Virgin Direct all share tracker

Advantages: good value
Disadvantages: none.

...Virgin direct all shares tracker is one of the best perfoming tracker fund at the moment. While during the last few months many tracker has fell into -ve territory, Virgin still manged to stay a float with a 0% change. Also, the management cost of Virgin direct is extremely low, just amounted to 1% and with negligible further mangement and advise charges. The not only offers good value, good performance but also low management cost. Lots of growth could be hampered by a high management and 'advice' charges as the money that goes in earlier during the investment is those that will grow most, but these advise/mangement charges are usually deducted fairly heavily in the first few years of the investment. Further, their advisors are friendly and efficient. Their website also provide a call back button to save the user from having to...

casper77 15.08.2000 · Read review
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Virgin Media

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: Freezing tv channels, unhelpful staff

...Virgin Media took over Cable (not sure exactly when), They offer sevices such as Broadband, tv and the phone, their bills are on a monthly basis. The reason I chose Virgin I signed up with Virgin approximately 6 months ago, the reason I decided to sign up with them is because my family are all customers of Virgin and I thought it would be cheaper on the phone calls, also I prefer the monthly bills rather than quarterly bills like with BT. Arranging for installation I had a leaflet from Virgin with their phone number on, so I phoned them give all the details they needed and they give me an installation date which was approx a week later. While on the phone I arranged to pay by Direct debit. Day of installation I recieved a welcome letter stating the date and time of my installation, the following Monday was when I was to...

jenny967 08.01.2008 · Read review
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Virgin on the ridiculous!

Advantages: Nice wedding ceremonies
Disadvantages: Poor booking service, unreliable rep, poor quality accommodation

...ourselves and have a Virgin holiday and wedding combined. Rather than book through a travel agency, we thought we would book direct with Virgin Holidays. And that is where the trouble began. BOOKING A HOLIDAY THROUGH VIRGIN RESERVATIONS = BOOKING SAGA #1 We had decided to have a two centre holiday, getting married in Miami Beach and then having a week in Orlando. My parents were travelling over with us for the wedding and everyone was looking forward to the whole occasion. We telephoned Virgin Reservations and booked the holiday. We requested:- A booking for four adults, giving their full names etc; 2 centre self catering holiday; full holiday insurance; car hire; airport hotel We received a few days later:- = An invoice from...

matthewsmum 07.11.2005 · Read review
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Virgin Experiences

Advantages: Some good on demand services.
Disadvantages: Poor TV picture on Samsung and LG sets. Broadband throttled.

...features are excellent. Sometimes they don't work and they're rather slow and clumsy as the menus take forever to load, but once a programme gets going there are no ads. That's brilliant. On a less happy note, after buying an LG50PC56 50" TV (also reviewed on Ciao) I was expecting a fantastic viewing experience. I didn't get one. Well, I did get one but not because of Virgin. The built in Freeview picture is way better than anything coming out of the Virgin Media box. Considering Freeview is the cheap and cheerful way to access digital TV, you'd have thought a direct cable feed would have been much better but it really isn't. In fact, the picture is so much worse from Virgin Media that we called them on their suddenly quite expensive number and they sent an engineer to sort it out. It seems that TVs made by LG or Samsung aren't ideally...

FlameDruid 03.10.2007 · Read review
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Are you a train Virgin?

Advantages: fast, few delays
Disadvantages: occasional delays, cost if booked late

...also avaliable is thetrainline.com and national rail - who will direct you to purchase from else where! As with all online purchases keep an eye out for which sites are offering the best rates of cashback (currently virgin trains are offering £4 per booking via topcashback). Once you have your tickets booked what sort of service should you expect on the trains? Well contrary to many opinions the trains operated on this line are among the most modern rolling stock on the line's today as the West Coast Main is the home of the 'tilting' train the Pendolino, distinctively liveried in Virgin colours of Red, Yellow and Silver/Grey these trains look good from the outside. Inside you'll find a typical train layout of paired seats, and at intervals table's with their seats facing one another - these are highly prized by almost all travellers as...

scuba_angel 02.11.2009 · Read review
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virgin media

Advantages: TV till you drop and good internet.
Disadvantages: Poor customer services, poor prices,

...Virgin have gone down in my expectations and i am currently thinking of leaving them. When i first joined virgin media it was called telewest, i signed up to a large tv package and the internet at a cost of 40 pounds per month. This worked fine untill virgin media took over, Although they did bring better and more chanels to the table the prices went up and the customer service went down. When virgin took over they rang me to say i would be better off if i got the whole package which included xl tv, 20gb broadband and a phone line with free weekend calls as it would take my bill down to 35 pound a month, i also pay for disney cinemagic aswell so it would basically be taking 5 pound off my bill which i thought was fair enough. Since then the bill has went up and up and up! I still have the same package to which i had 4 years...

