Virgin Media Reviews

1.2 Rating 2,171 Reviews
3 %
of reviewers recommend Virgin Media
1.2
Based on 2,171 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
Wouldn't even give 1 star. This company is rubbish. Can't understand customer service. Second time in a month no landlines working and they say we've got no activated phones here after being with them for years. Broadband been off as well. My advise would be have nothing to do with them.
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Posted 1 year ago
Terrible service, no customer service and internet will go down atleast once a week
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Posted 1 year ago
Please read all of the reviews and DON'T sign up with Virgin Media! Our experience with Virgin Media would take hours to explain and it wouldn't make for good reading! When you read all of the negative reviews and recognise that the company haven't even had the decency to respond to people's complaints, you realise that they are all about selling! We have been with another broadband company for a number of years, without complaint, but we were looking for a cheaper alternative, especially in todays economic climate. I now wish we had just payed the extra and stayed with them. I'm so disappointed that the customer experience means nothing to Virgin and, to be honest, I feel like they should be brought to answer at a higher level.
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Posted 1 year ago
For two months my fastest possible broadband package: 1Gig have been disconnecting every day about 20 times ad day nearly 5 minutes each time. I could not work. They sent engineer, he replaced router, this did not help. Finally I connected to BT broadband which works fine now. I called Virgin to disconnect and they told me I need to pay £297 disconnection fee + cost of additional month. I said: but your service did not work for two months! They said: if we would have sent THREE engineers and all of them would have not be able to fix, then we would not charge the disconnection fee. Sorry guys, I cannot entertain here three engineers, as I need to work, and I work from home. Yes, I will pay you the disconnection fee and I promise I will never ever use your services again. I still don't understand why I need to pay £297 + additional month if you have not provided me with the service. TERRIBLE!
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Posted 1 year ago
Daylight robbery! From the start of my contract I never got the broadband as promised even with my ethernet cable. I was promised a £99 credit which I didn’t get. I had to go to my local ombudsman as the customer service was horrific. I will never go with virgin media again
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Posted 1 year ago
Just look at all these rubbish reviews they are not making it up. The very worst company you could have to deal with.
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Posted 1 year ago
horrible customer service, you are lucky if you do not need to talk to them, I feel like vomiting when I just think about it.. incompetent, they pass people on to others as a spiral that never ends.. customer is treated like a number.. one of the worst things we have to do in life is to contract broadband and talk to these scammers
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Posted 1 year ago
I wish I could put 0 stars I wish I could put 0 stars. The service is absolutely shocking, the complaints team are rude and unhelpful. Promise to provide speeds but they don't actually cover the area. I work in customer service and would be totally ashamed of the approach and attitude, clearly do not care about there reputation as they are too big. Avoid at all costs mistakes happened but how you handle them says alot about you.n
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Posted 1 year ago
It takes hours and a lot of persistence to get to the point when they finally accept you're giving them 30 days notice. They even insisted that I had to give them the details of what package I was moving to before they would accept my 30 days notice as "the system won't allow us to process your request unless we have these details". I've been with Virgin for 10 years and been reasonably satisfied, but this behaviour is like trying to leave a cult. I'm leaving because they won't give me the same deal as a new customer, whereas other providers obviously will.
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Posted 1 year ago
I've been a Virgin Media broadband customer for over a year. It is the worst broadband supplier I've ever had: signal comes and goes every +-2 hours and we completely lost internet 2x for the whole afternoon in the last month. The website and app are designed to prevent you from speaking to a support agent and it's therefore near to impossible to resolve issues where the solution is not available in the support centre. Calling them is even more useless as you get to interact with a dumb bot that never provides the information you're looking for. The VM broadband package is appealing as it's one of the fastest in London, but don't get fooled by that as the broadband quality is worse than some of the 3rd world countries I have been to. Switching to Community Fiber now ... 4.4 star rating / 6x the speed for the same price.
