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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
I have been hit hard by the covid-19 outbreak, I'm part of the 5%of self employed who don't qualify for anything from the government and have literally had zero income for the past 3 months. Every other company I have dealt with have been understanding about the situation and have put a hold on my account for a few weeks until the work starts up again. When I couldn't pay my first bill I rang customer service to explain to them why it wouldn't be paid, they said there's nothing they can do about the bills but we wouldn't be switched off for the duration of the outbreak, just limited to slow service. A month later I start getting threatening messages, about my account being sent to a debt recovery agency. I call the number on the message which starts an automated message telling you you can pay online then says hold on the line to speak to an advisor and cuts you off everytime. A few days later I get another message saying call the same number and we may be able to lower your bill, I call and get cut off again. I found a different number online and rang that then get passed around between four different people before someone would help me. I ended up talking to the collections department, I explained that I had no income and wouldn't be able to pay anything and spent the next 10 minutes with the advisor saying "if you pay this much today" and me replying "I have no income" on a loop. Eventually the lady said if I could pay £70 today they would credit the rest owed (around £30-£40). I told them I would see if I could borrow the money from somewhere and get back to them. My dad kindly agreed to lend me the money so I rang back about an hour after the last call only to find out the collections department closes earlier than the others so they'd send an email to the lady I'd dealt with earlier asking her to ring me tomorrow. The day after i don't get a phone call so I call them instead only to find it's impossible to speak to the same advisor for some reason and they can't do the credit. I then get another message saying I didn't pay the make the agreed payment of £70 and that it would affect my credit file. Now I'm sat here after spending two days on the phone to virgin and getting absolutely nowhere, apparently with a worse credit rating than if I'd just ignored the debt
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Posted 5 years ago
Virgin media is an absolute disgrace, they outsource their call centres to India, & the Philippines, this can be problematic because the people can’t even talk properly English and they disconnect you. I found Virgin Media to be extremely difficult to deal with, I will never use Virgin Media because of the after sales service.
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Posted 5 years ago
I am writing as I am a freelance graphic designer and because of the virus have been working from home for the last 8-9 weeks. My contract was coming to an end and would have gone for cheaper alternative, but because of my work I wasn’t sure if switchover would go smoothly in terms of getting engineer out so I signed up to a new Virgin Media contract for 12 months. I wrongly presumed that my new contract included home calls during the week and appreciate that I should have asked more questions, but what troubles me is my monthly bills were £33, £33, £33, £33 then jumped to £90 as lockdown began and then today I got a bill for £279 for last month. I stopped using the landline immediately as soon after I received the £90 bill, but was to late unfortunately. I have tried to explain to Virgin Media that this is a large amount and why wasn’t I notified that my bill have jumped by more than 8x it’s normal amount. Also I had just signed up to a new contract with them so where is the good faith / loyalty…. maybe I am naive to think this. Virgins response to my complaint = zero sympathy and can’t do anything and was offered a £10 ‘as a good faith voucher'. I won’t be using or recommending Virgin Media again.
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Posted 5 years ago
Got me to agree a new deal which they said included sky sports. But after a few days i still had no sky sports. I phoned them and they said no it didnt. They did not want to look into it and not very helpful and rude. Said i had a 14 day cooling off period. I tried 2/ 3 times to get through to cancel but could not get through to them. I also emailed them. I finally got through to them. Then they said i would have to pay £240 to cancel. They did not care and said it takes 28 days to respond to an email. Terrible company. Worst customer service i have ever experienced.
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Posted 5 years ago
The most lengthy and disorganised installation/setup process and can't yet say it was worth the hassle
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Posted 5 years ago
I recently disconnected from Virgin Media after my bills shot up to £50.50 per month for just fiber. Now that was already an issue as that do not call or email to inform you that your contract is coming to an end or that you are being moved on to a rolling contract. The bigger issue is their incredibly rude, unprofessional and dishonest call center staff. When I called to disconnect I was informed that as I pay in advanced I would not be charged going forward. Fast-forward to today where I have been charged. I have called the call center again to discuss and let them know that I was misinformed by the previous colleague I spoke to and have now been charged. Their response was to refer to their online payment system and pay no attention to what I was saying at all. The person I was speaking to (John) did not listen to a thing I said and kept on rattling on about how it is explained on my online bill without listening to my complaint that their staff member (A human) had lied to me. After him repeating the same sentence to me about 5 times without trying to understand what I was saying I left the call with no solution and still having been lied to and charged. Overall they are absolutely despicable, their conduct is incredibly unprofessional and dishonest. This is the worst experience I have ever had with an ISP. You are better paying for BT as they are less likely to rip you off and lie to you (Or their customer service will at least resolve your issues and accept responsibility). If you want just fiber hyperoptic looks great and there are so many options to explore which we will be doing. Please be aware that no matter how much you pay them their customer service and support will always be terrible.
