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Chris_Myers wrote:I have just got off the phone with a complaints agent asking for a management call (Complaint C-2111221243). I am promised a manager will call me within 24-48 hrs - I will report back. By the way, by the end of sheet 12 I already raised it with Ofcom and copied it to the BBC. I think that Virgin Media have a very strong sales team but a very poor service team and am personally really annoyed at the run-around service we are receiving and the totally inappropriate "solutions" - just changing a phone number on the same equipment WILL NOT FIX a firmware issue. Begs the question - where are they getting their technicians from?
I don’t know how many times VM have promised me management call backs and then fail to do so.
I’m on the phone right now raising this as a complaint as well. The more of us that do this, the faster VM will work to get a fix as it’ll be cheaper to fix the issue than keep dealing with all the complaints. Sadly VM just worry about the ££££’s and not about service. it’s a shortsighted way to do business because they’ll win customers and then fail to retain them. I’m the only person on my street on VM & put it this way I’ll be discouraging any of my neighbours to sign up.
Today I got this
Your complaint was: Home Phone -> Faults -> Other
And here’s what we agreed: Billing -> Extra guidance on billing
(there was no mention of billing in the exchange whatsoever by me or the agent - go figure)
We’ve now closed your complaint. Thank you for being so patient with us.
I replied asking for the call to be re-opened and to get the management c all as promised - watch this space.
- Lee_R3 years agoForum Team
Hi Chris_Myers, thanks for getting back to us.
Sorry to hear our team have not followed up on the private messages, we've sent. I will send you a private message, now. Please look out for the purple envelope in the top right of your screen.
Regards
Lee_R
- jem1013 years agoSuperstar
Chris_Myers wrote:Today I got this
Your complaint was: Home Phone -> Faults -> Other
And here’s what we agreed: Billing -> Extra guidance on billing
(there was no mention of billing in the exchange whatsoever by me or the agent - go figure)
We’ve now closed your complaint. Thank you for being so patient with us.
I replied asking for the call to be re-opened and to get the management c all as promised - watch this space.
You know it's almost as if VM, as a company hold you, as a customer in utter contempt, and as long as you carry on paying them every month, then as far as they are concerned you can just bend over and take it? No?
You won't ever, ever get a call back from a manager, never happens, although if it does, then how would you know if the person you are speaking to was 'a manager' and not just the office cleaner? And, no disrespect to cleaners, but their ability to resolve customer complaints is somewhat limited!
Actually to be honest, I'm not entirely sure that VM's customer services actually has any managers, or certainly none that would demean themselves to speak to lowly customers and irrelevant non-entities such as yourself!
- Chris_Myers3 years agoSuperfast
Todays update As well as the communication below - no follow-up as yet, I also go two private messages from two separate team members (5 and 7 hrs ago) asking me for my account details. That is 3 team members who have asked for my account details in the past 24 hrs with no subsequent follow-up - despite watching the purple envelop as instructed. Ladies and gentlemen on the team, my challenge to you is TRY HARDER to offer a service.
Complaint reference: C-221122184
Hello Chris Myers,
We’ve got your complaint about the issues you’ve been experiencing recently.
Thanks so much for taking the time to get in touch. We’ll look into it and get back to you with what we find and hopefully agree on a resolution with you. We’ll try to do this as quickly as we can, but please give us up to 28 days to look into things properly.We’re really sorry that we haven’t lived up to what you expect from us and we’ll do everything we can to put things right.
What happens next?
Your case will be assigned to a member of our team and they’ll take care of it from beginning to end. They’ll look into your complaint and the issues you’ve raised. They might also give you a quick ring or text first to find out more information before they get started – so please keep an eye on your phone to not miss it. If they can’t reach you, they’ll write to you with an offer of a resolution and you’ll have 28 days to respond and chat through things before they close your complaint. If you’re not completely on board with the resolution they offer, you’ll have the choice to escalate it to a manager by following our Customer Resolution Code of Practice. Just let us know and we can show you how it works. See more on this here.
You can also keep tabs on the progress of your complaint online through your My Virgin Media account here. -< LINK TO TRACK COMPLAINT
- snozski3 years agoUp to speed
I got a reply via PM.
It was the same thing I was told three months ago. Change number .... I thought they had been spending three months investigating this.
Has the Virgin technical team got hold of a BT premium phone yet and tested it with a HUB 5 ?
Honestly, this company has the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I don't blame the forum staff here seems like the whole system is rotten. It's not professional in any way shape or form.My last ISP Plusnet who are meant to be a value ISP, rarely when I had issue they had a proper ticket system and the issue would be addressed with priority with constant ticket updates and total transparency. I actually feel sorry for these guys working for virgin on these forums as its clear to see they do not have the tools to provide a service that would make them proud. It's either send an engineer or repeat the same thing over and over again.
Zero point in moaning though, all I'm saying is everything I've experienced with Virgin since joining back in March made me regret it outside of the speed which is amazing.
Hopefully, city fibre has built in my street by the time my contract is up for renewal. I mean the users here have worked out the issue for Virgin and still it appears it's not being treated with any priority ? Its like others have said on this thread its almost like customers are treated with contempt. I've tried speaking to virgin on phone but can only talk to some non-native English-speaking people who have no idea what is going on, a pure waste of time. Im starting to think we will have to wait until the hub 6 comes out for this to be fixed 🙂
- Chris_Myers3 years agoSuperfast
Just got asked again in the last hour for my account details - 5-times in 24 hrs now from 4 different agents, all via private message, not recorded, or shared apparently.
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