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Baylis
Joining in
15 hours ago

Recovery Codes ,O2 & New Login & Price Increases ;(

Crumbs what a day Virgin had an outage in CF23 this morning ,up and running now but  we are now expected to jump through more hoops to try and login with a complicated 2 step email or Mobile ect at one point it did not work now had to use a New Email not used before to use as a login and security .....  I'm worn out ..........

Looking elsewhere as fed up of the increases after many Loyal Years, as could not get any joy to change my Package which on the TV side very basic with lots of repeats ,  shall see what our Smart TV Free View has to  Offer. Been through 6 plus chats since 19th June , 3 phone calls and got no where ...Cancelled last week and even resolution / retention could not help so shall wait till they cut us off then have a rest and enjoy our Summer . Not happy with having to pay extra to actually cancel .. Us Pensioners are surely being picked on from various sides and no I can not get pension credit even though I don't get the Full pension amount .....

 

 

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  • newapollo's avatar
    newapollo
    Very Insightful Person

    Hi Baylis​ 

    One provider that has a less expensive broadband package is /communityfibre which has no qualifying criteria if it's available in your area and provides a 12-month Essentials 35 Mbps fibre package for £12.50 a month.   The ISP makes it available to anybody covered by their network (not only those on benefits) and after the end of the 12 month contract they charge an additional £4 per month.

    There's a list of other providers social tarifs on the ispreview site <here> not all of them require you to be on benefits/pension credit.

  • Cheers newapppolo just venting because been a customer non stop almost from day 1 when Ntl and Virgin merged in 2006 ,,,,  Loyalty counts for zilch they do not give back .Do you know what I was on the Phone to the Philipines today because I was asked via email to phone the Retention Team but again got put through to the call center , they could not help or were so fixed on getting me my package costing more money , so the person when I asked about being passed to the Retention team said yes we can do that but  the next person whom I believe was not a retention team member made a boo boo as when explaining again to the new person I could hear  laughing in the background ...... I got annoyed and she then passed me onto another person and the same happened again trying to sell me something I did not want for a larger amount some 50% more .So finally got him to listen and get someone else who was a Retention team member gave them my Mobile number ect reference number and said byee I finally got a return call  spoke to a scottish Guy but he could not help with my inital grievence / complaint  at all and offered me a package again abt 33% more than my last package .So I gave up and refused the offer and have now decided when my Virgin gets turned off shall and have a sabbatical .Plenty of Deals with other providers such as Sky .... Very Sad but there we are we live and learn the hard way 

    • Cardiffman282's avatar
      Cardiffman282
      Wise owl

      Let us know how you get on with your broadband-free summer and if you really miss it.