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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
The referral scheme is a scam. The broadband is patchy. Customer Services are exactly not that. Avoid. Dreadful company.
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Posted 3 years ago
Why do Virgin Media make is so effing awkward to end your contract? Five people I've had speak to, passed around muliplte departments. I had to explain I wanted to end my contract six times to one person. Here's an example of the conversation: "You're through to Virgin Media. How can I help you." "I'd like to end my contract please." "Okay, I can help you with that. But before I do, I can look at getting you a better deal." "No thank you. I just want to end my contract." "Certainly. But I could get you X download speeds for £X." "I just want to end my contract please." "Okay. I'm just going to speak to manager to see what kind of a deal we can get you..." I politely interrupt with... "I don't want a new deal thanks, I just want to end my contract please." "I'll put you on hold while I process that for you." 9 minutes later... "Okay, so I've spoken to my manager and we can offer you a deal..." I politely interrupt again... 'Look, you're the fifth person I've had to talk to now. I've been on the phone for close to a hour. And I've lost count of the amount of times I've asked now. I don't want a deal. I just want to end my contract please." "Okay, but I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't offer you a new deal. My manager is offering..." I interrupt again... "Look, I want to end my contract. I don't want a deal, I'm not interested in any deals." "Well, on top of our offer, we can also give you a free SIM card..." I interrupt, not so politely... "I'm now beginning to get really annoyed to be honest. I have already said that I want to end my contract multiple times now after being put through various departments. I've been in the phone for an hour now and I actually have things to do, like look after my two children. I have said I'm not interested in any deals. Again, end my contract." "Well I'm just trying to do my job sir." "I'm a paying customer and it's your job to do what I ask. End my contract." "I'll just put you on hold while I process that for you." 3 minutes later... "Okay, that's all taken care for you now. Is there anything else I can help you with?" "No." I put the phone down. Being put on hold over and over. A phone call that was dragged out over an hour for something that takes seconds to actually do. Virgin Media if you read this, this is why you get such terrible reviews. You don't listen to customers and try to force deals onto them you they don't want. You waste their time dragging out a process that only takes seconds to do. This is why people leave you, cos your customer service is terrible. And if you charge me a fortune for being passed around various departments, having to speak to muliplte people and ask over and over to end my contract, you'll be paying for my phone bill and time.
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Posted 3 years ago
My husband is in a covid ward,before he went in I loaded his mobile with £20.00. He has been unable to use his phone as every call goes to voicemail. They will not help me without his password which I am unable to give. I cannot change password online because they ping a security number which goes to his phone in hospital. I cannot go into the ward .They saythere is no money in the account that is blatantly not true.
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Posted 3 years ago
PLEASE NEVER ENTER A CONTRACT WITH VIRGIN MEDIA. I have moved and the Virgin Media team have lied to me over and over again. They're not just incompetent, they are trained to lie and tell you things are happening they have no intention of doing. They contradict one another and blame every other team for failures so nothing is done but they constantly promise solutions they never plan to implement. They're forcing me to stay with them despite providing no assistance and no installation of broadband whatsoever. It's a criminal act and I will seek legal recompense. When I did the move they said the property was ready for self installation. A lie. Technician comes, there's no plates or cables. Use the online service, they promise an installation before 6. No one turns up. I call customer service: the request was never submitted. This new person promises an installation before 9pm. No one turns up. Phone back this morning. No record of that conversation either. The installation team can't book an installation because the account is open. The calls team says an engineer is coming tomorrow. I call customer services. They say no engineer is coming. I ask can one be sent. They tell me the technician has said the property may not be serviceable. So I ask to be cancelled without charge. They say they can't because it only may be unserviceable. Who can judge this I ask? The area field team. Can I speak to them? No. Can the customer service team speak to them? No. Who could? A line manager but they're all busy wait to be called for 7 hours. I stay on call refusing to leave, a so-called busy line manager speaks to me within 10 minutes. Promises to speak to area field team. The issue isn't resolved and it's clear Virgin Media have no intention of doing anything about it. Completely unethical and illegal. I'm being forced to pay for a service that is not being provided. And they refuse to release me despite not doing anything...
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Posted 3 years ago
VM has big issues. This year I counted 29 days of no or intermittent broadband service.Everyone at my work is fed up with my excuses. Avoid.Customer service is not available or useful.Speed is not what they promissed. It use to be good long long time ago.Horrible now.
