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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
Kevin Sullivan of Virgin Media was supercilious, patronising and entirely unhelpful. Virgin Media cancelled my direct debit without informing me. I was not late on payments, I did not have a bounced payment and neither I nor my bank cancelled it. They ultimately accepted that they had cancelled the direct debit. Then they levied late payment charges on me because I missed a bill payment, and said they would not cancel it as I have a responsibility to check all my bills and ensure the direct debits go out on time. I explained that no one has time to check every bill and confirm it against direct debits, in the same way that no one has time to read every term and condition before they sign up to anything. He agreed but still refused to cancel the late charges. If anyone had told me they were cancelling the direct debit (in any form of communication) I would have set up a new one. They have no idea how to retain customer goodwill. This ie explained by their 0.7/10 rating on TrustPilot.
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Posted 6 years ago
I live in area 21, our Internet has been intermittently down for 6 months (yes... SIX MONTHS!). There has been an snr issue for over 6 months that virgin has failed to resolve. They have given fake estimated times of resolution which are never met, month after month we are assured that the Internet will be resolved by a given date. After that date, the Internet still drops. We receive drops outs of over 10 hours (the longest was 16 hours). The customer service is horrendous, they don't even (at minimum) call the people affected to even attempt to explain the matter. It's a whole post code that is affected yet that isn't a priority (the level of priority of P4. P1 is the highest level of priority, up to p6 I believe) We are not given even compensation for the utter inconvenience of over half a year of intermittent Internet. They just reimburse us for the time the Internet was down. If I go to a shop and buy something, or pay for a service and that service isn't acceptable, at bare minimum you are reimbursed with what you should have gotten, plus atleast store credit, ATLEAST. Virgin, with their horrendous customer service, have said they can only pay back the money for the down time. (to put that into perspective, if you pay 30 pounds a month for Internet, if your Internet is down for 24 hours, so one whole day, regardless of you having to eat I to your minutes calling them, then they put you in a queue and bounce you around for an hour, regardless of you having to use your own Internet, run out, purchase more Internet, regardless of the inconvenience that it caused if your whole family (a family of 5 in the house, all who use Internet) having to spend extra money in this fashion, regardless of deadlines you need to meet, research you need to do, personal things you want to watch online, coursework that needs to be completed, jobs that need to be applied to, YOU GET £1 BACK!! ONE POUND. For all of your troubles, you get a pound back. It's outrageous. You may question why we are still with virgin, it's because we have been promised time and time again that by a certain date the Internet will be fine and we will receive no issues after that. This has happened 4/5 times. It's disgusting, and virgin have not even reached a hand out in apology. This is not the only issue. Although it is a major issue, they are also deceivers. Treacherous liars. They called us a few months back saying we needed to change our contract we had with them, threw a bunch of big fancy words at us and said our contract is ending and we need to change our to another, more expensive contract. We're not that dumb. We said we know our contract and we had no specific time frame to keep to. We had the proof to show that, and we didn't pay into a new contract. The next bill of ours went from £40 ish pounds to £50-£60!! So we called them, explained the issue, they apologised and reduced our bill to £10 less than our original bill (to £30). It's outrageous that such an issue would occur. Moreover, their customer service are so pretentious. I work in IT, I'm a second line engineer, I know my stuff. So when I call, I will speak to the customer service as I would speak to my own colleagues (specifically and precisely, using IT terms the layman may not understand). The customer service team, almost every time I call, as I speak they cut me off, they raise their voice over mine, they don't listen to me and continue talking as if what I'm mentioning makes no difference, at times they would speak rudely once they realise I'm not budging and will say my piece. We have changed our router roughly 4 times. Virgin insisted the issue we faced (almost 7 months ago) was due to our router. After the 2nd time, we realised that this is a bigger issue than just our router. We mentioned to virgin that there is a bigger issue, to which they replied that they cannot do anything further than changing our router and checking the cables unless others in the area call up that their Internet is also down. One of the technicians came (quite fortunately) at the time of the Internet being down. He sat there confused as to why it was down. He plugged in another router "just in case" and we waited... Still no Internet. He was confused and said he's not sure what the issue is. A few months later they said there was an SNR issue (single noise reduction issue. Which is basically a faulty wire that sends data back up to the router in the back of everything and causes the problems I mentioned). So now that they know the issue, the fix is simple yet tedious. Find the wire if they hired me, ran me through things and gave me the equipment, I'd do it myself! But they can't even find the root cause of the issue, all these months later, nothing. If a person wants an Internet service provider, don't go to virgin. Their amazing speed that they have means nothing whatsoever if you can't make use of it P.s... My Internet right now is down My area reference is 21 and my account number is 666078401
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Posted 6 years ago
The worst most inconsistent internet connection coupled with one of the worst customer service platforms I have ever had the misfortune to deal with
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Posted 6 years ago
My children both had £10 a month contract mobile phones with Virgin mobile. This included 1GB of data. Unfortunately, I don't check my bank account very often, as I always seemed to be into my overdraft, but when I did I could not believe that Virgin had been charging me £130 per month for the mobiles for at least the past year. This is because my children had slightly gone over the 1GB data limit, so they charged them both £6 per day because of this. I called them but obviously they didn't want to know as they had already had the money from us. I have all my broadband phone and TV with them, but they were uninterested. Please be aware if taking out a Virgin mobile contract, to check your direct debit EVERY month, or you'll regret it!! Noreen Maye.
