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1.2 Rating 2,365 Reviews
3 %
of reviewers recommend Virgin Media
1.2
Based on 2,365 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
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
Disgusting passed from one person to another. Then still not right. Agents give out false information and lie. Gone downhill been with them 4yrs. Not happy
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Posted 3 years ago
Absolutely terrible service. Our internet connection has been intermittent for months and it's getting worse and worse. All my neighbours who are Virgin Media customers are experiencing the exact same issues so this is impacting our whole street (at least). We've all been contacting Virgin Media and filing complaints separately and nothing is being done. Speaking to an actual human is very complicated and when you do, all they can suggest is to reset your box for the 100th time. We're paying £62 a month for a very poor internet connection that is cutting off every 10 minutes. Working from home is near impossible. We have to use our smartphone's 4G as a hotspot instead. I would strongly advise to pick another provider. We can't wait to switch to another provider and stop this nightmare.
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Posted 3 years ago
No stars if. I could. Want to switch from eir to virgin. Received sim in post and twice attempted to port my existing number over to virgin on the online portal. Didn't get work. Then rang on 3 separate occasions to do it over phone and was told each time its ported and will be a couple of hours before activation. This has not worked. I'm wondering if this is the level of service at this stage should I find a different provider. Long wait times on phone for customer service and lack of tech experience.
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Posted 3 years ago
Pathetic company who offer all kinds then tell you its not available unless you pay more money I read on thier site you can upgrade to virgin 360 for free and get a free 360 remote if you have the big package thier oomph package but when i tried to get this they wanted 35 to activate it then 24 for the remote and would not budge, so i will let my contract run out and go with Sky Q which is years ahead of virgin 360
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Posted 3 years ago
It has been very troublesome to get the Router, even though we didn't even need installation because it was already set up in our apartment. The company canceled the scheduled appointment on their side without informing us because of missing information, that again, nobody informed us about. Then the company deleted our account - without letting us know. We had to contact customer support every day and restart the same conversation over and over. Most of the time we had to hold the line for at least 1 hour, a couple of times the line just got cut. In total we've wasted roghly 8 hours with customer support. In the end we didn't get the contract we wanted. Overall the worst customer support experience I ever had
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Posted 3 years ago
I can only describe your level of service as a calamity... the complete failure of this company to follow up complaints and requests has led me to start the process of contacting alternative dispute resolution schemes at a great cost to time that should be allocated to other activities. I cannot express how deeply I regret getting involved with this company. My genuine advice to anyone who thinks that this company (which claims to provide services related to communication) would itself be a shining example of good communication with their own customers is to please think very carefully before getting involved and to please read the negative experiences regarding how they deal with complaints
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Posted 3 years ago
Avoid at all costs. An unfortunate turn of events in our family meant that I was forced to move house and because they no longer had service in the new area was forced to disconnect and pay over £200. Now 2 months on and I'm still trying to get an equipment returns label from them as they are threatening me with an additional £40 charge for not returning equipment even though I have spoken to 10+ reps about their labels not arriving at my address. This is the most disastrous and disorganised company I have ever had the misfortune to give money to and I will not make this same mistake ever again.
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Posted 3 years ago
I have been with VM for 6 years but the last year has been an absolute ordeal and I just cannot say how much I would recommend you stay away. Not only has our bill ramped up drastically (+£15/month), but our network has also been cutting off on a weekly, if not daily, basis. We have sometimes been cut off for entire days, without notice or indication of when it will be looked into. We both work from home and we just can't afford such high unreliability. On top of all of this, customer service, despite being very polite and trying their best, have just been incredibly unhelpful. Every time I have been in touch with VM's customer service, whether to get a better rate (seeing new customers pay half our monthly bill annoyed me slightly) or to actually get an engineer to fix a network issue, they have been very slow and never provided a real solution. Anecdotally, they also effectively blackmailed us into closing a complaint so we could get an engineer appointment, after months of issues and 3 previous engineers visits leading nowhere. Again, nothing to do with the individual employees, they have all been lovely, but VM as a company deprioritise loyal customers and does not care which level of service they actually provide. The company is frankly morally bankrupt. After much consideration, we are switching supplier because even if it is (very slightly) slower and if you don't care about ethics, we just really need more affordable and reliable internet. For all of these reasons, I just wouldn't recommend VM to anyone, really. I just don't see how.
