Complaint Review: Virgin Mobile - Lewes Delaware
- Virgin Mobile Lewes, Delaware United States of America
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- Web: www.virginmobileusa.com
- Category: Internet Service Providers
Virgin Mobile MiFi Early Top-Off Causes Unpaid Days for Prior Month Service Lewes, Delaware
*Author of original report: Virgin Mobile Refunds Monies, but does not change policy
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As of Feb. 2011 Virgin Mobile changed its policy on its unlimited plan, to fall in line with other providers and end up with a 5 Gig data cap on an otherwise perfect service. In changing this, Virgin Mobile caused the accounts to expire either when they hit the 5 Gig data cap, or when a month had passed on amounts paid. In this case, the user wanted to get the service paid early in order to avoid outages while on the road. They had a problem with being able to make a payment, so I offered to pay for a month instead, to be reimbursed.
When I accessed the site to make this payment, all was smooth save for two factors:
1. When making a payment it says that you will reset the meter on the amount of data you are using.
2. When you make a payment early, they also reset the date of expiration to an earlier date!!
In this case, we lost three days of service - already paid for, because the choice of early payment was not appended to the account. Rather Virgin Mobile simply ignored remaining days (and the fact we had plenty of data left) and simply restarted with a new month of data and expiration date now three days earlier.
In short, a months worth of service was paid for. In an attempt to pay early, Virgin Mobile ignored prior payment, unused data, and simply 'reset' the data count and now shifted the expiration date back three days. For $40, thats $3.99 lost - a $1.33 a day for every day pre-paid.
If one was to pay 15 days into the current service, they would loose 15 days and any unused data amount. That would be akin to loosing $19.95 and now making your due date that much earlier.
People use the MiFi devices in rural areas where no other high speed Internet can be provided, or would be otherwise cost prohibitive. Many on fixed or limited incomes. Even a few dollars lost is a big issue. Having the date due for payment shortened is even worse.
Virgin Mobile - thank you for undercutting your customers!! What a Rip-Off!!
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#1 Author of original report
Virgin Mobile Refunds Monies, but does not change policy
AUTHOR: skeltonh - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, February 27, 2011
As a follow-up to my report, I did manage to find the number to Virgin Mobile HQ here in the USA and talked to the "Escalation Department". They agreed with me that I should have not lost the monies for services not rendered and refunded my money. However, They did not make any efforts on the phone to indicate they would change the policy. They said it was handled by a different part of the company. (UK office??)
In short, worth the money if you want no contract and to pay for what you use. Not worth the money if you can find a better deal with no data caps - regardless of contract or not.


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