Virgin Mobile

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Virgin Mobile Reviews

Surp January 13, 2011
Bad service
I have virgin mobile for my cell phone provider, and its pay-as-you-go. so i have an option to charge my debit card whenever im low on money.

So two months ago, i got a charge on my bank statement for $21, but i didnt recieve any credit or anyhting. so i emailed the comany and asked what it was about, and that i wanted my money back. they said they have no record for the charge, so i cant get my money back. so later I emailed them again and asked, hoping for a better answer, and they told me that nothing has changed since the last time i contacted them.

how come they can keep track of my complaints, but not of when they charge me random fees. and in addition they claim to have live costumer service, i've called numerous times and never once heard an option to talk to a person, always a computer.
Hustark January 12, 2011
Still waiting for someone to do their job
I have been spoken to several agents from the billing call centre dept about my problem. Carol on the 24022010 at 11:30, case nr: 2467335 and Mandisa Dlokweni on the 25022010 at 10:25, she opened a new case id nr: 2467810 and call ref nr: 43883460. Both promised me an e-mail in regards of our conversation and the conformation about the incorrect billing and that an adjustment must be made on my account with the case id numbers. I am still waiting for the e-mails. I cancelled my contract as from 01012010, but I was given airtime for January 2010. I made several calls to sort this out and on the 08012010 the airtime was revoked on one and on the 09012010 the airtime was revoked on the other phone. My phones were made prepay as from January 2010. I received an account of over R3700 on the 13022010 for the airtime of the 2 phones and a handset buyout. I send an e-mail and my son phoned about the account on which the handset buyout was credited on my account, but the invoice for the airtime and itemized billing for a prepaid account was still left. I have send e-mails and phoned to get this sorted out and still my problem is not sorted out even faxed the billingmanager, got no answer.
Hutchico January 12, 2011
Rip off
I have had several line with this company for several years. I started with them back in 2002 and then they were a small but okay company. The last 2 years or so they have become incompetent idiots! They constantly charge phone lines more than once a month and I always have the most difficult time getting a live advisor. Today I asked for a supervisor and I KNOW it was the same person. I just replaced my phones and I use this for a business. I am looking at going to another company in a few months. I just cant afford to change everything with this economy. If I were you find another service, the price difference is not worth the headaches or bounced checks from the idiots that have your credit card information!
TJ Sharp January 11, 2011
Over charge on bills
Complaint started on the 3rd Dec when i spoke to somebody about my bill, who its what you have used so deal with it and have a look at your online account, which i had prevouisly complained about because it wouldn't let me on due to technical difficulties.
I emailed on the 19th for somebody to come back to me about being overcharged on my bills, as the manager didn't get back to me. Its now the 11th of Decmeber and i am still waiting, they now want me to call them at my cost again to get through to somebody who i will have to explain everything again. What can i do
Salitare January 11, 2011
Vanished airtime has not been restored
R450 of airtime that I have paid for vanished on 10 Feb. I called the call centre and held on for about 15 minutes while the consultant tried to find the problem. Eventually, I was told that he did not know why the airtime had vanished, but could see that I had not made calls to that value and that he would log a call to have the airtime restored and this should take between 2 - 24 hours. I called again on 11 Feb and was told, by another consultant, that she would log a call, and it would take 48 hours to restore. I called again on 13 Feb, and this time was told that there are only 8 working hours in a day, and that they don't work on weekends, so therefore 48 hours have not yet passed! She then transferred me to Billing who assured me that the airtime would be restored by Monday 15 Feb. I called on 15 Feb to be told it would take 7 working days to be restored. I called again on 23 Feb to be told that it had only been sent to Billing to be corrected on 19 Feb. Still not restored. Bad stinking attitude from consultants. Virgin Mobile lies, their consultants are NOT trained at all, they ***** airtime from customers, and the words customer service are a joke. WORST SUPPLIER IN SA!!!
Heigl January 11, 2011
Unfairly & illegally Listed on ITC by VirginMobile
I called Virgin Mobile in September 2009 to cancel my cellphone as I havent used it in over a year. I was advised on the call that the account has been cancelled and is now a prepaid account. I was not advised that there is any payments outstanding on the account. I found out in December 2009 that Virgin Money had listed a Default on my ITC profile for 'non payment' .

