One of a thousand - Page 25

gaz2810i · 09-02-2011, 16:09

CEO office have basically told me that I have no chance of getting TiVo till March

Stephen · 09-02-2011, 16:10

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Originally Posted by gaz2810i

CEO office have basically told me that I have no chance of getting TiVo till March

Why what did they tell you?

PhlangePhace · 09-02-2011, 16:15

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Clearly you did not read the post properly as the whole thing was a joke. Sarcasm my friend

As was his

steelerdean · 09-02-2011, 16:16

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Clearly you did not read the post properly as the whole thing was a joke. Sarcasm my friend

In fairness, I think his post was in jest too

gaz2810i · 09-02-2011, 16:17

They told me that no one on the current lists will be getting calls till March and that I should be patient.

The guy I spoke to was a pleasure to deal with, and a credit to Virgin media, and also the main reason I am being patient as right now I'm not feeling like it so much

tjay2 · 09-02-2011, 16:22

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Originally Posted by gorm

Just had a call from Virgin offering me a Tivo for £140 and an extra £26 per month. The extra £26 is mandatory for the XL tv.

I've been using a standard Tivo for 10 years and it's great (glad I bought a lifetime sub). The whole point of Tivo is that we don't need to pay for extra channels. There's enough stuff on Freeview that with a Tivo, we don't need any more channels.

I said I'd think about it. It's unlikely that we can justify an extra £26 pm though. If it was £140 plus £3 per month, I would have gone for it.

Was excited to see Virgin getting Tivo but disappointed with the forced increase in monthly cost.

cant you just buy a new tivo premiere for £200+ and use it with your freeview?

PhlangePhace · 09-02-2011, 16:22

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Originally Posted by gaz2810i

They told me that no one on the current lists will be getting calls till March and that I should be patient.

The guy I spoke to was a pleasure to deal with, and a credit to Virgin media, and also the main reason I am being patient as right now I'm not feeling like it so much

I think you may have been misinformed..... a number of people have been contacted today. (I registered my inerest as a VM user, not as VIP nor s1 TiVo owner).

It would appear installs are being arranged throughout this month.

If you registered interest you may well be contacted over the next few days.... try not to miss the call... there isn't any way to know who to call back, if you do

steelerdean · 09-02-2011, 16:22

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Originally Posted by steelerdean

You know what, I read the first bit about only getting download speeds of about 9.9mbps on a 10mb line and was about to steam in with you typical 'are you serious....look at BT' kind of post but thought no, hold on, just read the rest of it first. Boy am I glad I did !!

Forgot to add - check my signature - I pay for 50mb broadband not 50.01 - damn you Virgin Media with your lies !!!

passingbat · 09-02-2011, 16:23

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Originally Posted by gaz2810i

They told me that no one on the current lists will be getting calls till March and that I should be patient.

The guy I spoke to was a pleasure to deal with, and a credit to Virgin media, and also the main reason I am being patient as right now I'm not feeling like it so much

Did you tell him that people on the pre-reg list have been recieving calls today?

PhlangePhace · 09-02-2011, 16:26

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Originally Posted by tjay2

cant you just buy a new tivo premiere for £200+ and use it with your freeview?

Not in the UK, I don't think.... the premiere is designed to replace US cable boxes.... unlikely to work with terrestrial freeview. (but I may be proved wrong)

The Yank · 09-02-2011, 16:30

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Originally Posted by PhlangePhace

I think you may have been misinformed..... a number of people have been contacted today. (I registered my inerest as a VM user, not as VIP nor s1 TiVo owner).

It would appear installs are being arranged throughout this month.

If you registered interest you may well be contacted over the next few days.... try not to miss the call... there isn't any way to know who to call back, if you do

I got the impression that the ones contacted today had the lucky remote

- could be wrong though.

gaz2810i · 09-02-2011, 16:31

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Originally Posted by passingbat

Did you tell him that people on the pre-reg list have been recieving calls today?

I didn't know this till now, he did say that any calls would be part of the 5000 list and that was all he knew.

He didn't know about the 1 in 1000 list either

Rattus · 09-02-2011, 16:33

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Originally Posted by PhlangePhace

If you registered interest you may well be contacted over the next few days.... try not to miss the call... there isn't any way to know who to call back, if you do

Damn i knew i should have taught the dog to answer the phone when i'm at work..

PhlangePhace · 09-02-2011, 16:40

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Originally Posted by The Yank

I got the impression that the ones contacted today had the lucky remote

- could be wrong though.

No... I'm a regular triple-XL user... I was contacted directly by the TiVo team

I'm not on a VIP package, I did not register my s1 TiVo and I certainly didn't get a free remote.

I'm just peeved that 'computer-says-no' as they couldn't book an install whilst I have a BB-XL to BB-XXL upgrade pending

I have to phone them back next week once my 50Mb is installed.

gaz2810i · 09-02-2011, 16:45

man that sucks sorry to here that the install will be delayed. I just wish someone over at Virgin could actually tell me what is going on as according to everyone over there it isn't released yet.