Review of Virgin Media


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Price gouging and difficult to cancel

£91/month vs £38 /month for other suppliers
trying to cancel was a battle kept getting transferred between people in retention and put on hold.
No cancellation option online.
Sigh just don't do business with these people.

Just to follow up with a bit of extra regarding cancelling. After cancelling they wanted their equipment (router) back. They wanted me to package it up and take it to a delivery shop for free. I tried to contact them to tell them that I don't work for free but emails bounce back. As I wanted a transcript of any conversations I tried chat but got nowhere with them. So I waited. They then tried to charge me for the equipment £65 for a three year old router/cable modem - right. Luckily I'd cancelled my payment method otherwise i've no doubt they would have taken a payment.
Eventually I sent an email to the ceo explaining my position and that they'd need to collect the equipment. I heard nothing for a couple weeks and that had obviously got the case treated as a complaint. They answered my complaint with another request to return the equipment but when I replied to that again saying I don't work for free they decided I didn't need to return it and they don't want it back after all and don't want to charge me £65. Although the information was buried in a load of hard to read text in their replies.

As I said before I'm in my 50s and have dealt with telewest and subsequently virgin a few times when I've had no choice and on every occasion they have been absolutely terrible at customer service. Nothing has changed since I first had an account with them in the late 90s as telewest.

Now BT is rolling out fibre to the door I suspect virgin media's days are numbered as an ISP at least.

9 May 2025
Unprompted review

Reply from Virgin Media

Hi John,
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. We’re very sorry to hear that you feel this way and we’re keen to know more so we can help put things right.

Please get in touch using one of the following contact methods;

Call: 150 from a Virgin Media Landline or 03454541111 from any other phone
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/virginmedia/
WhatsApp: +447305 327 112
Twitter: https://twitter.com/virginmedia
Forums: virg.in/VMforums
And we can help from there

Thanks.
Martin