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SazH1
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5 hours ago

Waiting for call from management after a complaint. How long is it likely to be?!

Sorry but this is long! A month ago, I told Virgin I was moving house through the messaging system on their website. I requested to see if there was a better deal than my current package as I had been on it since 2014. What I expected to be a quick chat, turned into over 2 hours - they said they were experiencing technical difficulties. The  operator told me there were 3 options that were better and then told me option 3 was best which was for volt with an O2 sim. She told me the broadband was better, (I believed it was M500 which can be boosted), free Netflix with adds, and I thought my tv would be at least the same or better.

 

I am usually a cautious person and so asked many questions and felt her increasing, persuasion to accept option 3. E.g. ‘so, shall we go with option 3?’ My chat messed up and was keeping previous chats so it became very hard to get the correct points across. I was worried to come off the messaging as I would potentially have to go back through it all and with the pressure of moving house, accepted. However, it turns out she put me on Volt 350 and mix it tv which is worse than my original package. We have lost loads of channels.

 

I am out of the cooling off period but called today and spoke to retentions as I feel they have messed up (been a customer for years). They offered me different packages at higher costs. I just wanted the package I had been told I was getting at the price I was quoted and that I had accepted. It has been sent as a complaint where I now need to wait for management to call me which can be 7-10 days whilst putting up with the pathetic number of tv channels and recordings we can’t watch. I was told it would be over £1000 to cancel the contract should I go to another provider. Awful- especially as they messed up originally. So, how long have others had to wait for call from the team please?

4 Replies

  • newapollo's avatar
    newapollo
    Very Insightful Person

    Hi SazH1​ 

    The full complaints procedure (including timescales) is outlined on the following page.

    https://www.virginmedia.com/help/complaints

    If you were speaking via the messaging service when you requested the house move and made changes to your package then there should be a paper trail (the messenger chat actually gives you the option to request a copy be sent via email) however you can also request this via a Subject Access Request. https://www.virginmedia.com/help/dsar which should help you with your complaint

    There is also a page listing DSAR FAQ's <here>

    • SazH1's avatar
      SazH1
      Just joined

      Thank you for the information. It is kind of you to reply. 

  • goslow's avatar
    goslow
    Alessandro Volta

    I would politely suggest it may be a lot longer than 7 to 10 days before VM ever calls you.

    If you have made a formal complaint

    https://www.virginmedia.com/help/complaints

    it is likely you will get an incomprehensible 'resolution' very quickly and the complaint will be closed.

    From there, you can go to the ombudsman via the process below

    https://www.commsombudsman.org/our-process

    You can request your chat records and phone calls here

    https://www.virginmedia.com/help/dsar

    There are regular 'deal not as described' topics on here

    Don't be hesitate to press your case with VM and go to the ombudsman if necessary.

    A VM forum person should get to your topic, usually within a few days and may offer to help which might bypass all of the above.

    • SazH1's avatar
      SazH1
      Just joined

      Thank you very much for your reply which I really appreciate. Yes, I had thought it likely a far longer wait, if ever they do actually respond. I did notice that it states that the complaint has been resolved (it hasn’t) on my Virgin account. Will push on with it.