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Nashota
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31 days ago
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Switch VM to TalkTalk

How long after your services are live with the new ISP do VM disconnect your services with them?

My service with TalkTalk went live yesterday afternoon, I did try and give 30 days notice twice to VM but they said that they wouldn't disconnect until TalkTalk let them know that my services were live, which I thought was a bit off considering I'm the customer and I'm telling them that I want to give 30 days notice which they are pretty much ignoring (yes I do understand that they don't want me to be without a service but at the end of the day they ought to do as the customer requests).

I have just paid VM which from what I've read is charged in advance, but I'm concerned that VM will try and charge me again as it'll be almost £100 when the next DD is due and I cannot afford that so I'd have to cancel my DD with VM.

Thanks in advance

  • Thanks for working with me via our private messaging function Nashota.

    Pleased to have gotten this resolved for you.

    Do feel free to report back to me if you have any further issues with the Virgin Media account at all.

    Thanks for your time and best wishes,

    David_Bn

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  • -tony-'s avatar
    -tony-
    Alessandro Volta

    if you did it with switching thing then it should be automatic - but not sure it works - my daughter did it from VM to BT and it worked eventually - a week after she switched she still had a live VM line - she contacted VM who said BT had to sort it - on contacting BT they said they had informed VM on the day of the install

    a few calls and whatsapp later when VM offshore constantly claimed it was up to BT the VM hub started to flash and their was no connection so someone sorted it

    who actually did what she has no idea - but when the final bill came it was up to the switchover date

    like most things its a mess of VM's making i think

  • Nashota's avatar
    Nashota
    On our wavelength

    Yeah that's how I did it.

    I opened a webchat with TalkTalk and they're telling me that they need to create an account for me which will take 7 - 10 days, why so long? then they'll let VM know but they said they will also make sure that I don't incur any charges from VM..

    I was under the impression that once you switched and your services were live that the new ISP would let your previous one know and then your services from the previous ISP were disconnected.

    If I ever switch again I'll do it manually, I'm finding this a bit confusing.

    • unisoft's avatar
      unisoft
      Knows their stuff

      you said in original post about cancelling DD with VM, never do that until you know your final bill IS your final bill as VM have 100% efficient procedure at passing to bailiffs/credit collection agencies EVEN if they have billed incorrectly. Their systems are programmed to just see a payment was not made on time and tested for 100% accuracy to ensure they never ever miss these "non-payment" events. You have an easier life to let them take an incorrect charge then get it back with compensation later than a credit collection and associated downgrade on credit reporting.

      • Nashota's avatar
        Nashota
        On our wavelength

        Thanks for the advice, it's just a lot of money isn't it and I don't get very much due to being disabled but I'll do as you've suggested.

        Hopefully it won't take TalkTalk too long to sort it.

  • I moved the other way in December and TT disconnected their services 3 days after VM went live.

    Suggest you register a TT online account as soon as you can.

    • Nashota's avatar
      Nashota
      On our wavelength

      Thanks for the response, I will as soon as they sent me the account number, can't do anything without it unfortunately. I'm stuck waiting for TalkTalk :(

      • Matthew_ML's avatar
        Matthew_ML
        Icon for Forum Team rankForum Team

        Hey Nashota, thank you for reaching out and we are really sorry to hear you are struggling to cancel.

        We can see you've spoke to somebody, did they manage to help at all?

  • Nashota's avatar
    Nashota
    On our wavelength

    Would someone from the team be able to DM me please?

    I've tried speaking via webchat and I feel that I'm being messed around a fair bit, I initially gave 30 days notice on the 23/02/2025 but the person that I spoke to from VM tried to tell me that it was OTS which is actually incorrect, it wasn't OTS so they should have taken my 30 days notice, I tried twice to give 30 days notice and now I'm being told that my services won't be turned off until next month and that I'll incur another charge and when I tried to dispute it with the person they weren't really very helpful, they were nice enough but just not helpful.

    Thanks in advance.

    • Matthew_ML's avatar
      Matthew_ML
      Icon for Forum Team rankForum Team

      Just to confirm you have your 30 day cancellation in? 

      Please do remember we do bill right until the day of the disconnection, then we would send you a final payment and once any kit and the bill as we been paid we would send a cheque refund out within 45 days of this. 

      We continue to bill you as usual until your disconnection is complete. This helps to make sure your final month of service isn't interrupted. You will therefore probably see charges that go beyond your disconnection date, normally because your cancellation date takes effect mid billing cycle

      • Nashota's avatar
        Nashota
        On our wavelength

        Hello,

        Before I start explaining, I'm just going to say that this has caused me a lot of stress and anxiety and I'm actually confused by it all, I don't know what TT or VM are doing between them, it wasn't until my last chat with both that I actually got somewhere.

        I tried twice to give the team 30 days notice, I contacted them on the 23/02/2025 to tell them that I was giving notice which was meant to end on the day my contract ended which was on the 25/03/2025, the man was going on about how they wait for TT to let them know when I'd been disconnected, I then contacted them again on around the 07/03/2025 just to make sure that they had logged it, again the person started going on about how they wait for TalkTalk to contact them.

        My services were installed by City Fibre on the 25/03/2024 and went live on the same day as planned, my VM services were still live a couple of days after. So I contacted TalkTalk about it and they said I needed to have an account created, so I thought fair enough but at the same time I was wondering why my services were still live. A few days later my account was created but again my services were still live, this time I used the text feature for TT and contacted VM via webchat again as their customer service over webchat seems a bit hit and miss.

        TT said that it wasn't OTS as suggested by both TT and VM, it's a new line, they said to contact VM about it, at the same time I was talking to VM and was telling them what TT had said, the person didn't seem to know what I was talking about and claimed that me giving noticed hadn't been logged (I do have chat logs btw, and you can clearly see me saying I wanted to give notice on the date I've mentioned above), we went around in circles for about and hour or more, I think it could have even been 2 hours until she finally (after I'd already told her what TT said about a new line) asked if TT took the VM line over which I would have thought VM would have known? So I told her no and explained that City Fibre install the lines differently (mine was from a telegraph pole). She then said she couldn't see a note of me giving notice and yet both of the previous people I'd spoken to had said they would write it all down, she then said she would start the notice from the date that I was speaking to her and that my services would end at the end of April and that I still had to pay a bill which I think is unfair considering the error was on VM's side, not mine.

        So I would at least like the money back that I've paid and an apology for all the stress and anxiety that it caused me. I felt like I wasn't listened to at all when trying to deal with VM's customer service and retention team.

        Sorry about not coming on before and updating, it made me feel quite off honestly.

  • Nashota's avatar
    Nashota
    On our wavelength

    Just to add to the above, it also appears that VM because of their mistake are trying to charge me another £68 for my final bill.

    • David_Bn's avatar
      David_Bn
      Icon for Forum Team rankForum Team

      Thanks for the update Nashota, and we're sorry to hear of the stress and anxiety that this has caused you.

      I'd be happy to look into the status of the disconnection to see if this was subject to an order of a One Touch Switch request, or if we need to disconnect the service based on a request to do so, with the standard 30 days to be served - and dated back to when this was first requested.

      Thanks,

      David_Bn