Shady tactics and lies - avoid
I write this in hope someone will read in the future and spare themselves the experience of opening an account with Virgin. I had the terrible idea of signing up woth them. I spoke with a salesman who assured the contract was full fibre. When the contract came, the wording on it were for hybrid broadband. I called back immediately to cancel and a very rude employee called John Paul told me that I couldn't cancel my account because it wasn't in the system yet. I managed to speak with the salesman again, who revealed he wasn't really sure about hybrid vs full fibre and offered to send an engineer the day after. I agreed. The engineer never showed up. When I called them back, I learned the engineer appointment was mysteriously cancelled without notification (they couldn't tell me by whom or why of course), so I had spent the whole Saturday morning waiting for the engineer for nothing. I finally was able to cancel (which is very hard to do, they keep making excuses) but of course my O2 account, part of the package, that was opened by the Virgin Media saleaman, needed to be cancelled separately, so another 1/2 hour of phone call, verification, explanation etc. On the phone service, it's almost impossible to speak to a human operator: the only way is saying that you're thinking of cancelling, they'll put you through the retention team who can't do anything, but they'll eventually transfer you to the other teams. Even getting there is hard: the voice password system doesn't work, and you have to dial in your password after 3 attempts. Imagine an old person trying to cancel or fix something, they'll never be able. Obviously there is no option for "the engineer never showed up", and if you select the wrong option you will descend into robocall help until they tell you to go to the website and hang up. All operators are from Asian countries, thick accents, hard to understand. A scam, hopefully the regulator looks into those shady practices.Contract's coming to an end..
I have cancelled my account (in order to avoid the sky-rocketing price hike at contract end in 4 weeks time) and my plan is either to take up a Sky contract or (if nothing appeals to me) to have my wife call up Virgin as a new customer and arrange a new install (and a new customer deal) before the 4 weeks are up. Has anyone done this before, can it be done without a break in service, and are there any issues I need to be aware of? TIA Jim
Contract ending - £100 more each month!
Hi, Has anyone else been given this crazy "offer" - I have been a customer probably since around 1996/7 always paid and had decent service etc. But my contract runs out in August and been told it will go up by £40 in August and the £100 in September! Crazy! Called up today but the price increase to stay exactly the same - with no difference looks like it will still be £40 (minimum) per month! Much much much cheaper surely to just cut ties and got with Sky direct and some of the multiple other internet providers. What's everyone else doing?£787 cancellation fee
Hi, I was trying to cancel my contract today, I was out of contract for a couple months but renewed it last month on the 15, so 20 days ago. My new contract isn't even charged on my bill yet, my most recent on shows the out of contract one was was about £80ish and I was under the impression that I can cancel within 30 days without being charged a cancellation fee only to find out today that it's 14 days, not 30. So now that i'm 6 days late, I have to pay £787 to cancel? That's an insnae price for 6 days off. Apart from a period when I was with TalkTalk, terrible service, I've been with virgin media for years. I recently lost my job and that's why I wanted to cancel, find a deal that's the same for lower price and I did but there's no way i can afford £787 when i'm struggling with my current virgin media bill. Is there something I can do to lower the fee or cancel it? It's 6 days after the cool off period. Thank you, BokiOne Touch Switch Nightmare
I am trying to leave Virgin as we no longer wanted TV services, and broadband was available cheaper elsewhere. I was reassured by a telephone advisor that it was a straightforward process, and my services with VM would disconnect the same day that installation was completed with my new provider. I initiated the OTS process with my new provider on 22/02, and received an email from VM the same day. The installation date ended up changing from when originally planned (28/02) to 17/03, VM have confirmed they can see this as the completion date. On 17/03 my new services have gone live but no disconnection or contact from VM. I have spent hours this week on the phone and on webchat with VM, with some advisers telling me that they can not disconnect my services as they have not been told of my installation from the new provider, whilst one adviser said she could see this and I’d be disconnected within 24 hours. Obviously this didn’t happen. I have been back in contact with my new provider three times this