Hi Caggers! Brief History. I was a legacy customer (old Telewest customer) since 2005. The last contract renewal was in 2007 when I moved house the previous time, so contract was well out of band. Notified them in December that I was moving and would like to take my services with me, they said sure, no problem and could probably provide the services I wanted. Great. I moved house 9th January. I contacted them on the 19th January to find out what was happening with my service installation at the new place. Was told the service was activated on the 17th. That would have been a miracle as the house has no cable through the wall. Upon asking them to check, they had reactivated the service at my OLD address. Having established that this was their fault, and establishing that they did not in fact operate in my new area they agreed that the account was closed, I owed them nothing further and in fact was due a refund of £21. Result! Phoned Sky and got a great deal. 3 weeks later they send me a bill for a months worth of charges. After swearing at the statement I calmed down and called them. Explained everything to them in great detail (had to repeat myself a couple of times because, overseas call centre), they apologised profusely and said I dd in fact have nothing to pay (no mention of the refund though) and to disregard the bill. 2 weeks ago I get a reminder that I still owe the amount on the recently provided bill. Off I go to tweet my displeasure to Virgin Media in a lovely public forum. They were on it like a rocket, very helpful and said it was now all sorted. Monday I get a threatening letter saying pay up or they'll pass it no to a collection agency, and today I get another bill! I want to charge them an admin fee for dealing with this cr*p and having to put with the stress! Advice please, how do I deal with these muppets?

Hi, What do you think I should do? I ordered Business Fibre 152mb broadband in January 2015 Virgin required a £230 deposit which I paid. It is now a year later, hundreds of emails and hours of calls and 6 missed apointments and we seem no closer to an actual installation. Costs initially escalated from £60 for the install to a couple of hundred, and 2 months in I opted for a government Connection Voucher to cover it. Since then they have continued to rise and I've continued to agree to them as they are still less than the grant. Highlights include: a 3 month wait while Virgin was emailing the wrong email address to get the installation started being asked to pay £3895 excess costs which turned out to be a basic algebra error resulting from adding the £3000 connection voucher grant and actual £895 costs together waiting for contractors to not show up to do work on 6 different weekends I made a formal complaint in October and have a reference for it, but all the complaints department do is chase their Manilla call centre to give me an update, which typically doesn't contain any information. It has been a very frustrating year and the practical and financial impact on my business is huge. There is also no sign this is going to end with Virgin actually getting round to the installation... I've thought about complaining to CISAS, which is the ombudsman Virgin Media seem to be linked to, what should i be asking them for? Is there anything else I could do?

what exactly does digital media of content mean? suppose someone asks for something that I email to them, is that digital content? supposing I order a psychic or tarot reading on line (whether people agree to such things or not) and I get it, read it and later it turns out to not be true. ..is that digital content if the site says for entertainment purposes only. if I order racing tips from a tipster online, he emails them to me and they don't win ...is that digital content? any insight to this would be a great help:???:

I have been with the same company for many years firstly when they were Telewest and later companies. I have had reason to complain regarding their 14% package increase from February 2016. The increase is on a package that costs me just £24.49pm. Now with this increase I was given a GWJ of a nice amount. The issue arose due to their DD system and my banks one. This resulted in VM taking a DD 5 days before the due date. I sent an email to the CEO's office and was called back a few minutes ago. The result was well surprising to say the least. VM have a little known or advertised service that helps those customers that have a Care line pull cord alert system. What this means is if the customer notifies VM that they have one installed they will be placed in a priority group for repairs to the landline if it goes faulty even on a same day repair. This I never knew about until moments ago. Although I have had a pull cord installed for a few years now. Since VM are now aware of this my account now has a flag attached to it. This could be great news for anyone else that is a customer of theirs and has a help cord installed that links to their local authority care service. So some great news from VM for a change. I have posted this information here because it could help customers in this group from being without their landline. Also within this group VM has stated they will not suspend or terminate a user if they are registered, they may lose any other services like TV and broadband but their telephone line will remain open. Good news for a change well done....

