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Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:18:01 GMT

Guys and Girls,

For my day job i work for Virgin Media and as such i am able to offer a very special deal to all my friends.
What do you get?

Virgin TV

TiVo 500Gb box
160 digital TV channels including Music Video on Demand
Plus, an additional set top box for another room

Virgin Broadband

Up to 30Mb fibre optic broadband
Backup and store precious files. Print 50 free photos a month.

Virgin Phone

Completely unlimited calls to UK landlines, 24/7.

All for just GBP41.01 a month (usually GBP74.96)

You can be a new or existing customer but if you are an existing customer you cannot already have all three services. You must be taking a new service.

New customers get totally free installation.
Existing customers pay GBP49 for installation

You obviously must live in a cabled area.

If you would like to take up this offer just PM me.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:21:04 GMT

Sounded great - but I live in the sticks.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:25:08 GMT

Sticks also I'm afraid.

And I don't watch much TV (other than channel 4 documentaries about couples getting engaged)

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:26:19 GMT

Hey snapzzz, does Usain Bolt work in your office with you? If yes, could you get me his autograph?

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:35:15 GMT

I live in a built up area that hasn't got cable. I'm a slave to Murdoch for my tv :-(

Is Virgin any closer to a service that isn't reliant on cables Snapzz?

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:40:19 GMT

Sorry Snapzzz,
I live in the country as well and we don't have cable.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:44:19 GMT

Great offer Snapzzzy ...... but the cable does not stretch as far as South Norfolk :thumbdown:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:15:14 GMT

Pretty much still driven by steam and horses in North Norfolk
:mrgreen:

Cable, so rumour has it, is about 70 miles away and 438 years according to BT for an upgrade.

Mind you ......

Persuade your guys to give us some fibre and I'll sign up :thumbup:

but a very well received thought :D

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:15:41 GMT

Mekka wrote:

Is Virgin any closer to a service that isn't reliant on cables Snapzz?

Nope, never will be.
Thats why we can do stuff like TV on demand and offer 100meg broadband. Having had the joys of cable broadband for many years i can honestly say i would not live anywhere that could be connected.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:41 GMT

:(

I already have all three services and I'm paying the full whack!

Deals like this, just pee off existing customers, it's enough to make me look at switching to the dreaded competition.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:24:37 GMT

Far Queue wrote: :(

Deals like this, just pee off existing customers, it's enough to make me look at switching to the dreaded competition.

Well i am not sure i get that.
The deal is not widely available to anyone or new customers.....its just a special offer that i can offer to friends and family. Many companies do this.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:36:39 GMT

With all due respect Snapzzz, I get offers along those lines about twice a month posted through my letterbox.

I get really annoyed that they cannot even be bothered to check who already has their service before offering blanket deals which current subscribers cannot take advantage of.

Whilst not exactly the same, I have in front of me at the moment a "deal" offering over 175 channels plus catch up tv and hd, 30mb broadband plus the phone service for GBP44.50 with the first 3 months free. That is on a blank through the door flyer.

Then I get an addressed to me letter, telling me my bill is going to "have" to increase by GBP3.50 a month to just short of GBP80. Guess why I am not happy!

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:41:31 GMT

Woah, snapzzz is simply offering a service to those interested, I don't think it is either appropriate or fair that we have a dig at him over virgin!!!

Unfortunately I moved house last year to a new build estate that has no cable. Was on.virgin at previous house and was more than happy

I am grateful for the offer snapzzz :)

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:42:41 GMT

Far Queue wrote:With all due respect Snapzzz, I get offers along those lines about twice a month posted through my letterbox.

I get really annoyed that they cannot even be bothered to check who already has their service before offering blanket deals which current subscribers cannot take advantage of.

Whilst not exactly the same, I have in front of me at the moment a "deal" offering over 175 channels plus catch up tv and hd, 30mb broadband plus the phone service for GBP44.50 with the first 3 months free. That is on a blank through the door flyer.

