Same thing about every provider to be fair. Don't think there's a perfect one out there.

You forgot the £100k+ to move to a cabled area! :stuck_out_tongue:

My father in law and son both have it and complain of disconnections and slow speeds.....

I was talking with ee on Friday about a phone upgrade. They could offer unlimited Internet using their newly acquired BT network and line rental for £18/mth. There were some free weekend calls but can't remember. He said that he would give me 10gb 4g data for my mobile for free. Might be worth giving them a call if you are an ee customer

You forgot the £100k+ to move to a cabled area! :stuck_out_tongue:

Add code VMBRVOU50 for £50 credit. I'm thinking of leaving PlusNet for this but wouldn't want to have to pay BT a new line activation fee if i was to go back to them in 12 months time when this offer expires

I've heard nothing but bad reports about Virgin................

My father in law and son both have it and complain of disconnections and slow speeds.....

I was talking with ee on Friday about a phone upgrade. They could offer unlimited Internet using their newly acquired BT network and line rental for £18/mth. There were some free weekend calls but can't remember. He said that he would give me 10gb 4g data for my mobile for free. Might be worth giving them a call if you are an ee customer

Their service is excellent but the prices have crept up slowly and am now paying £25.50 where i was originally paying £17.50.
Tried to haggle a bit but they weren't interested so i gave my 30 days notice.

save more with line rental savor option.

this guy needs a medal - best find ever - went in to store today offered me same thing but for six months - got the deal for 12 months on a 12 months contract - loving it

haters leave it alone

got this deal few months ago, I moved from sky they increased line rental and didn't bother to offer me a better deal.

There's also a £9.99 activation fee that needs to be factored/stated in post.

you need to ring virgin a day or 2 after the installation, asking to pay your line rental upfront

With sky at the moment and need to cancel as price has increased and are not budging. I had unlimited broadband and anytime calls, Virgin charge an additional £8 :disappointed:

possible £63 casback if you go via TCB first...

Doubt it..but worth a try.

I was thinking of getting a decent mobile internet deal with tethering and cancelling home broadband altogether.
Pointless paying for both.. I only do browsing nowadays. (No movies etc)

then once any deals are finished the prices go sky high. ive just left them as they so expensive and they didn't offer me Amy deals to stay

Does anyone know if this includes the new super hub 3? Or will they just send out the old 2

Was a long time customer with them and asked about this deal when it was originally posted in January. Was told they could match some of it but they would not match the £50 credit that was being offered for new customers so I gave my notice. They didnt bother at all during the notice period to contact me.

However I signed up after giving notice in the other half's name- same surname. I took the deal and they applied the £50 credit to that account. I have been connected for a month now and am paying £5 for the broadband as I paid the line saver , but as a bit of warning did it after i had been connected a few days. So there is a slight mismatch in the contract dates. However after factoring in the credit it worked out as £16.17 per month for phone and line rental compared to £28.50 which they were charging for simple boradband under my contract.

Yes it is the new superhub 3- nothing spectactularly different about this compared to the old superhub 2 in my opinion.

Cheers, I was under the impression online orders still et the hub 2 as they don't picture the new one.

I would be happy with virgin media if it was fast 24/7!! I know all areas are different but mines only fast during the day / early hours, anything after 6 on a evening and weekends you really notice the drop.

i have virgin fibre optic 50mbps and most of the time i get that speed.
It used to suffer from slowdown but that was due to the hub being in a corner behind the sofa. Keep it in an open enough area and you shouldn't suffer slowdown. I did get angry even they increased the monthly price by £1.50 just 4 months into my contract! A quick call sorted that out!

Sorry but very cold from me ,no to anything from these.

Looks like a good deal, shame the upload speed is so slow @3Mbps with traffic management reducing that by up to 65%

For most people this is a pretty sweet deal

Question please guys: I am with Sky deal that expires in JULY.....it was a deal from MSE that gave bill credit / free broadband; effectively meaning it is very cheap each month.....

Can I take up this Virgin deal, and have it alongside the 'free' sky deal until July.....or is my BT / sky telephone line taken over by Virgin as the new provider?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for random question!

Virgin are dodgy though man; they're that bad that I record all of my telephone calls with them, especially after I caught them on recording telling me that they would give me a better price if I didn't leave with no additional contract. I was out of contract at the time.

I knew I was recording so i made sure I asked them like 10 times (multiple different people within the department) on recording if they were sure that they were not going to try and tie me in to another contract to give me a better price.