Hi, I have been a Virgin Media customer since February 2011 when I moved into my current address. I have made occasional changes to my package (e.g. added Sky Sports in May) but other than that my services have remained unchanged - TV, phone & broadband. I am moving house tomorrow and have just phoned them to ask how to go about transferring my services over and was told they (probably) can't service the new address and I will be subject to a £190 termination fee as I have 6 months remaining on my "contract". As far as I'm aware, I haven't signed or agreed to any new contract in the 4.5 years I've been with them. I did receive an email in May after adding Sky Sports thanking me for "agreeing my new contract with them". I then received an "update" email confirming the changes I had made to my package - the wording used in this email was "changes to your package", not new contract. So I am confused. I wasn't aware I even had a new contract, since all I did was add some channels. And surely it isn't my problem if they can't supply the new property with their services? Any advice would be much appreciated. I am being absolutely robbed in letting agents' fees and cannot afford an extra £200 for nothing!! Thanks, Anna

i closed my virgin media tv acct in july 2015. ....waited for a final bill until aug and then paid that in full 3 weeks later..... ..2 weeks after that they defaulted me which made my credit rating fall by 223 and went into the poor section..i was not a happy person ....went onto the forums here and found the ceo mr hockbridge and i emailed him telling him this. ..they responded by saying a dedicated TEAM WILL DEAL WITH THIS.. THEY CONTACTED MY 2 DAYS LATER THE PERSON NOT VERY HELPFUL AND SAID THE DEFAULT WOULD NOT BE REMOVE. ...i then waited another 3 weeks and sent the same email with a little bit of tweeking Again the next day another person ( sadly never took his name). .he said he would look into it and will contact me again ( i thought that would not happen and was giving up hope )... Got a big surprise the next day when he phoned me and said that the default was going to be removed the next day..I was gobsmacked... .i checked my credit score the next day and it had been removed.. .all i can say to anyone trying is to keep pressing them. .do not give up hope and with luck get the correct person on the other end of the phone.. .I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!

hi all, Today I received a letter from Virgin Media broadband telling me that my bill will be increased by £1.75 from 1st of November. I install this broadband about three months ago. I choose the plan which will be unchanged for 24 months. Not the one which is half price and then jump into £30 per month after 12 months. So my question is can Virgin media do this? I heard in past that offcom change its law so mobile phone comapnies can't charge more mid-contract. Is this the case with Broadband also? I have 50MB broadband and I am paying £28.50 already for it. thanks in advance.

Hi all. Recently my parents decided to move their Phone/Internet/TV over to Sky from Virgin Media, as there was an offer available from Sky for Free Family Package TV, £10 Unlimited Fibre Internet and £16.40 Line rental per month, so basically £26.40/month as opposed to the £56/month they were paying to Virgin for 100Mb Internet, basic TV and Phone calls/line rental. The day before Sky were due to install the TV, and a week before they were due to take over the phone line, my parents got a call from Virgin Media and handed it to me (as I tend to do all this kind of thing for them) and it was someone from a retentions team. I discussed the package we were going to get with him, and he offered to lower my parents monthly bills to £24.50/month for the same Internet and TV, but upgrading the phone package to the top XL package. We weren't too bothered about the phone upgrade, and my parents weren't bothered about the Sky Family package, they were fine with the basic Virgin TV package (basically Freeview with catchup), the whole point of the exercise was to save money. Plus the Virgin Media broadband was 100Mb rather than 40Mb from Sky, so we agreed to stay with Virgin Media and cancel the Sky installation. However, the following day my parents turned on the TV and found that all channels except 1-5 were now greyed out on the Virgin Media box. Upon logging onto the online account I found that the TV element of their package had been completely removed when the phone package was upgraded. I immediately called Virgin Media up, explaining the situation to them, however the person I spoke to said that the only ones who could do the package for the agreed price were the retentions team who spoke to me originally, however they could only call out and I couldn't be transferred through to them. He advised he could see the notes on the account fo what was discussed and there was no mention of TV, which there wouldn't be as we never discussed altering it at all. All he could do was send a form requesting they contact me within 48 hours. This was a bit of an issue as availability at home was going to be spotty over the weekend, then during the week everyone was going to be away from home. There was no call that day, so I called again the following (Saturday) morning, spoke to someone who said they'd mail the person I spoke to directly in order to advise them of our availability and again explain the situation. No call again late that afternoon, so I called once more. This time the person I spoke to discussed with me the possibility of re-adding the TV package as it was before, and downgrading the phone package back to what it had been previously, at a price of £26/month. I agreed to this, though asked for the contact request for the original person to be left open. The advisor assured me this was now all done and the TV package would be back in 24-48 hours. However, today, More than 48 hours later, no TV package showing on the account when I login online (and now nobody at home until Friday evening). I suspect the cause of the issue is simply some misunderstanding or mis-communication, but the main problem is the poor service I've received when attempting to resolve the issues. I know I know, should've recorded phone calls or got confirmations in writing and the like. Well that's exactly what I intend to do now. Does anyone have a good Virgin Media e-mail address to contact to explain the situation and attempt to get some resolution to this? E-mail contact is going to be the only viable option for the week anyway.

