Duncan C Tvs

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer

Fido drained my deceased mother dry and refused to refund

FIDO Refused to cancel and stop payments on my Mom's phone after she died despite our trying in store, over several phone calls - until I got executorship from the courts which took 8 months. They refused to stop billing and charging the phone even though it just sat in a drawer.

When I got executorship they said they'd only talk to me and handle it then. When I finally did they REFUSED to refund the 8 months of charges for a phone of a deceased person that was unused and sitting in a drawer. They irony - on one of the many phone calls where I was on hold or transferred to several people all saying the same thing they again asked for more account info which I could only get by opening her phone and finding it in her fido email. Because I opened the phone to look for it that was "usage" and for that I lost the entire 8 months - they refused to refund it as there was evidence of it being used (for them).

Garbage.

This is how they act when you die. They will keep bleeding you until they can't any longer then treat your family like trash.

View full review
Loss:
$1023
Pros:
  • Was fine until family died
Cons:
  • Has no respect for life

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Don't USE FIDO

1 comment
Guest

The bank account could have been frozen upon death. Fido also would have stopped billing with copy of a death certificate. Unless the phone plan was in the middle of a contract.

Anonymous
map-marker Mo I Rana, Nordland

Pathetic Network, PooR Connection and Horrible Customer Service.

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Fido - Pathetic Network, PooR Connection and Horrible Customer Service.
Pathetic Network, PooR Connection and Horrible Customer Service. Even Poor can become rich but you cant trust FIDO. You will hardly get any calls as you are always going to remain network free from your phone. Most importantly their customer support is hilarious and just a joke, they will think you have whole life-time for them and you can hold or wait for them to respond. They remain busy like they are writing constitution for the world and cant hire extra people for their work , while people are struggling to get a job
View full review

User's recommendation: BIG NOOOO

Alivia Kfh

This review is written by an individual who has purchased the reviewed product/service and/or confirms being a paying customer of this company. Check our FAQ

Verified Buyer
| map-marker Accra, Greater Accra Region

Can’t login to my account

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Fido - Can’t login to my account
Fido - Can’t login to my account - Image 2
Thank u very much. An Theophilus owusu My house gut bunr on the 8th September. and I lost my phone and the number I used to register my account on figo. And the phone that used to create the Fido account is not with me now And I have to pay my loan to figo and I have gotten my number back from Vodafone and I wonted to pay my loan since last 3days but I cant log in to my account with the phone am using now. When I try to login into my account the code is reflecting so please eny help for me to pay my loan am not a bad person
View full review

User's recommendation: Any number to call u. Not all of us can express our self in retting please

Aloysius I

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer

Re: Breach of agreement for A/C 50137****

Re: Re: Breach of agreement for A/C 50137****

Hello,

I refer to the phone plan sold to me by one of your agent /staff (Mr Solomon) on Jan 24, 2024. Interaction # 121******** and recorded conversation is here reference.

My wife and I rejoined fido on Jan 27 having ported out of Telus. The deal was for 2 lines 403xxxxx228 and 587xxxxx69. Breakdown for each line is $44/line with 10+20GB plus -$5 (for auto-pay, which has been set up) and another -$5 for 24 months. 2 months into the deal, the data agreed on is yet to reflect in my app.

I have since corresponded with your staffs-Solomon, Ryan, Dan, and as of today, Loren all through Jan, Feb and Mar, most recently today. All of the former 3 staffs acknowledged the deal and sent tickets for FIDO to rectify this except for Loren who claims that the deal was invalid. (See correspondence below). Technically we have paid for the phone plans (Jan/March) even though you Fido has failed to keep the side of your bargain.

I want to understand this, Is Loren saying that FIDO deliberately made an invalid offer to me to entice us out of Telus? If yes, that, in all honesty and decency, is fraudulent and despicable to say the least. I am still racking my brain to understand this unprofessional behaviour. What this means is that FIDO entices people from other Telco, and as soon as they port, FIDO invents stories not to honour its side of the deal.

