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Old 23-06-2008, 20:22   #28
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Re: Moved house, can't get Virgin, but they won't let me terminate contact

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Originally Posted by Incognitas View Post
You know sometimes people have to move house because the company has moved to another part of the country and they have to move so as to keep their job.Sometimes people have to move because they have a family tragedy and cannot afford to continue living in the same house or the council/housing association have found them a home after years of being on the waiting list.People split up as well and this usually means someone has to move home...

Penalising folk because of situations beyond their control hardly seems fair and it certainly does not smack of good customer relations.
I agree - but more to the point, it definitely isn't VM's fault.

A customer signs and agrees to a 12 month minimum term contract for a service. The minimum term just means if you do need to cancel before the term is up you have to pay the remainder of the 12 months. If they let some people off for circumstances which aren't within your control then why not let someone off when they just choose to move?

Or are we suggesting people don't read the terms or sign (an indication of agreeing) without agreeing to them?

I'm all for people righting wrongs where the company they are with is at fault, but I don't see the point here, when ordering VM a client agrees to a 12 month minimum contract and not honouring that is a tort, so they are allowed to get compensation for the remainder of the term. It is illegal for that to be charged as a penalty so they just reclaim the charges they are entitled to because the customer failed to honour the deal.

Plus there is, as has been said, always ADSL.
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