So, if anyone is browsing this thread and wonders what's happend, it looks like this:
- apparently the engineer who installed my new package and took with him my old router didn't scan it properly in the system. At least that's the answer I got from John (above) after his investigations. John, thanks for trying to help!
- so, no idea whether I will be charged that £40 fee that VM has been threatening to do, for equipment that is in their posession.
- This comes after the last time I had a problem with Virgin - when I moved house - they also threatened to charge me for equipment that I didn't returned, but they were not sending the envelope/address where I could return it. So I thought this time, if I let the engineer take it, it avoids THAT problem. Nope, I just got a new problem.
- I suspect the end of this is, whatever you do, Virgin Media will try to make some extra money off you. They charged me 1 month extra (at the inflated price) when I changed my contract to another VM package; and now it's this return equipmant saga.