Virgin Media Reviews

Name: Virgin Media
Rating: 1.16

1.2 Rating 2,386 Reviews

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1.2

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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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“PROBLEMS getting refund still have not received it over 6 months after leaving them. Also an engineer called wrongly today and when he left he left my gate open”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I have had intermittent broadband service for over a year now. The broadband goes off for anything between a few minutes and a few hours. Customer services keep giving me dates for the time it will supposedly be fixed but it just does not get any better. I am sick of the poor customer service and lack of ability to put it right.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Virgin Media took over 4 months to port my line from BT and then disconnected me once it had ported because they had been billing me from the start for a service that was not working. Customer Service is hopeless..”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Horrible customer service. Very bad broadband, would want to charge early cancellation fee even though service is bad”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Like so many others, discovered virgin were going to take 35-45 days to refund me money they owed, by cheque!!! This company thinks it’s still the 80’s! Absolutely disgusted and to add insult to injury, the poorly trained and rude customer service assistant asked if I had any friends she could contact who might want virgin!! Told her I’d only be recommending my friends don’t go near virgin. Eventually resolved through complaining to a different department and making a manual payment to stop virgin helping itself to money it would take forever to refund. Dispicable way to treat a loyal customer. This is just one example of 2 years of shoddy service. Never used to be this bad before. Never again will I use this bunch of cowboys.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I cancelled my contract mid-November and the service was ceased mid-December but they still took the full month’s fee of £125. I contacted customer Service on 28th Dec and was assured I would receive a cheque for £101 within 10 working days. This time lapsed so I had to call back. Again I was assured I would receive the money by the following Wednesday but It still didn't arrive. I called Customer Service again and was told it would be mid-February! I stated I wanted to raise a complaint and was told it was logged so I'd receive a call within 48 hours. Nothing heard. I rang customer Service again and was advised it is normal for it to take 30 - 45 days to get the refund so I asked to raise another complaint. Instead a 'manager' came on the call but told me the case was resolved as they'd given me the explanation, therefore there was no point raising another complaint. I have contacted my bank and raised an indemnity claim so should have the full £125 returned to me by tonight. Virgin will then need to contact me for the £24; from their process I'm assuming I have 30- 45 days to pay them.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“If you have a balance outstanding forget about talking to a human being. I can only say that this is the most frustrating company to contact. The only way I could speak to a human being was to go through the Sales Department. If Donald Trump wants to build his wall he should ask Virgin to borrow theirs. Contacting Virgin Customer Care (CARE!!!) is the most stressful thing you can do. If you have low blood pressure and want to run a gauntlet, phone Virgin.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I would not recommend Virgin Media to anyone. The package might look good when you sign up but the small print bites you on the back and you are trapped once you sign for it. They treat you as a bill payer and not a customer. All they want is money and you are just one among their many numbers. No consideration for any situation. When you call them to sign up for a contract they are angels. Once you are with them, they dont care. Who have the time to take them to consumer court. So all you do is pay them till the end of the contract and say a big good bye!”

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Posted 7 years ago

“We decided to try virgin media and is been a very disappointing experience. First our internet and tv was not connected on the day we were moving, for almost two weeks we had no TV and broadband. So our Christmas was without tv and internet. After that I had to call 3 times to receive a voucher by email to get connected to Netflix. All I hear was sorry and there’s a technical problem.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“First of all, the TV system is extremely complicated, non-intuitive and user unfriendly! So, I decided to switch to Sky. Virgin media first tried hard to persuade us not to switch, but we insisted. They set a date for the discontinuation of the subscription and sent us a pack to return their equipment. We returned the equipment, but monthly bills kept coming!!! 1- I tried to send them a message through their website - No reply - So I stopped the direct debit. 2- I received a letter by post demanding I pay a sum of money immediately, so I called them. 3- If you call the complaint line, they don't answer so you have to call customer service. 4- When I tried to explain my case, the lady on the phone did not want to listen but asked me to pay the "outstanding" amount before anything can be discussed. I refused to pay until they listen to my version of the story, so she threatened to send me the bailiffs. 5- Eventually, after talking to 5 different people and waiting for hours for them to pick up the phone, it turned out that they disconnected my broadband and TV but left the telephone line open, so they asked me to pay for it for a period of 3 months. Please avoid them! They may have a fast internet, but their service is awful. Their TV channel organisation is so complicated and frustrating.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Poor communication and service for the cost. Numerous faults on a regular basis. Unsatisfactory customer service from such a large company. I would recommend avoiding and using an alternative supplier. Nothing but headaches from day one”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Horrible! They really can’t understand what I’m asking & my query about. Before they could really look into my request, they start selling thins like refere friends/family, do I want to go for virgin mobile connection. I was moving house and requested for that and the lady over the phone said, I’m going to continue the same existing contract & won’t be a new one. After agreeing the move dates, I got an email saying to sign a contract from the date I’m moving to new property for another year.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I agreed an order for Broadband installation on September 16th and was delighted when they said it'd be carried out on Sept 28th. Unfortunately, they had to postpone till October 10th due, they said, to a delay with the Council. That became October 20th with a different excuse from bewildered Indian call centre staff, which then became October 31st, then November 10th (different excuse again), then November 23rd, and finally December 13th at which point they couldn't give me a definite date.. Soon after that, two guys appeared outside my house to undo the blockage under the pavement (one of the various excuses Virgin had offered for the delay). One of them recounted how when they'd informed the homeowner at a recent job that they were sub-contracted by Virgin, he told them he'd cancelled his contract SIX MONTHS before! Virgin hadn't told the sub-contractors not to bother! By then we'd already switched to BT, who installed our broadband within the 4 weeks they promised, with no hassle at all. There is a serious level of inefficiency and incompetence at the heart of Virgin Media.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Only had virgin a week but what a nightmare, couldn't use catch up!! Called them and after over an hour on the phone and speaking to 5 people, 3 told me I should be able to access to and 2 said I had to upgrade as catch up are part of box sets! Cancelled after a week and going back to sky! Don't bother with the hassle, can't watch basic catch up channels like 4od. Had to wait for made in Cheadle& first dates 🙄”

