Shaw customer service reviews

Read the reviews below to see the experience other people have had when dealing with customer service from Shaw.

Posted by Unhappy


Sunday Mar 26 - completed online order for service and was contacted by rep about setup. Options were wednesday the 5 or self install. I chose self install which she gave me instructions to pick up at Oakridge mall by the food court any time

Friday Mar 31 - Went to Oakridge at 11am prior to 1230 call to pickup. They didnt have anything for me and couldn't help me. Fiber team was supposed to call within 15 min of 11:10am. As of noon no call

12pm March 31 - first call to shaw. Went to current account members after 9 min I was told to hang up and call new account holders

12:46pm after missing my call and sale due to no web conferencing abilities I called. After 16 min on the phone the situation was left that I would receive a call in "1, at the very most 2 hours" He said we had an appointment booked for apr 10 from 3-5

4:11pm After 3+ hours waiting for a call I called. After 40 min on the phone and 2 calls I was told to call back when I got back home because the router may in fact be already in the home. Finally given direct line to the fiber team. Conversation included conversation RE compensation, I said I wanted a large portion in the ballpark of half my term covered for the hassle and they could talk about cable as an add on to make me happy. Supervisor Ian said "that sounds reasonable, but lets get you connected to the internet and then we can handle that" Also stated we had missed an appointment on Mar 30 when we didnt even have access to the suite

11:02am 5min call Call dropped during transfer

12:52pm 54 min call - Went and got my own personal router from storage in chilliwack because the shaw router was not accessible via password. Hooked it up and confirmed Node and modem in place already(all was for nothing) Called to let fiber team know exactly what the situation was. After 25 min of the tech laughing at me because he couldn't understand what I was saying I requested a supervisor. Spoke to Yalena(who was actually good). At this point she offered us 2 months internet covered, a third of what was discussed with Ian the day before and deemed "reasonable." This escalated to the next staff member Paymen. Who while cutting my fiancée off at each sentence and dealing with her in a manner that I felt it was necessary for me to intervene. Continued with me. Until he ended the call telling us to "Go to telus" and that we were greedy and have no idea how "it works" within shaw.

1:57 pm 15min - Paymen called back to ensure we were receiving a back from Ian - She spoke to paymen - who began to apologize profusely and said he wanted us to stay with shaw. He said he would do the 6 months and even more. In his words he would give us "a million things to make us happy" and he was going to contact ian at home on the weekend to make arrangements.

3:57pm 9min - Paymen calls back and says he talked to Ian. Continuously cuts me off and escalates voice, laughs at me and the situation. Says we are lying about the conversation with Ian and that Ian offered two months(or would) which was never discussed. He insisted on Ian calling me at noon on monday. I asked to have the department supervisor contact me directly at 1230pm because of the service I have received. After 10 min of denying me, he agreed to have him contact me at 1230.

Monday 12:36pm 5 min - Ravi calls to inform me that Ian is in a meeting and will not be able to speak with me after I have been waiting outside for a call and deliberately not booked a client. Again lost revenue. Apologizes and asks to have Ian call me at 11am tuesday. I ask the status of Ians supervisor to call me and he sees nothing in the notes about it from paymen

Monday 1250pm 17 min - Obviously upset with how this has been handled and the lack of notes or call from a supervisor I call into "new customer line" and speak to V544 Vanessa, who was professional and tried to help but upon my insistence agreed to have Jag call(supervisor)

Missed a call from Shaw Chilliwack 11:03am

Call back 11:09 to the new member line- ask status and who was calling. She informed me it was calvin, not ian, asked to be connected which she couldn't do but said they were calling back in 10 min according to the notes.

11:17am - Receive a call from another tech on fiber team, saying that Ian is in a meeting and would not be able to reach me currently. I asked him if he was "avoiding me." I informed him of the conversation with Vanessa, and that I was done with speaking to Ian as apparently he does not feel that my time is valuable. I informed him that I was awaiting a call from Jag and wanted to know when I would receive that. He said he would find out and call me back shortly.

I have since missed a call from Jag on Tuesday at 3:54pm and had a message saying he would call back in a half hour. This was April 4/2017. I had a serious family health issue and was unavailable for a term after that.

I have called back and am awaiting a call today. I have much more detailed and complete notes available. This is the compressed version. I am completely dissatisfied with the service thus far and will be sharing to my social media networks of 10k followers as well as recommending my future managed facilities make a switch over to telus for all internet, cable, and phone communications. I await your reply.

