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Karlo123
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4 days ago

Unable to access/register VM account after bereavement transfer since November 2024

To whom this concerns,

We have recently experienced a bereavement in our family and have gone under the process of the bereavement transfer policy given by Virgin Media as the main account holder had passed away, but since then we have not been able to access our eBilling or our current account that was supposedly transferred from the main account holder and we are seeking a solution to this problem.

The previous main account holder's account is still accessible but is expectedly frozen from when I last tried to access it, as the bill does not go past November 2024. 

But when we attempt to register ourselves as the new account holder, the web page freezes on itself when we set the password for the account on iPhone. Or on PC, the web page freezes on itself when the password is set, and the webpage endlessly loops on "Request in Progress", with webpage prompts to say that the "Page is not responding, would you like to refresh" and this is the same across browsers Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and now DuckDuckGo. We've given up to an 1 hour+ with no change to the webpage.

When we get to this stage, we do receive an automated reply via email from Virgin Media saying that we have registered for eBilling, but when we try to login with the details we have registered, the login is unsuccessful. This is not a password issue as I have tried resetting the password through the forget password function, which we didn't receive an email to reset the password ever since November and I have tried this function multiple times since then, suggesting our account was not registered properly because the webpage freezes before we could register the account or the transfer from the main account holder is incomplete.

We have been in contact numerous times with VM Customer service, but we've experienced no solution to our problem, we have even approached the bereavement team to confirm the transfer was done, which they did confirm, but we are seeing no change to our problem as we still cannot access or register our VM account. So I've made an account here in the hopes that this gets attention as this seems to be a larger issue.

We have bill proof, email trails with the bereavement team, the form that was used for a bereavement transfer, and any other relevant information that is needed to prove that we are the current account holder and that we are a customer with VM and this transfer did happen, we are happy to provide it.

  • Hi there Karlo123 👋 Welcome to our forum and thanks for your post 😊

    Sorry to see that you've been unable to have the online account set up since the account was transferred. It seems odd that these steps you've tried haven't worked. I'll certainly be happy to check this for you. 

    Just to confirm, when setting the account up, are you using a different email address to the one that was used previously, or the same email?

    Let me know.

    Regards

    Nathan

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      Karlo123
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      Hi Nathan,

      To confirm, we did use a different email address to set up the account, as we were under the impression, upon reading the bereavement transfer form which asked us to provide the email address and personal details of the person that the account was transferring to including a whole new direct debit set up, it would replace the previous email, and create a different account separate to the bereaved account holder but continue the broadband contract, held by the previous holder, that we have with VM as it is still active.

      Which is why we've been attempting to register with the email address of the new account holder rather than the previous bereaved account holder's email address.

      From our experience, it seems that the bereaved account holder still exist on the system but is frozen at November 2024, and when I did attempt to click around and use the accounts' function (an attempt to see if the details had transferred from old to new), an error would occur and it would redirect us to the support page. This was really hard to get across the the VM customer service line.

      The previous account and the new account holder that we are trying to register have the same account number and area reference.

      I hope this helps.

      Thank you,

      Karlo

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        Nathan_B
        Forum Team

        Thanks for confirming. I'll pop you a PM to confirm more details so this can be checked.

        Regards

        Nathan