Worst customer experience i ever had!

I called Jetstar Asia call centre on 06 July around 7pm and i have to wait for 25mins before i can get to speak to a call agent. Waiting time aside, a female staff who talked with a funny slang which probably only people of her same nationality can understand her, rudely disconnected my line. I was already very frustrated on not being able to use my Jetstar voucher online but she wasn't listening to me and kept going on to tell me a T&C which i cant see in my voucher as she insisted i can't use this voucher of mine to the destination i want! But 1-2 weeks ago, i did call to enquire also on the usage of the voucher. Another female staff told me there's no restriction on how and where i can use my voucher.

Feeling hard done by i called again straight away after that staff cut off my line and of course i got to wait for another 20mins and this time i demanded to speak to a manager. To my horror, this so called "Team Leader/Manager" by the name of West is just as hopeless. He has the worst communication skills for someone of his position i have ever come across. Not only is he not addressing the problem, he even accused me of shouting at him when he can't hear me clearly to start with! I was already on the verge of begging him to solve the online booking problem so that i can book myself but he was "kind" enough for wanting to perform the booking for me through the phone but he wanted to charge me at a higher rate by claiming that phone booking costs more. It's only when i protested then he relented to charge me as per the price shown online. When i reminded him about my complaint on the previous staff, he didn't bother to act on it, instead he wants me to submit it online and he tried to resolve it by saying will send me a $50 voucher! Which of course it didn't happen.

Question to Jetstar Asia's top brass, why does their staff keep giving varying replies? Why are the call centre staff so hopeless by directing customer to other channels to lodge a complaint? Why do the call centre staff insists the Jetstar vouchers are limited to selected destinations when i don't see this clause in the T&C? I wasted close to 2hours calling the call centre to resolve a problem but, i got more problems during the process. Worst call centre ever? Definitely.

Subsequently on 16 July, Martin from Customer Care called me and i told him my issues and problems that i'm facing. He promised to call me back on 19 July but failed to do so. He called me on 20 July when i wasn't free, yet he didn't have the courtesy to apologise for failing to call me on the previous day. Even when i questioned him, he had the cheek to reply that he wasn't available to call me (but is it my problem?). Never mind, again promised to call me on 23 July but failed to do so. I'm utterly sick and tired with Jetstar's way of managing customers, it's a total disgrace. To think i've been supporting Jetstar faithfully for past 2-3years.

International
Singapore-Singapore

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Hi Damon, I have personally

Hi Damon,

I have personally requested Martin to call you today regarding your case.

I do apologise for the delay you have encountered, it seems that you both have been missing each other with the calls.

Thanks Amanda

Dear Amanda Thank you for

Dear Amanda

Thank you for your time and effort. Well, it's not i have been missing his calls but rather, he was either missing in duty or missing some customer service skills.

You shall not promise to call but fail to do so. You shall not just call at one particular timing and take it as job done when the customer fails to answer it. You shall have the courtesy and courage to apologise and admit if mistakes are made. After which you shall look to resolve customer's problems rather than creating more of it. You shall never ever hang up on a customer (not unless the caller is abusive). However, all the staff i encountered so far are lacking in all these.

Anyway, a lady and not Martin called me up. Hopefully this resolves the vouchers issues i have although i'm still waiting for her email. But, the awful and disgusting experience i had with Jetstar will remain. Especially so with the call centre because those people there are doing no help to your organisation at all. Will i fly Jetstar again? Probably not after i've utilised the vouchers as i will not allow myself to be subjected to lousy service again, especially from an organisation i supportED faithfully, as that's a big hard slap to my face.

Dear Amanda, Jetstar

Dear Amanda, Jetstar employees, disgruntled customers of Jetstar

It has been a week since 25 July 2012 when a lady from Jetstar called me to 'resolve' my issue. Promised to send me a new set of vouchers via email on the very same day and she will void the current vouchers i have. However i have yet to receive anything till now. Well, i really wonder what does 'service' means to Jetstar. So far whatever that has been said and done is nothing but extremely poor service or even non service at all! I guess i can't expect anything from you guys now. I must probably accept that i have lost $400 and you, Jetstar, will lose me as a customer forever.

Jetstar, thanks for the 'great experience' so far. I've never felt so disgusted by service rendered to me before, you guys did it! Keep it up!