Posted by Anonymous


I Have Been Without Phone Service For Two Days. Went To Shaw Office As I Cannot Phone Them, Was Told A Repair Man Would Be Out To Fix The Problem, As Of Yet Which Is Way Past Their Business Hours Noone Has Came. Iguess It Will Be Another Day. As I Do Not
Have A Cell Phone This Is Not Very Handy. Very Dissappointed. I Wonder If I Could Pay My Bill With Such Uncaring And Slowness?

Posted by Anonymous


shaw. y r u so slow with configuring win10??? your internet speed tonight is about 3... should be atleast 10??? slow, slow slow...any idea when your configuration for win 10 will be operatible....

Posted by Anonymous


The pharmacist on duty in the Brunswick store at 6 pm on 3/23/15 has gone out of his way to help me on two occasions. He provides top notch customer service and I really have appreciated his help on both occasions.

Posted by Anonymous


Waited over an hour to talk to tech support- this is after checking weak tech info site. I was correct about what problem was and the tech guy (once finally spoke) was friendly and fixed things.

Posted by tmj


I have been trying to remove a block on me phone for over 2 weeks now my husband can not call me and have contacted Shaw many times .They said it was there fault and should have it resolve soon still haven't fixed it

Posted by Jan


Shaw's wifi hasn't worked for a few days. Are they going to pay Rogers bills for all the data my I phone is having to use instead of the shaw wifi? I highly doubt it!! It's supposed To work all around the town to save data but doesn't even work at home!! Waiting on hold for extended periods of time is ridiculous as well. They need to have more staff on duty to match all the problems they have with their service. Pretty easy math!

Posted by Anonymous


I am having trouble getting support by phone. It is taking too much time.

I think you need more employees. This is not something I want to do online. Personal service means a lot to me.

I think it is very bad manners to force me to listen to commercials for your business while I kept waiting over half an hour. Its really bad form.

Bev

Posted by Kathleen


How do you figure l should phone Shaw and complain about my home phone when it isn't working lmao. Been out for over 24 hours

Posted by Anonymous


I have had Shaw for about 10 years. Shaw initially and for many years was highly satisfactory. But in the past year they have not been satisfactory at all. In fact they have been poor. Their technicians generally are good, but recently when I phoned and describe the problem I am having I am told that they will phone back. They do not phone back. I have wireless and I was told initially there was no further charge for this service, but they tacked $4.95 for on my bill. I would like to know why. I have two computers that have wireless capacity built in. My third computer, a p.c. has belkin. The third I have complained numerous times that the wireless does not work and was told that they would call me back and yet no one called. I have to fiddle with it to make it work.I work in the early hours of the morning, but often the internet is down. It it a real problem. I do not like it and it is difficult to tolerate so that I am looking for an alternative server. They have our t.v., our internet.

Posted by Metro


Its unimmaginable just how badly corrupted Shaw can be?... and still operate? After reading the other negative comments, from so many dissatified customers, I'm now in the
same catagory. Each one of those negative comments towards Shaw's ill service, or no service, applies to my experience and dissatisfaction as well. Is there another corporation in all of Canada, or even North America, as bad and inept in dealing with their customers as this one is?
Shaw simply does not respond to its Customer's for service as any responsible corporation would strongly endevour to do. One has to ask, does Shaw even care? Because of all those negative comments from so many dissatisfied Customers it would appear that Shaw certainly doesn't!

Posted by Anonymous


still wait for custumer service to call she said she will call in 20 minutes about two hours ago

Posted by Really?


Another unhappy Shaw customer. A have a problem with my solid wood floors; they are cupping. Their subject matter expert came to my house and concluded that no evidence supported an issues on the environment or installation antd they he would go back to write up a report to recommend my floors be replaced. After an extended time period and my constant followups, a claim report was sent to me stating, not their problem.

Posted by Very Angry Shaw user ! NO MORE!


Your customer service is horrible!!!!! and your tech/ help dept is worse & very rude They do not answer your questions they try selling you a $300.00 full computer tech to repair your computer (i think it's a scam)
When you finally get through to a live person!!!! I am going to cancel Shaw and tell all my friends & family who may be on Shaw what a farce SHAW is......

