Virgin Media Reviews

Name: Virgin Media
Rating: 1.16

1.2 Rating 2,367 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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“The broadband is okay, but they reneged on the deal I agreed, called me a liar about it and ended by saying we have you trapped in a contract and will screw you over if you try to break it. Best avoided.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Mobile coverage terrible, customer service terrible, always increasing your bill and offering better deals to new customers”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Worse customer service ever. Absolute atrocious behaviour and attitude towards customers. I recently upgraded to a new virgin media plan and with it came a new sim. My iPhone was not supported with the new sim because apparently the old sim was a rebranded EE sim and had locked the iPhone to the network. I rang virgin media and they confirmed it and said it’d take 48 hours to unlock by the tech team. Few days later no text or email about it, I ring back and go through the whole process again and they say they’ll email me the code now to unlock the iPhone in 5 days. 5 days go by and nothing, ring back yet again and explain the situation again and this time it’s a blatant ‘No’, ‘not possible to unlock iPhone’ idiot hangs up before I have a chance to say anything back, I call straight back, explain what just happened, that the guy basically lied to me and hung-up. I have to explain the rebrand situation again too. She says it’ll take 5 days for it to unlock. At this point I’m like that’s fine, long as if it actually works. Nothing happens after 5 days. I ring Apple and apparently they’re even more clueless. They say an unlocked iPhone never locks to a network which is clearly wrong. I try to get them to explain to me how it was able to use a rebranded EE sim if was sold locked to me like they say. Clearly it was sold unlocked then locked to the network. They say yet again, unlocked iPhones never lock to a network. I try to clarify that maybe the new models don’t because mine definitely has. They advise I restore the iPhone which will delete all my data but might fix it...yeah right I’m doing that when you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. So back to good old virgin media. I ring back yet again and explain the situation yet again, the guy says they don’t unlock iPhone, which is clearly a lie since they’re my carrier and Apple tech said only the network I’m with can unlock them. He’s adamant they don’t even tho the process has apparently already gone through twice. I tell him to ask the tech team to ring EE to unlock it as they clearly sold me a rebranded EE sim and locked my phone. He goes quiet and puts me on a endless waiting queue. I ring back straight away and this time I get someone with the only brain cells in that Indian call centre. She confirms everything I said was true and it’s a common problem when moving customers to the new virgin media sim. She says the tech team replied back with ‘it’s already unlocked’ and they said EE also said ‘its unlocked’. So someone’s clearly lying here. She says she’ll contact the tech team to provide more of an update on the situation but she’ll ring me on Monday now because it’s the weekend.. I get no call back, finally ring EE directly on Wednesday and they confirm that the iPhone is indeed locked to the EE network. The tech guy says they straight up lied to me. So I was right! Virgin media and Apple tech support were both wrong! iPhone do lock to a network and it was a rebranded EE sim! He says he has put the process through and after 48 hours the new sim finally works with my iPhone. What should have been a simple up to 48 hours fix took over 3 weeks and it still didn’t resolve. I had to check forums online for the answer and even then Apple and virgin media were saying I was wrong. Virgin media’s call centre is just a bunch of clueless Indians and apples is a bunch self-centred narcissists. They can’t clearly be wrong so they don’t acknowledge anything you say. I’m sure they both will get better tho, or is that the battered wife syndrome at work...”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Called for disconnection of broadband on 18th May having switched to a different provider. Virgin Media sent me a bill for what I thought was the final bill, until another bill for the same amount came through in October. This was when I knew something was wrong, so I called Virgin Media only to find out 1) they have not disconnected my broadband, 2) they have no recollection of the 18th May, and 3) asking me for payment still! I raised a complaint asking why this was the case but all I get is their staff chasing me for payment! I’ve called numerous times to follow up with my complaint I raised online but they weren’t interested in listening to me, nor have the knowledge, nor put me through to the correct people as they allegedly they were the right people and there’s nobody else that could help. They asked for money during every phone call and offered what they called a £10 “discount” if I paid on the spot and even better, I still am blamed throughout the call for not calling to disconnect! They’ve stolen well over £200 from me for overpayments for 4 months! Now I’ve also become a victim, I would advise everyone to avoid Virgin Media like the plague; worst customer service ever, zero courtesy, reflects in their reviews all over the internet!”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Don’t waste your time and money for Virgin Media. Their customer service is rubbish. They don’t care about their customers at all. I spent 6hours on the phone with them during the last few days and they can’t resolve my issue. I spoke with every single department and everyone said something different. Not helpful at all. The manager is not available. Never. I guess there is no manager at all thats why they have that mess. Virgin Media customer service is a joke. Worst experience ever. Stay away from them.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Awful company been on the phone to them today and wont allow me to make my payment and wont allow me to pay it bad customer service. Rude disrespectful put me through to 3 adivsers and still wouldnt take payment disgusting company”