I was having problems with my broadband this summer and customer service were not being helpful. I kept calling back and finally a lady was honest with me. She told me that there are network problems in my area and they would likely be this way up until October. She then credited my broadband account in light of this. If any of you are having problems - I am in Wandsworth, SW London - I hope this helps

Hello, my name is Adrian. Facts: I started a contract for broadband and landline with international free calls, last year September/October, in Wales, with EE. Due to the fact that I had switched jobs, I also had to move the house, therefore, I relocated myself in Crawley, West Sussex, on 20th of June this year. Prior to leaving the house and relocating, I searched online, and phoned EE to make sure they have coverage and that they can provide me with the same service. Everything was fine, they said that they can service it, same price, same package. On the same day, around 1730 hrs, I went on to the local store EE in the Council Mall, in Crawley to get an update on the moving of the service. When I got there, the lady there, said that they cannot cover my postcode with the same package, and that I should take the matters with the Customer Service. She called to the Customer Service, the Moving House department, at which point they again confirmed that the only thing they can provide me with is a lesser bandwidth for the broadband. I told them that I am not OK with it, and on the spot I argued the fact that over the phone, once I planned the moving house, they have stated one thing, so that I find out that that's not true anymore. Another thing is, they told me over the phone, that the landline number should work, and was not. The lady there sent me to close a contract with the competitors, Virgin Media. Since I didn't want to take a decision then, at that time, I postponed this for the next week-end. The next week-end, I went back to EE, and told them that I have signed the same day with Virgin Media, (only for broadband), and that I would like to have my account with them to be closed. The young lady there seemed helpful, and said that she will do that, and I don't need to worry about it. I have also stated that the landline number is not working, though it should have worked, since it appears to be active in their system. Since I had already my DirectDebit with them, and closed that the same day, after they made their final payment withdraw, I thought that everything will run smoothly and that I will receive an update on my email about the last payments, etc, etc, as it happened with my other accounts that I closed in Wales. No brainer, no muss, no fuss. My problem goes like this: I went on today to EE(to a different store, in Crawley), to find out why I have received emails from EE stating that the payments couldn't be made towards them, since: 1. that lady should've closed my account (I was naive back then, I know) 2. I have closed/cancelled my DirectDebit with them. 3. they couldn't provide me with the package I had Just today, I found out that EE, can actually provide those services within the area I live, and can give me the exact same package I had in Wales. I had ring Virgin Media to tell them that I want to finish my subscription with them, since, they cannot provide me with the same deal, at which point I was told that I have to pay them £143.69 for the remaining contract. Honestly, for some reason, I don't think the Customer Service, nor that lady from EE, treated me correctly, and I was mislead to think that things will be sorted out, etc. I was under a lot o stress back then, (and now when I come to think of it, a little bit naive) since I am a software programmer, and needed the broadband, and fast. I don't know how to deal with this, nor what legal actions to take against it. Should I pay, should I make any complaints? I wasn't presented in detail with my options, and I was just passed from one "dealer" to another, when my only need was the broadband. Can you please give me an advice on how to proceed furthermore with this? Thank you. Kind regards, Adrian.

