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cathybarron
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3 months ago

Nobody replying to the messages and am about to have over £200 taken!!

I took out a new 18 month contract in November to renew at a similar level to the previous year (around £103). I have been with Virgin for 20+ years and was satisfied with that.  However when checking my online account in December the bill was showing at 50% more than the contract I had agreed (£147.95). I spoke to customer service and escalated it through many phone calls. I was told they had no record of my November contract on their system so I was just on a standard rolling contract?????   

So I emailed copies of the new November contract to a supervisor (whose email address was given to me) and they said the only way they could resolve was to reissue a further contract (this was in December) and then apply a monthly credit to bring it down to the original value of the original November 2024 contract. 

In January I was billed for the new December contract, minus the promised credit so it equalled the original November contract. That was okay. Great stuff.  HOWEVER, I have just had my latest bill for February and it is showing the December contract of nearly £`147 PLUS an unpaid amount of £63.95 (which was the credit that was applied to my account to ensure it then equalled the November contract). PLUS £7.50 late payment charge !!!!  EQUALLING £213.90!!!  Billing customer service have no idea how to deal with complex issues like this. Who can sort this out as it is totally unacceptable levels of stress being caused.  We need to rapidly resolve

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  • Hi.

    I'm just about to embark on a similar journey to your own after many years with Virgin Media, I'm very interested to see both how you get on, and how you actually got to speak with a Human about changing/renewing/retention. Would you be kind enough to share on your post or direct? Thank you.

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person

    This is NOT a direct or quick way of contacting VM, the quickest way is via the telephone. VM staff processes posts in order and it can take 2 to 3 days before hey get to your post. The counter starts from the last entry on a post. So if people keep adding to the post it goes to the bottom of the queue.

  • Hi cathybarron,

    Thanks for your post.

    I can see my colleague is already assisting you with this matter via PM and they'll get back to you asap.

    Many thanks