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Review of Virgin Media


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

several outages(broadband/tv) each day…

several outages(broadband/tv) each day over the last week.

Phoned their support line...
- absolutely impossible to get past the "password" voice-recog.
- support is clearly reading from a script, no matter what
- support denies there are issues; I guess I'm imagining and lying?
- file a complaint: same thing... none of these people have ANY interest in solving anything.

Been a customer for 25 years... I'm DONE. I'm leaving at renewal.

October 10, 2025
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Reply from Virgin Media

Hello there,

We do apologise that you're currently impacted by an area outage and that the estimated fix time has been pushed back. We can assure you that it's not the level of service we aim to provide.

Whilst we do our best to keep any faults and downtime to an absolute minimum, unfortunately sometimes service issues do happen from time-to-time. We'll always aim to have you back up and running ASAP, but, in some instances, this can take longer than we'd like.

You can read about our auto compensation scheme (https://virg.in/autocomp) and if you do wish to discuss this further then please get in touch using one of the following contact methods.

Call: 150 (free of charge) from a Virgin Media landline or 0345 454 1111 from any other phone
WhatsApp: +44 7803 089 684
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/virginmedia
Forums: https://virg.in/VMforums

Review of Halfords Retail


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sandhurst service is abisimal

Went for replacement of brake disc/pads.
The guy at reception (on the right) was absolutely unhelpful up to the point that I walked out taking my business elsewhere.
- he claimed Eicher discs are rubbish.... ok, so your employee states that Halfords sells rubbish? Good to know....
- he claimed Pagid was the cheapest. The are in fact the most expensive.
- didn't offer choice in pads (website does)
- He refused to tell me the split cost (i.e discs, pads, work). When I looked at his screen... he claimed there was nothing to see there for me. So I looked again and found the split cost he had refused to tell me.
- I asked what time they would be finished. He couldn't say, not even if it was early afternoon or late. Stated they can't tell exact time. I did not ask for an exact time, only a broad "early or late" in the day.
- He was generally rude, arrogant and seems to prefer customers to go elsewhere. OK. I will.

In answer to Halfords reply: don't bother; I have taken my car to a local/decent garage instead. Happy to pay them a bit more and receive friendly/good service from them. I'll never use Halfords again.

October 7, 2024
Unprompted review

Reply from Halfords Retail

Good morning,

We’re sorry to hear that you've experienced your brakes and we’re keen on getting this resolved as quickly as possible. We’re disappointed to hear that we’ve fallen short of your expectations and will do our best to learn from this issue and improve for the future.

Please could you update your review to include your order number/booking reference or existing case reference number, so we can reach out to you privately and get this resolved?

We look forward to speaking to you soon. Thanks - Emily

Review of eSpares.co.uk


Rated 3 out of 5 stars

item was fine; Price match guarantee initially not honoured; got refund AFTER reporting here

The item I ordered came quick and works well. But I found the exact same item (same brand, same reference number, same packing content) elsewhere (NOT on amazon/ebay) for less than half the price. eSpares claims a
Price match guarantee (excludes amazon/ebay)... but they flatly refused to honour it.

UPDATE: after publishing this here, they reached out to me and admitted their fault + refunded me. 3 stars instead of the original 1.

July 16, 2024

Reply from eSpares.co.uk

Dear Customer,

Thank you for your review.

I am sorry to hear of the issues experienced.

We are very grateful you have taken the time to provide your feedback. Your comments have been passed to the relevant department and it is something we are to look into internally.

I have emailed you directly to resolve accordingly.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Kind regards,
Hamza

Review of Proximus


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

een overleden moet haar email lezen!

Het is een ervaring van een tijd terug, maar door een interactie met scarlet.be kwam dit relaas weer in mijn geheugen.

Mij moeder was overleden. Ok, Proximus gecontacteerd om tv/telefoon af te zeggen. Wonderlijk, dit gebeurt ok - nog een laatste rekening te voldoen, geen probleem.
Verder niks te doen? Nee.

Drie maanden later, een rekening voor €250 of zo... wegens het niet terug zenden van de tv-box - een brief in het frans? Das een scam dacht ik. Gebeld.

Ik: is dit van proximus?
proximus klantendienst: ja, je moet betalen!
ik: alles was afgesloten en ik moest niks meer doen?
proximus: we hebben een email gestuurd! moest je maar lezen!
ik: email?? niet gezien
proximus: ja, een email naar de email account van je overleden moeder!! Heeft ze die dan niet gelezen!
ik: [censuur] .... ik kon geen medium vinden om haar in het hiernamaals te vragen om ze haar email eens kon openen.... [[nog meer censuur]

en... in het Frans? naar een duidelijk Nederlandstalige jarenlange klant? Een geval van "Et pour les Flamands la même chose"

geen grap - die kwakkels denken dat een email naar de email account van een overleden persoon zal gelezen worden door die OVERLEDEN persoon.

April 3, 2024
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Review of Scarlet


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

klantendienst ? Onder alles.

