Waiting for call from management after a complaint. How long is it likely to be?!
Sorry but this is long! A month ago, I told Virgin I was moving house through the messaging system on their website. I requested to see if there was a better deal than my current package as I had been on it since 2014. What I expected to be a quick chat, turned into over 2 hours - they said they were experiencing technical difficulties. The operator told me there were 3 options that were better and then told me option 3 was best which was for volt with an O2 sim. She told me the broadband was better, (I believed it was M500 which can be boosted), free Netflix with adds, and I thought my tv would be at least the same or better. I am usually a cautious person and so asked many questions and felt her increasing, persuasion to accept option 3. E.g. ‘so, shall we go with option 3?’ My chat messed up and was keeping previous chats so it became very hard to get the correct points across. I was worried to come off the messaging as I would potentially have to go back through it all and with the pressure of moving house, accepted. However, it turns out she put me on Volt 350 and mix it tv which is worse than my original package. We have lost loads of channels. I am out of the cooling off period but called today and spoke to retentions as I feel they have messed up (been a customer for years). They offered me different packages at higher costs. I just wanted the package I had been told I was getting at the price I was quoted and that I had accepted. It has been sent as a complaint where I now need to wait for management to call me which can be 7-10 days whilst putting up with the pathetic number of tv channels and recordings we can’t watch. I was told it would be over £1000 to cancel the contract should I go to another provider. Awful- especially as they messed up originally. So, how long have others had to wait for call from the team please?
Unable to link VM / O2 Accounts
Like many others, this is my last resort. I'm a returning customer (Well over five years since I've dealt with Virgin media, now I remember why I switched in the first place...) Eager to get on and change preferences such as eBlilling, however, despite multiple days & countless attempts.. I've attempted changing my email address so many times, I've created burner emails. Etc etc. Nothing has worked, every single swapped email has been triple checked I'm also using the account number provided by the first bill I've received as well as the area code.. Supposedly, according to the top moderation post, this issue has been fixed, but clearly that isn't the case, or they have an email address on file that I haven't touched since I left the service many years ago. Can I please get this resolved as a matter of urgency, over a week now I've tried to resolve this myself & none of the information through any platform (Including the forums themselves.) Have been any help.What a circus
I have been a customer of VM for many, many years. I have worked in various organisations, many much maligned by the public and the media (some of them richly deserved to be, others were hard done by) but I i have never ever come across an entity so incompetent and so severely mismanaged as VM has become. Strictly speaking, I am leaving VM on 27 May but have already been disconnected. The ombudsman is going to love reading my story.