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Posted 6 years ago
Signed up to virgin media business over 10 months ago, for broadband with unlimited calls, plus another phone line. Fitted broadband after 6 weeks, still have no phones connect, ( they are going to cut me off... Although not connected!!) Until I clear a £600 bill ( now going to debt collection), for the service installed ( although it's not installed). Spent hours on the phone to customer service (their phrase... not mine!!)... muppet show, would be more apt. I would never recommend or use Virgin Media for anything even if it was the last communication company on the planet..... I would burn all of their letters, emails, bills and flyers and send them a FFS smoke signal.... Just like in the good old days!!
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Posted 6 years ago
Don't waste your money! Con artists! If you move to an area they don't provide a service for they charge you for the rest of the period!! Avoid them!
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Posted 6 years ago
Did not make me happy at all. They made me very unhappy and totally angry and frustrated. Their online customer service is pathetic , over 2 hours online , I only wanted to check on the progress of my recent order. I gave up eventually. Contacted customer support over telephone eventually got someone who understood what my request was about and eventually sorted everything out, took a while but got there in the end
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Posted 6 years ago
TV stopped working, arranged for a technician to call but failed to arrive. I had a text confirming what day/time he was coming and they told me it was logged on the system as a different day. We ended up arguing about when the technician was due to call. Despite me booking the appointment and having a confirmation text, the advisor was adamant it was scheduled for a different day. I had called 2 days prior to cancel my contract but their systems were down. They advised me to call back and confirmed that the contract would end from when I first rang as it was not my fault the systems were all down. When I called back to cancel I had to wait 48 minutes for the call to be answered, waiting on hold listening to dreadful music blaring out. The advisor would not end the contract from when I first called ( when their systems were down) as I had no written evidence to prove I was told they would cancel from when I first called. Typical "computer says no" ridiculous conversation with no hierarchy available to make a common sense decision that is correct for the customer. Incorrect data input by their organisation, incompetence and total inability to deal with customer situations that are not straightforward. Ridiculous waiting time to speak to an advisor that has no authority to help or deal with the situation. What is going on in these call centres??? They certainly do not benefit the customer and are ineffective and detrimental to staff whose hands are tied and consumers who are left frustrated and issues are left unresolved.
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Posted 6 years ago
Two hours wasted on Virgin Media customer service line and I do this regularly on monthly basis becuase of silly billing issue that they still aren’t fixing after all of these hours on the phone. Add to this the careless attitude of their customer service representatives. This is how fun it is to be with Virgin Media!
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Posted 6 years ago
I had a complaint about my services and got put through to a lovely guy called Robb in the complaints department. Robb quickly resolved my problem and the went a step further by calling me back the next day and giving me options to help reduce my bills. Excellent service from him. Just a pity about the customer service team. Thanks again Robb
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Posted 6 years ago
Absolutely the pits
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Posted 6 years ago
Always no broadband or tv worst customer service takes you 30 mins to talk to someone who couldn’t give a shxxxt don’t even try their website the worst now telling me 4 days to fix don’t have engineers this is 2018 are you joking
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Posted 6 years ago
just too dreadful to waste my time writing about it. Avoid at all costs.
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Posted 6 years ago
Dreadful customer service when broadband slow and dropping off . Wait hours to speak to someone and get passed about and cut off. Would not recommend to anybody
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Posted 6 years ago
Been with virgin media for nearly 3 years we have not done 3 months with reporting a problem. Last night 26/8/2018 was the last straw 9am the Internet hub rebooted kicking every one off the net. After a few phone calls and a good rant n rave they said we will monitor the situation. Phoned this morning 27/8/2018 and was told there is a snr fault. We was told this on 19/8/2018 and was told it is a area fault and be fixed in a couple of days, WRONG it's not being fixed it's not being reported by the technician, it's not a area fault. after 3 years of constant ringing virgin I have had enough now they say they Internet is 99.98 reliable wRONG it's 99.99 unreliable and to top it off they have put there prices up again. As far as I am concerned virgin Internet is a joke and I pay for it.
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Posted 6 years ago
Call costs £27.54 to renew your contract. Disgusted xustomer
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Posted 6 years ago
Terrible. Expensive. Intermittent broadband for years and now no connection at all for 2 weeks.failure to maintain cable. Impossible to talk to anyone even after you file a formal complaint.
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Posted 6 years ago
There's a broadband failure or outage once every month, so each month you lose an entire day... nuts. And it takes ages to get any of the customer care agents on the phone to find out what are the issues, neither do they appear to care you have a problem.
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Posted 6 years ago
Been with virgin for a few years, ive been meaning to change for a while as my kids are complaining about internet connection. However recently they lost some channels, that u can get on free veiw, i stuck with them, thought they would make it up some how, they have! they have increased the prices for their poor service! At this point things could have been sorted out, maybe with a discount or refund...not after waiting 38 mins for them to answer the phone, then for them to hang up when i went to look for a bill...5 mins tops! Lets have a company that does a fixed price, good customer service and doesnt take its customers for granted...im going, dont get it they take your good money with no effort in return....Regards Martin
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Posted 6 years ago
If you are unlucky enough to only have Virgin Media service you then you have my sympathy. I've been stuck with them for 16 years and frankly its been awful. The companies only incentive is making money. They do not care about service, which is intermittent, they just refund £1 per day that it goes wrong. The poorly trained customer services in India are rude and you will wait 40 minutes to be told by a robot what you already know. I can't wait to be in an area with an alternative broadband supplier. Woeful! Makes me annoyed to see their logo and even thinking different about Usain Bolt now!
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Posted 6 years ago
Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,364 reviews