Virgin Media IrelandReviews 72

Got my new 360 box 3 months ago. When i try to connect box it says can't retrieve account. I have spent up to an hour & a half per session trying to get through without success. I have WhatsApp them to be told that I'm through to wrong place. To try email service in other section no success there either. I then emailed the complaints section & got email back to say someone would contact me inside 10 days. I'm still waiting. A joke of a company

I have a simple query to resolve. Over the past 2 days, I've contacted the whatsapp chat, the online chat and the phone help desk. No one answered. I stayed on hold for over an hour before hanging up out of frustration. This isn't the first time I'm having issues with these clowns, if you can, I highly recommend taking your business elsewhere.

It has been very troublesome to get the Router, even though we didn't even need installation because it was already set up in our apartment.

The company canceled the scheduled appointment on their side without informing us because of missing information, that again, nobody informed us about. Then the company deleted our account - without letting us know.

We had to contact customer support every day and restart the same conversation over and over.
Most of the time we had to hold the line for at least 1 hour, a couple of times the line just got cut.
In total we've wasted roghly 8 hours with customer support.

In the end we didn't get the contract we wanted.
Overall the worst customer support experience I ever had

With Virgin Mobile, It's problem after problem. There is absolutely no customer service. This Whatsapp contact facility is pitiful. No matter when you contact them, regardless of the time of day. You will be left waiting indefinitely, I have been on Whatsapp for 6 hours waiting on a reply to a simple question, and it's that way constantly... I have sent complaints, but they are ignored and remain unanswered. Their mobile coverage is the worst... dropped calls, no signal, no data. In areas where coverage should be solid. How any company can be allowed to treat customers like this and get away with it is absolutely shocking... I'm just about 3 months with them, and I can honestly say from the very start it has been an experience... If you value an easy life for Jesus sake... Avoid this shower of wasters... Or you will end up like me.!

Worst ever company to deal with. I joined the service on 7th May 2021.My BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER.

Order never gone through initially... the support agent oppologiesed. Wasted about an hour with him changing browsers and ordering again. And with no luck. Frustrated, call the customer service to make sure all is cancelled and no money is taken from the account. And was confirmed that due to error no order have been processed.

And then suddenly 4 SIM cards came in the door few days after. Reluctantly, started their poor service.

My experience with Virgin media is that there are no signal and some time no service. (Out of the 3 Mobiles the one I'm using is just outside the TESCO in open Air, other is being used in Carlow Town Centre and one in Kilminchy Portlaoise. And none of these working.

We have spent €1800+ VAT to launch our service starting from today and none of the phones advertised is working.

No service... on all phones on the account and no one picking up the phone or responding at 10:04am on 17/05/2021. (Trying since 8:35am)

Website only have ChatBot. And thier WhatsApp support number have the same standard messages.

1908 is closed. Recorded message says our Customer Support is now closed. (Last tried at 9:52 am on 17/05/2021, and now at 10.05am)

Only line open is Sales Line which is also not responding and on hold for last 42 minutes and listening to their deceptive messages and white lies. About their worst service.

Please please Avoid Virgin Media at all costs. It will cost you money... you will loose lots of money... and you will have the mental torture you would have never received in life or will ever receive.

To save many small business like yourself from these " Wolf Companies" I request you all to post your opinion. So that at least the regulatory authorities or govt could know how they are not only ripping people but also the people like us loosing money because of their poor/no service.

AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. AVOID.

Do not in the love of god choose this company if you have at the very least any other companies on your address.
3 weeks for a new address installation - excuse? - "order stuck"
Re-ordered to get the equipment sent - contract is at full price now lol go f**k yourself.
If you wish to be mentally scarred after days and days of speaking to incompetent people that have no means of resolving any issues and just drain your mental stability go ahead.

Having gone from 360 gbps to 1gbt there was no difference in speed and constantly disconnecting and buffering. The reason for changing from one to the other was the same issues with the previous. Having had three consecutive engineers called out, each one found faults with the line, one after the other, so a waste of time having an engineer out in the first place, and still constantly disconnecting and buffering. Virgin advertise fiber broadband straight to your home but the reality is other providers interfere with the signal, kicking you off when there's too much traffic on the same line. I cancelled my contract with virgin and was informed that i was not entitled to any refund because i did not ask for one before cancelling the contract, so customer care does not even make an appearance here. If i could give virgin media broadband Ireland negative stars, my screen would be full of them. Avoid this company

I hate Virgin Media. They're using the chances to rip off everyone for exchange of a crapy internet just because there's no decent competition in Ireland for broadband. If you look their prices every year they increase broadband price and a speed itself just gets worse! Between March and April it took for me 6 weeks with numerous calls, chats and even registered post letters until they changed the IBAN for their DD. Customer service is just nice, but not well trained and the company itself don't even try to improve, just care about the profit. I had a plan with up to 250Mbps speed and was having just 100Mbps in practise. When changed to 500Mbps it's now 200Mbps in reality. Virgin Media is just money makers. Total lack of competition.

