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mattybyrne11
Joining in
2 months ago

Constant installation delays

I was meant to have my services installed on the 7th Feb, a technician turned up to do the inside work before the outside technicians installed the cables from the pavement to my house, I was then told that they would install the cables on the 8th which was then delayed to the 9th, this date then got delayed to the 10th and then to the 11th, but no one turned up. They put my inside installation date to the 20th and have just said it'll get done before then. I've had no communication since, the call centre don't understand what I am saying and just read off a script saying they are working hard to get my services installed. I spoke to a 'manager' who told me the install team would ring me within 24hrs but they never did, the main concern is that it is going to get to the 20th and another technician is going to turn up to do the inside work without them doing the outside work first. I've never experienced such useless communication and a lack of organisation from a company!!

  • Hi Mattybyrne11 👋 welcome to the community forum! Thanks for posting. 

    Sorry to hear about these delays to your installation and poor experience trying to get support. We appreciate these kinds of cases can be frustrating! Our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience caused! 

    We are sadly quite limited with what we can do for pre-install issues as they are exclusively managed by the pre-install team. We can ensure there's a complaint raised and assigned to them, with an update of your contact and feedback if needed? So I will send you over a PM to confirm a few details and help ensure there is one raised for you. 

    You can find the PM in the top right corner of the page in your Inbox. Thanks for your patience in the meantime! 🌞

  • goslow's avatar
    goslow
    Alessandro Volta

    Keep detailed records of all the installation bungling (dates, times of visits etc. along with evidence such as texts, emails, screenshots etc.).

    You will be due compensation from 7 Feb when the VM tech failed to install your services and for any missed appointments where VM told you that you had to be in but failed to turn up without giving you 24 hours notice of the cancellation

    https://www.virginmedia.com/help/billing-and-payments/automatic-compensation