I know i am, it's not just because it's about people claiming benefits, but all the inaccuracies contained within these programs, the one on channel 5 about benefit cheats, is the latest, a Liverpool lad , claiming what was described as sickness benefits ,for PTSD told the undercover reporter that he was getting a total of £1,500 per month ,inc DLA , I find that very hard to believe, which makes me think of those IDS and his sanctions work leaflets that were based on lies , Also are those that are cheating the system really that dumb that they will boast to someone they hardly know about the hows and why's of what they do? Are these tv companies paying for stooges for entertainment value, and to help keep the governments hate propaganda against people on benefits alive ? if it isn't about cheating the system in some way, it's about their health conditions ie" too fat to work" ect

My landlord has sent me my utilities invoice and instead of the usual Water and Electricity, the invoice is for 'Use of service media and ancillary rights re lease dated 20th October 2006' Is this correct or is it for something else. There is no such wording in the lease

Hi - I wonder if anyone can help me. I took Virgin Media broadband package in December over the phone. I decided to go with them again for my new property considering a good service they provided for last few years at my mums house. I've rang Virgin and was connected to a lovely saleslady who walk me trough all the packages etc etc - she also took the order and all my details to set the account up. I have obviously provided my 'bills' account details and was all happy to get the 'best' UK broadband. Sadly - probably my bad, I wasn't particularly bothered to check my acc if the direct debit was set properly... I've had reasons to check such details. As this acc was used purely for my and my partners household bill we had an estimated amount of money set to sent there each month and whatever was left was used on monthly basis ( as the bill vary each month there was usually left anything between 50 and 100 pounds. Anyway , during all those month all bill from virgin were showing as paid with thanks... To our surprise all our services were cut off this afternoon! obviously we rang virgin after few hours to check what was the reason - shockingly the lady on the phone said that we have cancelled the DD and asked our bank to request all money paid back! and this supposed to be paid back ( £379 ) to our acc on 2nd of July! Obviously this was impossible as we had no payments of such amount nor we requested this. After few minuted of explaining the customer service asked us for the bank account numbers - which not matched the one they've had on their system and they've been taking payments from for last 8 months! shocking! We've been told that they must have made mistake and assigned someones else bank details to our account! and once the poor sod who was paying our bill realized the direct debit was cancelled and they had to return all monies owed - admitting to their mistake they are now demanding full payment of over £379 ( which we don't have ) before the services can be recommenced! Is there anything we can do?! This is absolutely surreal... Any help would be greatly welcomed Thanks, Klaus

If a company openly admits using social media and search engines to confirm identities etc EG fraud, Is that unlawful?

Hi everyone. Friday, the 17th my Nokia's screen, or at least a part of it stopped responding, and problem was that it was in the most strategic place, just about at near bottom of it where all the 'OK' and 'NEXT' buttons are. I rang Virgin Mobile from another unlocked phone and discussed it's repair as it was still under the warranty. Just because of the nature of the fault I was unable to do any kind of backup, I was then assured by technical team that a note has been made of the system that I requested not to have any kind of reset. A lad I spoke to also advised me that it would be the best to put the same on the form that I will receive in post to pack my phone and send for repair. I certainly have done that, I put that I have made a special request not to have my factory reset because I was unable to carry out a backup of my data and also stated that before they will even think of doing the factory reset is to call me on my mobile and rediscuss it. Today I received my phone, everything was gone, literally. I am a businessman, I had hundreds of mobile numbers saved, stocks exchange portfolio, bitcoin wallet with over 60 bitcoins there. I can literally count my loses in thousands. All that information is unrecoverable. I was trying to at least save bitcoins, but due to the nature of the app, entire access was through the area that did not work, and I did inform virgin media in the most convinient way, over the phone and in writting not to erase any data. Despite that post on forum, I am seeing a lawyer tomorrow, but has anyone ever had a case like that, as I am more than likely to sue them for that. Kind Regards, Luke

