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complaint to the highest level at Vergin media

iqbal353
Just joined

Firstly, I was paying £176.00 PCM and for two days I had to work from home and had no internet on both days I was so angry that I called to cancel the contract and was asked for an error code I had to Internet or TV service after checking my service I was told that I would need an engineer at the same time I was offered a new package with Virgin on 20/09/2022 and I was told that an engineer would come out on Thursday 22/09/2022 between 4-7 pm. As no other dates were available, I was waiting for an engineer on this date, however, an engineer did not turn up. I had taken time off work for this period which was a total waste of my time. 

I called Virgin the next day, however, the advisor in the call centre advised that no engineer had been booked, despite the appointment being confirmed. 

I was also told the new hub would be sent to me on Wednesday 21/09/2022 but I didn't receive the hub until 16:30 on Friday 23/09/22. I had to spend the whole morning on the phone to establish where the engineer was and where the hub was which was a total waste of my time. I ended up installing the hub myself, however, the speed checks are still not showing the 1G speed or anywhere near that speed the virgin TV boxes keep hanging and require rebooting was told the engineers have these and will replace them nothing of the sort to date. 

O2 Sim was also sent registered to someone else with all my bank details how is this possible or is it even legal

It is frustrating that Virgin treats its customers in such a poor manner and the service provided is inadequate and sub-standard. 

 

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iqbal353
Just joined

Can anyone please help its been a nightmare and want to rase a complaint via email so that i can track the complaint the only email I found on the internet is for the CEO  surprise it does not work.


@iqbal353 wrote:

Can anyone please help its been a nightmare and want to rase a complaint via email so that i can track the complaint the only email I found on the internet is for the CEO  surprise it does not work.


You can't as; possibly oddly for a 'communication company'; they don't have any customer facing email addresses - odd that, but they do have a web form on which you can register a complaint, I would take numerous screenshots of it though as there have been a number of posts saying that a complaint has been submitted but the acknowledgement or responses bear little resemblance to the complaint itself!

Be prepared though for your complaint to be ignored, simply closed without further comment, lost, denied that it was even submitted, responded to with a 'sorry about that but tough' - type of response - as such is the dysfunctional nature of VM's customer service provision (the forum team here being an exception). And that's OK, just keep proper records of all interactions with VM, dates, times, what you asked for, what the responses were etc, so that when this inevitably ends up with the industry adjudicator, you'll have all the evidence to hand for your submission.

goslow
Alessandro Volta

Once you have complained to VM (you have to do that first) let the ICO know of VM's mishandling of your personal data

https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-protection-complaints/

VM have already been on the ICO naughty step recently for not responding to DSAR requests.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2022/09/action-taken-against-seven-orga...

I found the ICO useful in a (non-VM) data mishandling situation in the past (they were very slow, but they were helpful).

You will probably have to bundle all the other issues into a complaint to CISAS (again after using VM's complaint process first)

https://www.cedr.com/consumer/cisas/complainnow/

CISAS don't deal with data protection matters.

You can also do too OFCOM for completeness (but that won't help you individually) just contribute to a collection of evidence about how VM is operating

https://ofcomforms.secure.force.com/formentry/SitesFormCCTMonitoring

Refer to the 'fairness commitments' below that VM has signed up to

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2019/broadband-and-phone-firms-put-...

sounds like VM has failed on 4, 5 and 6 in your case.

The VM forum team might try to help but they will not reply on here in 'Community Natter' unless the topic is moved to another forum where the VM forum team do reply.