“ When my electric provider exited the market last May, I was forced to go to a direct energy company. After 2 days I found another provider due to the rate I was offered. Since then, my identity was stolen by a person who had access to my social and opened up a fraudlent account online. They didn't pay the bill for 3 months and it went on my credit rating. My credit rating dropped 120 points for a $181 charge that wasn't even mine. They let anyone enroll online and don't need to show any proof, but to clear this up on my credit rating I need to provide 5 different documents, including a notarized statement and a police report. That is just irresponsible to not ask for proof at the time of opening an account. So if they get your information, don't be surprised if your identity is stolen and you have to suffer my pain. ”
“ I paid my account in full $217 and some how they still sent a disconnect notice to center point. Thats a trash ass company. Come home to no power. And now there close so i have to wait until they open to get my power back on. ”
“ Had a fellow come to the door, he did introduce himself, I saw where he was from and stopped him from going into his speil, told him I was happy with whom I'm with. Got a little testy, asked me if I didn't support the troops. I told him of course I do. He told me this was his second job since he got out of the service, I thanked him for his service. I still can't figure out what him being a veteran has to do with me not wanting the services (Direct Energy) he was wanting to tell me about. Told me it was ridiculous for me to stay with whom I am with. His name was Joseph. I didn't want to rate this, but it made me. ”
“ After contacting Direct Energy over the phone for my very first time, after being transitioned from my previous company and put on a very high rate month to month plan, I waited on hold for 10 mins to speak to a representative about my service. Once a rep was available, I explained the need to lower my price per kw, because 16.5 seems extremely high to me considering the other company's offers in the area at 6.5. I was then informed that the only option available to me, to get 11.5 before oncor fees, would be to sign a 2 year contract with them, even though I have been on a fluctuating month to month for over 3 years. When asking about that rate at a month to month, the rep stated that they could not offer that to me based on their policy. I asked if customer service was their priority over policy and she said no, that the policy was more important. She did not try to retain me as a customer and only tried to get me to sign a 2 year contract with a company that I have just started with, instead of offering me something that tailored to my needs. That is the most terrible customer service for an electric company especially when the competitive rates are so much better. Instead of trying out this company, I will be moving my services to another one who cares about their customers needs instead of a contract where the business gets paid regardless of valuing the customer's needs. I was also not offered any of the promotional things that they apparently offer to new customers, free echo dot's and such that I noticed on their welcome page. ”
“ They doubled my rate without notice I will never do business with them again! ”
“ NOT ONLY IS DIRECT ENERGY LIARS, THIEVES AND HYPOCRITES BUT THEY ARE STOKER'S TOO. THIS COMPANY HAS CALLED AND CALLED ME AFTER I DIRECTLY ASKED THEM NOT TO EVER CALL ME AGAIN. THEY USE NUMEROUS NUMBERS EVERY TIME I BLOCKED THEM AND EVEN AFTER I REPORTED THEM. MY BILL CLIMBED 150% AFTER GOING WITH THEM. THEY TOLD ME ONE AMOUNT AND THEN CHARGED ME A HIGH RATE ABOVE OUR AGREEMENT, NEVER SENDING ME THE WRITTEN AGREEMENT AS PROMISED EITHER. THIS COMPANY IS A LIAR, A THIEF AND STOKERS! NEVER EVER GO WITH THEM! LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE PEOPLE!!! ”
“ Had a girl show up at my house Saturday afternoon telling me that there were a lot of complaints about our electric bills. No one on my street. I told her wasn't interested and started to shut the door. She started talking about the bills again and then stopped. She said "never mind, you're f______ up" . If these are the people that work for direct energy, I want no part of it!! ”
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Received a random text message from a number I didn't recognize. Text message said:
"Hey N~, we still haven't heard back from you..."
I responded with:
"About? Not sure who this is"
I received no response, so I called the number, (614) 407-9168, to find out what this was about as I've never texted or spoken to anyone at this number before.
The first guy I spoke to was INCREDIBLY rude and hung up on me because I asked him to repeat the name of his company and the name of the state energy program he was referring to as I was clueless about who he or his company was or how they got my contact information because I never requested any information about this company or any energy programs at all.