I will rather port our numbers out from Fido than patronize and promote insincerity and dubiousness. This is really a shame! If your staff/agent made the mistake, why dont you hold them accountable? Why make a well-meaning client bear the error?

So, because you failed your side of the deal, I want a refund of the monies paid to FIDO as of today for billing a service that was not fully honoured and delivered. Nothing else will suffice.

Either a full refund or FIDO respects what was agreed. The conversation was recorded and can be referenced.

Thanks,

Aloysius Mel Iguegbe

View full review
Loss:
$138

Preferred solution: Full refund

Vasyl B Qie

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer

I cannot resolve the issue with fido in a civilized manner

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full

I ran into the following problem with fido. If Fido is reading these comments, here is my mobile account 50103****.

On Boxing Day, hearing from everyone I know that this is the day of the year when you can get good discounts and offers from expensive Canadian mobile operators, I decided to get a good mobile plan. Registered with fido in Champlain at the mall in Moncton. The agent said the plan was $29 a month, I agreed. The employee gave me to sign only the last pages as if it were a contract, I did not see or read the contract until she connected me to the operator.

Then I saw a contract on which the price was not 29, but 39, the discount was supposed to be 5 dollars for connecting automatic payment for two years and another 5 dollars for 10 months. There was a mistake in my last name. The agent refused to print out the contract with the correct last name. I am already silent that I waited an hour to talk to the agent, the agent was annoyed, in principle, you can understand when there are long queues, everyone wants something, they are in a hurry and everything is done as quickly as possible.

The question is not about the agent, but about fido fraud. Actually, when I connected my credit card for automatic withdrawal, the discount that was supposed to be valid for 10 months was withdrawn, but it was withdrawn in three days. A clear violation of the terms of the contract by the mobile operator himself. Despite the fact that no one told me that there are any conditions, I expect to pay $29 per month.

Violation of the contract by fido was the reason for switching to another operator. However, after my switch via email, I received a letter stating that I have to pay Fido more than $100, including $60 for the agent who connected Fido to me. I was not informed about this at all when connected. Although in the application itself on the phone, the amount I owe them for three days of use is $70.08.

I can't check what's included here because the account has been canceled.

When I tried to explain this to the fido agent through their chat on the website and when I asked to adjust the amount that I have to pay for 3 days of use, I did not receive any adequate answer, I ask about one thing, and the agent paraphrases and answers about another.

Still haven't received an answer. I consider such activity as deception, fraud, use of holidays to attract customers to supposedly favorable terms, which are then not fulfilled and the customer is charged an unreasonable and unspecified amount. Fido takes advantage of the situation by forcing customers to allegedly voluntarily pay unreasonable bills, fearing that if they do not pay, they will turn to collectors and their credit history will deteriorate.

If any of the fido employees are reading this, I look forward to hearing from you. Otherwise, I would like to see you in court on this matter.

View full review
Loss:
$60

Preferred solution: Price reduction

User's recommendation: please be carefully

Dragana New

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer

Terrible customer service

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Terrible customer service, it took me 4 days and 2-3 hours per day to finaly get my number ported out and active. But my first bill was instant and higher than what i was told when setting the account. They refuse to apply discount for automatic bill payments and still charged me for 4 days that I didn't have the service. Extremely cheap company that treats their customers like dirt.
View full review
Loss:
$120
Cons:
  • Impossible to get customer services to solve your problem in timely matter

Preferred solution: Apology

User's recommendation: Stay away

Randy F Aoy

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer
| map-marker Calumpit, Central Luzon

Problem getting phone i ordered

Updated by user Mar 18, 2024

Not knowledgeable and dont really care if they lose long time customer of Fido and Rodgers Shaw