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Posted 5 years ago

“DO NOT USE VIRGIN MEDIA! Awful company, no customer service, have given me so many headaches and problems for the last 5 months, I cant list all of their failings as my phone battery will die... They are absolutely shocking”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Pathetic company that promised me a free TV and won't deliver it despite me having paid the bill, and having no TV. Don't trust their marketing offers.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Promising promises at the beginning when you sign a contract. Then everything goes wrong. Since the first week of my 12 months contract, I had an issue with the broadband. I was making written complains and had to call them for the first 2 months. The broadband was unstable, cutting me off the internet constantly. Some evenings, when you come back after work back home, you could not use the internet as there was an issue with the signal (Virgin has admitted it). And that lasts for weeks. I never received compensation for that ether can't use internet for days but they charged me for the full amount even thou I ask for the partial refund). After few first months of beeing with Virgin and having an issue with the signal, they don't even bother to send the engineer to check my connection, to check the router or whatsover to solve this. After 2 months of everyday complains by me, they send me an email explaining that there is nothing wrong with the internet and that I have a right to seek an advice by the independent company. So I decided to just wait for the end of my 12 months contract and look for another broadband provider. The instructions on how to end the contract are not clear on the Virgin website. It says that if you have a 12 months contract, you don't need to do anything, just give them a call at the end of your contract. But when I called them, they say that I need to give them 30 days' notice. Which wasn't advertised. They suggest me to read the fine print. More issues raises with my last bill. When I gave them a 30 days notice, I received the bill for the full month (because I was late with my notice, the amount should be for 21 days, not for 31 days of that month). So I called them again. I've spoken with the customer service, and the agent agrees with me and she promised to me that the final amount will be recalculated and sent to me. Which I never received. Just before the disconnection of the services, I have received the same bill again (of £44.50) plus the bill stated that my next bill is on the way for the amount of £96. Now that is ridiculous. I called them again... the agent this time ensures me that this is a mistake and that they will correct the bill and will send me the next day. The very next day I have received a bill for £96 instead of £30 (because £44.50 was for a full month from 1st till 31st. I used services from 1st till 21st, the amount should be ~£30. That what agent agrees and ensure me). So instead of £30 once again I received the bill for the amount of £96. THAT IS TRIPLED! And that is after the correction?! I am still fighting for my rights at the moment! My suggestion - avoid Virgin media by any means, there are better broadband providers than this. The customer service is pathetic. The broadband is pathetic as well. Been using many different providers and Virgin is one of the worst ever!! If you in a similar situation - don't be afraid to fight for your rights! You can ask for professional help at resolver.co.uk Do not trust empty promises before you sign a contract. You will be hooked and will never receive a services that you were hoping for, the customer service is careless. Always trying to overcharge you by any means. Do you know that last year Virgin media raised £2.8 million just for overcharging their customers? Think about it! AVOID BY ANY MEANS - you have been warned.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I have recently returned my s10+ due to a screen freeze issue. They have tried to accuse me of physical damage saying there is a cracked screen. The phone was returned in prestine condition, the staff are rude, unhelpful, dishonest and are clearly trained on one way scripted text. Absolutely appalling service. Wish I'd never swapped to them”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Extremely poor. Had it for 6 weeks. It worked for 3 days in total. It took 1.5 - 2.0 hours to get through to speak to them and in the end they didn't sort out the problem. Now trying to get my money back.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I've been a Virgin customer for 6 months. In that time I have had the service I have paid for for maybe 3 days. I have tried to sort this out with the telephone service which takes on average 45 minutes to speak to anyone. They told me that the problem was due to a fault with the modem they had supplied and would send out an engineer to deal with it. I took time off work for 3 afternoons to let the engineer in and nobody ever turned up. Virgin broadband is a very unfunny joke - DO NOT DO IT.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“constant price increases - terrible customer service. I paid for 100mbps service. For over a year i was lucky to get 30mbps (I live in London). I had to chase and chase to get any kind of discount - which was derisory when it came. It turns out there was a fault in my area. They didn't tell their new customers about this fault, preferring to wait and see who complained. when I eventually left, they erroneously charged me another full month (£44.50 for broadband only) and then are refusing to refund the full amount for the time the broadband has been turned off. Virgin used to be a great brand, but has been eroded over the years. Now it is over priced and under serviced. I've recently changed to Sky and everything is fine so far.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Over for 3 years with Virgin media I never had any problems, internet speed was ok. Apart customer service nightmare ridiculous. When you signed a new contract they are very helpful,everything smooth and easy. But after when i decide to cancel contact after 3 years I felt like in the court, they were asking so many questions more likely personal questions which I don't have to tell at all what I'm going to do in the next 6-12 months, this is my personal things and you never know what's gonna happen tomorrow even. It took me more than two hours to cancel contact, I been transferred to many times to a different departments and been talking with 6-7 different people, also they disconnect me 3 times, first telling me can you wait I will put you on the hold and after 2-3 minutes you hear Lovely beep signal on your phone. I wasn't happy at all, ridiculous. Finally I had to ask for cancellation team manager, he was very helpful and cancel the contract. Cost for me to many nervous, in the end I had to take some medication to calm down, too much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not happy at all and never gonna recommend for anyone........”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Terrible call centre, inept service. Use another provider for your broadband. Finally got through and put on hold by a rude call handler.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Prices up 15%. When I queried this I was offered a new contract at a 30% increase!!!! No idea as to how to engage with genuine concerns about price rises.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Virgin media customer service is disgraceful. They totally ignored my request to cancel the TV part of my package for 6 months until I left completely. When I refused to pay for the cancelled service which I had done on several occasions they sent a debt company after and ruined my credit rating. Never use them 😠”

