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Virgin Media Reviews

1.2 Rating 2,370 Reviews
3 %
of reviewers recommend Virgin Media
1.2
Based on 2,370 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
One of the worst service providers I've ever dealt with. In the three years I've been with them, they've raised the broadband prices with clockwork regularity every year. They will charge you if you want to receive paper letters or statements. If you forget to save your online statements from your account, they will ask for £3.50 for each statement to be printed and sent to you - they will refuse to e-mail them to you. If you have any problems you will spend at least half an hour on hold on the phone. If you try to cancel they will try everything to make you stay with them - it took me 40 minutes before I managed to get them to cancel my account. I cancelled because I was moving, and they demanded I give them my new address, because they want me to send them the router two weeks after the cancellation day - so I can't even escape from them from a new address! The Internet itself is very spotty, and any claims that they have great Internet with fiber optics - lies. Do not pay anything to this company, they will milk you dry then laugh in your face.
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Posted 8 years ago
What didn't go wrong? Been paying £75 a month to them for 2 years and the internet and telly goes down for 2 weeks. They didn't refund me for the 2 weeks but tried to keep me on as a customer instead. The call centre (bless them) are completely scripted and only interested in up-selling. some of the great advice I got for my internet being down (2 weeks) was to restart my hub and reconnect to it. Thankfully my contract had ended with them anyways. Happy days! Let's put this horrible mess of a company behind us...Oh hang on I'm still paying them for 2 weeks as THEY need a months notice for cancellations.. fml.
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Posted 8 years ago
Terrible company with a terrible service. The broadband was not as fast or as reliable as BT. Their TV service was appalling; their Tivo box was painfully slow to use, especially catch up and on demand services. They took many minutes to load. Due to a house move I cancelled my service believing that my original contract was for a period of 12 months. It was actually for 18 months, however, simply because I had upgraded and added a new TV service I had unknowingly entered into a new 12 month contract and still had 5 months left to go. Having accepted that I was in a contract, I asked to pay for the £206 cancellation charges over the rest of the term of my original contract. This was refused and they have stated that unless it is paid in full, I will be sent debt collection letters and will have my credit rating affected. They simply refuse to come to any arrangement with me regarding the payment demanding the lump sum in full. I have spoken to them 5 times and also sent a letter of complaint (at the time of writing this review that was 12 days ago and still not had the acknowledgement despite their own complaints procedure stating they would acknowledge within 48 hours). I always thought Virgin, and Richard Branson were a great company and businessman respectively. This is clearly not the case. They are immovable and unhelpful. I was even told "as you are no longer a customer we will not help you". I am truly angered and frustrated by the lack of assistance or inability to reach agreement.
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Posted 8 years ago
Virgin Media can screw anything up. Their customer team is bewildering incompetent. They'll promise you price deals and then go-back on them within months, they'll promise you free deals and charge you for them. You can email them to complain, but good luck getting a reply. Asking them for help comes with it's own risks. I asked them to send me a new sim card and they got the address wrong - twice! Even now, months after I disconnected, I'm still having problems with them. They're trying to charge me a fee they'd already promised they weren't going to charge me. Your life will be better if you avoid Virgin Media.
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Posted 8 years ago
My experience for customer service with virgin media is worst. I have been with them since 5 years. i have never called them since then as i never had any issue and i can resolve smaller things myself. Since couple of weeks my router is playing funny. I have reset it few times. I have also done it while virgin is on phone. After all, router is still faulty. Internet is keep coming and going for few seconds. its happening since three weeks including my five times calls to virgin. all the time, new stories, we have sent strong signals etc and it will not happen again. I have requested to change the router as i havent asked for anything since five years and just paying money. Now, as its faulty i have asked to change it. They were keep transfering my phone and believe me i was on call for 1 and half hour. I have recorded the call as well. They were infact more in selling me extra services instead of sorting this stuff out. Frustrated like anything. Dont just go with VIRGIN....they are cheaters.
