Virgin Media: Haggle down your costs.

BexTech

easy wrote: »

we get anytime phone calls, XL TV and L broadband for £40, which I think is pretty good, really.
I'd really like to get a V+ box, but don't have the £100 to spend on installation right now.
Anyone managed to get a deal on that, as an existing customer?

There's been some deals recently for £30 and for free - was £75 for several months to everyone or than cheaper for higher deals.

BexTech

athensgeorgia wrote: »

We do have the sports and movies, so does that mean I'm getting it the cheapest possible cause I don't really want to downgrade any of my products tbh?

It would be difficult to get much a reduction as that is already a reduced rate product compared to what it would have cost previously ~ £100.

I don't like spending the £35 I do, £20 would suit me, however it was a good deal, so will put up with it for now.

easy

Bex, you reckon someone has managed to get V+ for £30 or free? I'm up for that !!! How do I negotiate that deal, do I have to suggest I want to disconnect?

ing_2

Hi Christopher,

Did the £27 pounds include any deal on phone line (Like free talk unlimited or evening/wk end ) as I pay around 30 pounds roughly a month on top of the £40.50 (service charges) for the telephone calls.

BexTech

easy wrote: »

Bex, you reckon someone has managed to get V+ for £30 or free? I'm up for that !!! How do I negotiate that deal, do I have to suggest I want to disconnect?

Yeah, has been mentioned a few times. Maybe trial and error or only open to some.

shepssaving

I have home phone & broadband with Virgin costing £29 month plus cost of calls - with a teenage daughter this is a minimum of £40 month plus been paying £10 month to Utility Warehouse to access cheapest phone rates but recently more calls going via Virgin than them, So paying £80 - £100 per month.
After reading related articles on site I rang Virgin & told them I could get line rental, broadband & free uk calls with Tiscali for £19.99 month and asked how competetitive they were - they came back with line rental, broadband & free anytime UK landline calls for £19.49 month with ebilling. I can't believe the saving, Thankyou moneysavingexpert. Recommend anyone to give it a go & challenge Virgin.:j

hankweston

Just thought I would make a record of my experience in haggling with Virgin.

Currently I am on :

Broadband M
Telephone M
£15.50 per month and I am still in a twelve month contract (about 4 months left)

My advice to any hagglers out there is keep trying. If one person doesnt give you a good deal then phone back up the next day and try it with someone else.

I phoned up as I wanted to add TV XL with a V+ box to my exsisting package (the following prices are with e-billing discount of £1.)

First person told me it would be £40.50 per month plus £75 for V+ box
Second person said £36 for the first 6 Months then 40.50 after that.
Third person said £32.50 for life and £99 for V+ box

And finally after quoting the current tiscali deal (£24.99) I managed

Broadband M
Telephone M
TV XL
V+ Box - £30
Total Monthly Cost £31.00.

I was also offered the following for £36

Broadband L
Telephone L
TV XL
V+ Box for £30

I tried pushing with all might for a better deal but settled in the end. Hope this info helps others who are looking to do a deal.

BexTech

hankweston wrote: »

Broadband M
Telephone M
TV XL
V+ Box - £30
Total Monthly Cost £31.00.

I was also offered the following for £36

Broadband L
Telephone L
TV XL
V+ Box for £30

I tried pushing with all might for a better deal but settled in the end. Hope this info helps others who are looking to do a deal.

Yeah, these are good current retentions offers - save another £1 with eBilling.

scousers

hankweston wrote: »

Just thought I would make a record of my experience in haggling with Virgin.

Currently I am on :

Broadband M
Telephone M
£15.50 per month and I am still in a twelve month contract (about 4 months left)

My advice to any hagglers out there is keep trying. If one person doesnt give you a good deal then phone back up the next day and try it with someone else.

I phoned up as I wanted to add TV XL with a V+ box to my exsisting package (the following prices are with e-billing discount of £1.)

First person told me it would be £40.50 per month plus £75 for V+ box
Second person said £36 for the first 6 Months then 40.50 after that.
Third person said £32.50 for life and £99 for V+ box

And finally after quoting the current tiscali deal (£24.99) I managed

Broadband M
Telephone M
TV XL
V+ Box - £30
Total Monthly Cost £31.00.

I was also offered the following for £36

Broadband L
Telephone L
TV XL
V+ Box for £30

I tried pushing with all might for a better deal but settled in the end. Hope this info helps others who are looking to do a deal.

or you could go for
telephone xl
broadband large
tv basic
for £35 a month

conker89

I've been looking through some of the other posts to see, but i'm not sure.

As it stands I pay around £67 per month for Telephone plus evening & weekend calls, XL TV, Skysports, Medium B/B and I have V+ which costs me per month. I also have an extra box.

I called VM this morning to discuss having read some of the other threads. Im reasonably happy with what I have, if I can save money then great but ideally I wanted better b/b - I've been with VM for 12 months now and so thought I'd negotiate.

I wanted to know whether or not people felt what I get for what I pay is good?

By way of saving me money they proposed me paying £75 up front, but then not paying the £10 a month V+ fee ever again, all well and good but I dont save any money for 8 months that way. They also proposed removing my second box, again, not a great proposal. When I mentioned upping my b/b I was told it would cost me £7 a month more, which is cheaper that what everyone else would get! All well an good but my bill suggests that I pay £18 a month for b/b, I can see it a lot cheaper and faster elsewhere - but would it cost me more as I have a virgin landline and not BT?

umph!