Virgin Media Discussion Thread

Just as a point of reference.. Nobody I spoke (3-4 people) from various departments (including retention) could offer me better than £58 for a new contract.. It wasnt until I disconnected and they rang me they came down to £46 for the same package.. So that gives you an idea. A 20% drop.

This is what annoys me about being with Virgin.

I joined when it was Blueyonder, been over a quarter of a century now, and when they increase the price, I have to cancel, every. single. time. to try and get a better price.

And looking here, some people are getting a better price than me, and they haven't been with them as long.

Still waiting to get a price increase email so I can finally (now that there's competition) finish with them, and go to Vodafone.
 
Going to give them a call in the next day or so and tell them we are not happy, if they cant lower the price or increase the broadband speed for the £64 then I'll mention disconnections.

They won't offer you anything special. Just say you want to leave as too expensive and let them do the talking. Then just keep saying no. They will then make their best offer which will still be crap. When you say no they will say but if you call back the offer they just gave you won't be available to pressure you. Which is a load of rubbish really as a few days or a week later someone from retentions will call who actually has the ability offer something meaningful and then you can negotiate for real at that point.
 
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Moving house soon and it’s in a VM area!

Can get 500mb /tv /sky sports for about £64 a month for 18months!

It’s a new customer offer. Is this basically the best price available?

I’ve seen VM really screw you on price when you’ve been a customer for a while and up for contract renewal.
 
This is an example how VM work.

I finally got through today telling them I had just received the letter telling me my bill's gone up by £7 and I am only in contract until the 3rd of June. I told them I don't want the landline anymore, must have said this about 4 times. They come back after 5mins on hold saying I can keep the phone-line and 1GB for £69.99!! but I am sure I told you 4 times I didn't want the phone and that price is £15.49 more than what I am paying now and £8.49 dearer if I just went ahead with the £7 price rise!! what on earth goes through their heads.

So again they go away come back and say, we can offer just the 1GB speed keep the phone-line for just emergencies but the price would be £59.99! I nearly hung the phone up. They then said with all the deductions I can take off we can get it down to £54.50, this is what I am already paying they just took the £7 price increase off. I said no thank you, I can get the speeds you give me for less. They then ask who from! I said you do your homework because I have already done mine and I can get nearly the same download and double the upload your offering for £14.50 less of what you have just quoted me, couple of seconds later they then say with more deductions we can get it down to £47. Hold on one moment didn't they just tell me earlier they could only get it down to £54.50 with all deductions. I just told them give me a few days to think about it, they put the notes on my account but if they can reduced the price that quickly then why put it up in the 1st place.
 
This is an example how VM work.

I finally got through today telling them I had just received the letter telling me my bill's gone up by £7 and I am only in contract until the 3rd of June. I told them I don't want the landline anymore, must have said this about 4 times. They come back after 5mins on hold saying I can keep the phone-line and 1GB for £69.99!! but I am sure I told you 4 times I didn't want the phone and that price is £15.49 more than what I am paying now and £8.49 dearer if I just went ahead with the £7 price rise!! what on earth goes through their heads.

So again they go away come back and say, we can offer just the 1GB speed keep the phone-line for just emergencies but the price would be £59.99! I nearly hung the phone up. They then said with all the deductions I can take off we can get it down to £54.50, this is what I am already paying they just took the £7 price increase off. I said no thank you, I can get the speeds you give me for less. They then ask who from! I said you do your homework because I have already done mine and I can get nearly the same download and double the upload your offering for £14.50 less of what you have just quoted me, couple of seconds later they then say with more deductions we can get it down to £47. Hold on one moment didn't they just tell me earlier they could only get it down to £54.50 with all deductions. I just told them give me a few days to think about it, they put the notes on my account but if they can reduced the price that quickly then why put it up in the 1st place.

And that's not even the retentions team. Once you cancel and they call you it will go down to £30 or less.


I plan to see how far I can get them down on their 1gb line before saying no thanks and going community fibre anyway soon :cry:
 
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This is an example how VM work.

I finally got through today telling them I had just received the letter telling me my bill's gone up by £7 and I am only in contract until the 3rd of June. I told them I don't want the landline anymore, must have said this about 4 times. They come back after 5mins on hold saying I can keep the phone-line and 1GB for £69.99!! but I am sure I told you 4 times I didn't want the phone and that price is £15.49 more than what I am paying now and £8.49 dearer if I just went ahead with the £7 price rise!! what on earth goes through their heads.

So again they go away come back and say, we can offer just the 1GB speed keep the phone-line for just emergencies but the price would be £59.99! I nearly hung the phone up. They then said with all the deductions I can take off we can get it down to £54.50, this is what I am already paying they just took the £7 price increase off. I said no thank you, I can get the speeds you give me for less. They then ask who from! I said you do your homework because I have already done mine and I can get nearly the same download and double the upload your offering for £14.50 less of what you have just quoted me, couple of seconds later they then say with more deductions we can get it down to £47. Hold on one moment didn't they just tell me earlier they could only get it down to £54.50 with all deductions. I just told them give me a few days to think about it, they put the notes on my account but if they can reduced the price that quickly then why put it up in the 1st place.

The way they work is complete bo#@$ks.

Had the pleasure of speaking to them twice yesterday, the first time on behalf of my Mum to cancel her account, as she's now going over to BT Fibre only (500MB). She only has 100MB BB (Now 125MB) and TV, no phone line and over time has ended up paying £60+. The latest price increase is for £9 which was going to bring her monthly bill to £80. Told I wanted to cancel the account and was put through to retentions who then offer to magically do the same package she currently has for £34 for 12 months.

