8x8 Customer Service

Absolutely no customer service at all. It was EXTREMELY painful to get them to port our numbers over. Then, once you are on their service, they never want to talk to you again. You can NOT get ahold of any customer service reps. Their phone number just says "go to our website and hit chat now" then hangs up on you. Their crappy bot Otto does NOT work. No matter what you type to it, the support agents cant see it and always ask "are you online" no matter how may responses you type to them. Then they fail to navigate phone menus to call you back and say "we tried, but got voicemail. Sorry. Here are some useless support article links". USELESS. They do NOT want you do contact them for support. There needs to be laws regarding responsibility of companies to support services they are charging you for.

They are pushing a do-it-yourself model which would be fine if the system allowed you to do it yourself. I spent all day trying to add a line, getting dropped from chat. I even called, waited on hold, talked to a person and they took my order and said someone would get back with me. I received an email from support how I could do it myself. I already know how. It doesn't work. It fails and tells me to contact my representative. Terrible customer support. Try finding a phone number. I am pretty sure this company doesn't even use their own product.

the worst phone service for offices ever

On Aug 23,2018 I started with 8x8 with a one month free trial. There were plenty of problems with the service and support but I'll get to that later. What's really bothering me at the moment is that this was only a free trial to see if the service worked for me and it's only been a bit over a week. I found a charge to my bank debit card yesterday? Why? They told me it was a pro rata charge for to complete September so my billing would be at the beginning of the month. So even tho I haven't determined to continue with them I'm getting a charge already. Again, this was a free trial. With the other problems I'd had with them it was already in question if I'd continue with them. I have a feeling this is not a financially stable company that will do anything to get a few bucks and to avoid giving it back.

My other problems? Here goes. My phone kept on getting disconnected from their server. I can't use a soft phone on my computer so that was my only option. It would take over 20 minutes to get tech support over the phone. They would tell me I need to talk to an IT person. I'm an older gentleman who is virtually technologically illiterate working out of a home office. Where am I supposed to get an IT guy? They told me to talk to my service provider? About what? I'm technologically illiterate. If I need to go back and forth its going to be great waiting on hold over 20 min to talk to support about something I don't even understand and they were unwilling to get on the phone in a 3 way call with my service provider. They are my IT if they want my business.

To make it worse, I had a girl try to take control of the conversation by talking over me. Definitely not a good idea to try with me. Listen and address what I say. Since she wouldn't stop talking over me I got pissed and started yelling at her. She put me on hold. This was a problem I'd had almost from the beginning with them that lasted several days. it wasn't unusual to spend about 4 hrs a day to try and get help resolving the problem. finally, I did get someone who could help and didn't try to pass me off to an IT guy or the service provider. most of their tech support is not well trained. It took about 5 days to find this one tech who could help me.

Moving on, you'll note they are always pushing their High Def Conferencing. The problem is getting good help to learn how to use it properly which someone tech illiterate needs. Their prepared materials were ridiculous. Those materials extolled the features and benefits but that's selling me on something I already bought. What i needed was teaching materials which they don't have. f____ing joke. Most of their support had to keep looking through their resources to tell me how to use it. So they weren't well enough trained and wasted both of our time. and since I don't have resources to refer back to, I have to keep calling back for lessons where I have to wait over 20 min on hold to get to talk to anyone.

So do you want to work with a company that makes unapproved charges to your cards? Do you want a company where they avoid talking to you about billing issues and resolving them? They really don't want to give you your money back when they take it and shouldn't have. Not very honest or reputable, at all. Do you want a company that can't teach you how to properly use their features? Do you want to constantly be on hold 20 min or more when you're trying to get help or resolve issues? Do you want to work with a company that can't fix issues and keeps trying to pass the buck to non-existent IT guys or your service provider? Do you want techs who try to force control by talking over you rather than listening and addressing the issue at hand? Do you want a company you can't speak with a manager when you need to? One time instead of the manager I finally got to speak to my sales person. This was fun. I'd demanded a call back. Instead i got an email that did not properly represent the issue. On one attempt to speak with a Manager I got my sales person who said he couldn't speak to me and hung up on me.

