Virgin Media - moving house, refer yourself?

mageliken

I notice Virgin Media currently have £75 for you, £75 for a friend refer a friend offer.

I'm moving house, and whilst I could move the current broadband (conveniently just out of contract and price hiked this month) I think even with just cashback coming as a new customer seems to be a better deal.

I'm sure I can get a referral from someone... but I'm wondering if I could refer myself from the old property to the new property? Even if the account from the old property might be closed before the new contract has been in place 28 days.

Has anyone done this/any experience? The terms I've read don't seem to stipulate about the referrer needing to be an active customer at the point of payment. I think it's administered by a third party too, if that makes any difference.

Chino

Your idea would appear to breach clause 5(1) of the referral scheme's terms and conditions:

In any such cases, a recommendation shall be deemed successful only if:
...
the Customer is not identical to the recommending User.

https://www.aklamio.com/en/community/terms

mageliken

Thanks @Chino! I'd read the VM terms but hadn't got as far as these.