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Posted 1 year ago
I had been a loyal Virgin customer for 15 years however my TV box was clunky and the new one they sent me was unusable with my set up unless I paid £90 for an engineer to come and sort it out. When a leaflet from BT came through the door offering me fast broadband, a much better TV package and landline for nearly half what I was paying Virgin I decided to change providers. I contacted BT and decided to change providers. The person told me that I didn't need to contact Virgin to cancel, BT would do that for me. When Virgin contacted me a few days later saying they heard I was leaving and could they persuade me to stay, not unreasonably I assumed BT had been in touch with Virgin and there was nothing more I needed to do. A week or so later I had a further phonecall from Virgin again asking me to stay with them. The changeover happened in November and I had no complaints. Much to my surprise £70 was taken from my account by Virgin in December. I assumed it was an oversight and thought a telephone conversation would sort it out. I was eventually put through to someone in customer relations who claimed that because I had not contacted Virgin myself I was liable to pay the £70. I asked about the people who had rung me up and I was told they were merely agents and were not directly connected to Virgin. How they got wind of me wanting to cancel my Virgin package without Virgin knowing seems like an extraordinarily mendacious approach to take and of course as they were agents there were no recorded telephone calls to fall back on. I was told that as Virgin had a completely different internet system to BT, BT couldn't request the cancellation, the only part they were able to cancel was the telephone line. It was then agreed that the telephone rental part of my package would be deducted. from my bill as I was in no way liable to pay that. I asked if the money could be credited to my bank account but customer relations said that as I'd requested my account to be closed they would send me a cheque. It has never been sent. I was also told that I ought to take up the issue with BT as it was their employee who had misled me. I had requested paper bills from Virgin but I never received the December bill. I recently contacted BT about another matter and happened to mention in passing that I'd needed to pay Virgin an extra £70 because their advisor had told me that BT would cancel on my behalf. BT said they needed to see my final bill from Virgin in order to review my case. I had had no bills from Virgin since November so I telephoned them today. I requested they email me a final bill and they also put me through to accounts to find out what had happened to the cheque for the money they owed me. Accounts were unable to verify me through my name address and password. They had to have my account number and put the phone down on me while I was searching for it. I had a look at my final bill and found that I owed them £4.30. The bill was dated 16th February and conveniently was due today (8thMarch) I had not been sent it and had I not contacted Virgin I would be none the wiser. I rang Virgin again and was put through to an extremely unhelpful man. I was told that the £4.30 was due to the fact that I had only formally cancelled on 8th December. They needed 30 days notice and it meant that because I was billed from 2nd December to 2nd January there were a few days outstanding and that was why I was being billed. I asked about the money I was owed - would that not cover the £4.30 they had decided I owed them? The line fell silent and then he came back again to ask me if I was ready to pay. He then insinuated that my credit score would be affected if I refused to pay. These people are heartless - Virgin mustn't be doing too well if they resort to such cynical tactics. After the telephone call I had a further look at the previous bill which I'd also requested they email me. This bill makes no sense. Apparently I changed my package although I had no knowledge of doing so. Granted my telephone line rental was removed but "MixTV" was added at the same time - why would I have agreed to that when I said I was leaving and, horror of horrors there's a further bill for £57.60 from 3rd Jan-2nd February making Virgin's cancellation policy a whopping 60 days in total. What utter bullies. This is no way to run a company.
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Posted 1 year ago
I am a virgin media customer for almost 4years now. I recently booked an engineer to move a cable from one room to another in the same house. The agent I spoke to on my first call informed me I am not going to pay for the engineer. Later in the same week I got an email about a new package and a new contract where my monthly charges was increased which I never agreed to. I quickly called virgin media and explained to them I never agreed to such package. I called several times and spoke to (Michel, sia , gulusheer) and all apologised and promised to make the necessary corrections. For about 2 months now nothing was done and I was sent a charge of £150 to pay. I tried to call again and my access was limited to speak to an agent. I raised a customer complaints and the response I got was to pay the amount I owe. VIRGIN MEDIA EXPLOIT AND ABUSE ITS CUSTOMERS. WORSE COMPANY EVER
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Posted 1 year ago
Rubbish rip-off stupid
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Posted 1 year ago
In accurate final bill no customer service they are so rude and constantly hang up on you after waiting ages to get through to them. Managers refuse to help and CEO have perfected the art of not being contactable. I have no option but to go to the ombudsman to get a resolution. Stay away from this scam company if I could give the no stars it would still be to much
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Posted 1 year ago
