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Renewal package not added to account, resolved then removed, VM unable to fix, leading to reduced service

SueMc1
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On the 17th December, I accepted a renewal offer for my virgin media package. Received the contract and documents via email. Renewal cost was £79.97

Payment taken in January was for £105.

after spending nearly an hour on the phone yesterday, transferred to different departments, I was advised that it was the online teams responsibility and to contact them via online chat to resolve ( as the online teams offer was not on my account)

After locating the chat facility ( which took some time to do as it's not obvious or intuitive), waited for an hour with no one responding.

Today I contacted the complaints team via online chat -this took 2 hours in total- they advised there had been an error and offered me the same package for £70. I accepted, and received another contract confirming this. Was advised it would take 24 hours to be reflected on my online account. 

An hour later, I received another email contract confirming the removal of all of my services and stating that the cost was now £143 per month.  I have also lost access to all of the sports and cinema channels.netflux has also been affected by them removing my payment details.

Contacted the complaints team again, relayed the information again, was told that it was very complex and it would actually be 48 hours to resolve, until then, my channels are still lost. I requested an escalation in my complaint to be told "don't worry I'm from the higher complaint team". I didn't accept this as nothing resolved. This has taken me a further 1.5 hours.

Im posting this with the request that someone from virgin media resonds and is able to help get this resolved.

I have downloaded all of the chat history if required and have all of the documents that I can provide if needed.

I'd like to escalate this complaint as well please, as in addition to all of this, the complaints team kept referring to me by my deceased husbands name throughout the conversation. Even after I explained that he had died and I was the account holder, and female, they kept using his name as if they were talking to him. It's been a horrid upsetting experience. I'm beyond upset and unhappy with the disgraceful experience. 

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Carley_S
Forum Team
Forum Team

Hi @SueMc1 

Welcome to the Community Forums. 

Sorry to hear of the issues you've had when renewing with us. 

If you accepted an online deal on 17 December online, this can take up to 14 days to be applied on the systems on our side. With the holiday season, this might have taken a little longer. 

We can certainly take a look at what's happened on our side for you. Please join me on private message so I can locate your account and pass account security. You can see your private messages at the top of the page, in the envelope icon or if you're using a smaller device, you can see your private messages by clicking on the Virgin Media logo at the top right and select 'Messages' from the drop down. 

Here to help 🙂
Virgin Media Forums Agent
Carley

Hello I've just received an email stating that I've spoken to someone and my issue is resolved. This is not correct. I have not spoken to or had contact with anyone from virgin media today. The description of my issue in the email is completely incorrect and I do not wish for my complaint to be closed. The email provides me with the ombudsman contact if I remain unhappy so I will be contacting them, providing them with all of the chat history, emails etc. I would like to reiterate I would like someone from virgin media to contact me to resolve this. 

To clarify - I was told that due to a technical error, my upgrade had not been applied to my account, since yesterday, I have had a reduced service and no one at virgin media can resolve it or sort out my account.