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  • 27 November 2019
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After looking for a new smartphone and getting a nice flat offer as new customer, I decided to go with o2, even some friends told me that’s a crappy company. I I pre-ordered the Huawei P30 pro on 1st of april 2019, so I signed the new contract. A day after I guess I received an email said I did need to pay in advance 167 € even though the offer said that I don 't need to pay anything. OK. That was not an issue. I pre-paid that ammount, I received my phone, my sim card, everything is fine. Later in mid-June I am ordering the O2 DSL for home. I was charged the connection fee. Later in late september I had some issues with N26 bank, which caused soem SEPA payments to fail ... Because of this fail, I decided to pay O2. so it was 2 separate transfers during a single month one for 25 € and on for 41.50 €. I went to the O2 app to check the descriptor of payments and 41.50 €. Then I received the support and said that is 41.50 € is the payment for the phone, and 25 € is for the sim card flar rate. When I asked why it 's like this because I probably should have a single payment that includes both. When I asked why I can not see the 41.50 € transfer to my O2 app she said it 's linked to another account.

I've got two separate contracts, one for the phone and one for the sim card. So they are not liking and I am not getting the discount. He said I need to go to the office where I sign the contract and let you try to fix the issue. That 's what I did, I went to the O2 office where I signed the contract, the guy realized the issue but said there 's nothing they can do because it 's too late, it 's almost 8 months, I should have come with the issue within 6 months. He said it 's my mistake that I did not check my monthly payment and I did not notice the mistake before. 

Well I signed a contract, I did not speak English (yet) and I fully trusted the O2 guy and O2 company. Now I can not fix it because it 's too late. Now I can not cancel the contract because it 's a 2 years contract, right? And I need to pay € 400 extra for nothing, because O2 did a mistake, how convinient. 

Some of my friends suggested did I need to file a complaint against o2 using this services  https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/consumers/resolve-your-consumer-complaint_de  but to be honest I'm trying to avoid this kind of "official complaints " as much as posisble. 

Really hope I can get my problem solved or I can get a contact from some O2 internal complaint services.

13.10.2022 10:35 o2 Katja: moved from Mobilfunkvertrag to our english community

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Lösung von o2_Jan 28 November 2019, 17:44

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Hi @Vladimir.T,

welcome to the o2 community!

I am sorry to hear that things didn’t work out quite as they should.

I took a look into your contract data and from what I can see, you have a 5 EUR discount on your mobile contract as well as a 5 EUR combination discount on your dsl contract. Also, there is a 6-month-100%-discount on your general fee for your dsl contract that will continue till January 2020.

It is correct that when you order a tariff and a phone they are in fact two seperate contracts with unique customer numbers, so when you want to transfer money to one of those, be careful to include the correct customer number for the transfer to be connected to the correct contract.

Having said that, I cannot see a hardware contract for your phone, so I have no data regarding your phone or if you were eligible for a hardware discount in the first place back in April.
And since it was started and signed in an o2 shop, I’m afraid, there is nothing I can do about it, because those contracts can only be altered in the shop where they were signed.

So I’d like to ask you to contact the o2 shop again, but it is not very likely that the additional discount can be implemented this late into the contract.

Sorry for the inconveniences,
best regards,
Jan.

As I mentioned I said I have been at the shop, and the guy said: “yes sorry we did a mistake, one contact is First Name + Last Name and another contract is Last Name + First Name, but it’s too late for us to do something”. In other words, he said, hey we fooled you, and we were lucky you didn’t find that within 6 months, so now you pay extra 400€ (15€ per month) just because you’re a trustful person. Thanks for trusting us. )) 

The discounts you’re talking about are for beeing young under 27. :)

@o2_Jan I will pm you with details about the payment (contract number) for hardware. So you can find out the contract and see the issue yourself. 

@o2_Jan, unfortunately, I can not send you a PM because “This user can only receive private messages from users whom he/she is following.”.

Thanks for coming back with an answer and trying to look into the problem. 
To be clear I am not blaming any O2 employee, I understand that mistakes can happen. I just am completely against O2 policy on “we’re not gonna solve your problems after 6 months.” because this is complete bullshit. 

I am not considering that this is OK to promise a great deal and then just screw your customer.

Hi @Vladimir.T,

I totally understand this is a frustrating situation, and it’s not how things should be handled in general.

However, the thing is that we in the online customer service cannot alter or change contracts that were made in a shop, which is why I have to refer you to the shop (again), I’m afraid.

Apart from that, you can send a letter explaining the situation to our general customer service in Nürnberg, the address is as follows:

Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
Kundenbetreuung
90345 Nürnberg

I’m really sorry that things didn’t work out the way you expected them to be, but us at the online customer service have no say in altering contracts made in a shop.

Best regards,
Jan.

In an O2 store, I applied for a contract for a HAndy with internet. I recently relocated here in Germany for employment. Since the personal speaks English, I'm glad to say that I had a good understanding of everything. The SIM card was there right away. To follow up for the phone, I returned to the shop multiple times. Before the O2 representative informed me that my contract is for a sim only without a phone.I paid a significant sum of money anticipating getting a phone with it, it was a complete misunderstanding.

I think whoever is doing that is abusing people. After learning of the pact, we are unable to take any action.

They are aware that we do not comprehend and speak German as well as they do, yet it is wrong for them to utilize this to their advantage.

i hope this can be address as well

Hello @Airish,

welcome to our o2 community 😊

I'm sorry that there were problems when ordering your mobile contract together with a smartphone. Our o2 My Handy installment purchases are always separate contracts, so you can actually order a new smartphone at any time.

If you need further assistance with this issue, please let us know.

Best regards

Giulia

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