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I was contacted via whats app and telephone by Comunicom which is under Giacom to buy me out of my mobile phone contract. Long story short they told me they were part of what was Carphone warehouse and would transition over my business contracts paying out my remaning term with my old supplier. I was heavily swayed by constant contact and when queries the 36 month contract with O2 I was told this was not a contract period but just a commitment to keep my number for this duration. Being busy, I stupidly let this slip and went ahead. Soon after discovering I was on a terrible deal and signed up contractually for 36 months on this dreadful deal their whats app messages disappeared and you cannot contact them. Despite being a third party O2 will not get involved as the contract is with them and will only pass on their contact details which you can never get though on. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS NIGHTMARE SCAM COMPANY!

For over two years, attempts have been made to contact Giacom, specifically targeting Sophie Rea, regarding a critical matter: the need to change a name on an account. Despite concerted efforts, Sophie Rea and the Accounts Department has remained unresponsive. Furthermore, attempts to reach the accounts department, essential for effecting this change, have also proven futile. This prolonged lack of response and inability to make the necessary adjustments have resulted in significant issues with HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs). Such unresolved matters not only hinder operational efficiency but also risk potential legal and financial implications.

I work for an IT support services company and have never in 15 years of support dealt with such a confusing, cluttered and overall unhelpful company. Their platform can only be likened to a never ending maze - avoid if you want to spare your sanity and go with literally ANY other provider

Constant price hikes and failed 10 year archive .

We have hosted email for years with Giacom . We have had a law firm that paid faithfully for 10 year archive .

We tried to use it this week . It's almost impossible to access and when you do there is no easy way to recover emails and the sent box emails have disappeared causing major legal implications .

Giacom "cop out" of any responsibility with clause 7.2 of their Email Security contract which states .

"7.2 We are not responsible for any loss of or corruption of data held in our archiving storage
system which are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without any obligation in
relation to their availability or performance. "

Basically STAY AWAY FROM GIACOM if you value your commercial email .

Context: Pretty much every wholesale comms provider in the UK is useless. Incomptent, unhelpful, lazy, promises not met.

Giacom (formerly DWS) are no different. Portal works well, as soon as a human needs to do something, they are disinterested and difficult.

pitiful company to deal with, lies and constant price hikes driving their so called partners out of the game. beware they are pretty scummy.

We have spoken incredibly highly of Giacom over the years and have pushed many clients in the direction of them to purchase Exchange-based services.

As a client, we have reached out to Giacom for support at most four times in around six years, bearing no burden whatsoever.

We have a small handful of Exchange clients that have been left on their services, which in total equates to around £16 spent per month.

However, Giacom hit us all with a £100 surcharge to use their services, which, whilst I disagree with most of the comments here surrounding communication to that effect (they did notify us accordingly, and with notice), this doesn't mean I agree with the decision.

A charge of £100 to access their service is pretty appalling by any standards. It's not particularly easy to migrate from Exchange, and it's more of an inconvenience than anything else.

I asked for this to be reviewed on our account today, which was of course declined.

We are an established web hosting provider, and for years, waited for API capabilities within Giacom to scale this area of the business. However, given the fact that the entire order process was manual, this was somewhat restrictive, so we 'just stopped using it' and left those few accounts remaining.

Overall, just a very disappointing scenario.

If I could give zero stars I would !!! Tried to call this team as my account has illegally migrated . I was passed around 24 yes 24 times and no one could help . Absolute disgusting company

Had no notice about a £100pcm service fee, I WILL call first to discuss, if I get nowhere its Pax8 or Inty for me. I am a small ISP this was never mentioned and I am very disappointed but am happy i found this early into my relationship with them.

Poor show.

They don’t do what they say they will and ignore correspondence.

Awful company. They promised last year to waive the ludicrous new service fee for me until June, so I can move my customers away at the end of their contracts.

This didn't happen, twice the £100 (+VAT) service fee was added and taken via DD, so I cancelled and charged back the payments. I'm now being chased for those invoices but I will not pay with the service fee. If this is how they treat a long time customer who they've made a commitment to, I can only imagine how their other customers must be feeling. Avoid at all costs - check Climb.Online.

Awful company.... terrible customer service... and as you have seen from the other reviews, they god rid of all their small clients by introducing a £100 service fee.

Moved to pax8, wish I had done it years ago. Unlike Giacom, Pax will not treat you like dirt just because you are small.