All they had to do to avoid this review was return the money to me I should have never been charged under a free trial. Instead they went to these lengths to avoid me. This is what they get. Again, I started the free trial 8/23. it's now 9/4 and all this has happened in this short time. Do you really want to do business with this company.
Update: you'll all love this.
Now billing is trying to say that charge was for taxes. Their quote for the entire month of taxes when I was first talking to them was $10 and change. So how do they come up with over $12? First problem with their lie. Next problem, I'd already paid the taxes for the free trial. No taxes were due. Lastly, I hadn't agreed to continue with them past the free trial so any charges whatsoever for any future services were unauthorized and inappropriate.
These people are liars and thieves that will say anything only for a few bucks. The company must be on financial very thin ice. That means they could go under at any time. That means your service could be interrupted permanently without any warning.
Why else fight me so hard on money they hadn't earned yet. Oh, I also filed a complaint with the FCC. Isn't it stupid to risk an investigation over so little and keep fighting?
The conversation continued. This supervisor was going to reach out to the salesman and his manager to see if he could get the approval to refund the money stolen. I asked to be able to speak with that manager and was told I could not. It takes his approval for me to get my money back and I can't give him my side of the story? Furthermore, if he gets an approval to refund me the money, it will take 30 days to process the refund. So they reach into my bank account, steal my money and say if they'll give it back I can't have it for another 30 days. You know what, 3-5 days many, 30? It only further supports my belief this is a company in financial trouble. Again, that means, if I'm right, service could end at any time permanently. Is that what you want to sign up for? A company with an unreliable product, support that takes over 20 min to reach and most are poorly trained, no training on their features, steals your money, fights you tooth and nail to keep from refunding it to you, support that keeps trying to speak over you, a salesman who because I have a dispute about my bill says he can't speak to me and hangs up on me rather than passing me on to his manager and if they should be so generous as to decide to give me the money they stole from me back that it will take 30 days? Is this a company you want to deal with? And this is all since 8/23 through 9/5/18. Not much time for so much to go wrong.
This is why you should always get a full and free trial before you commit to these companies.
Update-
Even a free trial doesn't help. Found they billed me for something else along the way. I've tried leaving but the first problem was they changed the password on my phone so I could not reprovision it with the new voip provider I was going to. That wasted 2 days figuring out what the problem was and getting that fixed. Essentially, that was 8x8 stealing my phone by denying me use of it. If you're bringing your own phones, don't do biz with 8x8 for this and the following reason.
The next reason is harassment. Evidentally their system is still trying to keep in touch with my phone even after I asked them to end my service with them. The way my phone reads their contact is as a telephone call with a 4 digit extension. It just rings and rings non-stop. My phone shows 24 calls from them all at once. I can't talk to anyone else on my phone with that incessant ringing. They have to know this is happening. They say they have to scrub my number completely from their system but the dept that does that is closed for the weekend. Others at 8x8 have no clue about this. They seem desperate not to let a customer get away by making it impossible for a person to use their phone anywhere but 8x8. And the trouble getting money back from them? Again, I was told it would take upwards of 30 days. I've never had a debit card refund take more than 3-5 days from anyone else.
I forgot to mention that they originally told me with the video conferencing I could have 25 participants. Then it dropped to 15, now they tell me it's only 5. And they can't even teach me how to use it.
I thought Ring Central was the worst. It took them years to get me this upset. 8x8 has done it in about a month. Stay away. Service terrible. Tech support a couple of good ones, the rest are jokes. Customer service has no clue what's going on and unwilling to address problems. Billing when they shouldn't be, repeatedly. If you try them, it's at your own risk.
These guys really have to be in trouble if they make it so hard to leave and get your money back. Who knows, maybe they won't be around in a week and there will be a lot of surprised customer service who lost their service unexpectedly with no chance it will come back.
9/25/18 and I'm still having trouble with 8x8. I still don't have the unapproved charges to my card refunded. My phone is still ringing incessantly. I had one of their techs confess it was their computers contacting my phone and my phone interpreting it as calls. They have made my phone unusable, they've ruined it. They are refusing to replace it along with refusing to release my service to the new voip provider. WTF is that about. I cancelled, flip a switch and let me go. They say it's being processed. They say they require 30 day notice of cancellation. On a 30 day free trial? Am I supposed to tell them the first day I have their service I don't want it anymore? Their processes need to be fixed. Stay away from 8x8. It's always one thing after another. This is my own phone and they won't let it go. They won't let me go. I'm losing money because of them, Time for a law suit?
Any lawyers out there want this suit? It would be a PR nightmare for them.
Was just on the phone with support trying to get this resolved. They put me on hold for 40 min before hanging up on me. This is the second time they've done this to me. Each time I was asking to speak with a manager which they will never allow. Also just learned when I called back and spoke with another tech support and he was reading back my prior ticket. I found tech support lies to cover themselves from management on their reports of the calls.

Customer service is awful. They will contract you and then they will never contact you even when you want to speak with sales. Apparently once sales get their commission they could care less if you cancel at the end of the contract. Obviously upper management is out of touch or does not care. One has to wonder how they stay in business.

I used 8X8 and just can't find the value. When I went to terminate service, their Internet contact was non-responsive. When I called, it took at least 45 minutes. Each question response was followed by a 3-5 minute delay. They offered me a lower price to stay with them. When I declined, they told me about fees a fax termination charges that I did not authorize. When I declined to pay, they came back agreeing to terminate the service. The customer service person was nice, but inept or following a bad script. Customer Service kept saying, "Sorry for the wait". I should have cancelled sooner, sorry for the wait. Do NOT subscribe to 8X8.

They quote one price and then charge another. I have spent a lot of time trying to get them to correct it, but as of now - they continue to claim that they did not say what they said (despite me sending them copies of emails showing otherwise). I would avoid this company.

Unfortunately -- I have worked with three Companies that Deal with these BOZOS.

The absolute WORST Company that I ever dealt with in my entire life. Everything from their Products -- to their (MUCH NEEDED!!!) Customer Care is below Atrocious.

Product: HORRIBLE

Customer Care: EVEN WORSE

Joe S: I also have 8X8 and not one thing they did ever helped! I have call them 240 + times "I ask one of there telemarketers to inform me how many calls i have to them" now with issues i have. I was told that the call logs were going to be up to date and i have fire employees due to the fact that they went make the correct number of daily calls,. after about 6 months of this i start keeping track of my own calls and come to find out they were lower then the real number. I call 8x8 and informed them that the only reason why i went with them was so i can keep track of the call log they at that point informed ma that the calls logs are corrected at the end of the billing cycle (Monthly). After further view i found this not to be true ether. I "This morning" got of the phone with a Richard Snow from 8x8 and he actually hung the phone up on me because i was working with them. By not working with them he he meant he was going to save me 35% if i upgrade my phone to virtual office pro because that's the only way they can count the calls. I felt i should have to pay more money for a service i signed up for 1 1.5 years earlier. I also have client that used to use them and 8x8 wont let me call this number. i called and ask why and they said it was a glitch and fixed the problem, "This has only happen d with a previous 8x8 client" how convent.

TO ALL: DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY! THEY WILL OVER CHARGE YOU AND NOT HELP TO JUSTIFY THE MISTAKE THEY MAKE!!!