Op 19/03/2024 en en nu vandaag (03/04) met de dienst gebeld over een acces probleem naar de email box.
De personen die daar zitten hebben totaal maar dan ook totaal geen zin om te luisteren naar een klant. De eerste op 19/03 zei zelfs luidop "ik (scarlet drone) wil niet luisteren naar je (klant), jij moet luisteren naar mij".
Om problemen op te lossen kom je zo absoluut nergens. De scarlet-man bleef doordreunen dat ik iets (een aantal details) moest zien op hun website. Toen ik niks zag liet hij me 6 maal dezelfde pagina openen. Niks te zien, ik ben niet blind en weet hoe ik kan naar-beneden scrollen op een pagina. De rest van het gesprek ging totaal de dieperik in. Het is een tijdje geleden dat ik met zo'n brutaal en arrogant tech-support persoon moest praten. Nu ja, "praten" .... ik moest zwijgen van hem, hij zou het wel vertellen. De acties die hij uiteindelijk zou nemen zouden enkele werkdagen duren.

Nu twee weken verder, de email werkt natuurlijk nog niet.

Bon, dan maar teruggebeld. Ander persoon gelukkig (dacht ik). Wederom redelijk arrogant maar ik dacht (verkeerd) dat ze tenminste luisterde naar het probleem. Oh wat was ik mis.... ik herhaal: probleem met email. Resultaat: een mailtje hoe we ons password voor de "mijn.scarlet" site resettten.

De "help" dienst is gewoon belachelijk, arrogant, en ronduit beledigend naar klanten toe.

Edit: en nu 3 weken na hun "contacteer ons" hier... niks, niemendal, doodse stilte en de email werkt nog niet

March 19, 2024
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Reply from Scarlet

Beste, dank u voor de feedback. Het is inderdaad niet de bedoeling dat u op deze manier te woord wordt gestaan. Wij streven steeds naar een correcte afhandeling van uw vragen. Kan u ons uw klantnummer bezorgen zodat wij dit verder kunnen onderzoeken. Mvg,
Scarlet

Review of eSpares.co.uk


Rated 5 out of 5 stars

fast delivery and the element fits and…

fast delivery and the element fits and was easy to install.
My oven works again - hurray!

shame I won't be able to use it thanks to BoJo/Government not giving a [bleep] about the people in this country....

April 26, 2022

Review of British Gas


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Complete disgrace - incompetent and arrogant engineer

I purchased a homecare repair contract at £300 for my boiler

problem: ignition issue. Happens only in the morning and couple of lockout/resets later it switches on fine.

Took a week before they came.. not a good start but ok.

Within 2 minutes inside my house the engineer took his covid mask off. I should have thrown him out that same minute.

Diagnoses made:

him: the whole system is overheating
me: so it overheats within a minute in the morning after having been shut down for 12 hours?
(also see problem desc.)

him: you have sludge in your system
me: and that is why my boiler sparks, but does not ignite?

him: the voltage to your (CH/HW) valve is low.
me: and you magically determined that without any measuring or (at this point) even have SEEN the valve?

him: CH/HW valve is broken
me: and you saw that by simply eyeballing it for 10 seconds? ... aside of the fact that I get heating / hot water just fine after the boiler succeeds to ignite.
And no, I don't have to switch the HW on to get CH, or vice versa.

him: staring at the labels on the boiler...
me: you didn't even ask but I'll tell you anyway; the error code from the leds is "ignition issue"
him: keeps staring at the label...

The boiler manual contains quite extensive flow/decision diagrams. For "ignition lockout" there are a number of tests that can be done - like gas-flow, water-pressure, spark electrode.. . He did none of those. Did not actually ask for the manual and did not consult any of his own.

him: I've been in this job for 41 years and you know nothing.
me: (did not say this bit out loud... but... while I'm not a corgi engineer, I happen to have a technical education and know quite a bit about electronics, elec. motors, valves; so while I may not "know" something I'm rather capable of looking them up and understanding how they work)

He never measured anything - no electrics, no gas, nothing...

I literally threw him out.... and phoned British gas with the above and contract cancellation / money-back

In response to the reply from BG:
- he did not follow your own covid rules AT ALL https-colon-slash-slash-www-dot-britishgas-dot-co--dot-uk-slash-covid19
- I suspect this was in fact a sub-contractor from a local company I had very bad dealings with before... the reason why I choose BG this time. What a mistake I made! Never again!

- contact via twitter/facebook? Really? I don't use either.

January 27, 2022
Unprompted review

Reply from British Gas

Hi there, we would always advise to be at least 2m away from the engineer whilst there are there to do the work, our engineers do make sure they sanitise their hands before coming into a property & test regularly. I'm sorry you feel the the engineer wasn't doing his job properly & this has caused you to cancel the agreement. We are sorry to see you go. If there is anything you'd like to discuss further, please send a DM to @britishgashelp on Twitter or a PM on Facebook using https://m.me/britishgas & include #Trustpilot. ^Lisa