Original review Mar 13, 2024
I purchased a refurbished phone , received it dosent work has software problem so i called customer service they said they would send me another one and i could ship this one back should take 14 days its been better than a month so i called yesterday to see what was happening and they said it was on back order so had no idea when i could get it because it was an older phone , now they are saying they can send me one thats 2 years newer but want me to pay $15 more a month after i signed up for a new contract excepted auto payments put $126.oo down to keep my payments to where i could afford them since im a senior on a fixed income. I told them its unacceptable to expect me to wait for ever for same phone and since it was their problem they should take the hit for the extra cost like any other company that i was a customer of for over 15 years and for all the hassle this has caused me , its another used phone , not like im asking them to supply me with a new phone wich shouldnt be out of the question because ive been a loyal customer of Fido and Shaw for many many years.This whole situation has me and my family thinking about changing our services.
View full review

Preferred solution: Phone for same price agreed on in my contract

Pratish G Gij

VERY BAD COMPANY. NO BUSINESS ETHICS.

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full

I am giving one star because there is no choice to pick below one star or else it would be no star or negative. very bad customer service.

I got my son (data and talk and text) and daughter (talk and text) on Fido. Month later I port my phone from other service provider to Fido that's when problem started. they send me invoice charging for incoming calls. I called the company which took hour and half.

They acknowledge by saying when system generate invoice this type of mistakes do happen. They said it will be fixed. Nothing happened for 2 months and they abruptly disconnect all our 3 phone connections. My daughter walks to bus stop to and from home.

Now suddenly she is without phone. We all know the crime rates are on incline in Toronto city. Very unsafe. Very unprofessional.

I called them today again which took 1 hour and 10 minutes on the call with account services which she acknowledge all incoming calls are free. She also acknowledge that all incoming calls are free. She said let me transfer you to my supervisor who has ability to help you in terms of fixing invoice and phone got disconnected. I have to call again.

This time again different person but acknowledge same thing earlier and told me that she will transfer me to supervisor. This time it took another 45 minutes on top of hour with her. Finally after over 1 hour and 45 minutes, supervisor came on the phone. This guys are trained to make you feel they are here to help you.

He started negotiation what should be right amount I believe I should pay. My point is if you are right than why are you negotiating in the first place. No one wants to loose hard earn money. When I told them the amount I owe them should be 3 plans times plan amount plus tax is the amount I owe them as none of the 3 plans exceed the monthly limit any given time which they acknowledge.

I spent 3 plus hours on single call and gave up. I have cell phone for 20 plus years same number. Never missed any payment any month and now suddenly all drama. Never ever again with Fido.

Anyone reading it, TRUST ME. NOT WORTH A PENNY.

View full review
Cons:
  • Everything else

Preferred solution: Apology

User's recommendation: Never go to FIDO

Heidi B Qvz

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer
| map-marker North Bay, Ontario

Leaving cancer patients without phones since 2024

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Please share FIDO TRAIN YOUR Wtf EMPLOYEES FOR THEIR Wtf AND QUIT PENIALIZING CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE BEEN LOYAL CUSTOMERS OVER 12 *** YEARS. WHY I AM BEING CHARGED LATE FEES OUT THE Wtf WHEN YOUR EMPLOYEES *** UP! HOW ABOUT SOME ACCOUNTABILITY ON YOUR END NOT PLACING THE BLAME FOR N CUSTOMERS!!! I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO CALL WEEKLY ABOUT MY BILL WHEN YOUR COMPANY IS THE PROBLEM!!! FIDO LEAVING CANCER PATIENTS WITHOUT PHONES SINCE 2024
View full review
Loss:
$750
Cons:
  • No accountabitiy for their fus
  • Lack of customer care

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: AVOID FIDO

Fatemeh N Wuv

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer

They stole my money

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Updated by user Feb 15, 2024

I talked to many different agents time to time and at last they said that case is closed and your money has been stolen by us but because we don’t want more troubles now that you found out ! We don’t charge you anymore!!!!

