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First install failed, second date is probably going to fail

VriginAreUseles
Tuning in

This is going way worse than expected, first install failed as there is no fibre to my house, Virgin keep telling there is even though their engineer agrees with me.
There is no one in the UK that can help me, just Indian helpdesks that can only follow scripts, my frustration is not helping as they can't understand why I'm getting angry after spending well over 2 hours now listening to godawful hold music
Apologies and promises are not customer service

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Alessandro Volta

It's the Virgin Way.  You'll get used to it eventually. 😞

Seems unlikely, I would sooner pay more for poor service than stick with something worse

Hi VriginAreUseles, thanks for posting and welcome to our community.

I am really sorry to hear of the delay in your installation and I am sorry to hear of the customer service you've received when attempting to resolve the issue.  I would like to take a closer look on your behalf.  I am going to send you a private message.  Please look out for the purple envelope in the top right of your screen.

Regards

Lee_R

So for you are the only person that has actually responded in anything even remotely like a timely manner.
After spending a further couple of hours on hold trying to get through to someone who knew what was going on, going through security 4 times, 5 if you include the first failed call, everyone trying to apologise, but no-one being able to help or give me an update.
As it is impossible to get hold of the pre-installation team and with no clear updates, I have looked through the paperwork to try and cancel the whole thing.
As the only way to change the order is via text to whoever, I have asked that the order be cancelled, still as expected there is no confirmation anywhere that this has happened and there is no-one to speak to.

I'm really sorry @VriginAreUseles.

We are here, if you need us.

Regards


Lee


@Lee_R wrote:

I'm really sorry @VriginAreUseles.

We are here, if you need us.

Regards


Lee


You know, in the past, before my contributions as a VIP were no longer welcome, I did make a half tongue-in-cheek post saying that the most important skill that a member of the forum team must master is the ability to say ‘I’m really sorry…..’ plus ‘this is not the service/support we aim to provide’ because, believe me, you’ll all be using it quite a lot!

Anyhow moving on, might I suggest that you don’t cancel the VM installation, but instead assume that it isn’t going to happen - maybe you’re not the right sort of person they want as a customer, who can tell?. In the meantime, you investigate and sign up with someone else for broadband connectivity. If VM manage to get you connected up sometime in the next millennia, then you immediately cancel without penalty.

The upshot is, that you know there is a working connection if you should want to give them another chance in the future, and even if not, they will have expended a sum of money in getting you connected up, for which they won’t ever get a penny back - a degree of Schadenfreude, you might say!

Wow

"maybe you’re not the right sort of person they want as a customer"

Maybe you're right. the skill of apologising Honestly is taken tongue in cheek by the Mods, who can tell.

The problem for me is everything is so difficult just to talk to someone who has the knowledge and skill to deal with a customer is severely lacking, bringing on new customers should be when they are on their best behaviour or at least with most companies do that at the very least.  one huge worry is that this their best.

Everything from first call with the mates rates team, who didn't listen to me and told me something I knew not to be true, it's pretty much gone down hill from there, hours on hold with repeated requirement to go through security even with helpdesks you can only get through to with an internal transfer, what that tells me Virgin don't even trust there own employees as someone as to unlock the files before they can work on them every single time, can't get much more damning than that..

So I have tried to follow their process to cancel, refused access to the team pulling the fibre and I reckon by the 12th the engineer will still come along to continue the install, not knowing the fibre pull has already failed, because that is how good they are, I can't see the ongoing maintenance after that being stellar.

So no, I am trying not to waste any more time with them, so why am I replying here, because it is far quicker than trying to reach a Virgin helpdesk


@Lee_R wrote:

I'm really sorry @VriginAreUseles.

We are here, if you need us.

Regards


Lee


They do need you, but you cant or dont want to do anything. What an insult of a reply to the OP.