What is happening to Virgin Media???

****UPDATE*****

The private message assured me that as I was told the cheque will be with me in 5-10days. 

We are now on the 10th day and the post has been delivered....

No cheque and no surprise. 

VM failing again. Now i will have to contact them again and I'll be told to wait another 10 or 14 days. 

This is the 6th or 7th time now. 

Completely unacceptable. Even when this is such a failure by VM they are still not offering to speed up the process, do a direct BACS transfer to me, ensure I'll get a cheque next day. 

VM do not care about their customers. If they had any respect they would address this ongoing issue immediately. Its a very simple process. Transferring money via BACS takes no more than 10 minutes. Why am I having to wait 8 weeks? Honestly ridiculous. completely incompetent. 

Another complaint via the Ombudsman will be started today. 

*****UPDATE******

I reached out to VM again via live chat. This was to ensure the process was underway and to confirm if my refund had been approved for process. - As the last time I wasn't notified when it was declined and had to find out myself. 

I got through to a manager and I was told, I have a refund request approved and it will be via cheque in 14 days. Again i the chat was terminated before i could ask anything else. 

Sounds promising, however 

1. I have already been told 14 days. TWICE. I waited the full 14 days each time and nothing came through

2. I was guaraunteed by several managers I could get the refund via BACS transfer

3. I have been waiting 7 WEEKS! This is no way to treat a customer. I am being punished yet again for VM mistakes. Surely with an onging issue like this they would label it High Importance or try fast track as best they can. 

No ownership, no customer care, no respect, and absoultely no competency in the VM team

Hi Alex, 

Thanks for letting me know. I responded on Tuesday and it is now Friday with no reply. 

Is Ayisha on shift once a week? Did she take annual leave 5 mins after messaging me? 

Or more likely, am I being fed false promises by VM yet again. 

7 weeks and still counting since I first contacted VM regarding this issue. 

Hi Gareth, 

I was messaged by your colleague straight after I made this post. They asked for my account details which i responded with immediately. 

I have heard nothing back. 

Again VM failing to take any ownership and I am being punished for VM mistakes once again. I have contacted the Ombudsman to order VM to make the payment as was detailed in the dispute outcome.

***UPDATE**

In the middle of a live chat I request to chat to a manager. I was put through and he told me it was 5-7 days then disconnected before I could answer. Awful service yet again. 

I have been told conflicting dates for the last 6 weeks. His words mean nothing to me and I didnt get a chance to question them. How VM treat their customers is disgusting

****UPDATE****

After finally talking to a manager I was told they can't actually do bank transfer for credit withdraws only cheque. Apparantly I had specified that when I set up the account although I was never asked directly. I also cant change the prefrence as its an active account now.

This manager offered me nothing tangible or any email confirmation. I wasnt prepared to trust his words as I have been lied to 5 times prior. I requested that he stay on the phone with me until we recieved email confirmation back from the accounts department if the credit withraw can be approved. After 1.5hrs on the phone he told me that he has to hang up and help other customers. My issue still wasnt resolved and he obviously thought they were more important than me. 

He said he would call back at 5pm to update me and also Monday. -- neither of these things happened. again false promises. 

After being hung up on, I called back and recieved a different manager. He said he has personally put my request through and it would be in my account monday night at the latest. He gave me a refrence number and guaruntee. 

Again this failed to happen. 

It is Tuesday now. I am currently on the phone to VM again. I have just been told the previous manager didnt put any notes in therefore the credit request was rejected and I now have to wait 5-7 days for a cheque by a new request.

??????? Can anyone see any logic in what is happening?

I can't help but start drawing conclusions to this irrational and unbeliveable behaviour thus far is that VM are purpousley preventing me withdrawing money as I have taken them through the ombudsman dispute and won against them. 

Hi User001 👋

A warm welcome to our Community Forums and thanks for your post. 

I am so sorry for the poor experience. This isn't the level of service we aim to provide. 

I'm going to pop you a PM 📩 so we can take a closer look into the matter for you.

Hope to hear from you soon!