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Old 13-06-2018, 21:50   #406
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Re: Free V6 box

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£20 is an activation fee for the new service, not a delivery fee:
How many staff hours does pressing the activation button take up ?
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Old 13-06-2018, 22:07   #407
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How many staff hours does pressing the activation button take up ?
Maybe it's like arming nuclear missiles and you need multiple people with unique keys all present . On the other hand it could just be BS terminology for a nice little earner like most telecomm companies, mortgage companies, travel companies etc employ.
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How many staff hours does pressing the activation button take up ?
It's the cost of plucking the boxes from the free STB tree that you all seem to think they grow on. Try buying a 6-tuner UHD PVR on the open market.
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It's the cost of plucking the boxes from the free STB tree that you all seem to think they grow on. Try buying a 6-tuner UHD PVR on the open market.
Hardly 'free' Spider, I've been paying a sub for over 20 years, VM and it's predecessors will have taken 1000s off me ! Even then you still never own the box. Upgrading of equipment should be part of the sub. £20, is a bit cheeky tbh, the customer is already paying and VM 'upgrades' it's charges regularly.
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Hardly 'free' Spider, I've been paying a sub for over 20 years, VM and it's predecessors will have taken 1000s off me ! Even then you still never own the box. Upgrading of equipment should be part of the sub. £20, is a bit cheeky tbh, the customer is already paying and VM 'upgrades' it's charges regularly.
Your subscription fees pay for your services i.e. the TV channels you chosen and our Broadband tier.

You get charged the £20 when you choose to change your services and those new services require new kit. Where Virgin Media require a change of kit for your existing services to continue there is normally no fee.
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Old 14-06-2018, 09:26   #411
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You get charged the £20 when you choose to change your services and those new services require new kit. Where Virgin Media require a change of kit for your existing services to continue there is normally no fee.
Don't see whats so great about that ! If you're renting equipment, it breaks down and your paying a sub, of course VM have to replace the equipment.
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Don't see whats so great about that ! If you're renting equipment, it breaks down and your paying a sub, of course VM have to replace the equipment.
I'm trying to make clear that the £20 fee is charged only when you ask for something to be changed, and that change requires new kit.
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It's the cost of plucking the boxes from the free STB tree that you all seem to think they grow on. Try buying a 6-tuner UHD PVR on the open market.

True but you are not buying the V6 box only renting it.
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Re: Free V6 box

Can I confirm my previous doubts. Unknown to me , by accepting the new free V6 box and installing it myself I was automatically agreeing to a new 18 month contract , although I'd expressed my concerns on this forum before agreeing to accept the box. I assumed someone would have known about this at the time and advised me .
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Can I confirm my previous doubts. Unknown to me , by accepting the new free V6 box and installing it myself I was automatically agreeing to a new 18 month contract , although I'd expressed my concerns on this forum before agreeing to accept the box. I assumed someone would have known about this at the time and advised me .

If you were unsure, wouldn't it have been better for you to ask Virgin, before you accepted and installed the V6 box, if indeed this would tie you to a new contract?
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Re: Free V6 box

If others have said they didn't get put into a new contract then phone them up and get it sorted.
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Re: Free V6 box

I was under the impression that the Free V6 promo earlier in the year was for a limited time and for existing customers. It was a flashy equipment upgrade promo, a final shove to get old equipment off the network and get more people onto equipment that would give them less support calls and decrease customer dissatisfaction as the previous Tivo was too slow. This promo, as I recall, said there was no new contract, and I thought it ended months ago.

The free V6 you get now is just the supplied equipment you get with TV installation to enable you to watch, just the same way I got a "free" Pace box when I first signed up in Telewest days.
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Correct, the free V6 promo ended in April and was for the first V6 in an account.
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Old 09-10-2018, 20:56   #419
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I had my TiVo replaced by a V6 during the promotion and was NOT put on to a new contract. Possibly people who made other changes at the same time as receiving their V6 may have gone on to a new contract.
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Can I confirm my previous doubts. Unknown to me , by accepting the new free V6 box and installing it myself I was automatically agreeing to a new 18 month contract , although I'd expressed my concerns on this forum before agreeing to accept the box. I assumed someone would have known about this at the time and advised me .
Ask them to show you where you signed the new contract, or a recording of when you were verbally informed/agreed to it. Their contracts are irrelevant anyway, nobodies contract lasts 18 months because of the constant price rises making them invalid.
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