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VIRGIN MEDIA, get your installation fee back.

Today I phoned VIRGIN MEDIA (free on Virgin phone dial 150) to complain about my broadband speed, as I am connected to next doors box, (I've heard this happens a lot), because they hadn't run the cable from the box at the end of the street to my house, so if my neighbour is using their connection, mine slows down to a crawl, so I remembered a "mail shot" I recieved in November 2007 advertising £4.50 broadband with phone line of £11.00, at the bottom of the letter it says "A friendly engineer will professionally install everything for you, for a one-off fee of £30. AND IF YOU'RE NOT HAPPY, WE'RE NOT HAPPY, SO WE'LL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. So I reminded the the call centre of this, she said she had never heard of it, and put me on hold, a couple of minutes later she came back and said she would credit my account with £30. give it a go, you've got nothing to lose.

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  • crash76
    crash76 Posts: 2 Newbie
    edited 7 November 2009 at 1:16AM
    just ordered over phone 50Mbps service, broadband only and requested them to discount me by installation fee... after few minutes I get answered OK!!! So I do not have to pay standard installation fee of 35 GBP :)

    Also if you are new customer and want to be discounted by 30 GBP, please quote this number:
    850612403
    . This is my acc no, and if you qoute this number they will tell you that you will be discounted by 30 GBP as well as me for recommendation will get another 30 GBP off of my next bill.
    Thanks mate for this tip!
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