Then I get an addressed to me letter, telling me my bill is going to "have" to increase by GBP3.50 a month to just short of GBP80. Guess why I am not happy!

All offers are available to existing customers if you are out of your current contract. If you are then give them a call.....its there for the taking.
Read the small print though as the quoted price is often without the line rental currently at about GBP13 per month.
It will mean you taking out a new contract for 18 months i beleive.

There are also new bundles coming out at the end of the month as most packages are being re structured due to the broadband speed upgrades

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:43:41 GMT

It is a very kind offer but as my previous posted stated we have only just got rid of the pony express in Norfolk )

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:45:17 GMT

Ian Wickham wrote:It is a very kind offer but as my previous posted stated we have only just got rid of the pony express in Norfolk )

Do you have running water yet Ian? Or do you still have to nip to the well in the morning?

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:47:05 GMT

Iceman wrote:Woah, snapzzz is simply offering a service to those interested, I don't think it is either appropriate or fair that we have a dig at him over virgin!!!

You are correct, apologies Snapzzz.

It was just bad timing that I got the two letters from Virgin when I got home, and you had posted this at the same time.

I will look at the small print and see what can be done.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:50:30 GMT

Feel the love again peeps :)

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:53:30 GMT

Far Queue wrote:
I will look at the small print and see what can be done.

If you are out of contract call 150 and choose the option "thinking of leaving" they WILL look after you.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:02:13 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Far Queue wrote:
I will look at the small print and see what can be done.

If you are out of contract call 150 and choose the option "thinking of leaving" they WILL look after you.

Ignore my post, I was mistaken :shock:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:15:22 GMT

I have all 3 services at the moment, well i say I have but due to the local council cutting the cable as Virgin did not bury it deep enough, I have nothing, no Phone, TV ot broadband and they just said we can not fix it until the 21st. Not the best customer service.

noddy

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:16:06 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:It is a very kind offer but as my previous posted stated we have only just got rid of the pony express in Norfolk )

Do you have running water yet Ian? Or do you still have to nip to the well in the morning?

Well, the Well has been frozen all last week, Well I could not belive it having to climb down the well to break the ice, Well I never ..... :!: :!:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:12 GMT

noddyh wrote:I have all 3 services at the moment, well i say I have but due to the local council cutting the cable as Virgin did not bury it deep enough, I have nothing, no Phone, TV ot broadband and they just said we can not fix it until the 21st. Not the best customer service.

noddy

Where do you live, which town?

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:39 GMT

Iceman wrote:Feel the love again peeps :)

You keep your love to yourselve ... my mum warned me about blokes like you :wink:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:19:06 GMT

Snapzzz wrote:

noddyh wrote:Where do you live, which town?

You are passionate about your job Snapzzz, impressed :thumbup:

Call centre, management or engineer?

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:27:44 GMT

Washingborough , Lincoln

Best thing about the whole thing was the fact that the call centre said that they had left a voice message on my phone! Im still in shock as it must be a special line as mine is in two sections in the garden.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:10:08 GMT

Does everyone on this website live in the sticks?

No wonder we wibble.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:10:41 GMT

baaaa mooo oink :)

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:34:30 GMT

Iceman wrote:baaaa mooo oink :)

You are quackers! :twisted:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:41:25 GMT

noddyh wrote:Washingborough , Lincoln

Best thing about the whole thing was the fact that the call centre said that they had left a voice message on my phone! Im still in shock as it must be a special line as mine is in two sections in the garden.

I am very surprised you have to with that long, the lead time in nottingham is about 2 days.

PM me your address with postcode and contact mobile number and i will see if i can pull any strings

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:47:11 GMT

Will do thanks,

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:23 GMT

NellyPS wrote:Does everyone on this website live in the sticks?

No wonder we wibble.

We are Strong in the arm but thick in the head ...... :wink:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:17:20 GMT

Iceman wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

noddyh wrote:Where do you live, which town?

You are passionate about your job Snapzzz, impressed :thumbup:

Call centre, management or engineer?

