the telegraph. If you have a different way to go don’t use them.

    This has got to be the worst use of the Customer Service
    term ever!  I know it is done intentionally
    to make it impossible to get your money back but this has taken it to a entirely
    new level. Something that should have been easy and taken about 5 minutes has
    been complicated and time consuming.





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