I Paid £100 for V+ Box

[alnmoore]

Hi had my V+ box installed a while ago and then was offered the chance to pay £100 for it and pay less monthly rental.

My question is does the box belong to me or Virginmedia? I was under the impression it did, see this link: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...rs/v_plus.html

[dilli-theclaw]

The box remains the propery of virgin at all times.

[the-cable-guy]

yes it does thats the difference between cable & satellite. with cable the cable company owns the receivers, with satellite you do.

Ask yourself why you would want to own the box?

Do you want to take responsibility for fixing it if breaks and replacing it when it can't be fixed?

[the-cable-guy]

with VM i couldnt care less 2bh i find their receivers to be slow & out of date. with Sky second hand receivers are cheap, so if mine were to break down id just buy another one

[alnmoore]

Thanks for the replies, but I still think the wording of the offer lead me to believe I had buoght it!

Question I wondered but stilll not really answered is:

If it breaks, are VM still responsible for fixing it, and what would motivate them to do so when it's been paid for??

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by JethroUK

If it breaks, are VM still responsible for fixing it, and what would motivate them to do so when it's been paid for??

Yes, they are still responsible for fixing it. The motivation is your ongoing rental charges.

[Kymmy]

If you notice on the table on that page it calls the £100 payment SERVICE CHARGE hence you're not buying the box

Kymmy

[SEB_WW]

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?

[BenMcr]

For those customers who got the V+ before June 2007, and would have either paid usually £0 or £25 for installation.

They would then be paying either £15 per month if they have M or L tv or £10 per month if they have XL tv

The £100 is to convert the V+ pricing to new prices. It would pay for itself in 10 months if you had XL tv or 6/7 months if you are on M or L tv

[Bob]

Originally Posted by SEB_WW

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

Originally Posted by BenMcr

For those customers who got the V+ before June 2007, and would have either paid usually £0 or £25 for installation.

but new customers only aren't paying for installation either?

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[BenMcr]

Yes they are, they are paying £75 for installation. Which is a special 1/2 price offer off the standard installation price of £150

[the-cable-guy]

Originally Posted by JethroUK

but new customers only aren't paying for installation either

feeling left out there are we fella lol