Hey all.
I've got a set of ridiculous issues (typically its Virgin again) and I'm absolutely at my wits end with it.
Back in Dec/Jan I purchased 2 SIMs to use on a monthly basis for a few months ( whilst signed into an OLD account 10+ years). The transaction failed for some reason and a web chat popped up for help. I completed the transaction with the very helpful staff via the chat.
Come end of March I didn't need these anymore so I went to cancel. The process was to sign in to the online account and then go via the steps. Neither number had an online account, and they didn't appear under the "all accounts" section in my really old account.
Trying to register the number against a new email the process fails saying these numbers are already registered.
I spent 3 1/2 hours speaking to support to try and sort this and they simply could not. I asked them to just cancel them as I didn't have any more time to waste on this (for reference I had a Lebara SIM too and the whole process took 3 mins).
Fast forward to today and the letter through the door saying they're getting the debt collectors in for £24. I've spoken to about 10 engineers, via 4 different numbers, been hung up on 4 times and last but not least tried to speak to the complaints dept.
I missed his name but I spoke a really rude guy who was laughing down the phone at me, telling me I couldn't read properly as the mobile numbers would be on the letter (they're not) and telling me how I was going to get billed forever if I couldn't work out how to sign up online. Eventually I lost my rag and, even if it was accurate, called him a patronizing **bleep**, which I shouldn't have. He hung up.
Ultimately what he said before then was that I'll never pass GDPR without an online account because no passwords etc have been set. Great, because after over 3 hours of troubleshooting we can't get that registered, not to mention I now don't have the SIM cards so can't do the text auth. They won't send me new SIMs to try either, because I don't pass GDPR. I asked him to put me through to, or log the complaint which he also said "we can't do because you don't have an account".
So round and round ... what the hell do I do?
