3 weeks ago - last edited 3 weeks ago by Lisa_CC
I signed up to VM at the start of November for broadband only services and it is now the start of December and I am yet to have working internet. The first router they sent us did not work but it took a week of jumping through the rings of running speed tests and going through the troubleshooting links in the VM app and VM connect before they agreed to send out a new router. The second router also did not work and it took another week of the doing the same thing before they organised an engineer to come out. The engineer could not get it to work and said that he thought there was an issue with the fibre on the street and would raise a ticket for someone to come out and take a look. That was over two weeks ago and nobody has come to take a look or fix anything. I have been without internet for a month and it is impossible to speak to an actual person to get any answers about if they are even trying to fix the issue. The VM app acknowledges that there’s an issue causing some “intermittent outages” in the area and that they are trying to fix it but the estimated fix time keeps getting pushed back further and further.
At this point I have just been trying to get in touch with someone to cancel my account but even that has been impossible. I’ve requested call backs from them but they have not tried to get in touch saying that they are too busy.
This has been the worst costumer service I have ever experienced.
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3 weeks ago
Did you ever have a working connection? If not... then "technically" you are not a VM customer yet and should be charged nothing - until such time as your Hub connects. So if that were the case you can leave quickly and incur no costs. Post back if you need advice on how to do that.
See these below for the compensation you should receive.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/costs-and-billing/automat...
https://www.virginmedia.com/help/automatic-compensation
https://store.virginmedia.com/the-legal-stuff/terms-and-conditions-for-fibre-optic-services/automati...
2 weeks ago
Hi @40mar 👋 Thank you for your post and welcome to the Virgin Media Community 😀
We're sorry to hear about the poor experience you've had and that you feel this way 😔
I can see you've spoken to the team since your post. Are you any further forward with this?
Please pop back to us at your earliest convenience.
Regards,
Daniel