He wanted me to start giving him my personal information, which I didn't feel comfortable giving to some random person who texted me out of the blue about some program I never asked about from some company I've never even heard of.
You tricked me into calling you by sending a misleading text message and want me to sign up for a program with your company, but you get ticked off at me when I ask for more information and am not willing to just give out my personal information to someone at a company I never contacted and have never even heard of??? And then you hang up on me without even answering my questions??? If this is your company's idea of customer service, I don't know how you have any customers at all.
I called back and requested to have my name removed from your lists for both calls and text messages. ”
“ Guy came to our door last Sept. offered amazing locked in rate deal. Said he would put me on the same budget plan I was on. Over the summer I get it my bill goes up (I've been in the same house for 12 years now I know how it works) but never has it ever almost tripled in one month. So I called and was advised I did not lock in my budget, I said the sales rep reassured me he did that. She says her supervisor says sorry too far back and I waited too long to call about the budget. I explained because my bills have been comparable. I asked if there was a fee to cancel and switch back, to which her response was "no". I said may I please speak with your supervisor, to which she put me on hold and came back, and said she is unable to take your call now, where did she go you were just talking to her???? I got upset and said I wanted a higher up administrator to contact me regarding these issues ASAP. She said ok. He did call but it was three days after my call, so I have already switched back to the company I have had for 11 or so years and never had a bill with as high as the last two months with Direct Energy. Oh and the topper today in the mail here I sit with a 99.00 Gas early termination fee (THEY LIED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) ”
“ Last year my rate was 9.4. This year they could only see fit to give me a 12.8 rate. How's that for customer appreciation. ”
“ I have tried for the past 2 weeks to get ahold of someone. Every time I call from all hours of the day, 3 times a day it says that all circuits are busy. This is ridiculous! I'm just trying to have a question answered! I call just about every number there is provided and stay on hold for 1 hour. There service is horrible! I have yet to receive the answer I am looking for! ”
“ After years of service at the same address, they have managed to screw up a change of address in SIX DIFFERENT WAYS and continue to fight me every time I ask that they fix their screw up! They terminated my account a week early at the address I was leaving and it took over 24 hours to have the service reconnected. Now they billed me $116 to reconnect. When I called to dispute they said that it was Oncor's billing, so I would have to get them to remove the charge. In addition, at my new address, I went four days without electricity. After being lied to and dismissed for four days, a supervisor threatened to charge me $75 to have a technician come back out to see why I didn't have power. Once a tech did come, he explained that it was an external breaker that needed to be flipped and that DE should have told me to flip the breaker. I have easily spent 10+ hours on the phone in the past two weeks, not to mention no heat, no cooked meals, sleeping on the floor one night in an empty apartment because there was heat there. TAKE YOUR BUSINESS ELSEWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ”
“ Apparently, my contract with them ended in July 2017. I was paying 0.0669 per KWH under contract. They say they sent me a letter about renewing. Because I didn't respond, they put me on a variable rate that went from 0.081056 in Aug., up to o.122230 in Jan. 2018. When I saw the ridiculously high bill for this month, I started making phone calls & found out what Direct Energy had done to me. I cancelled my service with them immediately. I think what they did was very wrong. They could have called me or even emailed me to clear this up before switching me to a variable rate that has cost me a fortune. I feel they should refund me the excess I have paid from Aug. 17 to Jan. 18. The customer service person made a derogatory remark. ”
“ We have had Direct Energy for several years. Last week I called to question my bill. Then I was advised our renewal had expired and that was why we were paying a higher price. At that time the associate told me she would FIRST set me up a new renewal and then see what she could do for the months we paid a higher rate. After the recorded renewal was complete, she said she could not adjust any changes for the higher charges we had been paying for Oct to Dec. if I had known this I would NOT have agreed to the renewal. I am reporting this to the Utility Commission in Texas. You could say monies we saved were taken back by D E by not notifying us that our contract had expired. We live on disability. This is a very unfair practice by Direct Energy. ”
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I had nothing but trouble!!! Signed up online and received the incorrect plan. Called the number they provided and it rang and rang... No answer..then it disconnected me altogether!!!. Could not get a human to talk to to answer my questions and resolve my issues of WRONG ADDRESS.
