I recently terminated my service with Virgin and was asked to send back their equipment. No problem. Before I receive the packaging I'm sent an e-mail saying Virgin have "key workers" in the area and can collect my equipment. Great. I set the date for the 15th April, the day comes, and goes... nobody shows up. I made 3 calls throughout the evening asking when I should expect the equipment to be picked up and was told increasingly later times - up to 8PM! I live by myself so had stayed in the entire day waiting for a pickup that never happened.
My pickup was rearranged for today, and guess what? Same thing. Once is bad enough, but twice? I spoke to a customer service rep just now who was sympathetic but seemed powerless to do anything to help and recommended that I just keep the equipment and wait for Virgin to contact me again. I'm a bit concerned that a charge will be put on my file for not returning equipment, though (although Virgin have now had two opportunities to pick said equipment up and not bothered turning up). At this point I'll probably just end up requesting packaging and returning it myself, but I would have done that in the first place had Virgin not told me they'd be coming to collect the equipment and basically restricted me to my house for two separate days. Both times I got an email the day before saying they would be coming to collect, and on the 15th I even got a text in the morning reminding me!
What exactly is going on here? This is absolutely appalling customer service and has pretty much put me off ever returning to Virgin in future.
