SD : TV price rises

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

If other members are paying £3.00 there something wrong.

A view-point I'm sure you wouldn't have if you were one of those paying the £3 and not the £5

(Wouldn't we all!)

[tricol]

Didn't some VM customers get free Tivo for life if they were in the pre-launch test/focus group ? You were one of them as I recall Carl ?

[Chad]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

So no actual answers then. Fair enough

I don’t like to talk about my job in forums however since your pushing I’ll elaborate. I work as a paralegal for a solicitors firm in Edinburgh. Contract disputes are my specialty. Day in, day out I’m providing advice, help and support to people our firm represent who have an issue with a supplier or service provider be it the Council, their bank, a finance company, mobile phone provider…. I think you get the just.

Anyway, as you can imagine, people always want to know if and when they have the right to cancel their contract or an agreement if they are in dispute. One of the most common grievances is price increases, or not being notified of them, or not agreeing to them. If you go through the history of this forum, you’ll tend to find whenever Virgin announce a price increase or a change of contract I’m always all over it to see what options customers have under their terms and conditions. Ben to his credit always comes up with the information.

So in terms of me saying “This is becoming more and more disgusting. It’s total robbery.” I feel I have plenty of experience to be making such a bold statement. From my day to day work and the fact I’m a Virgin customer, I’ve got to say the price increases over a 10 month period from Virgin are incredibly high for the service they provide.

Hope that helps to quantify my anti Virgin outbursts

[Gavin-D]

Here is the list of the price rise / hike



Line rental is going up by £1.09 from £13.90 per month to £14.99 per month which is a rise of 3.4 per cent.

You are entitled to cancel your package with Virgin Media without charge as long as you contact them within 30 days of receiving a letter or e-mail depending on which arrives first.

[tricol]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

You are entitled to cancel your package with Virgin Media without charge as long as you contact them within 30 days of receiving a letter or e-mail depending on which arrives first.

or within 30 days of receiving the first new (higher) bill if I recall BenMcR post correctly.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

No there isn't - some early adopters of TiVo currently pay £3 either per account or £3 per box

Yes, it sometimes pays to be an early adopter. I got got both of my Tivos ASAP after they were available and pay just £3 p/m in total for them both.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chad

I don’t like to talk about my job in forums however since your pushing I’ll elaborate. I work as a paralegal for a solicitors firm in Edinburgh. Contract disputes are my specialty. Day in, day out I’m providing advice, help and support to people our firm represent who have an issue with a supplier or service provider be it the Council, their bank, a finance company, mobile phone provider…. I think you get the just.

Anyway, as you can imagine, people always want to know if and when they have the right to cancel their contract or an agreement if they are in dispute. One of the most common grievances is price increases, or not being notified of them, or not agreeing to them. If you go through the history of this forum, you’ll tend to find whenever Virgin announce a price increase or a change of contract I’m always all over it to see what options customers have under their terms and conditions. Ben to his credit always comes up with the information.

So in terms of me saying “This is becoming more and more disgusting. It’s total robbery.� I feel I have plenty of experience to be making such a bold statement. From my day to day work and the fact I’m a Virgin customer, I’ve got to say the price increases over a 10 month period from Virgin are incredibly high for the service they provide.

Hope that helps to quantify my anti Virgin outbursts

l for one understand your and other customers grievances totally and we all have every right to air our opinions whether its good or bad and if some members don't like that then its their problem.

[howardmicks]

Just Had my letter £5.95 increase,Robbing gits !!!!!!!!!!!!

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by tricol

Didn't some VM customers get free Tivo for life if they were in the pre-launch test/focus group ? You were one of them as I recall Carl ?

Then you recall incorrectly.

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Originally Posted by Chad

So in terms of me saying “This is becoming more and more disgusting. It’s total robbery.� I feel I have plenty of experience to be making such a bold statement.

You mention a load of experience in getting people out of contracts. Which is fine, but it doesn't speak at all as to whether something is "robbery" or not.

I would assume that, like anyone else's, VM's costs rise. Sometimes they swallow them; sometimes they don't.

Hope that helps to quantify my anti Virgin outbursts

Not so much, no

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Originally Posted by denphone

l for one understand your and other customers grievances totally and we all have every right to air our opinions whether its good or bad and if some members don't like that then its their problem.

Of course no-one's ever said otherwise.

[Dave42]

£6.84 for vip that's robbery with nothing new oh well bye bye VM

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Dave42

£6.84 for vip that's robbery with nothing new oh well bye bye VM

One expects the same price rise for me as l am on the VIP package.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

Not so much, no

Oh well then, at least I tried.

As for the robbery stuff, that's pretty much my own take on things. If people don't thing they are being robbed, then fair enough. Personally I think Dick Turpin is alive and well, sending letters and e-mails to Virgin customers informing them of yet another price increase Some of that is tongue-in-cheek of course, Dick Turpin was illiterate.

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Originally Posted by denphone

One expects the same price rise for me as l am on the VIP package.

What increases have you had so far in 2012, to go along with your pending £6.84?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chad

Oh well then, at least I tried.

As for the robbery stuff, that's pretty much my own take on things. If people don't thing they are being robbed, then fair enough. Personally I think Dick Turpin is alive and well, sending letters and e-mails to Virgin customers informing them of yet another price increase Some of that is tongue-in-cheek of course, Dick Turpin was illiterate.

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What increases have you had so far in 2012, to go along with your pending £6.84?

l had the Sky premiums rise plus a £2 or £3 rise in April and now this as well so it works out at around £13 per month price rise multiplied by 12 working out at £156 for a year.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Dave42

£6.84 for vip that's robbery with nothing new oh well bye bye VM

And we're will that be too Dave seeing as you like your sport in HD , VM's HD offering smashes BT's currently.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

And we're will that be too Dave seeing as you like your sport in HD , VM's HD offering smashes BT's currently.

probably have to do with freeview MM mate as sky would cost lot more on tv side for what I got and that with only 1 recordable box instead of the 2 I got now I did check couple weeks ago what cost would be on there