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Posted 3 years ago
I was a virgin customer for 5 years, I couldn't believe it when they charged me £180.00 cancellation fee as the only reason I had to cancel the contract was because they were unable to supply my new flat in north London. As the new flat is only 1 mile from my old flat it didn't even cross my mind they would be unable to supply it. Absolutely awful company avoid at all costs.
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Posted 3 years ago
Disgusted. Held on line for 41 minutes, told them I wanted to leave and they hung up on me. Could not get through again. Probably recognised my number. Shocking customer service for a customer of nearly 10 years.
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Posted 3 years ago
Dibolical mobile network service , half time people can’t even call me been a loyal customer for over 7 years but not anymore, enough of this trash . Switching to 02 network see how it goes but never il recommend virgin mobile ever again. So don’t waste ur time
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Posted 3 years ago
Hopeless and can't think outside the box for any issues. They caused me many headaches when cancelling the service as they knew i was leaving for Australia and kept causing human error issues.
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Posted 3 years ago
Absolutely terrible service! Ordered Internet. And instead of them doing their work, they just ask customers to go to every neighbour and collect private information, like mobile numbers, emails for them to contact neighbours if they agree them to do the work. That is ridiculous! Send letters to neighbours, send agent to talk to neighbours, maybe prepare some offers for them too! BS...
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Posted 3 years ago
These guys do not listen to the field guys when there is an issue and have no duty manager who will talk to you, time to leave as 1 star is not what I would give after 3 months of issues
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Posted 3 years ago
Unless you want to waste hours on end on the phone line to customer service, then get disconnected and then repeating the same process by calling through then waiting for customer service. DO NOT BOTHER WITH VIRGIN. The absolute worst company ever.
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Posted 3 years ago
HORRENDOUS. Avoid at all costs. They are impossible to contact - you have to wait on hold for a minimum of 30 minutes if you need to contact them for anything (renewals, service issues, complaints etc) BEWARE, they will take advantage and exploit you. I renewed my contract after being told that I could transfer my package to my new address if I moved home. I'm finally buying my first home, only to find out they can't supply that area, therefore I must pay around £248 to terminate the contract. I explicitly told them not to cancel and to just provide services to the area, but they force your hand and blame you for breaking the agreement, even though it is THE COMPANY who can't hold up their end of the deal. Furthermore, the wifi box is not reliable, so I submitted a report about that, only to be told that they won't do anything about it as I will be leaving my home in 6 weeks, so now I am a fully paying customer who will not receive any help. All this, during a pandemic and a housing crisis. Truly vile company, don't be fooled as I was, stick with BT! They DON'T charge you if they can't supply an area and actually have decent contact forms.
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Posted 3 years ago
Bad service all the time and rip people of off not registered with ombudsman stay well clear getting worse month by month
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Posted 3 years ago
If I had known, I would never have used Virgin Media. The TV package stopped working every few weeks. I had to spend several hours on the phone talking to people who didn't know how to fix the problem and didn't seem to care either. Virgin failed to solve the problem and so I wanted to leave. I then had to go through a lengthy process to leave and get back the refund I was due. Virgin made this as difficult as possible, insisting that they could not transfer the balance back into my account and sending the refund BY CHEQUE six weeks after my account was closed.
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Posted 3 years ago
They try to stick you with an 18 month contract when moving homes against your consent! Either gross incompetence or borderline fraudulent intentions: I was set up with an 18 month contract (and at a high price at that) which I never agreed to. The movers team agent confirmed I would be on a monthly rolling setup. I was also promised to have access to new customer discounts for a new contract after the move, which I didn't have access to, because all teams refused to honour the promise and would refuse ownership of a resolution. Instead I was in a catch 22 situation transferred between teams. I took 4 hours of phone calls to find out nobody would own a solution and I closed my account. Never again.
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Posted 3 years ago
Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,365 reviews