The second time was to cancel mine, which is for only BB 200MB (250MB), which is currently £53.25 and due to increase by £7. This was then offered to me for just £30, to which I send no to. I was then offered the same speed as BT, 500MB (£30.99 for 24 months), for a mere £34, again I said no.

Possibly if I hadn't already placed orders with another provider there's a very good chance I'd have taken up both offers. However, I really can't be arsed in 12 months time to get back on the merry go around, to do it all again. Have been with VM for a long time, too long I think and you get no loyalty, they just profit on the lazy/idle and try to make it as difficult/awkward to get a better deal. Even with the prices offered and after all this time I'm happy to go and spend my money else where.
 
Fwiw I am getting 1gb, full tv package with Bt sports. 2 tv boxes, phone line (don’t use) for £61 per month. Plus o2 unlimited sim for £25.
EDIT: with Netflix too

If you’re haggling. Try get a better deal. I cancelled my contract (last December when renewal was due) and they called back 2 days later.

No price increase for me either. Not sure why but they have confirmed.
 
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Could you use the broadband piece for anything that doesn't require low latency and free up your main connection for everything else? That's assuming it could do with freeing up of course.
 
Fwiw I am getting 1gb, full tv package with Bt sports. 2 tv boxes, phone line (don’t use) for £61 per month. Plus o2 unlimited sim for £25.
EDIT: with Netflix too

If you’re haggling. Try get a better deal. I cancelled my contract (last December when renewal was due) and they called back 2 days later.

No price increase for me either. Not sure why but they have confirmed.
Quite fancy that, but I already have the o2 sim which confuses things a bit, just waiting for my sky cancellation to run it's course.
 
Could you use the broadband piece for anything that doesn't require low latency and free up your main connection for everything else? That's assuming it could do with freeing up of course.
I guess there is one particular device I could put on the VM connection which is by far the highest bandwidth consumer, plus I'd get a little bit more throughput as max on FTTP is ~930 Mbps. Not that it makes much of a difference overall!
 
Weighing up our options as I think VM are just trying it on.

Virgin Media: Current Package: Volt M350 Fibre, MixitTV and Talk Weekends - £51 p.m rising to £60 p.m. in April.

Vodafone: Pro II Full Fibre 500 £45 p.m. I've read in a few places their customer service is awful and you can't use modem mode and an external router with their kit if you wanted to. Not a deal-breaker, but would like the option if needed.

BT:
Full Fibre 500 with Complete Wi-Fi (No TV or Sports) £40.99 p.m.
One-off charge £9.99
An estimated download speed of 500 Mbps
An estimated upload speed of 73 Mbps
Stay Fast Guarantee of 425 Mbps
Alexa Advanced Home Phone

We rarely use the Virgin box for TV with everything else being Netflix and Prime and iPlayer and the landline phone never gets touched. Can't believe I'm turning to the dark side that is BT.
 
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Weighing up our options as I think VM are just trying it on.

Virgin Media: Current Package: Volt M350 Fibre, MixitTV and Talk Weekends - £51 p.m rising to £60 p.m. in April.

Vodafone: Pro II Full Fibre 500 £45 p.m. I've read in a few places their customer service is awful and you can't use modem mode and an external router with their kit if you wanted to. Not a deal-breaker, but would like the option if needed.

BT:
Full Fibre 500 with Complete Wi-Fi (No TV or Sports) £40.99 p.m.
One-off charge £9.99
An estimated download speed of 500 Mbps
An estimated upload speed of 73 Mbps
Stay Fast Guarantee of 425 Mbps
Alexa Advanced Home Phone

We rarely use the Virgin box for TV with everything else being Netflix and Prime and iPlayer and the landline phone never gets touched. Can't believe I'm turning to the dark side that is BT.
Cityfibre vodafone (i.e. Symmetric speeds) has no problems with using your own router.

Vodafone's CS is bad, but no worse than BT or VM. Depends on who you speak to most of the time.
 
Anyone whos with Vodafone fibre, do you have the standard intelligent hub router or the pro II hub with booster?

My increase has come through and i pay £27 for 200mb. but never get that speed at all.

Vodas 500mb for £29 sounds more appealing and seems to be a more stable connection. But that is just for the standard router, otherwise its £45 for the extras
 
you can't use modem mode and an external router with their kit if you wanted to.
The information is incorrect, you are able to use your own router with Vodafone, directly plugged into the Openreach ONT - if you aren't interested in digital voice. You do however have to speak to them to get the details.


If you want decent customer service, go with Aquiss. Over 12 months it works out at £33.75 a month however no whole home wifi which isn't that great in all honesty and you'll need to use your own router. To me that's a benefit, as you just plumb in your own router and WiFi and you can move it between ISPs. No CPI/RPI increases, no activation however it'll be £50 a month after 12 months but zero requirement for renegotiating contracts.
 
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Anyone whos with Vodafone fibre, do you have the standard intelligent hub router or the pro II hub with booster?

My increase has come through and i pay £27 for 200mb. but never get that speed at all.

Vodas 500mb for £29 sounds more appealing and seems to be a more stable connection. But that is just for the standard router, otherwise its £45 for the extras
Personally I'd get the basic package and if you want good home networking, invest in good 3rd party gear you can take with you.
 
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