They swore I had nothing to worry about and that they were simply reducing the price as I was a long standing customer that had never missed a bill. A few months later I decided f**kit im leaving anyway as they kept doing work on the network in my neighbourhood, so I phoned them up and told them to come and get their kit as I'm leaving.

They were like but you're in contract sir, so you will have to settle that first. They were like you took out a new contract not so long ago and I was like BS, they were like theirs nothing on our system about any special discount or price reduction. :smile:

Anyway, I obviously escalated it up the ladder, forwarded over the recording, got an apology and ended up with a better price. I hate to think of how many people have had one over on them thanks to their scamming deceitful sales team.

Just think of all those people who thought they were managing their contracts and bills correctly only to have some scheming little sales team bas***d mess them up, get them in bad credit, get them black listed and what not.

I personally hate Virgin, I only use them as they're one of the better of all evils in my neighbourhood.

Exactly the same thing happened to me. Virgin media are devious and conniving.

Thank you OP

Thank you for your reply, so I could sign up to this deal now and not risk an early termination charge from Sky?

Yep same here too," 14 days passed sir, nothing saying here about discount" when a standard bill come through....Thieves !!! BEWARE...

Good advice mate. Twice I've been promised something on the phone and then they've not delivered what was agreed.
Wish I'd had a recording. Never rely on the fact that VM record the calls as in a dispute they can never seem to be able to retrieve the recording.
Latest scam was I recontracted in December and checked numerous times that I would still be able to get the free upgrade from 50mb to 70mb. Once the ink had dried I found I couldn't get the upgrade because I'd recontracted......
Sneaky barstools.

About time trading standards investigated VM.

Ah thank you for your reply.....I am actually paying nothing for line rental or broadband, due to the "credit" that was put on my account via the MSE deal last year.....so it would be the free sky alongside the virgin deal (I would then just give notice to sky in June to leave in July when it ceases to be free)

Yes. They're two different types of boradband. They have nothing to do with each other. Virgin broadband comes down the TV cable, whereas every other companies' uses the telephone line method. If you were going from Sky to any other company, bar Virgin, then yes you would need to hand in your notice and request a MAC code. But again because Virgin is different you can have their's and a telephone line based BB at the same time. I have 50Mb/s Virgin BB without a phoneline for £23.50pm.

Cool. Your choice of course but I'd just take a quick look down these search results before I went jumping into anything too soon persoanlly. You'll see how regularly this gets posted, which is pretty much every month or two. Again if you do wish to order today, then the delaying the install tactic is another good weapon which should work at least a couple of times.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/search?action=search&keywords=virgin+broadband&page=2

Had lots of problems with Virgin in the past but got offered a better deal recently so stayed with them. Last 6 months or more everything has been very stable, getting slightly higher than the speed we are paying for a lot of the time and never more than 5% less (between 190-210 on the VIVID 200mb) . Also not had any real connection issues, 2-3 disconnects in the last 6 months and those were all fixed within 30 seconds or a router reset.

Vivid 200mb fibre broadband only price is shocking! I don't need tv or phone and unfortunately sky isn't providing fibre in our new home postcode, and although I'm not contracted anymore I don't want to cancel as until the next few months I'm sky fee free thanks to previous bill credit offer plus 60% off everything.

What I don't understand is if they are able to provide them speeds (200mb) why not cut the bs and get rid of the 50, 100mb lower speed tariffs completely and instead implement pricing for 6,9,12 month etc contracts. But I suppose in the end something's are only worth what people are willing to accept and pay for it.

​i ordered this last time they ran the offer and I got the new hub

how and where I can add the 50 quid credit code?

In my previous house I was with virgin. For internet I found them to be excellent (they even have a free usenet service), they're not as competitive with their phone calls however

I'm with vm gave them a ring and got 70mb broadband super hub 2 delivered basic tv free weekend calls £33 for 6 months then £36 for 12 months get yrself a kodi box for movies tv shows and sports, no buffering with 70mb

Can you use 18185 fit calls? Back when it was Blueyonder the call charges were eye watering, I expect it's the same with Virgin.

Sad that VM fibre optic isn't available in my area but still heat for this deal!

might go with this as sky are not offering me anything

Nice one. Must start recording calls myself but isn't that illegal or something?

I prefer Snickers.

Recording calls is perfectly legal as long as one party to the conversation is aware (most likely you). Illegal to record other people's conversations when neither are aware (if you snooping on 2 other people for example).

