Consumer Action Monitor
The most comprehensive survey on complaint behaviour in the UK, giving an insight on consumer attitudes to complaining and on the factors that impact trust in a business.
The latest CAM report tracked the impact of the
Covid-19 pandemic on consumers to better understand how it affected
their attitudes and behaviours to complaining.
The data captured from more than 10,000 interviews between March and September 2020 provided insight into consumers’ views during a year like no other.
Key themes in the 2020 CAM report include:
- Complaint Numbers; Faced with the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, were consumers compelled to make more complaints to their energy and telecoms providers, or did complaining become less of a priority in 2020?
- Vulnerability; How did the public health and economic crisis impact the most vulnerable in society? Were the challenges faced by vulnerable consumers exacerbated by the pandemic and, if so, how did they respond?
- Green Agenda; Did the green agenda diminish in importance for the average consumer? Or did the events of 2020 cause consumers to take more notice of sustainability issues and providers’ environmental credentials?
- Trust and Loyalty; How did Covid-19 affect relationships between consumers and providers in energy and telecoms? Did they share a mutual understanding of the challenges faced and act with more empathy, or did the pandemic result in corrosion of consumer trust and loyalty?
- Complaint Timescales; What are the perceived timescales associated with independent dispute resolution in the mind of the British consumer? Are we as an ombudsman, energy and telecoms providers and regulators doing enough to educate consumers about the timescales involved with access to redress, or is there more work to be done?
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