Another VM Price Increase for our "free" 200mbps upgrade!

[Rick Sanchez]

Hi Guys,

These price increases are doing my head in especially with the "free" upgrade"; these increases seem to be a six monthly thing now.

200mbps on their website is £42.75.

I'm currently paying £39.00 for 152mbps up from £32.00 in January.

Are you on any good offers?

[Mickey]

I don't need the speed anymore as I spend most time at the country estate.
Ditched virgin after they wanted £26 for basic bb.

Went to sky and got it with with a new phone line plus
phone for £16

Won't be going back

[bobo06]

I pay £26 for 200mbp although deal is due to run out.

[burner1]

I was paying Around £40 a month for basic tv, home phone and 50meg BB. I ditched the TV package as I don't watch 'live' telly and said I wanted just the BB as I don't use the home phone.. they wanted £35 for that (50 meg). Guy told me IF I keep the home phone I can get phone and 50meg BB for £26 as they discount multiple packages so I went for that option. Seems weird to cost a lot less for two packages rather than just the one.

[Zippeyrude]

i binned VM, absolute rip off

unless you need the speed, it can see any value in the prices they are charging...

[Mobileman]

Id guess vm is still the case of speed great, traffic shaping pure crap !

[Mystical_2K]

Id guess vm is still the case of speed great, traffic shaping pure crap !

never had a problem with traffic shaping myself, getting the full 150mb or whatever it is

[Zoots]

Me either now I don't download/upload anything. Everything is streamed. Can't remember last time I actually downloaded anything.

[flumperino]

While the regular price rises are frustrating, I find I just need to suck it up. VM for me is better than other providers by a country mile.

[Rick Sanchez]

I pay £26 for 200mbp although deal is due to run out.

Wow, how did you manage that?

[lagigolo]

Theory: I believe virgin have 300mb available. They just roll it out bit by bit to incur a price hike.

[piggzy]

Theory: I believe virgin have 300mb available. They just roll it out bit by bit to incur a price hike.

They all do it. Used to be a sub contractor at BT and they were testing 200mb BB between Cambridge and London and that was at least 5 years ago.

I did use Virgin at one point (can't get it where I am now) unless things have changed they had great speeds but AWFUL pings and I did notice a lot of traffic shaping at peak times.

[bobo06]

Wow, how did you manage that?

For me it was easy what I do with sky and virgin is play the companys against each other this time it was BT. I sort of timed it for the start of the footy season . Told them that BT are giving me a decent package and free BT sports. The fella says if you stay I will give you it for 26 knicker. You will do me big lad.

[Rick Sanchez]

Awesome. I settled for £33 p/m for 200mbps

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[Ganty]

Ringing them tomorrow, currently paying approx £70 a month for TV i don't watch, a phone I don't use and Broadband which slows to a crawl whenever it fancies (150mb my arse)

[moonrat]

Ringing them tomorrow, currently paying approx £70 a month for TV i don't watch, a phone I don't use and Broadband which slows to a crawl whenever it fancies (150mb my arse)

That pretty much paraphrases exactly what I was saying to the Mrs last night when she said we were getting upgraded to 200 in January.

Will be interested to hear how your telephone conversation with them goes.

[Zoots]

Got a letter saying price going up. Spoke to retentions who reduced my bill by £10 a month and upgraded me to 200mb. I do this every year.

[Mickey]

Went back to virgin after 2 days. Sky couldn't give me the bandwidth I needed for my droid box.

Actually there is a department above retentions that can give you a better deal

Got 50 meg for £16 for 12 months. That's double what I actually need to stream on the android box at 1080p

Happy days ��

[Zoots]

It's there for the taking mate. I always weigh up the agent and change tack to suit their demeanour. It's a doddle. Ended up talking to this lad today about networking - he would have talked all day. If it had been a bird I'd have gone with the kids angle and said the missus is the boss etc etc. Give them/the company a pat on the back and they'll pull the best offers.

[flumperino]

Just got my letter. 9% increase. Crooks!

I will give them a call. I don't mind 5%, but 9% is taking the piss!