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Well looks like another service is being taken off our broadband plus bundle...

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR ACCOUNT

Dear customer,

We are writing to inform you that the service we offer will no longer be in partnership with
Virgin Media. Nothing will change and you can still log in with your current details as below:

Your log-in details: ****

From now on please log in on www.photobox.co.uk

We will no longer be offering the Virgin monthly offer of 15 free prints. To compensate that and as a gift for you carrying on using our service we're offering you a free Minibook (worth £5.99).

Just log-in to your account, create a Minibook, add it to your basket and enter the offer code ** at the checkout to claim your free gift! (Offer is valid until 3rd April 2009, terms apply).


So less service, more expensive service..

I need say no more about it, beacuse this is why I went for 10meg for the plus services.. but as you can see, Virgin have yet again made sure they get more money from us for less..

How do you feel about this?

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Here is what Virgin have to say about it.

All change!
We've retired our Broadband Extras service so it's no longer available. If you want to find out what's happened to individual Broadband Extras services check out www.virginmedia.com/broadbandextras/faq

My Stuff* our exciting new service which is free to all new and existing customers on Broadband Size: M and above will be along shortly. It lets you:

Securely backup your files, photos, video and music online
share stuff with your friends and family
order photo prints for FREE**
* Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy apply
** Free photo prints for the first 12 months

Here is a link that tels you Broadband Extras is no more as well. http://www.virginmedia.com/broadbandextras/

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Yes there is a whole new service called V Stuff coming shortly that will offer better services than the original package did.

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I upgraded to 10meg despite the fact that I don't even need it because ... it was free for a month.

At the end of that month, I couldn't be arsked to revert. But a couple of weeks later I thought "I'm paying for Extras, might as well have a squint". One squint later, it was clear that it was vastly overhyped. But there were a few point & click freebie games that provided a pleasant distraction for me & the mrs (not "proper" gamers).

Now that is gone. Replaced with:

"In ‘Play Video Games’, Metaboli has more than 320 great PC games to choose from. The ‘Essential Collection’ offers more than 200 games to download and play every, and costs only £6.95 a month. Plus, if you sign up, we’ll give you the first month free! Just use the code VMGAMES30 at the checkout."

Wow! :shocked: A one-off worth (cue drum roll) seven whole English pounds!

:rolleyes:

So, to answer your question in one word -- shafted.

To answer it in several words, I feel pretty much the same as I did when Sky1 went.

Me: "So, Sky1's gone, will the price drop or will I get something else?"
Rep: "We're giving you great different stuff instead."
Me: "Such as?"
Rep: "Err ... Hallmark?"
Me: "Jeepers, I can hardly contain myself. Anything else?"
Rep: "Yeah, this amazing new Virgin Central thingy."
Me: "That's available on analog, right?"
Rep: "Err ... no."

To be honest, I did then get a one-off £25 discount. And now I have a Vbox, I'm quite into Monk. But generally speaking, the more things change ... the worse they get.

Thanks for asking tho'. :)

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Your name is better but its actually called My Stuff with online storage and another photo service plus other stuff.

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Isn't there enough free online storage knocking around to the point of (that part of) VM's service being worthless?

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Its a free service that will be included in all packages except for the new S tier and customers will use it for convenience as the is no requirement to register on another site.

Is it any good? you say well we will have to wait and see.

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Still it's always nice to get these things on-net.

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This is aimed at mr and mrs average who want to do this the easy way, we all know the are many easier ways to do this, including purchasing external hard drives and using one of the many free providers, we can do this but they usually cannot or will not, so a free service provided by their service provider is what they will prefer.

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Sorry, what's S tier? :confused: Is it cheap? :D

Actually I don't. I say "is it worth anything given that free online storage is widely available?"

Thanks for your comments. :)

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S tier info http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34758025-post2.html

I know what you mean but they are the target customers.;)

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Thanks, saw the other thread (title) after I posted. :)

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Erm, with an upload rate of 512kbps or less when stm'd on broadband L, the online storage is practically useless. It would take a day or two to upload anything other than pictures to it, and I suspect VM realise this. Hence it being offered. They offer us something that they know won't be used much, therefore don't have too invest too much into it.

External HDD's are a better option.

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No the name will be V stuff

not everyone is tech savy so an online storage will be great for some and not needed for others.
Online photos I suspect will be used for the free photos and then neglected still its something for nothing.
To be honest if the take up of V stuff has 10 times the usage base of the old bb extras it will still not be 10% of the userbase.

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I have no idea why you think it is going to be called V Stuff when even the website says MY Stuff just click this link http://www.virginmedia.com/broadbandextras/
which takes you to this page below.

My Stuff* our exciting new service which is free to all new and existing customers on Broadband Size: M and above will be along shortly. It lets you:

• Securely backup your files, photos, video and music online
• share stuff with your friends and family
• order photo prints for FREE**

* Terms and Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy apply
** Free photo prints for the first 12 months

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Because you only have access to the external site while I have access to the internal intranet

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Yep my contact at VM told me they have changed the name to V-Stuff. Hope its as good as he says it is.

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You go off for a week and they change things, I have been updated by a colleague as to the new name.

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I`d never had such a hassle free logon to my photobox account prior to getting the "direct link" email.
Anytime i tried to use the previous Virgin Portal to get into PB i`d usually always have some faffing about to do.It`s about the only one of the BB+/Extras i ever really used over the years but we`ll see what the new My V Stuffs like i suppose.:)

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I got email from VM on 13th Feb, telling me this was going to happen on 16th March. I assume I'm not alone.

I've no idea whether V Stuff will be any good or not, but at least some of us were told in advance about it.

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The new V Stuff looks really cool, especially if you subscribe to BB Size L or above...

M and L Broadband customers get 5Gb of online storage with auto backup and 25 free photo prints per month.

XL Broadband customers get 10Gb of online storage with auto backup and 50 free photo prints per month.

XXL Broadband customers get unlimited online storage with auto backup and 100 free photo prints per month.

These are quoted as what Virgin may launch with and are subject to change (The name has already changed from My Stuff to V Stuff at the last minute!)

On top of that is the new PC Guard service (powered by Kaspersky). M customers will get PC Guard basic, whereas customers on size L and above get PC Guard total. Makes it a bit more appealing having such a huge security name behind you!

Also some pretty exciting stuff about "@virginmedia.com" email addresses on the way as well as new webspace options!

Good times to be a Broadband customer methinks.

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Well it was mentioned today internally that they have changed the name. Thats how I know it will be called V Stuff.;)

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New stuff,including,for all you toolbar fans out there...

http://www.virginmedia.com/customers/toolbar/index.php

If you have room for any more that is:)

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Whoop-dee-doo. I'm paying for 20Mb broadband and getting ... wait for it ... 500Kb. But hey, I get free photos!

Virgin need to sort out the fact that they can't supply broadband before they sort out any "extras".

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That toolbar is old though ;)

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I totally agree..

I use online storage for my photos anyway, but as you pointed out, upload is shecht, and I always get frustrated when it takes well over an hour to upload all the raw files I need to use.

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It's all very well VM offering the new on-line storage with more capacity but as some of us have experienced the past few weeks when you suddenly cannot get into your storage no-one appears to be able to sort the problem out. I would now be very wary of using VM disk space for anything but the most trivial of data.