{"id":1836,"date":"2014-04-16T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2014-04-16T15:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:49:19","slug":"another-victory-over-customer-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/04\/another-victory-over-customer-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Another victory over customer services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time at virgin. I transferred phone and broadband to virgin in February. Things went badly from the start. They processed a payment of mine to someone else&#8217;s account, and added the amount of that payment to someone else&#8217;s account, then added it to my bill resulting in an attempt to take \u00a3214 from my bank account. When the direct debit bounced they disconnected my broadband without notice.<br \/>\nI got angry at this point. The refunded me for one month and paid my bank charge for the direct debit that bounced.<br \/>\nOn Monday of this week my phone developed a fault and I didn&#8217;t have a phone line for 24 hours.<br \/>\nI sent for a technician and with the phone repaired, I CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICES! and demanded \u00a320. After only about an hours resistance, they agreed. After 7 weeks of being a virgin customer, they have refunded me a total of \u00a370. God only knows how they make a profit. Maybe most of the victims oc their incompetence havent got the patience to persist with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time at virgin. I transferred phone and broadband to virgin in February. Things went badly from the start. They processed a payment of mine to someone else&#8217;s account, and added the amount of that payment to someone else&#8217;s account, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/04\/another-victory-over-customer-services\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-tC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1239,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/02\/third-refund-this-week-from-a-big-faceless-company\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836,"position":0},"title":"Third Refund this Week From A Big Faceless Company","author":"taxicle","date":"February 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When I get on the phone to customer services I am extremely aggressive and persistent. 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