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Delivery and installation issues: please post your updates here.

katiecolley
On our wavelength

Hi everyone,

There are an ever-increasing number of new threads on this forum talking about the ongoing delivery and installation issues for Virgin services.

Could I suggest that everyone who is experiencing such issues posts in this thread, so we have all the relevant information relating to the situation in one place?

Let's keep it clean, solution-focused and non-defamatory; only factual updates. That way, Virgin will be able to get a clearer idea of how many people are affected, and hopefully they might be encouraged to issue an update to everyone concerned. That'd certainly be much easier (and more transparent) than trying to funnel individuals into DM conversations!

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CM2023
Tuning in

Great Idea! 

We ordered 05 December and promised delivery on 09 December. We received emails from Virgin on the run up to delivery confirming the date (but no address or tracking number) and on the morning of 9th, we received a text from Virgin confirming that the delivery was going to be made. However before 10am, we recived a second text saying that due to circumstances out of their control it wont be delivered and they cannot give us a date that we can expect to receive it.

I called the customer services team last night (9th) and they told me that the kit will 100% be delivered in 48 hours. As we discovered that we do not have a wall socket, I requested a technician to come out on 12th and the customer service agent said okay but if the kit is not delivered then we must cancel the appointment or we will be charged. We never received confirmation of the technician appointment so I'm assuming that wasn't booked as he knows the kit isn't coming.

He guaranteed me in one breath that the kit would arrive and then in the next breath told me I had to cancel the tech appointment if the kit didn't arrive so i am assuming that, like everybody else, my kit isn't arriving in the next few days.

To make matters worse, our home security system (cameras and alarms) are both run on Wifi so Virgin media are now putting my family at risk. I have explained this to them and they do not seem to be taking it very seriously.

Virgin Media need to give customers some kind of update on when they can expect services to be delivered. Even if it is a timeframe customers won't want to hear.

Vageroni
Tuning in

My self-install hub was due to be delivered on Saturday 7th December (ordered on Tuesday 26th November).

After chasing every day via chat support, today I finally got someone who has given a clear indication of how long this delay will be:

'I just reviewed your account and I can see that you have an order placed in the account and it was scheduled to be delivered on the 07/12/24.

I am so sorry for the delay and I see that the tracking details has not generated yet and the package seems to be in the ware house due to an internal issue. I can understand how difficult this could be for you we will make sure the package reaches you before the 1st of Jan and the tracking details will be sent to you once the package is in transit.'

So it seems we will be waiting until the new year for our broadband, unless we cancel and find another provider.

Eils82
On our wavelength

Hello great idea

 

i was supposed to receive my TV self install kit on 6th of December but I didn’t 

 

can anyone please help?

 

kind regards

eils82

Oh wow! It should be sooner than that, though – a Virgin customer support representative posted on another thread earlier to say that they hoped to have the backlog cleared and all outstanding installations completed by December 20th.

JoshC117
Tuning in

Good idea, I like many others on here was due a QuickStart delivery (07/12/24) but this has still not been received 

Called and was given a tracking number saying the router had been despatched, Yodel had the package and that it would “definitely” be delivered on 07/12/24. Yodel tracking says the package is still with Virgin (which is believable as my other Yodel deliveries last week have sent me email updates, whereas no email update regarding the Virgin package)

Received a message yesterday on my post from Carley (Virgin employee) who asked to confirm if I had received any further communications regarding my delivery. I stated I haven’t and have had no further contact from Carley or anyone from Virgin for that matter

Completely non existent Virgin communication and terrible customer service and like many others on here this seems to be a common theme. 

Alfie_G
Tuning in

I had a deliver date of the 5th Dec mine is also still with Virgin having checked with Yodel. Looks like from reading posts it could be January by the time I see it....

It's absolute pot luck and you will be told completely different things by different Virgin employees - I just had a different support rep promise it would arrive with me today and it's 100% with Yodel (it isn't), and he then passed me to their 'pre-install' team who said it would arrive by the 20th.
They did however confirm the £6.10 per day compensation:
'once the account is active you will get compensation credit by the back end team by calculating the number of service delayed. Rest assure, everything is taken care off and made sure, you will not face any issue with credit or service.'
The fact there is no general announcement about this yet is quite shocking honestly.

japitts
Very Insightful Person
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@katiecolley wrote:

Could I suggest that everyone who is experiencing such issues posts in this thread, so we have all the relevant information relating to the situation in one place?


If individual users would like replies from VM staff, it's far better to have individual threads with their specific issues.

Multiple users joining in tends to create more of a "rant" type post where it's far more difficult for individuals to be responded to.

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Fair comment, although the 'individual issues' are all pretty much the same: VM employees consistently promising delivery on specific days, and then nothing arriving. I just thought if everyone posted on the same thread, it'd actually be easier for the VM staff who monitor these forums to see everyone who's in the same boat regarding this issue.

If people want to keep starting new threads and/or posting on multiple threads, that's totally their call; it was only an idea 🙂