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Posted 5 years ago

“I signed up for Virgin Media on the 9th of October after several calls to Virgin Media support the service was finally installed a week after Curry's promised install date. The service was working fine except for a few unscheduled downtimes, but the main problem started when I moved to a new address on the 14 of October. First of all, I was not told that the new address required new equipment as according to the engineer was not correct for my area even though it was listed as a Virgin Media enabled address. I also was not sent any new equipment to the new address. After all the hassle I found out that my email address had not been changed when moving. This required another hour on webchat followed by 30 minutes on the phone to support. The issue that put me over the edge though was to receive a new bill ignoring the monthly discount I received when signing up and a charge for moving to a new address.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“They only get one star as that's the minimum you can give. I would give them zero if possible. I have never dealt with such an incompetent company. I requested that my package be reduced both in writing and by telephone yet it took three months before I was told it had been actioned. What a surprise when the following month nothing had changed and they were still billing at the higher rate despite telling me I would receive a refund. Finally moved my account to another supplier and the incompetent staff at Virgin Media are still billing me (now at the reduced rate) although I am not even connected to them. Also spent three years contacting them regularly to get access to my online account. Didn't actually get anywhere with them and never managed to have access to my account In addition the broadband speed which was supposed to be 100Mb was only 38Mb yet my new supplier managed 42Mb on a 40Mb service. Take my advice and avoid at all costs.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Virgin media had to cancel my account as I moved address and they don’t provide service to my new property. I was advised by customer service representative that the account is closed and no further payment was needed and the last thing I needed to do is send the equipments back which I have back in August. I did NOT hear back from virgin media except to say they’ve received the equipments. Virgin never tried to contact me and 2 weeks ago I received a message from a debt collecting agency to say that I owed virgin media 32 pounds exist fee!! I am shocked and angry that virgin have failed to contact me directly and instead referred the case straight to debt collectors. I assure you that virgin has NO evidence to prove they tried to reach me because they never did. Anyways I called the customer service line and I spoke to the rudest manager ever, she claimed that I still had fo pay the amount even though virgin media were the ones to cancel the account. She the. Proceeded to say it was a charge because I didn’t give enough notice?!! What notice ? I never cancelled or wanted to cancel! Furthermore, she says virgin back office will prove that they tried to contact me and I am still waiting for that proof. Virgin media have become the worst of the worst of internet providers. No company will charge you exist fees if they cannot provide their service , only virgin media would. Virgin media also is a disrespectful and dishonest company with managers at call centres that don’t know how to deal with customers. Virgin media is the biggest scammer on the market, trying to charge 32 for exist fees and never communicate this with customers, instead they go to debt collectors. Virgin media which was the best company out there, dont even deserve to be call the worst since the worst is an upgrade to what virgin media have become.”

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Posted 5 years ago

Virgin Media is rated 1.2 based on 2,367 reviews