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Jonjo110
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Leaving Virgin then hit with Late Payment

Hi All

Having decided to leave virgin,I find that virgin's handling of final billing is appalling'
I indicated to them that I was leaving with 2 months remaining on my contract and was told
I had to pay my normal £24 a month payment then an early disconnection fee of £22.12 which is fair enough,
As I pay monthly by direct debit on 21st of the month (circa) virgin deliberately decided to take payment 4 days later
and hence incurring late payment charge of £7.50 added on to my final bill for early disconnection fee which now totals £29.12.
I contacted customer services about my complaint and operator said it was their fault entirely it would be sorted and I won't be paying additional charge,
What happened next is they then sent me a bill for the exact same amount of £29.12.
I thought this was a one off incident but I then found that a lot of customers have encountered this experience when leaving virgin, this is an ongoing issue and that no steps have been taken to rectify this.

Shame on You Virgin

  • Hi Jonjo110 

    Thanks for joining me on PM and allowing me to sort this.

    Please pop back to the community if you need further assistance.

    Best wishes.

  • Zoie_P's avatar
    Zoie_P
    Forum Team (Retired)

    Hi Jonjo110,

    Thank you for your post and welcome to our forums 🎉

    I am sorry for your experience and that you have had issues with your final bill. Is this now rectified and is your complaint resolved? 
    Do you wish for us to feed this back?
    Thanks,

    Zoie

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      Jonjo110
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      Hi Zoie, thank you for the reply, my complaint is unresolved and not rectified, the last communication I had was the resending of the bill, I tried sending them message in myvirginmedia but was unable to do so

       

       

  • Hi Jonjo110 

    Thanks for joining me on PM and allowing me to sort this.

    Please pop back to the community if you need further assistance.

    Best wishes.

  • What the hell are virgin playing at, 

    After the assistance of John_GS sorting the problem I have now received today a red letter bill demanding immediate payment of £29.62, in which they say that action is required to clear full amount due and any delay in settling above amount may result in your services being restricted. 

    Rather irrelevant in my case,  

    Do people in this department know what they are doing???? 

     

    • Carley_S's avatar
      Carley_S
      Forum Team

      Hi Jonjo110 

      Welcome to the community forums 

      Sorry to hear this. I can see that you've still an open private conversation with the forum team agent John who will be able to assist you further. Please reach back out to them through the private message and they'll be able to investigate this for you. 

    • John_GS's avatar
      John_GS
      Forum Team

      Hi Jonjo110 

      That was probably produced and sent before our chat.

      Go off our chat as everything is as we agreed 🙂

      Best

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        Jonjo110
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        Hi John, I have since paid £22.12,and cancelled the direct debit and hopefully this matter is finished.

        Thank you for your help. 

        John