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CardinalFang · 19-03-2008, 22:36

just a little aside, lots of talk about the veracity of virgin's T&Cs, eg:

...Yes I'm sure Virgin Media et al have paid some very expensive solicitors to write their terms and conditions...

it must be about 5/6 years ago now when I was working for ntl, and virgin net (as it was was then) was quite new. Virgin's "very expensive solicitors" didn't bother writing their T&Cs themselves, they used the good old sheep mentality and plagiarised the T&Cs from Pipex, mostly verbatim and omitting to remove one of the actual instances of "Pipex Internet" !! LoL.

didn't take them long to remove it but don't make the automatic assumption that just because they're a big company their T&Cs are 100% watertight and professional. not to mention that even if the T&Cs explicitly stated there was no service level whatsoever that wouldn't protect them from basic consumer rights legislation.

19-03-2008, 22:36	#75
CardinalFang Inactive Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 7	Re: Legal Action Against Virgin Media just a little aside, lots of talk about the veracity of virgin's T&Cs, eg: ...Yes I'm sure Virgin Media et al have paid some very expensive solicitors to write their terms and conditions... it must be about 5/6 years ago now when I was working for ntl, and virgin net (as it was was then) was quite new. Virgin's "very expensive solicitors" didn't bother writing their T&Cs themselves, they used the good old sheep mentality and plagiarised the T&Cs from Pipex, mostly verbatim and omitting to remove one of the actual instances of "Pipex Internet" !! LoL. didn't take them long to remove it but don't make the automatic assumption that just because they're a big company their T&Cs are 100% watertight and professional. not to mention that even if the T&Cs explicitly stated there was no service level whatsoever that wouldn't protect them from basic consumer rights legislation.