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Virgin Media Reviews

1.2 Rating 2,364 Reviews
3 %
of reviewers recommend Virgin Media
1.2
Based on 2,364 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Courier, Own Driver
Average Delivery Time
Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery
Greater than 15%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 81%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.2 out of 5
Avg Email Response Time
-1 hours
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
We rang Virgin back in January to cancel . Because there broadband was forever going down in my house, not happy need it for work. So they told us we had 3 months till our contract ran out so would have to pay £141.50. So fed up with them ,customer service shocking not bothered after 19yrs as a loyal customer. So gave them 30 days notice. SO we went with sky, installed yesterday thinking Virgin would be cancelled. Today day 31 and noticed Virgin still working on my husbands phone. So rang up Virgin to be told at first it hadn't been cancelled. Wasn't at all pleased asked to speak to cancellations told me tv and broadband was cancelled but because I wanted my home phone number porting to sky I need to give another 30 days. Absolutely appalling customer service DONT SIGN UP TO THESES MONEY GRABBING SO AND SOS .
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Posted 2 years ago
Avoid them at all cost, cost being the key word here. I signed up to virgin 2020 when they were offering anyone new a half price for a certain package, this seemed great at the time so went for it. Not once have I ever paid the discounted price. Every single month they took out the full price, and I messaged their WhatsApp which was easy and they would credit my account. This went on for months. I eventually made a formal complaint, which then took so long for them to sort because they wouldn't issue a refund, that it went through to small claims. Where they credited my account what I was due. And rather than charge me the discounted price as you logically would. They charge me the full amount and then immediately credit me the difference so I'm still getting charged the full amount. All because they refuse to give refunds. For such a big company you'd expect it to be miles better than it is. Just avoid this lot no matter what. I'm off to Vodafone for double speed at half the price!
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Posted 2 years ago
Virgin Media, the company here when it is to take your money but can't get a complaint to be resolved! They are liars! Do not go with them. I have been with them for 4 years. Throughout those 4 years i encounterd several issues. Most of them have been dealt with efficiently. Except the lacking of speed and my wifi randomly drop off (still an existing issue). Last year (in June) i had enough of it and wanted to cancel my contract. Spoke to a gentleman who told me i had to paid a cancellation fee if i wanted to cancel now as it was too early(fair enough). I understood i had to cancel it in January. I asked then at the moment to remove tv and phone as we are not using those. He told me that he can add up speed so it shouldn't drop anymore. I kept on asking that would be included in my existing contract as i did not want to renew it or make a new one. I was assured that it was the same contract and i would still be able to cancel in January. Imagine my surprise when in January I was told that i have to pay an early cancellation fee! I called them explaining everything, asking them to listen to the phone recording. The only response i got was how to troubleshoot ny hub so my internet wouldn't drop (like it would even help?! -_-') nothing about the fact that i have been lied to and put into a new contract without my consent. I called about 5 times now. The only thing i got out of them was for me to make another complaint so i can speak to a manager. Was told that i would get a call back the next day at 12pm which obviously did not happened. And when i called back, was told that i have been missed led (so useful). I can't get through to a manager and now have to wait 72hours to get a call back (for my second complaint that i had to do) from a manager... Which let's be honest.. there is 0.5% chance that's gonna happen. Customer Service = 0! Definitely avoid virgin at all cost if you can! They are just ripping people off!!!
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Posted 2 years ago
Wow what an absolute disastrous company. I ordered a package to include net flix. Signed up for 18 months. To then be told 2 months in that Netflix isn’t included and I need to pay extra. After spending an entire day on what’s app and phone they still wanted to charge me more. Even though my contract clearly stated Netflix was included. So I told them to cancel it. They then wanted to charge me £200 cancellation fee. When they are the ones who misold it to me in the first place. Absolute daylight robbery. I am taking them to the ombudsman. This shouldn’t be allowed to happen. Quite shocked to be honest by this company!! Don’t touch them AVOID
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Posted 2 years ago
Apalling customer service, after I was forced to cancel within 24 hours because the company couldn’t even install a working system. Avoid like the plague!!!
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Posted 2 years ago
Worse than Syphilis Unfortunately there is not a minus score. We got the equipment - it never worked. We returned it as instructed. They still wanted us to keep paying them. Now about 2 years on a debt collector is trying to extract the cost of this useless pile of detritus. I have told them to go & boil their bottoms. Virgin should be declared an international terrorist organisation and everyone who owns it or works for it should be publicly executed & their families forced to watch. I would rather contract bubonic plague than so-called Virgin Broadband.