Booked in an install date a month ago for the day I move into a new house. Was contacted today (the day before the planned install) to say it will be another 3-4 weeks. I cant be without internet for that long as I work from home and you haven't given me enough time to do anything about it at all. How can it take an additional 4 weeks? What sort of install could you possibly be doing? First time ever using Virgin and I'm regretting it before it's even started. I thought I would update this as its still getting worse... New install date is meant to be the 16th Feb. I just called to check they wouldn't miss this one and I was told it would now the the 20th because the outside work wasn't completed yet again. I had to call and chase, nobody contacted me at all. I booked this in December and now have had to pay for temporary internet for 2 months and work from coffee shops or anywhere with internet. Please just do what you say you'll do or at the very least let the customer know what is going on. Unbelievable Another update - the install that was booked for the 20th has now been cancelled. No new date has been provided for the outside work and I have to wait to hear back. Booked 3 months ago and still no closer to having internet. Please do not use Virgin Media go with anyone else ANOTHER INSTALL CANCELLED - 4TH TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED. I'm now looking at 24th March for the install I booked in December. I don't believe the install will happen then either. My advice is to order with another provider while you wait for Virgin to attempt to make something happen and then cancel with whoever is slowest
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Posted 1 year ago
Absolutely terrible customer service. I have been with Virgin media for several years, and on 13th February i changed to Virgin Business. Virgin Business said they would can my Virgin media subscription as part of their transfer process. On 20th February i was charged another month by for my old discontinued virgin contract, so i asked my Virgin Business contact to look into it. No reply for over a week, so i called up virgin, spoke to someone who said he would put me through to someone to resolve my problem, and was cut off. I called back, got sent to 3 different departments, had 2 people agreeing to sort the issue, and transfering me to different departments who knew nothing abouty it. Eventually asked to speak to the manager of one operative who seemed to have completely differant information to the previous operative i spoke to. She said her manager would call me back, but i have had no reasonse. None of the people i spoke to seemed particuarly keen to help, and none of them sounded like they wanted to be there. On the second call i wasted 27 minutes and i am still no closer to having my money returned.
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Posted 1 year ago
The absolutel worst company to deal with. They tell you to set up a direct debit, then when it doesn't get taken from their side, and you end up with a double bill and late charges because OF THEM. they won't take any responsibility. They are all absolutely useless waste of oxygen. FIND ANYONE ELSE TO GO WITH. AVOID
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Posted 1 year ago
Keep well away from.....completely waste of time....
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Posted 1 year ago
I will simply add the email I sent to their Resolution team, so you can see what they are making me go through - still ongoing. "This is getting out of hand, and extremely frustrating. I have dropped the broadband today at a Yodel collection. What I'm really, really frustrated about, is that you keep telling something different, every time. This has been going on for two (2) months now. I only received the collection bag YESTERDAY, after I have contacted you many times to tell you I changed address. Despite that, you KEEP sending me harassing emails and texts in reference to collecting the broadband from my OLD address (2 Fulcher House, N1 5NP). I have called you more than 25 times throughout this 2 months, to tell you the new address, and ask for the check and an itemized bill. I still have not received the check and itemized bill. I called to complain about the harassment emails, as I really wanted to ship the broadband since 6th January (when the service was deactivated) but I only received your collection kit YESTERDAY. Because of this complain, you have said on the phone: "apologies for the inconvenience, we have now removed the £40 charge from your account" Now, you are telling me that this charge has not been removed, which is in contrast with what I was told this week, on the phone. I have been waiting for the check and the itemized bill since the 6th of January, 2023. Since then, I was told many different things - that I was going to receive it via email within 5 days, then they became 10 days, then they became 45 days since disconnection, now they have become 'as soon as the kit is returned'. This has been a nightmare, and I cannot believe I had to call 25 times, just to receive a different information every time, and not only I felt (still feel!) harassed (by your threatening emails and texts with your charge and referring the old address), but also, the only issue that was resolved was that you FINALLY sent me the collection kit to my current address (W13 8HA) yesterday. The rest is still unresolved, and it really has been a long time. Today I called again. You mentioned today I was going to receive the itemized bill (clearly stating the early disconnection charge) by post. That did not happen, and on the phone I was told I will receive the itemized bill by email within 24 hours. I am quite convinced this will not happen since everything you have been informing with has been a lie."
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Posted 1 year ago
We rang Virgin back in January to cancel . Because there broadband was forever going down in my house, not happy need it for work. So they told us we had 3 months till our contract ran out so would have to pay £141.50. So fed up with them ,customer service shocking not bothered after 19yrs as a loyal customer. So gave them 30 days notice. SO we went with sky, installed yesterday thinking Virgin would be cancelled. Today day 31 and noticed Virgin still working on my husbands phone. So rang up Virgin to be told at first it hadn't been cancelled. Wasn't at all pleased asked to speak to cancellations told me tv and broadband was cancelled but because I wanted my home phone number porting to sky I need to give another 30 days. Absolutely appalling customer service DONT SIGN UP TO THESES MONEY GRABBING SO AND SOS .
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Posted 1 year ago
Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,171 reviews