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I've tried to cancel my virgin media subscription SO MANY TIMES  now that it sounds like a joke. I called them an infinite amount of times just to get my call dropped. I need actual legal advice on how to stop this since they are adding another £9 to my subscritption and I can't deal with this anymore. I can't stress enough that I called A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIMES so don't tell me to call them at whatever number you have. 

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If you value your sanity post your cancellation by recorded delivery 

Write to Virgin Media, Sunderland, SR43 4AA, including your name, address and account number.

Perhaps let Ofcom know all about your experience too. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/complaints

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Hi @Khaledd thanks for your post although we're sorry to hear of your concerns raised here regarding your requested cancellation.

We would not intentionally drop the call but we are extremely sorry that this has happened for you, if you have not got this resolved since your post, we'd advise please trying to call us again on 150 / 0345 454 1111, but alternatively we also have a WhatsApp messaging service on +44730 532 7112 too.
We hope this helps and if you need any further support, please let us know.

Many thanks

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I rang twice on Friday to cancel because of the price hike and the fact I don't use the TV or phone anymore, the lady wouldn't just take my "I would like to just cancel please" until I listened to her offers which was £30 more than what I'm getting from my new provider, and after respectfully declining and asking to still just cancel she suddenly started saying she had technical difficulties and hung up on me LOL.

The second lady after telling her that I had already spoke to someone and wasn't interested in any new offers I just want to quit said she would ring back in an hour and that only she should call back and that I shouldn't initiate a new call and should wait for her.........and you guessed it no call came.

So I sent a recorded letter yesterday to cancel, if they still don't after this I'll go further and start compensation claims.       

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update

I was lucky enough to be the first one (literally at 8 am) on their whatsapp service and managed to get my disconnection sorted. I even received a confirmation mail. Hopefully you guys will have the same luck I had. 

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@Tom_W1 wrote:

Hi @Khaledd thanks for your post although we're sorry to hear of your concerns raised here regarding your requested cancellation.

We would not intentionally drop the call but we are extremely sorry that this has happened for you, 

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Sorry Tom, but absolute rubbish, yes, your offshore call centre staff ABSOLUTELY DO put the phone down on customers when the call gets a bit tricky or may cost the company some money, don’t they?

There are far, far too many similar reports from different posters for this not to be the case, well unless Virgin Media have the World’s worse and least capable telephony system, which is a bit odd for a supposed ‘communication company’ and as this seems to have been going on for so long without any improvement, we can but conclude that VM’s management are aware of it but can’t be bothered to fix it. Presumably good customer services comes somewhat below resurfacing the executive car park in the pecking order of priorities!

Now, not really expecting a response from you, but which of these two options do you think it can be? Or maybe you can provide a third option which explains the repeated and long running incidents!

In the spirit of being a nice person, you might well want to heed the advice I have offered in the past to other members of the forum team, when parroting the standard VM marketing responses, be very, very careful when putting your head above the parapet, because someone is very, very likely to shoot it off! And if and when that does happen, and you get called out, I’m not too sure how much support your managers will give you!

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Hi all, 

 

It's great to hear that @Khaledd has been able to arrange the cancellation, we are so sorry that this has taken longer than expected but we are glad that you have now arranged it. We're very sorry to see you go but we wish you the best of luck with your new provider. 

 

@Clarky123 I'm so sorry to hear that you have also faced issues registering a cancellation, if you have sent your letter by recorded mail then you should be alerted when the letter had arrived with us and we will confirm the cancellation. If however the letter has arrived and you have not heard anything we would be happy to check this for you. Are you able to let us know when this has been delivered to our offices?

 

Thank you.

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Hi Ashleigh,

I've just checked and my letter is still with Royal Mail but as soon as it does I'll get in contact with you if I do not receive any confirmation of cancelation.

Thank you for replying.
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Thank you for your update @Clarky123 😊

Please keep us posted and we will do our best to assist from here as much as we can.

Zoie

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