Im a service engineer

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:18:26 GMT

The council cut through the BT cable that goes to our house when they were cleaning out the roadside ditch, and I had no telephone or internet. But a neighbour phoned BT for me and BT re-directed our calls to my mobile and they were there in about 2 hours assessing the problem.

First thing next day BT came out and they ran a temporary cable about half a mile overground just to service us and one other house. And the following day the cable guys came out and fixed the broken underground cable.

Mind you, we are business customers with BT but I still reckon that was excellent service :D

Oh, and we pay something like GBP18 per month with AOL for unlimited broadband which does our 3 houses, and includes free mainline phone calls. We only have to pay for mobile calls etc. And we are on Free Sat and Freeview for the televisions so we don't have to pay anything for those either.

Best of luck with getting your line fixed Noddyh, and well done Snapzzz for helping him :thumbup:

Ally

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:30:31 GMT

Ah, that warm feeling again as Snapzzz saves the day :thumbup:

Super Snapzzz

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Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:13:35 GMT

Iceman wrote:Ah, that warm feeling again as Snapzzz saves the day :thumbup:

Super Snapzzz

You can just see him now in Virgin Red .... up up and away :lol:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:20:55 GMT

Oh how I wish I had PhotoShop on my laptop here....wait till I get home at the weekend :)

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Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:24:06 GMT

Iceman wrote:Oh how I wish I had PhotoShop on my laptop here....wait till I get home at the weekend :)

You gotta do it Icy :thumbup:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:26:29 GMT

Busy weekend.

On the piste and super snapzzz

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:07:57 GMT

Brave man, Snapzz. Putting yourself up there to be shot at methinks.

I managed to batter sky into submission with a reduced cost package where I now get everything except movies with sky plus and HD for GBP30 a month. I just had to tell them I thought they were taking the mick and was thinking of leaving and they came up with all sorts of deals.

I have to say that having seen other systems and used them; BT Vision, Virgin and other cable packages like NTL, nothing is as user friendly or easy to operate as sky. I know they've pretty much got the monopoly and its Murdoch etc etc, but being able to use an app whilst 2500 miles from home to set sky plus to record ski sunday at home means a lot to me.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:54:04 GMT

Tony_H wrote:

I have to say that having seen other systems and used them; BT Vision, Virgin and other cable packages like NTL, nothing is as user friendly or easy to operate as sky. I know they've pretty much got the monopoly and its Murdoch etc etc, but being able to use an app whilst 2500 miles from home to set sky plus to record ski sunday at home means a lot to me.

Well i am going to ignore BT Vision as it really is dire, it is basically a free view box (yes you still need and aerial) with a bit of on demand streaming thrown in.

However cable is now a VERY different ball game.
Cable has always had the capacity to wipe the floor with Sky but unfortunately there has never been the business backing to do it. Until now.
When i worked for Sky about 10 years ago it was 'the' product to have, NTL - the only competition - was wallowing in debt after laying cables and had focused all its attention on its broadband packages rather than TV. Its TV offering as you suggested was not great.

But since virgin have taken over things have changed massively.

The Tivo really is far and away better than Sky+HD, i have used them all. And what makes it better is not content but functionality.
Lets use Ski sunday as a quick example as you mentioned it. With Sky if you go out and forget to record it you can indeed set it from your phone. Virgin too have an app in the app store for this.
But what if you forget to even do this?
Well the Tivo tv guide lets you scroll backwards (up to 7 days) so you can see what has finished and then all you do is click on it and it plays as we have stored that content remotely. This is true tv on demand.
But it gets better.
Thats all well and good as long as you know ski sunday is on. So the Tivo goes one step further. Wishlists.
I have a wishlist called 'Skiing' set up and what this does is record any programme on any channel that has anything to do with skiing in it. It is even clever enough to pick up chemmy on dancing on ice.

Sky will always have the advantage because it can be received by anyone with a dish but cable with its two way communication really gives more functionality and having been a big fan of the Sky interface i can honestly say those days are over.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:59:31 GMT

Snapzzz SAVES THE DAY.