Hi All, I was hoping to get some advice on the best way to handle a dispute I have with Virgin Media, which is probably something I should have done a long time ago. About a year and a half ago I switched from Virgin to Sky and informed them in writing (as is their policy) but it they deny receiving this letter. I wrote to the most local office to me and addressed it to Customer Services. Two or three months went by and I noticed that Virgin were still charging me by Direct Debit. I canceled it through my bank and called Virgin up, informing them of the situation. This is when they told me they'd not received my letter and considered my cancellation date to be from that time. Their policy is to be informed a month in advance so they told me they're going to charge me for another month. I told them I wasn't going to pay that, we had a little to and fro in writing and over the phone - I told them if they felt they had a case to take me to court. I heard nothing from them since. Over the last few days I have looked into my credit status using Experian (who have been great) and it turns out that this has really damaged my credit rating. Currently it is ranked as "poor" and I can't seem to get credit from anyone. Experian tell me that this is one of the main reasons but there are a few other very old things that they are disputing on my behalf. I made my point clear to Virgin at the time that I didn't feel this was owed and if they felt otherwise, to forward me some kind of legal case. It turns out that they just decided to hurt my credit rating and never contact me again. Am I in the wrong here? I don't want to call Virgin up at this time because I will only be making the same points again and as far as my credit rating goes, seems like they have all the power. There's nothing new I can say to them aside from please stop hurting me. Will I have to bite the bullet on this and make a repayment offer. It's only over £88 but money's a really serious issue for me right now. What do you think? Am I going to have to pay them to improve my credit rating? Any input would really be appreciated.

Hello, Unsure if this is the correct forum so apologies in advance. I'll try and keep this brief. In short I opened an account in October and I've never received the free tablet offered, I've had rubbish customer service with zero new information from VM. Timeline: 18.10.2014 - Signed up for VM services through their affinity program (through my work). Broadband, phone, TV and came with a free tablet within 28 days of install as part of the deal (confirmed via e-mail). 18.11.2014 - Install (few issues such as not porting phone number and 152mbps speeds were coming in at 40mbps - apparently this will settle within a month ) 16.12.2014 - Chased tablet via phone - informed it's on the way. I raised concerns about speeds and informed of area issue's ongoing since October 23.12.2014 - Chased tablet again via phone - informed it's on it's way still (generic response) I push and then actually informed that my account states I'm not eligible, further investigation shows that my notes are incorrect, these are amended and I'm informed I'll receive contact within 2 weeks outlining tablet delivery info. I also noted about poor speeds still. 05.01.2015 - No contact from VM or tablet so chased tablet again via phone and told exactly the same as previous call however I'll receive contact within a week about the tablet. 07.01.2015 - Services down for around 24 hours. 16.01.2015 - No contact from VM or tablet and phone up and make a formal complaint. Speak with manager and I'm told same as previous calls, tablet is being processed and to 'bear with them', also discuss my slow speeds. I'm advised I'll receive a call back on the 19th from a Ryan who is handling my complaint. 18.01.2015 - I phone VM technical to discuss my slow speeds, I'm advised there are still ongoing issues in my area and 40mbps over wireless is perfectly acceptable, even over a 152mbps line. After phone call I add my own router and play with my settings and channels - My speed increased to approx 100mbps. 22.01.2015 - No contact from VM or tablet. Received a letter stating £4.50 per month increase. Phone up again to make additional complaint, advised the increases will be refunded. Advised the complaint is with the Ryan and I need to await his contact and she can't do anything, she e-mails him for to contact me. 23.01.2015 - E-mail CEO Tom Mockridge with complaint outlining poor customer services, absolutely no responses from VM and my tablet where about. 26.01.2015 - I receive a phone call from the VM CEO office to discuss my complaint, points outlined are tablet whereabouts, poor customer service and why I had to chase constantly for answers. A bit of a discount on next months bill and an upgrade on the tablet was verbally agreed. Call back promised for 2nd Feb. 10.02.2015 - Still no contact or tablet, chased via e-mail for update. 17.02.2015 - Still no contact or tablet, chased via e-mail for update. 24.02.2015 - Still no contact or tablet, chased via e-mail for update. 25.02.2015 - Received e-mail from the CEO office stating they are still looking into it and advised they should have heard by the 2nd February and are looking into different resolution route and will update me with they have an update. 26.02.2015 - I replied via e-mail asking about my upgrade had been processed. 13.03.2015 - Still no contact or tablet, chased via e-mail for update. I have outlined their stated 8 weeks are up and they have until the end of the day to resolve or I take further action. And that's it. According to the VM guidelines I am now eligible to raise this for independent adjudication through CISAS, which I will do at the weekend. I'm ****ed that I've been chasing for all of this time to get absolutely nowhere. From a legal standpoint where am I? Is the tablet actually part of the deal, am I actually eligible for it? Can I cancel the contract or can I push for anything due to the hassle/stress, time spent, inconvenience and not receiving part of my order? I don't want to go through another 6 weeks of CISAS process for nothing. Any advice welcome.