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Posted 8 years ago
After waiting9 months of all the shit from you guys nothing has happened lost more than 200 pounds when we moved houses with virign and more by waiting for these past months. Thought to be a loyal customer but forced me to be the opposite. Please dont do this to anyone else. If your CEO is reading this please dont stay quiet, please take an action against these useless employeess. Treat your customers with a little repect, which we treat you with.
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Posted 8 years ago
Rotten service and bill keeps going up. They just credit my account with silly amounts for "lost service". Never mind the inconvenience caused such as having to pay fuel to meet people that I would rather deal with over Internet.
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Posted 8 years ago
Phone line not working for the 2nd time in 3 weeks. Both times had to wait many days for the engineer to come! Today (Thursday) I rang the tech department and I was told the earliest I can expect a technician is next Wednesday! I work from home and this is totally unacceptable. They need to hire more engineers. Simple! Will try to finish contract early as they are not providing me with the service I pay for!
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Posted 8 years ago
Everyone at Virgin - customer services, sales people, installers - all make promises that they don't keep. They talk as though you're going to get this and that, and we'll do this and that, and it doesn't come to fruition. You have to mither and mither and mither them until you maybe get what you were promised, or a tiny discount that doesn't even come close to being worth it. The broadband speed is good, but still not as good as is promised. The TIVO box that comes with the TV package is so outdated it is frustrating to use - so, so slow - and yet they continue to want extra money for the box that will do the job that the TIVO should be doing. As soon as the contract is up, I'll be cancelling.
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Posted 8 years ago
I wanted to change the name on my account. Instead they closed my account "by accident". Told me that I would have to wait 48 hours for my internet to be reinstated. After complaining they said 24 hours. Then it was back to 48 hours after a member of staff lied to me. I have now had my services reinstated and now they have suspended my account and trying to charge me the full amount of my contact! Literally, this is the worse company known to man and they should be boycotted out of britain and replaced with another company with promising prospects.
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Posted 8 years ago
Have been with VM for 15+ years. Recently changed our package to a lower monthly figure yet when we get our bill it is £5 higher than the confirmation e-mail confirming change of package. Have phoned twice and each time have been told that there is NO record of a Change of Package e-mail being sent out. They won't honour my new lesser package total and won't give me a contact e-mail say I have to send a letter to them by snail mail. You would think a media company would have an e-mail address or are they getting so many complaints to many to handle. I am now contacting Financial Services Ombudsman for help to get this sorted. I know it is only £5 a month difference but for 18 months is £90 more than agreed.
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Posted 8 years ago
I decided to switch to another package, called them and discussed the charges for "early contract termination". In an hour received the official receipt with different amount (around £23 above). Called them again, asked why. They agreed that it was their mistake and that they will sort it out. I asked to correct and resend the bill. They refused, saying "we don't send revised bills". I asked to send another confirmation that I will not be charged more than initially agreed. They refused. I asked the operator to connect me to her manager - the manager refused to talk to me, "putting me on list to call back within 48 working hours" (which is at least 6 working days). What do I have at the end? The incorrect bill from VM and no evidence that I will not be charged more. I tried to make a complaint - they refused! I cannot believe that in UK there is still the company with such ugly level of customer service.
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Posted 8 years ago
Fast broadband but utterly abysmal service. I was sold a full package but VM are unable to provide a landline at my address so I lost my landline number of 12 years standing. Customer advisors pass you round like a parcel at a kids party (5 times on my call today) and don't read the notes on the system so you get asked the same questions over and over again. I thought Sky were bad til I dealt with this shower. I will not & never again be renewing with VM. Was told today they have no complaints department! I said OfCom had told me to make an official complaint so was then told there was a complaint administration department but they didn't talk to customers!! Beyond belief
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Posted 8 years ago
One star is still too generous. Sold the tv broadband telephone package in my opinion as false advertising. We were not told there was no phone line available and virgin were unable to confirm when one would be. As we have an elderly parent and work from home the phone line is essential to us. How can you be charged for a phone line within a package when not installed!!! Will certainly not recommend this company to anyone I know as lack of customer service appalling.