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Posted 2 years ago
Absolutely useless. Never ever agree contact on the phone. Unacceptable mis-selling (actual charge was much higher than what the sales person said), no proper process for complaints from customers (they don’t care about complaints as they know that customers are unable to cancel contracts for the contract term), never reply to my complaint, useless internet speed which is so much slower than it advertised, so dishonest and helpless. What they doing is a proper scam. We really should avoid the company.
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Posted 2 years ago
I am talking to the ombudsman about these clowns. I questioned my account on leaving an address. I had an account for 15 years. When I started asking questions I NEVER received an answer. Ultimately they sent the deadlock letter to my OLD address which they knew I did not live at. They then sold the disputed account to some debt shisters claiming I had not responded. Avoid these people. The worst corporate scum there is. Happy to rob vulnerable people and con existing customers. A bit like dealing with an insurance Company. Dont believe the speed claims either - lies.
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Posted 2 years ago
They make a even simple request difficult I spent 4 hours on chat and phone and still not resolved!! Don't know about internet because never get one. Unprofessional and rude!! AVOID AVOID AVOID this is my honest advice!!!
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Posted 2 years ago
Terrible in every way
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Posted 2 years ago
We had technical problems. Three sets of engineers came at various times but the issue is apparently on the street. The engineers were fine but Virgin communications are terrible. Hours and days going in circles, talking to bots that keep asking the same questions and don't listen to what you have to say if your issue doesn't fit into a preset question and answer framework. The long and short of it is that we have had no TV service since December (=3x months). I made several complaints, and argued we should be refunded to months of no service - Virgin eventually responded by saying they'd as a 'goodwill gesture' waive a month.. but still no service. When contacting them to say we're switching provider, surprise surprise, they show interest. It's very frustrating as a customer - VIrgin are very good at running a 'shop front' but once you're in ... oh boy - and it must be very frustrating for the Virgin staff who presumably have to operate in a thankless firefighting mode.
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Posted 2 years ago
I would give this awful, horrible company with its terrible tech and customer service 0 stars if TrustPilot would allow me to. I had the worst experience of my life dealing with a company as a customer from this company, in the second month of my life in the UK. Shameful service and causes shame to the whole country because of this terrible service. I only went with them because I got a referral from a friend, luckily they didn't have any trouble but once they do, I'm pretty sure they'll come here to write a review just like this one. The customer service agents cannot speak or understand English correctly. The agent, who's name I can't remember, who answered my call when I first contacted VM had entered every single piece of my info incorrectly starting from my email address, last name, and even my contact number which is the one I called from. Funnily enough this person had misspelled the Gmail part of my email address as 'gimail' so I did not get any communication from VM after the initial setup of my contract. And when I called them to ask about the installation appointment, I had to call them 7 times to go through and get it set up. Then the installation appointment got cancelled twice. And finally after almost a month, when the installation person came, they explained to me clearly why I couldn't get VM to my property because there's no wiring that comes into the apartment. I live for rent, so I can't allow them to rewire the apartment, so only thing I could do is cancel it. They managed to waste a good part of a month of my life because they couldn't check in advance whether they have the connection to my address which is what they check at the very beginning when someoneasks to joing them. After this whole thing, they again called me and said they're going to reschedule the appointment to do the installation. The person who called this time too had absolutely no idea what went wrong with the installation. What ridiculous system they have in place, I don't know 🤷‍♂️. And then I had to explain everything and said they need to cancel it. I'm still not sure whether they have cancelled the contract correctly or whether they'll charge me for no reason because as I realise now that's how terrible Virgin Media is. My advice and recommendations to anyone who even thinks about going with VM because they give you good deals is PLEASE DON'T!! If at least one simple thing with your connection or contract goes wrong, you'll have a he'll of a hard time getting it fixed. There are other companies who offer the same services but a bit expensive, but I would highly recommend you go with them because they have so much better service. Finally what I did was I found a good deal for HO online and applied to it. The only reason I didn't go with them in the beginning was because VM was a lot cheaper but ultimately I had to pay the price for choosing a cheap company like VM. I got everything setup online through HO's website and got the connection set up in literally 2 minutes.
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Posted 2 years ago
Virgin media use mafia strong arm tactics to keep your business and offer zero customer service. They entered me into a new contract under false pretences and without my permission costing me time, money, energy and my mental health. They have zero compassion for their customers.