Recording calls is perfectly legal as long as one party to the conversation is aware (most likely you). Illegal to record other people's conversations when neither are aware (if you snooping on 2 other people for example).

I love HUKD. This deal got -37 when it was posted 2 months ago lol

Everybody was probably still in contract and were upset that other people were getting this deal.
They're probably out of contract now.. :stuck_out_tongue:

any way around the engineer installation fee as my phone line is not installed?

100meg i think

Just broadband

Is this for new customers only?

VM kept creeping their prices up so I am currently in my notice period (hopefully they don't call my bluff lol). This is a similar deal I was 4 years ago. I would like to stay.

I think i have no choice but to ring them and beg for them to have me back..lol

The price i am currently paying is still better than any comparative deal out there.( That i can find anyway)

The landline is useless to me and i will be going from 100mbps to 50mbps on this deal.

Bottom line.. Is a potential saving of £5.84 per month worth me dropping from 100mbps to 50mbps?

I currently pay £13.59 for this deal

That's really good. How did you manage that? That's sound perfect for what I am after.

The customer is within their rights to record the call, for their own use, when ringing companies such as Virgin Media. They're also under no obligation to inform the representitive of the organisation whom they've speaking with, that they're recording the call.

They must not however make a third party privy to the contents of the recording, such as a friend or family member, without prior consent of the individual or organisation (as this goes beyone "own use"). Playing the recording to the line manager of the representitive is acceptable as they're not deemed a third party.

http://www.businesssystemsuk.co.uk/is-call-recording-legal

For a year I'll cope lol

I thought the same but you still qualify for an increase even though you are contracted to your amount for 12 months. You will see. Happened to me

Paid a year line rental in advance. You can do it by calling the sales team 24 hours after placing your online order.

I was already on £25.50 month for 100meg anyway.
After trying to haggle with them for a price drop they left me with no choice but to call their bluff and i handed them my 30 days notice.
I couldn't find any comparative deal anywhere, lo and behold the loyalty department called me .
After about 15 mins begging her i managed to get £24 month for 100meg.

I couldn't even drop to a slower speed because i would have lost my loyalty discount which made it more expensive than my current deal.

Anyone want a referral for an extra £50 off? This will take away the cost of installation.

Surely you can't use a referral code and new customer code?

Gutted. I was on 50 mb with a landline (compulsory) for about £22 then over 4 years with increases and then me threatening to leave I managed to get to £25 for about 2 of the 4 years. Recently they tried it again with the increase and it is at £27.99 for the same and they will go back down to £25 but I wanted more off and they called my bluff lol.

So I am in my notice period until 1st April and I haven't heard back. The deal you have is spot on for what I need as I only use BB. Do you think I should grovel my way back? lol.

What if say you pay it in advance to lower the cost but later decide to increase the cost of the package by £3 a month? Where does that leave you? Are you tied into the duration?

I wasn't expecting a callback either but i think what might have done it is that i went onto their chat and inquired about any deals they could do for me to stay with them. They offered me some crappy standard deals, so i said I'll have to start looking around and ended chat.
Shortly after i received the call from the loyalty department.

If you do try this make sure you are signed into your virgin media on pc so they know who it is

Sound. I will have a bash at that then. Did they ring you on your mobile? I never use the home phone, probably why I haven't heard back from them.

Cheers.

So essentially £100 off your bill?

They can't increase your line rental, and the £5 cost is in the agreement for 12 months. If they try and bump it up during that time, tell them to go **** themselves, as they are changing the terms of their agreement.

Yeah, it takes £50 off your first bill so essentially you are in credit with them. I got £50 off as a new customer and £50 from being referred by a friend so I'm £90.01 in credit (as £9.99 install few was taken).

This pretty much pays for the whole tariff. DM me for a referral.

Might still be able to get it off. DM me your email address and phone them and explain. They should still award it.

Credit to techsearchuk - Add code VMBRVOU50 for £50 credit.

Pretty sure it was me who posted that code on HUKD :stuck_out_tongue:

Existing customer, I called up to cancel seems like I have no luck, the guy said fine, not even bothered to offer me anything.

Is there a script people use as I never seem to get these offers. I have cancelled my VM, lets see what happens.

Referral code anyone?:sunglasses:

Thanks for sharing, just ordered with the £50 credit.

Also tried going through TCB back wouldn't save the deal to the basket. Kept changing to £9 per month + Line rental. Will submit a ticket separately and try coop the £30 cash back.

