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Mark-Belfast
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21 days ago
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Contract Renewal/Cancellation/Complaint

Hi folks

I just rang the renewal/cancellations dept this morning hoping for a better deal, as I'd rang 2-3wks ago and got nowhere.

Well today, I rang, and the person could not even beat their own online renewal prices! Crazy as I've been a customer for over 15yrs now, I would like to stay but the person on the end of the phone could not do anything for me! All their offers were more expensive, and I felt as if Virgin could not care less about customer retention!

So contract runs out on 19 Feb 2026, hence ringing today, so long story short , I said here are my 30 days notice, plus a couple extra, 33-34 days it worked out.

Anyway after the call ended I get an email from VM Complaints! pictured below!

Does anyone know why I got this, when I was trying to get a better deal on renewing my contract, but could not, so then I gave my 30 days notice. I never made a complaint! 

Anyone else have this issue? 

Plus I've just received the email titled - Disconnecting your Virgin Media services

Any help or ideas would be welcome.

M

  • Michael_M's avatar
    Michael_M
    16 days ago

    We apologise for the delay in responding to you. We have sent another private message to you, please check your inbox 

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  • goslow's avatar
    goslow
    Alessandro Volta

    One could consider the possibility that the agent did not process your instruction to cancel but simply logged it as a complaint, thereby retaining you as a customer. Naturally that is just idle speculation on my part.

    Replies from VM people on here now seem to be taking 4 to 5 days but, if a VM person does reply, they should be able to check if your cancellation is underway or not.

    If you have actually cancelled, and if you have marketing options on in 'My Virgin Media', you may get a call back from VM with a best and final offer but there are no guarantees that will actually happen.

    In the meantime, do some research on your alternative providers and their pricing. You will then have a good idea if any future VM offer is any good or not.

    • Mark-Belfast's avatar
      Mark-Belfast
      Tuning in

      Thanks for the info,  I got the feeling the agent was trying to off load me, and didn't wanna hear about all the other cheaper companies, just kept to the script without any empathy.  

      I went back into my account and made sure the marketing options are all set so they might call me or not, but Plan B is at hand with a local company offering a set price for the 18m contract. 

      Cheers again :-)

  • Hi Mark-Belfast, 

    Thanks for reaching out. We’re really sorry to hear about the experience you’ve had when trying to renew your package. That’s certainly not the level of service we want for any of our long‑standing customers.

    The emails you’ve received can sometimes be triggered automatically when a disconnection request is discussed on a call. Depending on the circumstance and if you were unsatisfied, our agents tend to ask if you want a complaint to be raised on your behalf, but we’d like to take a closer look at what’s happened and make sure everything on your account is correct.

    So we can help you properly, we will send you a private message to you. Once we have cleared security with you,  we can then review your account, check the notices that were applied, and see what options are available for you.

    We’re here to help get this sorted for you.

    • Mark-Belfast's avatar
      Mark-Belfast
      Tuning in

      Hi, 

      I am still waiting on you to get back to me from Friday, can you please msg me or any other Forum Team member can you pick up where this person has left off?

      Thanks

  • NOTE: I Posted this last Thursday, got 1 x Forum Team to ask me a few questions and nothing back so hence I'm TRYING again.

     

    Hi folks

    I just rang the renewal/cancellations dept this morning hoping for a better deal, as I'd rang 2-3wks ago and got nowhere.

    Well today, I rang, and the person could not even beat their own online renewal prices! Crazy as I've been a customer for over 15yrs now, I would like to stay but the person on the end of the phone could not do anything for me! All their offers were more expensive, and I felt as if Virgin could not care less about customer retention!

    So contract runs out on 19 Feb 2026, hence ringing today, so long story short , I said here are my 30 days notice, plus a couple extra, 33-34 days it worked out.

    Anyway after the call ended I get an email from VM Complaints! pictured below!

    Does anyone know why I got this, when I was trying to get a better deal on renewing my contract, but could not, so then I gave my 30 days notice. I never made a complaint! 

    Anyone else have this issue? 

    Plus I've just received the email titled - Disconnecting your Virgin Media services

    Any help or ideas would be welcome.

    M

    • Mark-Belfast's avatar
      Mark-Belfast
      Tuning in

      I guess there are NO Virgin Forum members available to answer my query, they all away on holiday?

      • Michael_M's avatar
        Michael_M
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        We apologise for the delay in responding to you. We have sent another private message to you, please check your inbox 

    • Mark-Belfast's avatar
      Mark-Belfast
      Tuning in

      Hi Folks

      Just off the phone with VM. I have now established why I got this complaint, it's NOT actually a complaint! per say.

      It's the ONLY WAY that VM reps can send someone who calls in an external email! I think VM needs to update their system if this is this the only ad-hoc way of doing this! 

      But at the moment apparently this is the only way for them to communicate.

      They did came back with a final offer but alas they still can't beat the ISP that I am transferring to. 

      BUT at least now, after my term with new ISP I'll be able to play one against the other and not have to worry about loss of service etc as cables from both will be there and just choose being a NEW customer on VM and get the best deal again.