Hi everyone, I need some advice. Virgin Media sent me a letter last year saying I would be getting upgraded to the 50MB broadband service. I'm currently on 20MB and I find uploading files tedious. I recently corresponded with Virgin Media on Twitter to find out why I had not been upgraded. They told me to login to my account online and click a button to begin the process. I followed the web form and it did indeed say it was free. However I logged into the main dashboard where I saw the same upgrade option yet it cost an extra £2.85 a month. From what I can gather the upgrade is not free at all and the only reason they state it's free is so customers bind themselves to another 12 month contract. My first question would be is this illegal under UK law? My second question is Where can I report them to inflict the most damage? I've sent screenshots to the advertising standards authority But who else can I contact? I've included a screenshot.

i had a virgin media account where the contract ran out in may 2013 which i cancelled by post and phone. i then changed to sky. i had not been receiving my bank statements for a long time and went into branch on tuesday and got a print out of last 3 months. i noticed on there a dd going out for £50 to virgin media which i then found out had been going out since may 2013 to vm. i was confused as i have been with sky since june 2013 and been paying dd for them ever since. i have had no coresspondance from vm that im their customer no bills nothing. i contacted them by phone last night which was a foreign call centre. they have no record of this. i contacted them by online chat today. spent ages talking to them and then was told to go to onlinee chat to complaints department. complaints said theyd not heard from me since 2012 when broadband wasnt working. previous online chat said phone was disconnected but not other services in may 2013. why would only the phone be disconnected??? when its a sky broadband and tv package i have both with vm and sky? i brought this up and complaints person said no it wasnt done by you but by another company and are refusing to give me my money back. i explained i had called and written a letter. they said i hadnt. and unless i have a recorded delivery tracking number tehy will not refund me. i explained i had called them last night and they had no record of this. so maybe they did not have the record of my cancellign. they said 'no theyve done nothing wrong and they wont refund my money'. it is my fault i didnt notice but i have been under a substanstial amount of stress. i truley believe i did cancel it but did not cancel dd with my bank. i have a clear credit record and am applying for a mortgage which i have worked very hard for. i have spoke to my bank also who are refunding the money under the dd indemnity. what shall i do now? i dont want to messup my credit history but its £800 of payments for a service i did not use. They have sent me no bills (they said theyve sent them by email but i have none and my email is active and i check everyday) i have received no post from them nothing. the online chat man said he is disconnecting it from today and started my 30 days notice. i have no vm stuff in my house at all and it fully on sky. what i do please? need help urgently with this please. worried it wil affect my credit status for my house.