Original review Feb 15, 2024
Fido Company is a thief !!! So many false charges on my bill more and more every month and now they dont want to give it back !!! Worst company ever !!! AngryAngryAngryAngry
View full review
Loss:
$83

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Don’t ever work with them

Anonymous
map-marker Edmonton, Alberta

Horrible customer service.

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
have a nice day Kept double billing me in the past... I have better things to do than wait on the line to deal with them... will they pay my hourly wage?? When you start a new provider, you settle up with the old one financially which I did in the store... then I get an $82.00 bill later... then they send a collection agency after me... they will get $1000.00 worth of negative advertising from me...
View full review

User's recommendation: Don't bother

Anonymous
map-marker Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Increase monthly rate with no change of service/ prior notice

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Fido increased my monthly bill by approximately 25% with no notice. Additionally, they frequently try to overcharge stating that I have made "international calls" (I have not), or that I have "gone over my minutes" (my plan was unlimited talk and text). I expressed my unhappiness and was told they would give me a call later. I did not receive a call back. I found a deal with an alternative provider that is the same cost as my original Fido plan but with 48gb more of data than my original plan.
View full review

User's recommendation: an alternative provider

Kelly G Zim

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer
| map-marker Edmonton, Alberta

Just left them... want to warn others.

Horrible accounting. horrible company, I kept get billed for myself AND my adult daughter's phone, taking to them doesn't help... was tired of trying each month to straightened it out.
View full review

User's recommendation: So far Freedom has been good... so far.

Shannon T Vvs

This review is from a real person who provided valid contact information and hasn't been caught misusing, spamming or abusing our website. Check our FAQ

Verified Reviewer

I do not have an account and you are sending me bills

I do not have an account with Fido and I never had an account with Fido and for two months now Jack has been sending me an email tell me I have a bill of $93 and I keep on telling him I dont have an account and he doesnt understand and this goes on for hours at a time. Please clear this up. Thank you Shannon Toner.
View full review
Cons:
  • Almost impossible to reach a live agent or get any help

Preferred solution: This is not my bill. I do not do business with Fido. Delete bill and stop contacting me

Mahshid B Kdc

Fido makes everything so difficult

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Who wants to put extra effort and energy to pay bill? No one. For the past month, I have been trying to pay my frigging bill with no success. Unbelievable. Fido's my account is always out of order! I have been constantly trying to pay on my account! There is no way ro get past the menu option to talk to a customer service whatsoever! I left a request to call back somehow , but never received any call. Ask Jack ??? never works! Now my phones service has been cut off ! Guess what ? I can't even call 611 . This is humiliation.
View full review

Preferred solution: Apology

Anonymous
map-marker Saint Catharines, Ontario

Customer service line is terrible

stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full stars-rating-full
Ive been trying to get a hold of an actual person to talk about roaming charges on my bill when I didnt even go to the states and Ive been on hold for over an hour now. This is unacceptable and I feel you dont care about peoples time. If thats the case I want to send them a bill for my time being wasted
View full review

About

Related Companies

Rogers Communications, Sportsnet, Chatr, Todays Shopping Choice, Red Wireless

Summary

Fido is a well known Canadian provider of wireless data services and personal communications services. The company has the most widely deployed digital wireless platform in the world. It uses the latest voice and data technologies to offer people who choose Fido effective and comfortable communication without any extra-costs. In addition to that, the company offers its clients access to another Canadian large voice and data network Rogers Wireless.
Due to its money-back satisfaction guarantee, unique approach to pricing and other methods the company has became a leader of the industry in 1990th. Fido is an active participant of many charity programs, such as helping Canadian families and collecting funds for the victims of natural disasters.

Fido reviews and complaints

Fido is ranked 559 out of 2028 in Telecommunications category

Area Served

Canada

Payment Methods

VISA

Why Trust Reviews on PissedConsumer?

  • Professional auto and live moderation
  • 100% user-generated content
  • Equal opportunity and protection
  • Zero tolerance for fake reviews
  • Verified content
  • PissedConsumer is on the Inc. 5000 list

For more information read Blog article