FINALLY utilized chat. TWICE BC I COULDN'T GET ANYONE TO ANSWER! Thought it was resolved. Nope. Had to get on chat again to find out (CORRECT) service address STILL NOT SHOWING. the chat head did verify incorrect address WAS cancelled. BUT service at the CORRECT address was never received. Was told by chat I had to reenroll. I did this 3 times now.
No verification received which was why I was try g to talk to a human... So fed up when I was told I still needed to enroll AGAIN...SO FED UP I told them I was going with another provider.
I JUST REVEIVED A BILL FOR 3 DAYS PF SERVICE I NEVER HAD AND A EARLY TERM FEE FOR SERVICE I NEVER RECEIVED AT AN ADDRESS I NEVER LIVED.
Glad I did screenshots of all of chat conversations. ”
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I had nothing but trouble!!! Signed up online and received the incorrect plan. Called the number they provided and it rang and rang... No answer..then it disconnected me altogether!!!. Could not get a human to talk to to answer my questions and resolve my issues of WRONG ADDRESS.
FINALLY utilized chat. TWICE BC I COULDN'T GET ANYONE TO ANSWER! Thought it was resolved. Nope. Had to get on chat again to find out (CORRECT) service address STILL NOT SHOWING. the chat head did verify incorrect address WAS cancelled. BUT service at the CORRECT address was never received. Was told by chat I had to reenroll. I did this 3 times now.
No verification received which was why I was try g to talk to a human... So fed up when I was told I still needed to enroll AGAIN...SO FED UP I told them I was going with another provider.
I JUST REVEIVED A BILL FOR 3 DAYS PF SERVICE I NEVER HAD AND A EARLY TERM FEE FOR SERVICE I NEVER RECEIVED AT AN ADDRESS I NEVER LIVED.
Glad I did screenshots of all of chat conversations. ”
“ If my bill is one day late, they consider that past due and send out a disconnect notice and charge my account $29.95 and on top of that charge an additional late fee. Should be illegal. Also, customer service is the worst with hard to understand foreign accents and they do nothing to try and remedy the situation. ”
“ I was calling as new customer to find out when mt order would be completed. Everyone I talked to barely spoke English and after going through 3 people I finally asked to be transferred to an American and the lady was very rude and told me No. I asked to be transferred to a Manager and she told me No, then hung up on me! I will gladly pay more money with TXU than to have to deal with this incompetent people. I have never been so put off by agents. If you are going to outsource you need to train your staff how to talk to people! Absolutely disgusted! ”
“ In December 2016, Direct Energy cut my power 9 days before the $98 bill was due. It happened sometime that morning and I awoke to a cold, quiet house. My wife and 2 year old proceeded to get ready for the day in the dark. I contacted Direct Energy by phone and spent 20 minutes on hold before speaking with someone who said the bill was past due. I took screenshots of the bill which clearly show a previous balance of $0 and a new balance, due in 9 days, of $98. After approximately 1 hour of explaining an re-explaining to the seriously lacking customer service folks, I was told that the power was accidentally shut off and it would be on in 1 hour. I left for work and returned home 8 hours later with my 2 year old to a cold and dark house. The power was never turned on. I contacted Direct Energy and went through the same experience as I did in the morning. I refused to hang up the phone until the power was back on. 2.5 hours later, the light returned. After at least 12 hours without power, most perishables were spoiled. I never received as much as an apology. At least $300 of food. The entire experience was awful and humiliating. I cannot express how terrible the customer service was and how frequently they were dishonest during my many interactions. If you care about your family and ensuring they are warm and fed, you must choose a different provider. ”
“ Customer service representative who claimed to be Eddie kept pushing mute as I stated my claim & playing on the phone and would not transfer me to the United States. After being transferred, the other guy who had a better understanding accent who claimed to be Fabian, transferred me back to someone who was already laughing as if they were juggling my call within the same vicinity. I'm so disappointed in this company whom our family been with for over 10years. Cheaper is not always better;and that's for the company. ”
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