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Haha quality, try and get onto Sky Talk landline too! Saves a quid a month, but most importantly, it frees you of BT.

For £8.99 a month line rental, go to Toucan.

Sorted lol

Yeah, BT are absolute ..., believe me!!

Hate the fookers with a passion, almost as much as NTL!

Sky are by no means perfect... but compared to BT and NTL they look like saints!!

Cheque Arrived this morning
Will pop it in the bank "Monday" and at a guess be cleared on "Friday"

So a rough guess, seeing that i paid my bill on the 15th
of every month, and my contract canceled on the 15th,
that means they kept my money in there coffers for 2 weeks extra.

And also since Virgin took over my name has gained an extra
letter in it. Lets hope its not going to effect this check
as it also has the extra letter in my name so it looks like
i have a middle name?

Should be able to blag it

They Turned up for my Box today
I told him it was in the BIN, as i had been told that i could.
But i hadn't thrown it in the bin.

After a Bit of slagging off Virgin, as yu do. ( I do now lol)
The Guy said that virgin are Charging Peeps £250 for
none returned boxes. So i went into one saying it should
have been picked up in early jan.

Anyway, i really couldn't be arsed with virgin and gave
him the box as it was useless to me.

And got a receipt.

So even though i had left them they still tried to screw me.

Moral of the story.
Unless you have Evidence to Bin the Box for them not turning up.
Be prepared for the debt to be sold on and a whole load of problems.

cheeky sod how bad that charging that much for set top box

Thats disgusting. Since Richard Branston Pickle took over NTL its been shite.. I cant wait untill i get rid of it..

So the moral as i say lee, hang on to your box
even though you dont want too.

Until you have somthing in writing.
But a month late, and the guy said the other visits he's done
and there siging the same tune.

NO ENGINEER TURNED UP. NO CARD THROUGH THE DOOR !!

An engineer can be needed to disconnect the service.
I done mine my self.

Yer its dead easy.. What cracks me up mate is when they sent out the NEW modem cause they are to lazy to send out engineers to do it for you. It tooke me seconds to be online with the new modem.. Virgin is the worst company ever..

I'm amazed there not on Watch Dog more?

Cheeky barstard, the chipped cable boxes are only a ton, so how can they value them at £250

Need to point out that Branson, somewhat to his credit, never actually "took over" NTL Telewest, he recieved 5.00% of the company in share's as a result of the sale of Virgin Mobile to NTL a few years back.

As a shareholder and a good businessman, he proposed a way to integrate both NTL and Telewest network's, as well as to create a unified brand and move away from the somewhat damaged NTL and Telewest brand's, would be for him to lease the Virgin brand (he fully own's the Virgin brand, but actually own's very few of the companies that operate under it nowadays) to the company for a period of 30 year's, and hopefully this would increase profit's etc...

Im not 100% sure if he take's a license payment for the lease of the brand or not, but he doesnt actually "own" Virgin Media, just like he has nothing to do with the like's of Virgin EMI or the former Virgin Megastores etc...

Oh yeahm and as for £250.00 for the box... cheeky fookin Grrrs

was with them three months and politely told them to jog on, customer service was shit,bband not much better, and calls cost a fortune, best thing i did was give bt 25 a month for total bb option 3 with 25pc discount on calls, as for the virgin box i took it clay pigeon shooting with me and my bro, we had a good day thye box did not

Cheeky Sods part 2

I also got my mum the sky deal i have.
So we cancelled at the same time.

She didn't have a problem with the collection of the box.
How ever they called back a week later for the modem.

How ever.

£18 charged for a Service she doesn't have.

So on the phone, to billing and then cancellation.
The cheeky sods.
Account is being credited before the £18 is removed.

When "I" cancelled for my mum, they did not cancel the modem,
but how strange they collected it?

SCAM SCAM SCAM

Even if i fell out with SKY i wouldn't return to virgin ever again.