The Swine List
The Swine List is a carefully maintained database of companies that are essentially, swines. While some non-swine people also work at these companies, they are in the minority. Therefore the customer experience while dealing with these guys is essentially that of having to deal with a large, powerful Swine.
On a serious note, these are companies whose customers have had a terrible experience with. We will always point to references as to why a certain company is on this list. And because our point is not to ruin reputations for no purpose, we will be happy to remove names from this list if the offended customer(s) have been dealt with fairly (Note: this doesn’t mean fulfilling unfair requests on the part of the customer – just dealing with them fairly)
SO, if you turn off your Swinal Tap(TM), your name will be struck from this list. And that’s a good thing.
The Swine List
1. Telenor
Offenses:
- Telenor GPRS doesn’t work, and disconnected from Customer Service #
- Telenor TV doesn’t work, double charged on service and disconnected from Customer Service #
2. UBL Credit Cards
Offenses:
Dont forget SCB now….
Osama, please tell us a little more about why SCB should be on the list, and we’ll put it on…
UBL credit cards division! for sure it has go on here…
as does Bank Al-habib’s ATM network (for not working for days in a row)
ever since ive switched to Dubai Islamic Bank’s atm card and ABM Amro’s credit card all of a sudden my lifes alot less trouble free…
ops..i meant “alot more” trouble free
Tech, I have atleast 5 posts in G&W about SCB — its a bit cumbersome to find ubt they should all be in the “Media and Advertising” category
its nov 22nd…about a month since this post and three since ive been complaining to UBL about not getting my renewed credit card….and ubl STILL hasnt sent it to me. All i can do is b%#$# slap them now…oh but they did send me a bill!!! grrrrrr
Ok then, I am sending negative energy UBL’s way… so much for “Ameen”! More like “Daakoo”.
wateen.. for it’s slow internet service which idles after a while if you don’t use it AND FOR IT”S PHONY TELEPHONY SERVICE WHICH DOESNT WORK EVEN THOUGH THE CUSTOMER SERVICE PEOPLE SAY THEY WILL BE SENDING THEIR PEOPLE OVER IN 15 MINUTES…. MORE LIKE YEARS!!!
AND FOR THEIR BAAD CUSTOMER SERVICE WHICH REQUIRES YOU TO DRAG YOUR ASS TO THEIR PLACE!!
How about MCB for pushing its customer to commit suicide.
[...] The Swine List ← 2007-08 Foreign exchange inflows to Pakistan highest in history [...]
TO HEAR THAT COMMENT ABOUT SLOW INTERNET I WOULD LIKE TO CHECK IT AND I THINK I LIKE IT BEFORE USED.
@Salman, I agree that Wateen internet gets down at time, but so far I have been moderately satisfied with their service. At least it’s far far better than the dial-up connection I was using before! But they really do need to improve their customer services.
WorldCall has to be at the top of the list. Probably the worst ISP in the world, ironically have a decent customer service as in they send someone over even at the middle of the night. The only problem is that the customer service or their tech support cannot do anything at all because their network sucks, they use obsolete and cheap equipment that fails for several hours every day. I had one of their fastest cable connection packages and it was slow, I mean real slow, even dialup could be faster.
I haven’t checked out Wateen yet, is it any good or just a lot of hype? Is it fast, reliable and always on? What are the packages and prices?
You can add PTCL http://tinyurl.com/767wh3 and Pak Suzuki http://tinyurl.com/ra348k to the list.
I will also vote for Pak Suzuki for their master piece product of Mehran car, in a great price.