Posted by Tammy


Shaw is alful..They took two hrs to finaaly get someone who could answer a question...correctly, for me..Managers are rude and dont care and the staff is worse. I cut back on my shaw, so the free box was no longer VALID and to keep it, they would have to charge me for something they GAVE me. Not once did they tell me that I could change my channels around or add, or take away! Call number two..too see why, after a 2 hr plus FIRST call, that NOTHING was changed..they are rude and useless..net cards, and movies on line with TELUS!!!! see ya SHAW!

Posted by doug


I had my Shaw cable hooked up in September of 2011, My first bill was 371.00 I took about 1 1/2 hours waiting on the phone to talk to the billing department. They said I had a overdue bill of 32.00 when I asked what the other charges were for. They could not explain my bill so I asked what my monthly charges were, I paid the 32 and the monthly fee. The next month I get an outrageous bill for two hundred and something. I finally phoned them back, wasting more of my time and told them that if they could not get it right next billing they could come disconnect. Finally they got it right. Imagine how many old people get sucked into paying way to much and Shaw says not a word unless caught even then they just want to credit you instead of returning your money.

Posted by Anonymous


I contacted Shaw a month ago to have them disconnect their "service" on the 26th of April as I got a better deal with Telus. They said that they would send me a box to return the receiver and remote and then I would get a refund for my prepaid monthly bill. Well, I called them tonight to say I still had not received the box and was told that since my account was closed I had to get my own box and send it to GOD knows where.They said because my account was closed as of last week they couldn't help me. I guess they were hoping I forgot about the receiver and theycould keep my money!!!! Is this good business now in the 21st century!Shaw---never again!!!!!

Posted by Anonymous


I am very upset with Shaw and have switched providers. Losing Inet connection in the middle of bank transmissions, inability to get connected many times for long periods of time. The worst is the holding for "days" to speak to someone, getting someone who cannot help, they answer the phone after me waiting and then put me back on hold for "days" again. What is with that.
Not Happy

Posted by Anonymous


your customer service is terrible my phone hasn't worked for over 24 hrs and i can't get the answers i need as to why it doesn't work . i can't phone for help brecause i have no phone your online support is useless

Posted by not happy


been trying off & on numerous times over past couple of weeks to speak to Shaw about TV and mail questions. always on hold for a long time. the callback service didn't happen. no one comes on their on-line chat after waiting for a long time, maybe there is no one there? i noticed out of the approx. 98% beefs (that I read) only a couple people said they liked Shaw. One even mentioned about the Customer Retention experience. my "customer retention" experience a month ago was that they couldn't do anything for me (10+ year customer). seems to be a lot of unhappy Shaw customers out there, but their fearless leaders seem to be clueless. they probably prefer to spend huge $ paying some high priced irritating survey company to call you and I up to find out what we like or don't like... go figure. Looking at Telus hard now, but geez, we need more competition, not just two clown corporations to pick from.

Posted by Anonymous


OnFebruary 19 I called as I was unable to activate my new remote control. I discussed my problem with Pembe who was extremely helpful in having my problem resolved.
Thanks, Gerry

Posted by Philip G


Long time Shaw users. We've just 'upgraded' our T.V.'s to HD. My wife called to negotiate a deal. She was put through to customer retention. She told them we were considering Telus. The deal Shaw offered lowered our monthly bill by $50 dollars, that included many HD channels, as well as phone and internet. Nice.
Shaw cable guy set us up nicely, but forgot to leave the PVR manual. Waited on the phone for 2 minutes, then customer service answered all questions in a friendly manner, and is mailing me the Manual.
The whole experience has left us very pleasantly surprised.

Posted by Anonymous


I changed from telus to shaw because of bad customer service, but now shaw is even worse,..I will now cancel my shaw account and will go back to telus

Posted by fred


been on hold for over 5 hours trying to contact the cull for over 4 days , expect to be on hold 4 or 5 hours on a slow day . i hate shaw cable the worst or the worst

Posted by ihateshaw


I called Shaw yesterday to see if i can get a better plan for my home, internet and TV. First i talked to Denver from customer service- first he did not ask me to verify my information and said - " what is it that you want me to do?" i told told him what i wanted, he said no and somehow the line was disconnected. I called back, spoke with Wendy this time after 30 mins waiting on the line. She said I have to go to a Shaw location and talk to them- they can't help me over the phone anymore, then she hung up. I was pissed. So i called back to cancel, and the guy just cancelled right away without caring about why. He also said " it's actually costing us ( SHaw ) money to have me as a customer" . I have been with Shaw for 10 years and this is it! They are not there for you when you need them.

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