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Posted 3 years ago
Worst customer experience ever. They only apologies and asking million of security questions but nobody can help. Just moved houses and waited ages to have activated the new equipment in the new address. They involve hundred engineer to do a small piece of work for a tiny thing. And all of them are scheduled in different days
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Posted 3 years ago
STAY AWAY Please DONOT be lured by offers you see by virgin media! They are a horrible, money grabbing business, and I know that is most businesses now but these lot are scum! We brought our first house and decided virgin media were doing a good deal on phone/broadband/tv package so we went with them. After a while we literally had to call them every month as they kept trying to up our direct debit without letting us know. Some months it would go from £50 to £85! It’s a constant argument with them and their customer service is rude as anything! We put up with it for a couple of years because we were tied into a contract but we have tried to leave now and apparently we are still tied into a contract 3 and half years later..but that’s ok not to worry because there is only 4 months left on the contract. We were quoted £147 to be able to cancel and leave them, we wanted to pay it over the phone but we couldn’t and had to wait for it to be taken out of the bank account by them. I have unplugged the tv box and turned the WiFi router and phone off just so that we knew there wouldn’t be any additional charges made up by them. They have now taken out a payment of nearly £250! Even thought all the boxes and WiFi router have all been sent back to them! Honestly the worst telecommunications company I have ever dealt with! STAY AWAY!
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Posted 3 years ago
Awful, awful customer service. Impossible to cancel the contract. Had to write an actual letter to them to end it.
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Posted 3 years ago
Very bad customer service never answered on watZapp,on phone waiting 2.5 hours,I definitely not take responsibility for any inconvenience caused by them I will cancel this subscription membership
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Posted 3 years ago
I only gave them one star because there is no option to give 0 or even minus. I am utterly disgusted about this company and reading all the reviews here, I am surprised they are still in business. Besides the fact that they increased my price without sending me a notification ( they claim they did but i never got it ), i ended the contract with them before the end which was in April. I mainly used their internet to connect to my work VPN and it worked just fine until it didn't. The problem was the DNS static address which kept on kicking in every time i tried to access my VPN. After spending the usual 3 hours on the phone and being passed around different agents who were only good at asking my security details every time, after explaining my problem to each and every one of them, the last agent told me I need to pay an extra 5 GBp / month for a more secure hub but could not guarantee that this will fix my problem. That was the moment i decided i need to quit their service but surprise surprise, i need to pay an early disconnection fee of 150GBP. So they cause me the problem, they force me to quit their service and they want to charge me an early disconnection fee. This is the real hustle. Luckily, i can claim the disconnection fee from BT, so all good there. People, sooner or later, Virgin media will cause you headaches. Avoid this company like plague.
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Posted 3 years ago
Hello, it will be my story about vigine media, well at the beginning it was okay nothing about to complain, but bad things started to come out when I decided to cancel my contract, in first time when I did call them I spoke with guy about cancelling paid about 60 pounds I was like okay, and after 3 months they started to charge from me some bills, I was trying to call them 1 month, and finally I did it, and they said what this first guy didn't cancel my contract and after 60 pounds I paid 270 pounds to cancel it again, so that's how VIRGINMEDIA works .
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Posted 3 years ago
Firstly I've been with Virgin Media for many many Years when they used to be called NTL. Firstly i ordered a new remote control for my Virgin TiVo box and i recieved an old battered up remote control with dents, grease and scratches and dusts. How is this new and even hygienic i pay a lot of money for a whole virgin package. Secondly ive been havinh issues with their fast broadband and everytime i call no one helps. I dont need a technician sent to my home everytime for them to do and say the same thing and it still doesn't work. I don't want to stay on customer service calls for 2 hours waiting to hear the same things again and things i already tried. All i need is a new hub 4 sent to me or just boost my WiFi up a bit considering it doesn't work well and I'm a loyal customer who has every Virgin product. Virgin had amazing service but has been on a ver very big low recently and i am tempted to leave and go to BT or Sky unless things start to change.
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Posted 3 years ago
Not help full coustmer servise try to take money from every year
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Posted 3 years ago
I've been with Virgin Media since the days of NTL. 24 years to be precise. They used to be amazing. Quality, reliable, fast broadband. Over the past 2 or 3 years this has all changed! It's so unreliable. Always down or very, very slow! But my biggest gripe is the customer service. Lies, rudeness and incompetence. I've about 9 months left and then I won't ever be using this sham of a company ever again. Honestly, from a very passive, honest individual, please stay clear from usibg/signing up with them. You'll regret it!
