Thread: I Paid £100 for V+ Box
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Old 15-05-2008, 15:39   #12
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Re: I Paid £100 for V+ Box
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Originally Posted by SEB_WW View Post
Hang on, I thought V+ was £75 to install and monthly charges free for XL and £5 for M and L. it says so here:

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...ers/vplus.html

So what's all this £100 service charge to save monthly costs all about?
What the original poster is referring to is something that was introduced way before the £75 offer. It happened around the time Sky dropped the £10 for Sky+.

They changed the way you pay for the V+. Instead of paying £10 a month to rent the box and a £25 installation fee (free is you transferred your standard STB to another room), you pay an upfront charge of £100 (for existing customers) and never pay monthly rental again.

I think you can still choose to pay monthly if you so wish, and those who got a V+/TVDrive before this was introduced can pay the one-off fee so they don't have to pay the monthly rental charge.

^^This was the situation on the XL package - not sure about L & M but they originally had to pay £15 a month.

Those on the VIP package still pay monthly rental (hence why the installation/service fee is considerably less for them), but that is absorbed by the discount given for the package
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