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Posted 5 years ago
I recently disconnected from Virgin Media after my bills shot up to £50.50 per month for just fiber. Now that was already an issue as that do not call or email to inform you that your contract is coming to an end or that you are being moved on to a rolling contract. The bigger issue is their incredibly rude, unprofessional and dishonest call center staff. When I called to disconnect I was informed that as I pay in advanced I would not be charged going forward. Fast-forward to today where I have been charged. I have called the call center again to discuss and let them know that I was misinformed by the previous colleague I spoke to and have now been charged. Their response was to refer to their online payment system and pay no attention to what I was saying at all. The person I was speaking to (John) did not listen to a thing I said and kept on rattling on about how it is explained on my online bill without listening to my complaint that their staff member (A human) had lied to me. After him repeating the same sentence to me about 5 times without trying to understand what I was saying I left the call with no solution and still having been lied to and charged. Overall they are absolutely despicable, their conduct is incredibly unprofessional and dishonest. This is the worst experience I have ever had with an ISP. You are better paying for BT as they are less likely to rip you off and lie to you (Or their customer service will at least resolve your issues and accept responsibility). If you want just fiber hyperoptic looks great and there are so many options to explore which we will be doing. Please be aware that no matter how much you pay them their customer service and support will always be terrible.
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Posted 5 years ago
Virgin media has broken data laws and rights When and ico team has ordered them too do something they don’t bother and carry on breaking the law when I ask them too do something about it they say they can’t custermer service lacks in Minila hugely
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Posted 5 years ago
Rue the day I signed up. Flaky and unpredictable broadband service, poor TV choices and appallingly basic mobile plans. Their website doesn’t function and calling them directly is agonizing.
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Posted 5 years ago
Have you tried to leave this network? Must be the most frustrating, unreasonable and incompetent (probably deliberate) procedure. " Can we have the 2nd letter of your password? Can we have the 7th? 9th? 4th? 11th? All correct except the last one. Sorry please try again later. Again, after 17 mins waiting, calling from abroad. Yes, all correct. Just hold on. Phone is cut off!
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Posted 5 years ago
Customer service is a joke
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Posted 5 years ago
Never been made to feel so powerless and invaluable by a company. Getting through to customer service is next to impossible and staff don't give a toss about your problems as a customer, it's clear they are just trained to try to take more money. I was overcharged on my direct debit for MONTHS and after called tens of times, I finally got through to a manager who, instead of apologising for the mix up, carelessly said "no one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes". Now we've been trying to change our contract and I had my partner speak to them instead as I know they are terrible on the phone and he is in telesales.... they HUNG UP ON HIM when he was threatening to leave due to negligent behaviours and service offerings. If you're thinking of going with this company... DON'T.
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Posted 5 years ago
Worst company ever!!!!! Don't waste your time. They are so unorganized, unprofessional and such a disappointment.
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Posted 5 years ago
I have been with them for almost 10 years now and they have the best Broadband service along with an exceptional customer service
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Posted 5 years ago
WORST INTERNET PROVIDER! Terrible experience with them. I am tired of calling them to solve the problem and they just move on. Internet keeps dropping and it’s impossible to have any type of meeting from home. Do not recommend. Terrible service. PLEASE AVOID!
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Posted 5 years ago
ABSOLUTE RIP OFF...IN DAY LIGHT Absolutely fuming and fed up with their monthly price increase!!! They have increased the amounts twice in the space of 6 months, speaking to their CS was ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE and took me around an hour. The lady I spoke to eventually was abrupt and even refused to refer me to a manager. She kept rudely repeating "NO ONE WILL CALL YOU BACK ABOUT THIS, PAY YOUR BILL OR THERE WILL BE EXTRA FEES" How could they get away with this I have no idea!!! Sick and tired of all this stress from them. Now I have to pay to exit contract and for another provider!!! DISGRACEFUL
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Posted 5 years ago
Channels often have bad interference. Broadband goes down at least once per day. Speeds are not what you pay for, sometimes a couple of mbps instead of 350, which they try to say is their “Superfast” service.
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Posted 5 years ago
I was make a new contract for year with virgin media they offer me a voucher unfortunately its not work its fake code its not real voucher provide from virgin media i never hope this company can do this with new customer!!!
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Posted 5 years ago
Mr Bartosz, online live chat, what a waste of time and rubbish communicator don’t know why he was even given that job in the first place! not a happy customer as this company loves to overcharge for a pretty simple and boring service. Goodbye
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Posted 5 years ago
BLAME THE CORONA VIRUS! I have ordered installation business broadband in our two business sites. The sweet salesmen Randeep from the business team will sell you everything, fast with. The first installation didn’t go as a plan: I have to wait the whole day in the empty site, no buddy come as arranged despite asking for an hour half a day slots - sorry, only daily slots. No phone call no email. Waste of my day! I managed to contact virgin media, to reschedule the appointment. Finally success. After installation, the engineer from virgin media took the “old” hub with him and disappear. Domestic team invoiced me £90 fo the old router (it has been taking by your installer). It took me many hours on the phone to New Delhi holding and explaining again, again and again. The worst: I have ordered the business broadband in January this year, The installed at the beginning of February. The complaint took around two months, 5 emails sent to a virgin - no reply. When I finally spoke to VIRGIN MEDIA they blamed COVID19 for messing the installation! The first week of February? Seriously? No sorry, they don’t care! I have planned to set up another five sites with a business broadband connection from virgin media - I am staying with the current provider. Please avoid. AVOID!
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Posted 5 years ago
Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,364 reviews