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Posted 2 years ago
I was sold a contract with promise that I will be provided service at my new address when moved or cancel the contract if failed to do so. Now a month without service as 30th Jan later 13th Feb was installation date but now told to wait till may with no guarantees and neither cancelling nor providing right information compelled not to get any other service provider. Worst ever experience by any company
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Posted 2 years ago
I wouldn't give one star. I ordered Virgin broadband and was given a installation date for 09/02/23. I cancelled my PlusNet provider as I was requested to do by Virgin, may I add that PlusNet have never give me a problem and the only reason i chose to leave was for promised speed increase. On the 07/02/23 i received a text telling me the installation has been delayed until 02/03/23. Needless to say this is unacceptable and very unprofessional. their excuse was they needed to check permits for my area, I almost found this amusing if it wasn't for the raging anger I was feeling. I rang their terrible costumer help line, what a nightmare. I couldn't understand the staff and they were going over the same statements over and over. All i wanted to do was cancel. I gave up in the end and continued the following day with the same problem. After 45 minuets actually managed to escape to clutches of the Virgin media Nightmare. I then Rang Plusnet who saved the day, after 10 minuets on the phone I was up and running again, PlusNet will be doing full fibre soon so I will stay with them and upgrade. Virgin never ever again.
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Posted 2 years ago
Poor customer service and old technology I was up for renewal and Virgin won't warrant the new customer deals, even after being a customer for almost 6 years. Virgin wanted almost double the price for the same deal they give to new customers which I felt was unfair. The router they provide is ancient, a Hub 3 released way back in 2016 which doesn't even have the newer Wifi 6 band so you can't even get up to the rated download speeds over WiFi once you leave the room where the router is placed. Customer service is also poor, good luck to anybody trying to resolve issues as it takes days and sometimes over a week to get any helpful response. I have had many issues over years including downtime and failure to apply a credit even after calling numerous times and being promised a credit it still never got done. I'd recommend using a provider that uses the City Fibre network as that uses a proper fiber line to your property. I chose Giganet and the speed is significantly quicker at 900mbit and with lower latency, a WiFi 6 spec router is provided which gives a much better signal than the old Virgin router and the monthly price is much cheaper (£30 a month - 12-month contract) than Virgin Media.
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Posted 2 years ago
i upgraded my phone to samsung A53 it stopped working 2 months into contract and they want me to pay £120 to get it fixed even though its under warranty and nothing was broken on it, it just stopped working, disgusting customer service and terrible company, customer services unhelpful, whole company unhelpful
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Posted 2 years ago
Unreliable broadband. Problems every day. Slow. Dropouts. Crashed Zoom calls. Literally every day. The only thing worse is their customer support. Avoid at all costs.
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Posted 2 years ago
I know people will think only upset customers tend to leave reviews but I do need to share my experience with there customer service which has been disastrous. I applied for a house move back in November and was offered a £22 monthly fee for the broadband only service, along with a complementary wifi pod. The £22 fee was to be achieved by applying a £25 credit to a £47 monthly bill. The agreed moving date was 6th January. Below a list of all that has gone wrong to date: - they disconnected my original line on 6th December. I do not know the reason til this day but suppose they just mixed up the dates. Anyway it took me a week to get my line back with no internet in the meantime - I am now getting billed the full £47 a month with no sign of a credit. I have spoken to them about 5 times about this issue - always get apologies and promises that it would be fixed but it has not been to this day - likewise, after a month in the new property i am still waiting for the wifi booster. The agents I spoke to over the last couple of weeks all promised me it was on its way to me but the one I spoke to today admitted that the booster was never order. So they basically lied to my face. They know want to charge me £8/month for the booster, possibly taking my monthly bill to £55/month instead of £22 as originally agreed - I have spent countless hours arguing with them with no progress made on either issue. No one takes ownership on their side. The moving team blames it on the retention team who blames it on the wifi team. It is ridiculous. - they never send any written confirmations of your conversations. They promise it's all noted on my account but half the time the next agent admits the notes are incomplete. It's basically your word against theirs - i have now passed the 14 day cooling-off period which, I suppose, was their objective to start with. They mess you around promissing all sorts of things until you get to that point and then they just deceive you and say you have to pay a disconnection fee if you're not happy and wish to leave I will file a complaint with the Ombudsman now. Hopefully people will ready this review as it is first hand, real experience and in my life i will never ever use Virgin Media again
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Posted 2 years ago
Customer service advisor lied to me in more than one occasion. Not a trust worthy company. Will be leaving in April. Can't wait. Ps. Remember ALL Calls are recorded....
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Posted 2 years ago
Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,364 reviews