There is a reason why nobody has posted any positive comments about Virgin Media. Everyone can't be wrong. Wifi constantly dropping off. Promises of phone calls to fix a problem that doesn't happen. A rubbish company offering a rubbish service.
Happy to post a very positive review of the RFoG intenet connection in West Bergholt.
What is far more of a concern is the telephone sales / support team.
To the people saying that customers only leave comments when they're dissappointed.....
In my opinion, it doesn't work like that. If it did work like that then no company would ever have close to 5 star ratiing on trustpilot.
When people recieve ecceptional service, they rate 5 stars. When it just works they say nothing. When they get robbed and conned they rate 1 star.
If you look at VM on trustpilot, it's at 1.8 stars average, with over 50,000 ONE star reviews.
If you look at Community Fibre it's at 4.9 stars average, with almost 32,000 FIVE star reviews.
There's no doubt that VM is poor at complaints handling, but you cannot compare with CF. VM's network covers about 55% of the UK's premises (and some of it goes back 30 years or more) whilst CF's network covers about 3.34% and is new. VM's also much better at providing TV channels and apps, and in collaboration with O2 can offer some good deals.
Yes Roger, VM has a much larger network. But that does not excuse the appalling customer 'service'.
Any business selling to the public should provide customer service in proportion to its size. VM fails to do that, in fact they seem to have a policy of making it very difficult for any customer to make meaningful contact.
If VM has 10 times as many customers, they need 10 times as many support staff. Staff who are trained and resourced to resolve customers' problems, rather to brush them off without resolution.
If the tools arent given, and the company not truly cares, all the good will from the rare decent CS agent will be for naught.
Yep, as jpeg1 mentioned, it's called "scaling up" in business.
Every qualified business manager understands that you cant scale up from 500 customers to 5 million customers while relying on the same customer service department and their small-scale mechanisms. You need to scale up all the departments! Not only that, you need to create customer support mechanisms for everything that can possibly go wrong, and then observe these mechanisms in action with your own executive eyes.
Has the CEO of virgin media ever read a single complaint in his life? I personally don't think so! If I was the CEO of virgin media I would personally take charge of a minimum of 5 complaints per month. I'd do twice a better job for half the salary.
Business size is simply not an excuse for non-proactive executives.
Just goes to show the UK's CATV network is just a cash cow for shoddy executives.
Over my 25 or so years of working life I have realised that there are two types of people, those who just want to suck cash and go home as soon as possible, and those who want to do good work while treating any income as a bonus.
Welcome to the Internet.
People only seek out forums like this if there is an issue. If there is no issue they don't even know it exists. This is the same for everything. Phones, gas and electric, Electrical items.
People come on here and go, damn, everyone hates Virgin it must be awful. except in reality there are WAY more happy people than dissatisfied. If I posted a messages saying Virgin are great and way more reliable than Sky / BT, I'd just get beaten down, because everyone here has a problem. 90% of which are WiFi related which is more of an issue of the placement of wifi boxes. "My Wifi is rubbish.. that's because it's in a cupboard under the stairs"
Oh and I only logged on... because I have a small problem I am about to post. Overall having been with Virgin since the start I've only been offline for about 2 days when someone digging the road up took out half of West London Virgin in one go. other than that a few hours here and there.
Your post highlights the particular issue with VM. You have had a very good experience with minimal issues. I too used VM for 20+ years and only had a handful of notable faults in that time.
For the unlucky customers where things go wrong, VM's blundering and incompetence in solving trivial problems, coupled with long-running systemic problems which never ever get fixed, is the reason the strength of feeling in some topics on here is so high from some customers.
IMO it is less to do with VM getting things wrong. All huge corporations make mistakes and have failures in customer service. In the case of VM though, when they do get it wrong it is often in a spectacularly bad way and VM's processes and procedures are totally inadequate for correcting the worst of its mistakes.
Yes. In a highly technical environment, faults will occur. It's how they are dealt with that is the issue.
It's human nature though isn't? I don't come here and post to say my service is running fantastically, which it isn't by the way but do come here to post when there are issues. So all we see are post after post of issues, some of which can be an interesting read 🙂
I have been with virgin nearly 2 weeks. During that time I had many difficulties with virgin and o2 and volt. I had about 5 very long chats. Each person promised to call me back and each time after the first I pointed out they don’t and each one assured me they will take ownership but didn’t. I then came on here to vent. I got it resolved but firstly it should have been right first time and secondly it should have been fixed first time. Overall as I am nearly at the end of my 2 week cooling off period should I run away from this shambles before I am handcuffed to my modem by my contract
