I went 32 days without broadband, that excludes the 2 days I am supposed to give for the engineers to fix it. I informed Virgin of no connection on 25th November, I have had three engineers out, I have had 3 cables re-done and the final engineer who visited on the 20th December told us that they couldn’t fix it that year as they need to dig up the entire road.
I’ve had issue upon issue trying to get people to fix this with everybody blaming everybody else. I’ve had a lovely chat with a Sophie who told me it was not her problem.
I’m also being made to pay the early disconnection fee which I was told (by Sophie) I wouldn’t have to pay if I had no internet for 30 days. It also states in the contract that if it’s less than the promised speed for 30 days I don’t have to pay, well yes, I had no speed as I had no internet. But apparently no, I still have to pay early disconnection.
Today I’ve been told I don’t meet the criteria for auto compensation. I asked what the criteria was and was told it’s a total loss of service (which I knew), which is exactly what I had…for over 32 days. So at £9.33 a day that’s not an insignificant sum.
I cannot believe it. I am fuming and can’t believe how much I’ve been lied to over the past month, how much time and energy I’ve spent trying to get this fixed to be told I haven’t actually had total loss of service. I’ve got doorbell footage, screenshots of chats, screenshots of my account clearly saying we are disconnected and yet I’m just being told a flat no. I’ve done several complaints through the web form, spoken to customer service agents, WhatsApp conversations, live chat.
I’m honestly at the end of my patience now, and my next step whilst I wait to be allowed to contact the ombudsman is to contact Anna Tims at the Guardian as my last ditch attempt. I’ve made this post so that I can say I’ve tried every single way possible to resolve this before escalating, but I am so enraged by the awful customer service I’ve received and how they are able to get away with such lies and I hope some how future potential customers will see this and think again.
The last engineer even disconnected our neighbour and they’ve now had no broadband since the 20th. So good job all round I’d say.
