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Originally Posted by smithzert
I quoted broadband L + phone M at £14 a month from http://allyours.virginmedia.com/webs...ervice.do?id=2 after the first 3 months bait price. Can I assume that your £12 a month is calculated from ((£5 x 3 months) + (£14 x 9 months)) / 12 months = £11.75 a month? Because I see no £12 a month on that page. The reason I used the after bait price was because there is no 3 month bait discount for existing customers renewing their term. |
No - I was quoting for BB M customers which no longer appears on the sales website because the product was withdrawn from new sales in February
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I was on £14.50 not £15.50 because I was receiving a £1 discount for ebilling. Yes you are right, they originally tried to double my price to £23, but upon phoning I was offered £18 a month which, after my refusing that, was reduced to £14. I don't quite understand what prices you are quoting, so I will say that my £14 a month is (according to the letter) actually £18 a month - £3 'loyalty' - £1 ebilling, giving £14.
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In that case your original price should have worked out as follows:
BB M £18
Phone £11
Phone/BB Saving -£8
Additional Saving -£5.50
E-billing Discount -£1
=£14.50
The £5.50 discount would have ran out at 12 months and the BB M charge increase to £20 this month which makes BB M £12 (£20 - £8 discount) on top of phone line rental - £2 less than BB L is
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what I should say to them to get this broadband s + phone for £11 a month that you are quoting. I will then use a link to your reply in an email to them to query why I am not allowed on this tariff.
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What I meant is that BB S is £11 ON TOP of the Phone line so £22 a month in total - a whole £1 cheaper the BB M + Phone @ £23
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I get confused by all these anagrams and upstream/downstream so I quoted the figures from http://www.virginmedia.com/help/traffic-management.php verbatim. I just checked again and my figures are correct (according to that virgin traffic management page). As I say, I have no idea what you mean by STM and so on, so I don't know if you are agreeing with me or not. If not, then the virgin page is wrong!
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50% of 2 is 1 (BB M 2Mbit)
75% of 2 is 0.5 (BB S)
So BB S on Subscriber Traffic Managment has less thant BB M 2Mbit
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I wasn't trying for dramatic effect, I was comparing my £14 a month with no phone to the price for xxl with no phone as stated on http://allyours.virginmedia.com/webs...ervice.do?id=2, which is £50. But, you are half right, because I did blank the less prominent £35 a month price. Why do they make the lower price with more features less prominent?! In fact, why do they offer broadband without phone at all, because I assume that even if you wanted some other phone supplier you would/could sign up for the lower bundle price with a virgin phone and just not use it? Or not. 
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Personally I don't know why. Some people just don't want a Virgin phone and prefer to pay more