Referral code anyone? thanks

Does anyone know if there's a way to get an earlier install date ? Mine is like 5 weeks away.. which is bad : (

voucher code doesn't seem to work for me - anyone have any other code or a way to get any more credit on the account before i sign up tonight

A friend referred me and I was offered 50mb broadband, anytime Phone, and tv including phone line rental 16.99 a month for 9 months and then 32.99 a month. 12 month contract

nice lucky you only showing £50 each at the moment

checked online with agent code is expired now

oh well looks like i missed that deal then - ill have to keep a closer look out in future

Anyone got a referral code you can PM me?

£50 online sign up credit, £50 friend refferal, £60 cashback tracked through quidco plus free 70mb speed boost - £22.99pm for 12months Bargain!!!

The same way as stated by the OP plus was given refferal thanks to Mr Murphy.
The free speed boost will be rolling out nationally throughout this year to every VM customer. I just called VM saying this is what I was offered upon signing up and I will instead cancel before the install and switch to sky instead if the incentives are not added, called their bluff and they added it :smirk:

Anyone have a referral code? It would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Would you mind answering a couple of questions as I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get a deal like yours?

First of all, I can't seem to get Quidco to play ball because if I choose uSwitch as the vendor I get offered £21 cash back, but if I choose Virgin Media the website obviously doesn't show the £5 unless you go through uSwitch first. How did you manage to get this to track?

Secondly, I've got an email from Virgin after a friend referred me. There's no code as such, just a link to their packages to buy one and then apparently the £50 credit will be applied to both accounts after I pay my first bill. Again, the £5 uSwitch deal isn't listed because the email takes you straight to the Virgin Media website, where the same package is £9 a month. I tried speaking to one of the customer service people on chat but she refused to add the offer because I had gone through a uSwitch link, rather than one of the offers listed on their website.

How did you mange to combine all these offers? I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall already with Virgin and I haven't even signed up yet.

you have to call on the phone and ask for the uswitch deal and ask them to apply the refer a friend discount:)

Go through to cashback and leave that tab open.

Click on the refer a friend link and leave that tab open

Finally the uswitch link and put the new customer code in and complete order.

You will get the two £50 discounts for definite because it shows on the screen.

Not sure about the top cashback

New customer code has expired

If anyone would like a refers code please let me know we both get £50 credited to out bills :smiley:

I received a £50 credit code an hour after I went through the checkout process without finalising or making the purchase!

You must have covered a years cost by now..don't be greedy :stuck_out_tongue:

If one takes any VM offer, can one definitely keep their landline number (moving from Sky)?

Edit: Found out via their online Chat feature that it should be ok.

I don't think I have actually! But I have been pretty helpful :wink:

I would like a referral code but don't have enough credit to send a PM.

It's the wild wild west round these parts :laughing:

Just moved home and shop for broadband at the moment. Would really appreciate a referral code since the new customer code no longer works. Many thanks in advance.

I would also appreciate a referral code - many thanks.

@djdope, can't reply, "User does not have private messaging enabled."

Sorry not had chance to reply sooner but adamwilko007 is correct. Just complete the sign up through quidco-virgin media, once you've signed up and received confirmation just give VM a call and state you joined based on this offer.

Got mine installed today two days after booking. It is brilliant and the engineer was very friendly

promo code doesn't work

Would also be grateful for a referral code. Thanks in advance!

Just ordered online through quidco using referral link. The £50 credit has shown on the order webpage but quidco did not track. Anyway does not really count on quidco after using the discount. Many thanks again to OP!

Btw, received a confirmation email saying the delivery date is 30/04/2016 though I requested 30/03/2016. Had to call customer service to change back the date, apparently a careless mistake on their side... So better check the date on your confirmation email, everyone.

Virgin broadband if you are in the right area has no equal. I live right next to the exchange in my street and the 200mb just flows

Is it really that bad?

Thanks for the codes! Is there an installation charge if you go through this route?

I'm afraid so.
It's probably been happening since day one but only just noticed because I've started using the internet a lot during peak periods.

Luckily... I'm out of contract.I've given my notice in for the second time after being talked into staying a week back.
Although I was on a decent retention deal(£24 100meg) i decided it wasn't worth it because I never saw those speeds in real world use.

Does any one have a referral code that I can use?
Thanks in advance!

Remember you can pay the years line rental all at once saving another £32ish

hi

I'm also looking for a referral.

I'm also after a referral code if anybody has one?

If anyone kind enough to share a referral code with me too pls. Thanks