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.Please dont make me call CS again
Hi Team, Besides the constant passing around and difficulties in speaking to someone who can help me in the CS teams - I have gotten to stage 2 of having tech team one, come run the cables to my house (barring doing a blood sacrifice with Virgin over the phone to get this sorted), I am now stuck in the next level of of purgatory in waiting for an engineer to come to my house to run the cable to a router. The house is a newly built one and the couriers cant find the address after trying over 3 days - also not being able to even call and speak to comeone to help arrange (thanks Yodel) so I have no Starter kit (of which I have ALREADY mentioned countless times to the CS people and no it wont allow me to change delivery options either) and no new confirmation of an engineer coming for the next round. And finally when trying to log into the Virgin website to check appointments on mobile or pc - your cookie policy pop up is so broken that I cannot even accept them for it to go away and I can check the scheduler! Im so close to calling it quits with Virgin and I havent even started the service. This is my final Hail Mary, send help :( AlexEngineer no-show
I booked an engineer when we signed up 13th April to arrive an install today. Noone has turned up and I've just spoken to customer service who told me: My installation was cancelled; My parcel is with Yodel He couldn't tell me when the installation was cancelled and that's when he said Yodel were delivering it. Now I know that Yodel aren't installing any wall sockets so not sure why they'd have a package for me when I've booked an engineer installation. I know the process has been started because my current provider have been notified, so that means I'm without internet from tomorrow. What is going on and what do I do about getting an engineer out to install the kit I need??Self Install but need engineer
I placed an order for Virgin wifi and tv to be installed and placed the order through an 02 store. I did ask to book an appointment for the 3rd of May however when i received my email confirmation there was no mention of a booking date at all. I received the self install equipment today however the wall socket is outdated so a new one needs installing. Do I need to call up to make an appointment or can I book online? TIA [Mod - title edited for clarity]Wifi and upload nightmare issues.
Across all our devices for the last 4 months wifi connected devices are intermittently not loading, they just drop off to mobile data or say connected no Internet. We are on the gig bundle. When doing Sam knows tests all looks fine but it's not. The engineers even experienced it when here. When doing speed test downloads speeds are fine but errors out on upload. Had 3 engineer visits, a new hub a new booster, One engineer said he found a ghost network. Even when all hubs etc where off still showing the network. It's driving us crazy, wifi tvs connect and seconds later lose the network again. As do all mobile devices, laptops etc... Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciatedFluctuating speeds and ping while gaming on PS4
Had an engineer out a few weeks ago who diagnosed whatever issues there were with my hub. New hub 5, new cat 6 ethernet cable, fine. Over the following few weeks although my download speed and upload speed were showing better, it is awfully inconsistent, and the lag is making me lose my hair while gaming in my free time. I run speed tests via multiple sources and the download amd uplaod speed show ok but p9ng horrible. Run tests via Virgin media app and all is fine, run again minutes later and it says intermittent signal in area. (Is that actually the area or personal router, becasue ringing customer service for them to tell me everything's fine in my area is conflicting). Issue persits - 2 calls to Virgin and 2 no shows by engineers (looks like customer service never even booked them), I finally got another engineer out today. 2 nice chaps, but what they did I'm not sure. Nthing was replaced within my home but now my speed test on PS4 reflects even worse fluctuations. Currently showing approx 24mbps down, 12 up, then up to 380mbps, then back down (Barely 30 seconds between tests.) My package is 500 up and 50 down. I am tired of this constant fluctuation and service. While I have 4 months left of my contract, it will take some magic to keep me as a customer for their internet, tv, phone package and I'll take it elsewhere if things aren't finally sorted. Sorry but it's just tiresome. Spare time is limited, and I can't enjoy it currently because of this. Is there ANYONE that can help me please?? It's driving me nuts!!Book an Engineer for installing a phone line?
I currently do have a phone line as part of my Virgin package, which I've never used. I realise I can plug a phone into the hub, but ideally I'd like two sockets with different numbers installed (currently no phone boxes installed in the house) I followed the link below, https://www.virginmedia.com/help/landline/install-home-phone Which has this information: --------- Installing an additional landline You can get a second Virgin Media phone line installed – with a new phone number. This would run along the same line, but have its master socket at another location in your home. The cost of installation is between £10 and £25 depending on deals, normal telephone rates and pricing applies. Here you can book an engineer appointment --------~ Sadly this link to book an appointment 301 redirects to a page for managing an existing appointment... https://www.virginmedia.com/help/how-to/broadband/manage-order-or-appointment Bit frustrated any ideas on how to book and pay for an engineer? Must I really call up and wait on the phone for 4 hours, then get cut off, then call again for 4 hours? I tried the online chat, but they do not deal with phone lines apparently.