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 Cancellation Terms outrageous
Beware - it is strictly speaking "legal" but an affront to common fairness. In the smallpriint of your (broadband) contract the cancellation terms mean you would have to pay the full amount for every month left on your contract. For example, I have been with Virgin for twenty years, renewed my contract for Broadband and phone last November. The cost from May 2024 onwards (for the 12 months of the contract) will be £69, which is far too expensive compared to other providers, but to cancel it I would have to pay £12 x 69 = £828, yes OVER EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS, for the privilege of NOT receiving their service for 12 months! This is discraceful and morally quite wrong. SHAME ON YOU, VIRGIN So "Buyer Beware" certainly applies ( and I bet this gets deteted by the admin!)Cancellation date - can I choose?
Hi there - possibly a dumb question but does anyone know if you can choose the cancellation date when you go through the ‘I want to cancel’ option on the app? Technically, I don’t want to cancel but I don’t want to ‘renew’ when my contract ends early April. I have to use a VPN for work and there have been no end of problems with everything dropping out. According to the IT team at work, Virgin is a known problem for this (I also now have access to city fibre and can get 8 times the speed for a third of the cost. No brainer…) My first time posting so sorry if this is waffly! Thanks in advance