I have been battling to get hold of somebody at Virgin Money to completely remove that listing from my profile as it is affecting my ability to apply for credit.

Virgin money has also illegally added the default because, as per the National Credit Act, Virgin Mobile or its collection agent should have called me about an outstanding amount to give me the opportunity to settle the account and then they should have sent a written notice BEFORE the blacklisting occurs - nobody has done that.

I have spoken to a VM collections lady today because I have paid the final balance and want them to remove the nasty information from my ITC profile and was advised it will stay on my profile for 6 months to 3 years . I want to apply for a homeloan and obviously this will have a bad effect on my application.
Hudo January 10, 2011
No customer service, no care
Bad service from virgin mobile. After 4 hours no response when promised a call back they tell you you have been logged so they can't help you. at the moment then they say they will help they do not listen to the complaint and hang up on the customer instead of dealing with the problem. This problem has continued for 2 weeks the main excuse is there is also no manager on the floor to help what kind of organisation is this? a circus? I simply want to use my virgin sim card in a vodafone modem. I asked if this is possible and was told by Virgin that it was. They then tried to send me settings for the nokia 79 which they have not been able to do. I was then told that I must get the sim working for internet in another phone. I borrowed a LG phone and got the internet working with the sim card but it still does not work in the vodafone modem. The staff are not competent to assist with this problem. I am frustrated beyond anything I have ever had to deal with before. I spend over 25 mins on the phone to eventually be hung up on by the service representative because I said I would hold until a manager was available to take the call and assist me.
servius7 January 8, 2011
Destroyed my Credit Rating
Virgin Mobile have no interest in dealing with complaints. They do not provide an idiot proof or ease of access to an email address especially for complaints because they do not want to deal with them. Beware of their mobile deals. Even if you are a good long term virgin media customer they will do a credit check. First of all they will ask for your Virgin Media customer account number to verify who you are. Then they will do a credit check. If Virgin media has your address slightly wrong then you will fail a credit check.

If then you phone about a complaint you will be forwarded to sales and without you knowing it the process has started again and a credit check done. If you then complain again you will be forwarded to a foreign country where again they will credit check you. At this time you have not been told that your address is slightly wrong and now you will recieve an email from them saying do not try to get a mobile off them for at least a month. The reason they give is because you have been credit checked locked.

AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH

When you complain to them you will get all the sympathy you want but no action or admittance of stupidity of their service. When you insist after talking to OFFCOM about how to complain with virgin mobile and you wish to complain in written form they then will give you an email address. No it is not an email address designed for complaints it is just [email protected]. Virgin mobile do not have a dedicated system for complaints because in their delusional world of virgins all their customers are happy and living the life of a virgin lol.

Now a message to Sir (lol) Richard Branson. Get your companies act together or someone is going to come along and compete in such a way of which makes you look like total market traders; and eat you alive. Oh what a thought all that bearded hair in ones teeth. Stop thinking of floating in a balloon around the world and come down to earth and pretend to be a mystery customer and see your failings. How on earth you got to where you are is totally beyond me. Just show’s this world is full of rich men based not on business ability but total chance or luck.

Why can’t you be like virgin media and treat customers decent. A quad service my assssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
Robert Elliott December 29, 2010
Billing to wrong credit card
My phone was shut off after the computer guy charged my plan to the wrong credit card .
concerned_anonymous December 29, 2010
SSN information requested (read post)
First contact to have Virgin Mobile service activated and phone number ported from another provider. Asked for SSN as part of the "Process". Did not provide SSN and followed up with current mobile provider. They could not expedite request to transfer service. Tried to activate online. Cannot port # on website.

Second contact to Virgin Mobile. Process went smoothly with NO MENTION OF SSN! Please be careful when you provide SSN information to contact centers that are not in the US. This information is harvested and sold. I am highly skeptical that there is any avenue of recourse in these instances.

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