I have been a customer of Virgin Media for 10 months, using their 250Mb Broadband service.

I (foolishly) decided to upgrade to 1Gb + TV360 ("The Beast Bundle") las Thursday. New router and TV box arrived on Friday. This is when my living hell started.

Before I proceed, it's important to point out that I run a tech company and am extremely experienced in setting up broadband routers and WiFi connections.

I followed the simple instructions to install new router (effectively unplug old router, plugin in new one) and wait "up to 30 minutes".

Hours later, nothing.

I phoned Virgin Media 1908 - I was left holding for 2 hours, without being connected to a customer care agent.

Later, I was directed to their "customer support" (it's a WhatsApp number). Each question/message I posted took (on average) 15-30 minutes for a response.

I asked support why the slow response, only to be told that the support person "was simultaneously working on 6 other support requests"!

Yesterday morning (Saturday), I spent over 5 hours on their useless WhatsApp support trying to get the connection issue resolved. No joy, whatsoever.

WhatsApp support person was next to useless (check for loose cables, etc.). I then establised, via connecting to the router's ip (control panel) that yes indeed, a broadband signal was been fed to it), clearly indicating a faulty router (new, black Hub 2). After some online research, it would appear that many other customers have experienced faulty routers, so I suggested to support person a new router be sent out. No.

I was then told that an engineer visit was required. I asked when would this happen, only to be reminded that "there will be a €50 engineer fee".

I then requested for my existing white router to be re-enabled, until a non-faulty new router would be sent, only to be told that this was not possible, and that my white router "was no longer on their system".

I have no intention of paying for an engineer fee.

I now have no internet connection.

In my 54 years on this planet, I have never, ever, ever experienced such atrocious support from ANY service provider.

I would not recommend Virgin Media to my worst enemy, and rue the day I ever decided to contact them.

32 bad reviews says it all... the biggest tv and braodband provider in ireland and you cant even get the biggest fight of the year on it... you ring up and its the same thing they say 8 months ago its coming soon! But this time one of the reps said he has a loop hole after i went are your really not showing the fight... so he told me to sign up to ufc fight pass and buy the subscription and doing so you get a 30 day trail and one fight card for free... a load of pony he told me just to get me off the phone id say... sort it out virgin 32 bad reviews dont lie

Right were do I start customer service right, ring them up to cancel my account they first claimed I was one day over my 14 day cooling of period when I new I was not so there started the hard sale warning me that my tv and internet was going of and kept refairing back to what I had talked about previously in the early stage of contract could not have said it more clearly I want to cancel it took me all of 1 hour to cancel with theses people god never again 70e for freeview CHANNELS please do not go near these. Hard sale you I would have hated to been an older person and not understood what was been said to me very misleading there customer service and dont no what cancel means. And I all so during the conversation ask to speak to supervisors or managers I was put on hold then came back to me stating all management was in a "meeting" then because he just would not cancel me let me go on my way for second time I ask to speak to management then I got one were his first words was sorry it was a human error I replied wot he went on to say I was sat here listening to the hole thing going and you are with in your 14 day cooling of period. Yes I got right the manager was there all along and told the guy to say he was in a meeting lie after lie then he said look you were not charged anything. Ok but think out loud how many human errors have you done if I was outside by one day of my cooling of period I would have had to paid for a years subscription to break free of contract. Very dangerous water virgin media. I sure your not allowed to do hard sales nor give faults information about management and certainly not about the contract I was on my 14th day today and i did make the comment so someone don't know how to count to 14 well for that reason you have lost a customer and would advise people to be careful of there terms and conditions because they will turn them to there advantage when it suits.

Asked if they would enable VPN on their data side so I could use my work VPN, first person gave me a premium number which I said was wrong and they reassures me they would help me low and behold no they can't and fobbed me off to a different number and I was charged 2. X a minute to be told that, then the other number said I had to get in contact with my i. T. department which I said no it was on the provider side vpn was being blocked and read the script for me again, then I asked for someone technical whomever read the same script to me saying I should get in contact with my i. T. department, I am the head of the i. T. department you fools, I then got in my car drove to a three store and changed networks and wow VPN worked so very surprising, avoid these idots at all costs, scripted rude monkies.