week, who have each time confirmed the OTS has processed as expected, yet VM continue to tell me they have not received this, and the only ‘help’ I have got is somebody initiating a 30 day notice period, meaning I will be forced to pay for over a month of an unwanted and unused service, when they have known since 22/02 I would be moving, and my new provider confirm VM have known this has been installed since 17/03. I had heard horror stories stories of other peoples OTS experience but naively thought things would be better for me! How wrong was I?! Virgin Media have provided a terrible customer experience from the off and I’d discourage anyone from using OTS with them! Has anyone had similar and can offer any advice? My next step is to contact OFCOMVirgin Media refuse to close my account despite confirmed switch to a new provider
Can someone please explain how I leave VM? I have a new provider who have confirmed the switch has been activated and an email from Virgin confirming they have had the switch request and yet I am still receiving VM services and being charges monthly. They are also constantly ringing me about my contract which expired on 08/06/2025 to try to get me to renew at a better rate than the one I should no longer be paying.I haven’t received the return package nor the label
Hi, I have cancelled my services long ago, my services has now also been disconnected and I’m still haven’t received a single email on when to expect the return package and label therefore I’d like to state in writing my dissatisfaction and my refuse to pay any incurring “penalty” you try to put on me as I have even tried several times to ask for a label following the instructions on your webpage however it doesn’t work once clicking on it! “Sorry! Oh, crikey. We can't find that page” that’s the message we get! please rectify this situation asap! Thanks!Lied to about EDF
So I've messaged virgin media three times over an early disconnection fee over WhatsApp. All 3 times I've been promised the fee would waver. Guess what? It's been nearly a month and the bill still sits at it's final amount and I've gotten absolutely nowhere. It's no use messaging WhatsApp because they'll just lie to you. For anyone thinking of joining/renewing their contract AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!Armed Forces Covenant - Virgin Media Breaching Contract
Military family here. We lived in an SFA down south and got posted to Cyprus (RAF base, which is British Territory) . I contacted Virgin Media saying that: the area I'm moving to is UNSERVICEABLE by Virgin Media hence by contract no early termination fee should be billed to my name. It is a military posting for the entire family that is outside our control so by contract, Virgin Media should not put a military family under unfair treatment and/or discrimination. Virgin Media is required to waive fees for military FAMILIES. I've explained all this, quoting the covenant, quoting other military spouses whose fees have been waived under such circumstances and the response I got was "I only have paperwork for Serving Person in my office, because the account is under your name you will have to pay". Well, isn't this unfair treatment? the house you provided services for is MOD property, which funny enough is under the Serving Person name, so you charge me, you charge him, you charge us. Webchat was even worse as I got someone who didn't speak any English and his messages made absolutely zero sense. Then I got a really cheeky guy who kept asking me of he could close my complaint. I told him not to close it and what did it do? claimed he resolved it!!!! Absolutely unbelievable how you don't understand that you can be sued for all this and that I can get my husband's Warrant Officer to send you a nice lovely letter as he already had to do this before for other people. You think you can just take advantage of people that's what you think. I expect the bill to be waived as it's legally required. Waiting for you to get in contact.Multiple renewal quotes - I gave up
I received a call from Virgin about my contract end so agreed to receive a quote the agent advised renewals were £198 then quoted a special price of £98. Given our existing price and knowing that we would also see an increase in April. I passed and was then was disconnected whilst trying to cancel. I called back and spoke to Holly who was great but advised me the rate was £111. I said no thanks and was directed to another agent who first advised a rate around 188 and then offed £89 and then around £82 for 24 months which would increase in April. I will now just opt for this one touch end and take a Sky deal instead. We are waiting for better Internet locally but being locked in for 24 months at a cost of several hundred pounds more a year seems hard to justify. Especially with lack of real pricing clarity and an increase just months after taking a contact seems wrong. I can't see the justification of in excess of a 20% increase after 18 months. Nothing is forever I guess.