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Posted 8 years ago
New cust and already having issues, Day1 and box dosent work and wifi signal is so weak my old plusnet that was faulty puts it to shame, the installer told me its the best hub on the market and it will reach to the bottom of my garden, yeah right wont even reach into the next room. tv keeps freezing internet keeps lagging and engineer left a mess after install outside. I moved to virgin as open reach refuse to fix the damaged cable to my house. I was better off before as virgin is terrible. Why can I get other peoples virgin wifi in my house with 3 bars and cant even get my own wifi to go above 2 bars. What a joke!!!! If they don't fix it looks like Ofcom will be getting a call. UPDATE Well 4 days went by and still no call even after someone emailed the manager. Now someone turned up. He says he was a supervisor. I wasn't born yesterday. He was an engineer. I started explaining and his manager called. He answered and just started to talk to him a d ignored me. Very rude. Anyway the promises of a manager still have not happened. Also custiner services said they would call me back to make sure the manager called me. What a surprise they never did. I Left the brick under my window that the engineer wedged was missing. Funny that I left that they're and took a photo. Now the so called supervisor said well it's not there anymore. He didn't believe me. It looks like he removed it before he knocked the door as it was there earlier in the day. I will now be contacting ofcom. Mr Branson you should be ashamed of having people like this working for you. What a complete joke and I've only been a customer 1 week.cgarb
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Posted 8 years ago
We are having problems with Virgin Media internet speed and connections for weeks. We upgraded our contract to the best available and thus has not changed anything.The internet is on and off at any time! We are very disappointed to hear all the same excuses and no improvement. After so many faults, repairs, system upgrades I do not know what to believe in? We are experiencing lots of inconvenience and no one can tell us what is going on and when,if ever, the faults will be fixed??
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Posted 8 years ago
Started with being told that a free Internet speed upgrade was being done in our area so we said yes and was Told it wouldn't change our contract. After various price increases over the year of having virgin we decided to end up contract at the end of the 12 months. Only to discover that the internet change had changed the contract and we now owe them more money to cancel. From then onwards virgin staff were very unhelpful and no one wanted to take responsibility for anything. Terrible customer service would never go back with them. Big company with no respect for there custermers. Be warned they will do everything and anything to screw you over .
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Posted 8 years ago
Worst ever customer service I have ever received. Rude and uninterested. I'd like to say it was a one off, but I had the unpleasant experience of having to deal with them on a monthly basis due to the poor reliability of the broadband service.
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Posted 8 years ago
What a load of crap customer service can't even understand them ...then u get some woman who u can speak English who then turns everything off
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Posted 8 years ago
I am moving home so I called Virgin three weeks prior to the move to arrange to move my account to new property. I met with the technician who checked the property and said the pre installion team need to get cabling installed, I called Virgin the following day as advised and was given the 11th May as the date the team would be at the property to carry this out. After waiting at the property for over five hours I called to enquire what time the team couldn't be expected only to be told that there was no booking but they could see that I had been advised incorrectly, given a reference number and told I would be contacted to see what could be done to resolve this situation. I then called customer care to lodge a formal complaint and was assured a Maanger would call me within 4 hours, I still haven't received either of these call backs. I called again today was given, eventually, another reference number and told by the supervisor I would receive a response once she had inversigated what could be done, after waiting three hours I called back and after a further 40 minutes of explaining and requesting assistance I was advised that the pre installion would be done after I move in. In the meantime the decorators are waiting to complete in the rooms the cabling has to be done. I believe Virgin to be untrustworthy and uncaring about their customers needs. The manner in which they treat customers is shockingly bad!
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Posted 8 years ago
Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,370 reviews