Thanks Snapzzz, all back! TV , phone and internet. Thanks again cant say it enough.

Noddy

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:59:58 GMT

The big dowfall for me, as you point out is that you have to have special equipment that you have no control over - Cables

I used to love Virgin at my old property and would still have it should I have the choice. Unfortunately I dont, thats where Sky will always win.

When a new housing estate is built why dont Virgin simply lay cables too? Its not as if they have to dig up roads or annoy existing residents?

I live in a new build and have to have sky :twisted:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:00:40 GMT

noddyh wrote:Snapzzz SAVES THE DAY.

Thanks Snapzzz, all back! TV , phone and internet. Thanks again cant say it enough.

Noddy

Def Super Snapzzz now!!!

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:09:06 GMT

Iceman wrote:The big dowfall for me, as you point out is that you have to have special equipment that you have no control over - Cables

I used to love Virgin at my old property and would still have it should I have the choice. Unfortunately I dont, thats where Sky will always win.

When a new housing estate is built why dont Virgin simply lay cables too? Its not as if they have to dig up roads or annoy existing residents?

I live in a new build and have to have sky :twisted:

The problem is GBP.

The cable industry in the UK nearly folded because of the MASSIVE debt (billions) that was created by digging up roads and laying the infrastructure. Which, again, was why the like of NTL could never invest in developing competing products to Sky.
Sky own nothing. Sky has a great business model, it rents the satellites, the customers own the equipment. It simply broadcasts. ANd thats why it makes a fortune.

We have started to put feeds into new builds in certain areas but again there is always a dispute over costs. Should we pay or the builder?

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:10:24 GMT

noddyh wrote:Snapzzz SAVES THE DAY.

Thanks Snapzzz, all back! TV , phone and internet. Thanks again cant say it enough.

Noddy

Your welcome, you owe me a Vin Chaud if our paths ever cross in resort.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:26:45 GMT

No Probs, Vin Chaud it is.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:34:41 GMT

I know you've got the cable blinkers on Snapzz, but I'm sorry you're talking out of your bottom. Nothing but nothing compares to the ease of use of sky and all its associated thingies, especially when you live in an area where they havent laid cables yet and dont plan to until about 2134.

However youre right about BT Vision. An ariel???? WTF?

Add into that the fact that youre tv relies on broadband bandwidth and when everyone is online on a sunday evening and you cant watch ski sunday because your screen looks like the webcam in St Anton.....ask Stewart Dowling. He binned BT for sky not so long ago. Had a right set to with BT as well if I recall.

So, lets summarise.

BT Vision, freeview without being free and fuzzy screens with ariels

Sky, fantastic interface and everything you want.

Cable, nothing but a hole in the end of my road which will never get finished.

:mrgreen:

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:11:40 GMT

Tony. No cable blinkers mate. I work for the money not loyalty. I am talking from solid experience of all products and having worked on most of them.
Sky's product is nice but very limited.
You are basing your cable opinion tho on old products. It's a shame it's not in your area, I think you would be pleasantly suprised.
Also if someone doesn't cable up rural areas soon you have a danger of being left behind as more and more domestic products are Internet connected. And for that you need bandwidth.
We have 3 computers, iPad, 3 phones, two tvs, a web server, a ps3, a wii and Nintendo ds that all hook up to the net and many of them are on permenently.
Virgins rock solid 100mb does nicely.

I can live without tv, but not a decent Internet connection.

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:47:06 GMT

My gripe is that my village is cabled up but Virgin are not operational in my area!

Re:Special offer to my J2Ski Buddies.....HALF PRICE VIRGIN MEDIA.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:43:27 GMT

WIBBLE

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Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:52:21 GMT

I've been vaguely interested in getting more access to sports via the TV but that's about it. Not a big TV watcher and sometimes we sit in the lounge with a glass of single malt and flick though the umpteen channels on freeview and freesat and then give up and put a cd on instead.

Is there any way to get access to sport only without paying for loads of additional pointless reality show crapola?

We are in the sticks though which rules out cable.