I hope someone can help me. After a lot of hard work and struggle my credit record is finally in better shape, except for a default from Virgin media for £21 which I got when their service was down for 2 months and I refused to pay for a service I wasn't receiving. I did pay once they cancelled my contract. I have written to them several times pointing out that the terrible service I received and asking them to remove the default but they are refusing. I have sent a SAR to them and they sent back 5 pages of computer printout which logs my phone calls and letters, but that's all. Any idea what I should do now? Also on my credit report it goes 1 late payment 2 late payments then default, I thought they had to give you more than that? This one default is affecting so many areas of my life it is ridiculous!

Are virgin media blocking the above ? For some reason when the above apps are being used wirelessly they don't work. When wireless is switched off they work ?

Virgin Media Internet access is down for the whole area I live in, spoke to them a few hours on the phone, they said they are 'aware of the problem' and it should be fixed soon, this was over 5 hours ago! I'm at my sisters using her internet to post this on here, what can be done for Virgin Media to get off their backsides and fix it?

Hey folks. Over the last few months Ive noticed that whenever the Virgin Media Advert it on a banner top OR Side that loading becomes really slow and I have to try and reload the page. It is getting a little frustrighting Any suggestions? Using Firefox

Hi I've had a few problems with a group of girls at work recently - one in particular who likes to cause trouble. Anyway, after a horrible day on Friday - I came home and put a status on my wall - this is exactly what I wrote but fill in the blanks. "Thank f**k for the people that make working bearable - because f**k me do I work with some a**eholes". The majority of comments were asking if I was ok but one of the above group of girls started an argument and goaded me into stating one of the girl's names. I stated her name and basically that she knows that she causes drama for every person she comes across. No reference to the company I work for, no surnames - just first name. I got called in by my Manager (who incidentally is pally with this girl) and informed that he had passed my 'disgusting' status to our Head of Department who has passed it on to HR. I'm obviously thinking that they're trying to sack me for gross misconduct. Any thoughts? I'm a hard worker - regularly given incentives for extra work that I do etc and I'm finding this whole thing really stressful. Please help

Hiya I'm stuck wondering what my options are, what i really want and what i should do about it. A part of me is telling me to leave it alone and the other part is saying i shouldn't let them get away with this. heres the story... In Dec i got a phone call from a VM sales rep offereing a free Tivo box and the only difference to my account was that it would increase by a pound an something to 28.59p) . So i agreed. in Jan my tivo box was installed and in fed i received a bill of over 34 pounds. by May it had gone upto over 43 pounds. when i called last week to find out whats going on i was told that they had a price increase in feb and that i had a 10 pound discount for 3 months and the price of my line rental is 43.09p. Further more when i asked to close the account i was told i was in a contract. Now the person i spoke to was daved Aka Mr Unhelpful and he had enlightened me of all this which i was furious about because i did not know i was in a contract. Further more after specifically asking him not to make any changes to my account as i intended to complain, he went and changed it and signed me up to a new contract of 29.99. Now i would like think of myself as an honest person. They said they had sent out a contract in the post for dec and maybe they had but i had not received a contract or saw a contract of any form But i did see an e mail that explained the changes to my account and on the top it says "This is not a bill or a contract" So now the new one that Mr unhelpful signed me up for. when i called Yesterday and spoke to an Allen and another person, they told me that my account had been changed and i said "I had not asked for my account to be changed but asked for him to leave it as it is for i am going to complain" now instead of both of them saying, ok she didn't ask for it, lets change it to the way it was, they left it. Today i got a phone call from someone called Mathew who was from a different deparment who had come to make me a nice offer but upon reading my account that i was in a new contract (Thank you unhelpful) and further more was receiving a good will gesture from VM of a 7 pound discount for the first 4 months (he thinks) he could not make me any nice offers. Now what is this good will gesture that i've suddenly heard about? i haven't a clue. i haven't a clue what to do. what i want tho is all this time that i thought i was paying 28.59 to be refunded the difference which comes up to 56 pounds. Tell me, what would you do? what can i do? what should i do? Sincerly A confused sister