After they closed our account, they kept harassing us to pay a final invoice, which I couldn't do, because they had closed the account. I pointed this out to them many times, but they just ignored every email (as they always do) and just kept harassing me, so I just ignored them.

I'm sure this will get Giacom's canned response that they have given to everyone.

Have added a £100 fee making them INCREDIBLY poor value. I only have 6 mailboxes so my bill went from £40 to £160 a month. I really don't care that they have written advising of this change. It's still an awful business move and I'll be migrating my accounts elsewhere immediately.

Warning! This company will switch off your entire estate without so much as a phone call over a single disputed invoice not being paid!

For years they have been brilliant, but sadly not so much recently, it's upsetting to see

As a new, growing business increasing our monthly spend every month (with a view to keeping going!) I was disappointed today to call Giacom and find out that in order to remove the incoming £100 fee, I would have to increase my spend to £4k/month - something we'll be doing by this time next year but certainly not by November.

I asked if the fee could be temporarily reduced, or even introduced at a later date for ourselves (rather than being removed) as I understand businesses have to make money, but no, they weren't even interested in having a conversation about this.

What is further disappointing, is that almost daily we get emails about disruption to any number of Giacom services, yet customers are about to be charged £1200 a year just to have an account.

If this was £30 or even £50 a month I would be happy to stay.

We'll be moving to a different provider.

Giacom are arguably the worst distributor I've ever worked with. We've worked with them for a number of years and in all that time the support provided has been woefully lacking.

They've launched products before their support teams were fully trained, then given the excuse that they have a 'talent shortage' which led to their technical shortcomings. Their own hosted services (Hosted Exchange specifically) are riddled with problems and never seem to be upgraded at the cadence they originally state. We've not used Giacom support properly for at least two years given the issues we've had in the past.

This leads me nicely onto my next point...

Giacom thinks that it's acceptable to add a 'platform fee' to their accounts spending less than £4000 per month to pay for their 'increased investments in support' amongst other things.

Giacom support has barely added £40 of value in the time we've worked with them, let alone the £1200 they want each year to justify their existence.

Thankfully, we've slowly moved our customer services away from them over the last 12 months because of our complete lack of confidence in their ability to deliver. This has made the decision to move all remaining services away so much easier. Ultimately, Giacom has put the kibosh on any chance of us growing our business with them with this decision. And as much as they might like to think they're indispensable, they're not. It'll take us a couple of days work to move these services away, two days well spent. Two days made all the more easier now that Microsoft has announced they're not enforcing the move to NCE immediately.

Goodbye Giacom. I'd like to say it's been a pleasure but in reality, the pleasure begins now.

Wow is all I can say... Serious greed comes to mind. Who's genius idea was this, I know lets get rid of all the small loyal clients and then we will be left with not enough large clients to sustain our business model, brilliant.! I've been with Giacom for over 10 years but will be closing my account asap. In hindsight I think you will live to regret this unpopular decision. Either way, bye bye Giacom.

I am a small MSP and maintain 15 small businesses on a monthly retainer plus I resell M365 and various add-ons like backup. I used to love Giacom. Never used their tech support since that's what I do, but the marketplace portal was great. However, like many others have said on here, the recent introduction of a £100 service fee to rid themselves of us small fry businesses has led me to the tedious process of migrating everything away to Pax8. I'm not sure if that's what Giacom wanted, perhaps it is, but seems like a good way to trash your reputation. No doubt I'll get the same copy and pasted response as everyone else.

Giacom recently announced they are introducing a £100 per month service fee for all clients with a monthly sales volume < £4,000.

As a long time customer (over 10 years) we have used Giacom to provide Hosted Exchange mailboxes to our customers who needed one.

In the main the service has been okay but the margins on the mailboxes are getting smaller and smaller with a number of price increases in recent times and the addition of a service fee makes selling their products simply unsustainable.

Times are very hard for small businesses at present and this is simply a kick in the teeth. We now have to go through the hassle of migrating our clients over to a new provider as there is no way our clients will accept the price rise if we pass it onto them and I am not willing to provide the service at a big loss just so Giacom can increase their bank balance.

Unfortunately it's another provider to add to the "do not use" list.

I have been a customer for several years and just received a badly written email letting me know that I am too small for them to have me as a customer while doing nothing to support me. £100 fee per month was introduced with only a 30-day warning to get rid of small businesses in the middle of the summer vacation period without offering any help to migrate away. Simply unprofessional!