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Posted 3 years ago
Really bad experience received from virgin media called them to advise of family bereavement but not will to listen as advised my payment will be late so instead of taking my circumstances to account they threw me to debt recovery really annoyed I even raised a complaint by they have been unhelpful please stay away as this company only care for money not customer their is no empathy or sympathy they are really cruel I would really consider going somewhere else first the pandemic which the world is in and company’s should really support virgin media don’t do this they really don’t care
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Posted 3 years ago
Awful customer service, I couldn’t even make a contract with them because they were connecting my call to one person to another person of the team, I took one hour,I changed 5 different members of the staff and I didn’t conclude anything. No words.
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Posted 3 years ago
Well just another person to say what everybody think. I have been leaving leaving in the UK for 24 years and Virgin Media is the worst provider in the all world. Richard Branson can go to space thanks to the money that they are robbing you every month and not providing the service that you pay for. If you do not want to loose your job or to loose day at work. DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THEM NEVER EVER. we are paying a very high price foo internet and about 3 month a year if no more our internet are not working and they will never help you fixing your problem neither give you any compensation. they need to keep this money to have the BOSS leaving on his beautiful private island and to fulfil his fantasy thanks to you while you are struggling to make ends meet and loosing days at work and getting pressure from your managers because you don't have internet and each time you ask them they say that it will take 30 days and when you call back 20 days later that it will take another 30 days. Now you know. Do not make the mistake to sign up with them. GO AWAY FAST FOM ANY OFFER THEY WILL GIVE YOU.
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Posted 3 years ago
Not even deserve 1 star. I have been calling them since last 1 months ,waiting for phone call is more then 1 hour. disgusting and ridiculous. Nobody should use this virgin media. My TV channels are not working since months. I wanted to cancel but nobody receive the call in virgin media. So disgusting
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Posted 3 years ago
I ordered fibre 1 month ago and still no service no connection , 3 cancelled engineer appointments waiting full days for them to arrive no courtesy calls to inform reason for cancellation, numerous phone calls where I've been thrown from pillar to post waiting ove 30 mins each time, hung up on calls disconnected, lies fake promises I have terminated my contract. Worst customer service ever recieved diabolical from a communication company who can't even communicate the most simple things, the left hand doesn't no what the right is doing. Poor communication painful stressful please avoid this company I thought I would give them a try but honestly I rather pay £20 more a month and then have this experience, don't be fooled by the speed or price customer service is key
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Posted 3 years ago
I have been a customer of Ntl World / Virgin Media for over 20… I have been a customer for over 20 years originally with NTLWORLD and then Virgin Media. Since reviewing my Contract in December 2020 I have had continual issues with my Monthly Bill. Every month it is incorrect as they "forget" to reduce my bill with the loyalty discount and issue a bill that has not even the Contractual price of £53:50 . Each month I spend hours on the phone to different departments and get nothing but worthless promises and meanwhile my discounts add up and I have over payed on numerous occasions but no one wants to take ownership of the issue but can't get you off the phone quick enough. I will give you an example of my most recent experience. On the 15th of July I spoke on the phone to a member of Team 1 who "couldn't do anything" I them insisted on speaking to a manager/supervisor from Team 1 (Retention Team) who clarified I was own a £21:00 credit. I asked could this credit be added to my current bill due for payment on the 29th July 2020 but was told no as the bill had been generated. This I knew was a lie as a few months earlier another manager had did it. As the call went on I agreed to have the £21:00 deducted from the August bill on the assurance that it would be actioned. Later that day at 10:45 and 16:00 I received 2 emails from the Manager/Supervisor stating that my August Bill would be £53:50 minus the £21:00 credit making the payment due £32:50. Ok now step forward to the 13th of August when my bill was generated and yes you guessed right, no £21:00 credit and bill generated at £53:50. I spent most of the day on the phone trying to contact the Manager /Supervisor who had made me the promise in July with no luck. 2 of the call center staff told me she was on duty and they would send her a email to contact me. I had already sent the Manager/Supervisor numerous emails with no response. I also had a call center member of staff tell me around 16:00 that she would look over the notes and come back to me before the close of business on Friday the 13th August I asked her were the calls recorded and if so could she listen to it to get the facts. I also found out she was able to see the emails sent to me on the 15th July and I asked was this not enough evidence. She said she would look all over the case and I'm still awaiting a response at 21:00 on Sunday 15th August. I have just sent the Manager / Supervisor a further email stating unless I hear a positive response by 16:00 on Monday 16th Aug I will be escalating the complaint to the Chief Executive of Virgin Media and forwarding the complete story to BBC Watchdog consumer programme. My advice to anyone who is considering joining this company DONT.
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Posted 3 years ago
Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,364 reviews