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Posted 7 years ago

“3 months waiting and I didn’t get my phone number or broadband and this really effects my shop as I have a coffee shop and I can’t take cards payment or offer WiFi to my customers cause of virgin Media. U should really carful and don’t trust there appointments at all”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Virgin media customer service promised me that my bill will stay £29 a month for whole year, suddenly after 3 months they started charging me £34 a month. It's ridiculous service and I wouldn't go to virgin again in future.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I the consumer Actually lost count to the times I had called Virgin Media regarding a fault that was never fixed even though I was paying for this service. Unfortunately when I called Virgin on countless occasions I was met with rude and most of the time obnoxious customer service advisers based in India I was told.There command of the English language was appalling and constantly repetitive,fault would be fixed was the norm from them,phoned getting slammed down when the conversation got to complicated getting told there tech team are looking into fault ,there Is a problem in my area and Virgin were working on it.This lasted for over 5 months I eventually cancelled home broadband & did an indemnity claim The agreement between me the consumer and virgin the provider was meaningless,pay for a service even though not working,bleed the consumer dry and 10s of thousands like me for there own gain,then breach there data protection by adding false and inaccurate information on there Credit file at a touch of a button which they have done when I the consumer had done nothing wrong. In mediation they offer to clear debt but leave default on Credit file for a period of 5 years? A consumer challenges Virgin & this is the outcome. Dana Strong &Tom Mockridge do not speak or deal with Consumers who pays there wages? If anyone out there has had similar issues please Private message.Will be uploading videos very soon”

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Posted 7 years ago

“problems can't get solved by staff! Corporate greed! Fine tuned so the customer always pays Terrible service! They say they can only refund you for days the service doesn't work and it needs to be 24 hours in one period! 6 times over 12 hour periods a time and I still need to pay for each day the service isn't working. People are lovely on the phone but they can never actually help you get the refund you need for services you didn't get. I spent 6 hours on the phone and they offered me £3! They then said I shouldn't write a work email from home. As that service is twice the price! Plus Richard Branson he just sued the NHS and won hundred of thousands of £'s! Lovely staff but they have no power to implement refunds! Even though they know it's unfair! This mis managemnt is a clear money saving solution for corporate companies! They know this is happening but they carry on as they know their profit margins are a few million up by knackering out their customers! I wish I'd never given them so much of my money for so little in return! Lovely engineers who go out of their way for you! But management are obviously Money grabbing and don't care about their product! Don't use them!”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Absolute joke of a company. I haven’t had internet since the 11th December so I contacted Virgin on that day to ask when this was going to be fixed. I was told that it was an ‘area problem’ and that it would be fixed soon. On the 12th I still don’t have any internet so once again I call and I am told it will be fixed shortly and it is still an ‘area problem’. On the 13th I still don’t have internet so this time I call and I ask them to cancel the service and I will go and sort internet elsewhere (I use the internet to stream, I buy and sell things on the internet, my partner uses it for work so it is quite a big part of life this day and age). Once I ask them to cancel it only now do they seem to care and try to offer to do something about it. I was told at this point that the earliest a technician would be available is the 19th December. This is disgraceful as in this day and age as the majority of business is done over the internet. What also has wound me up is they have for some reason actually got to come to my house to fix the problem, even though it’s an ‘area problem’. So if I hadn’t of called and made an issue of it nobody would have actively contacted me and let me know this. Also, the only time that virgin can do is when I am at work and my partner can’t be there. I tell them this and instead of organising a time that day when I’m home they tell me it will have to be another day after the 19th. So now I’m going to have to either leave work early, which this could potentially cost me a sale as I’m in sales or I live without the internet for even longer. So the questions I have are: 1. Is this an ‘area problem’ or a problem with my line/software? 2. Do you actually treat all of your customers this way? 3. Can somebody who actually has any form of authority contact me and get this sorted immediately and actually give me some decent customer service? The only positive I will say is that when the internet works it is great but as soon as there is a problem they are absolutely useless! I look forward to hearing from somebody in the very near future.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Really quick to sign you up. Engineer no show! No communication wish I had never signed up. Now saying they will have to re book installation so will be without a phone and broadband which I need for my job. Manager not wanting to speak with me. I was assured that there would be no disruption to my landline and now they are saying they can’t reschedule till way into January! So no phone till then. No prioritisation an absolute joke. Such a big company and this is the service you get. I am disgusted. I would have given a zero if I could!”

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Posted 7 years ago

Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,386 reviews