Wed 27 Sep 2006
**UPDATE**
As of 12:00 AM Wednesday midnight …. it has been 83 hours since I went and renewed my subscription Sunday morning at 11 AM……. and it still had not been put back!!!!
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My subscription with ART was over last week and I needed to renew it, being an Arsenal fan with my schedule revolving around Arsenal games, and ART being the only chanel showing the English Premier League and the Champions League games, having ART sports chanels is a must!
I went to their main office in Thajeej area on Sunday at around 11 AM, and renewed my subscription. I asked the guy how long it takes for the chanels to come back, he said 48 hours, so I asked him again “are you sure?? because there are very important games Tuesday night (thats around 60 hours later), and he said “yes off course, it usually comes back before 48 hours but we say that just in case…..
Yesterday, I rush back come to watch the game at 9:30, it starts at 9:45. I switch to ART sports, and nothing!! I try over and over and switch the system back on and off…..nothing!
I start panicking, I call them, someone answers and I explain the situation, he says “yes its not been sent to you yet”, and explains that its Dubai’s fault and not their fault….so I make up a story of having 10 people over to watch the games and so on….he puts me on hold for 5 mins, says he cant do anything, and that he’s trying to get his boss who’s busy.
Another couple of minutes, he says he’ll call me back in 5 to 10 mins….
I cant risk it and rush to a stupid gahwa to watch the game…which I did, and Arsenal won a great game.
The guy didnt call back 5 to 10 mins later….its 3 PM next day, the guys still didnt call.
The channels are still not on….nobody answers their customer relations line.
…………ART SUCKS!!!
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September 27th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Few months back, and for World cup, our ART card never worked! Kuwiat kept blaming Dubai, and Dubai kept syaing we’re not ready to have that much users. I was like WTF! We never got a refund. ART suck big time.
September 27th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
oh you poor thing! But on the bright side at least they won and I heard they played really well! Couldn’t watch is as I was busy watching Man Utd!
It’s such a pity they have the monopoly with the channels or no way would anyone stay with them with that kind of poor/non existent customer service!
September 27th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
is ART for Global Direct, cuz if they are then that would explain the lousy customer service..
September 27th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
hey atleast arsenal won, maybe if art worked we wouldnt have won
September 27th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Shopa, ya the world cup subscriptions problem was a joke! Why not sell some rights and ease the problems plus make money!?
Bianca, Arsenal did play very well
And yes exactly, the monopoly makes them absolutely useless at customer service!
Mark….yes, ur right! It sucks that u deleted your post otherwise I wouldve linked it!
Yazeed, ya but that ruined what wouldve been an even better night!
Yazeed,
September 28th, 2006 at 1:11 am
You can still watch the games on free satelite
September 28th, 2006 at 4:52 am
Yala at least now you won’t miss any important games since there’s one on the 30th.. Then games stop until the 14th of october!
Inshallah everything works out for you.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:04 am
مشكلتك انك ماتعرف حق هالاشكال
روح لهم .. او اتصل عليهم تيلفون .. وقول لهم “خلاص بس وقفوا اشتراكي .. وردولي فلوسي” وحط خطين تحت “ردولي فلوسي” من يسمعون هالجمله .. كل شي يرجع مثل ماكان —> صدقني عن تجربه
September 28th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Dont know why, but i liked the term “stupid gahwa”
September 28th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
ART has the worst service ever, I finally decided to pay them by credit card and stop worrying about renewing my subscription every now and then by cash..
Still ART SUCKS..
The problem with our paid sattelites in the middle east that we don’t have consumer protection services and there is no authority that regulates ART, SHOWTIME, Orbit..so they can do whatever they want without anybody questioning them
September 29th, 2006 at 3:23 am
انا اقووول يا خييي وقف اشتراكك وايد ابرك من هالبشر
September 29th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
عاديتني حسبي الله عليك
ياتني النشلة و الحساسية
عتشووووووووووووووو
September 29th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
you didn’t talk about the crap that is aljazeera
ART got my money for aljazeera for a year and they delivered 3 month only , now aljazeera moved from ART