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Review of Virgin Media

The Virgin Suicides

Advantages: Very good cast, great acting
Disadvantages: Deals with a subject matter not all will be comfortable with perhaps?

...Directed by Sofia Coppola and based upon the novel written by Jeffery Eugenides, this film tells the story of the Lisbon sisters living in a 1970's suburban area in the United States. This movie is narrated by the neighbourhood boys who attempt to piece together the events of the Lisbon sisters lives, in order to understand an act which many would find difficult to comprehend; suicide. The film opens with the attempted suicide of the youngest sister, Cecilia, which provokes much neighbourhood gossip and shocks the Lisbon family. Unfortunately Cecilia goes on to make a second successful attempt and as a result the remaining four sisters are put on lock down within their home. From then on the film depicts the next few months of thier lives, including their eventual communication with the neighbourhood boys, who they involve in their...

rachieb123 02.08.2009 · Read review
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Like a Virgin, better than Sky every timmeeee.

Advantages: Easy to use, cheaper than Sky in some ways, good Customer Service! On Demand service is excellent.
Disadvantages: Tied into a contract, not available everywhere yet, cannot buy individual channels like with Sky.

...Virgin Media About Virgin Media once formally known as NTL has been one of the most popular service providers for the last 5-8 years, getting more and more popular with their innovative way of getting your TV, Broadband and telephone to you. Instead of using cables, Virgin use fibre optic which is where the picture, internet and telephone are send down the small glass wires rather than down a metal cable. Think of those little lights you get, which look like hair sticking out of the top, and when you turn on the light, it is transported right to the tip of the ?hairs?, rather than coming out all over the place. This is how Virgin work, the images are transported directly to your TV via these little fibres. Virgin Media offer your whole package together without having to pay extra bills for line rental to BT...

stephbond89 14.11.2009 · Read review
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Virgin Media - Getting better...

Advantages: Basic sky channels are back!, Some good VOD content, good unlimited internet packages
Disadvantages: VOD reliability not 100%, webmail reliability & mailbox size, customer service rather 'hit or miss'

...** Important News/Update (Edit) 16/11/08:- Ok so on Thursday the basic Sky channels finally returned to Virgin Media, at least for those of us who are on the higher TV packages (their included in the L and XL packages, which are the two most expensive packages, I believe), which was good news for me! now I can access Sky1, Sky2 and Sky3 (Sky3 is also available on Freeview), as well as Sky News and Sky Sports News and for people on the XL package, we also get Sky Arts and Sky Arts2 as well as Sky Real Lives, which is nice, so obviously im quite relieved and impressed with that. I've also been trawling through the VOD content recently, I now feel more tempted to watch cable alot more than I have done over the last year or so knowing i can catch Bones and 24 Redemption and I can catch Fringe, a new show showing on Sky1 and its being...

IzzyS 26.07.2007 (16.11.2008) · Read review
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NEVER GIVE A VIRGIN AN EVEN BREAK

Advantages: Broadband better than any ADSL.
Disadvantages: Watch their prices, and don't ignore special offers just because you are already a customer

...-free. PROS AND CONS OF BEING A CABLE VIRGIN Of course, in the UK, cable IS Virginmedia Not only is cable a fast and more to the point a consistently fast broadband medium, but VM don't cap volume of usage, except for the "top 3%" of users and then only for 5 peak hours a day before unleashing them again. I'm not keen on the "all my eggs in one basket" approach that renting the "big three" including TV brings. That's why I'm keeping my BT line (and Freeview). If broadband fails, I can ring them. If my BT line fails, I can use the BT.com web site to report it. When I worked at BT this was called "diverse routing" and many companies liked the idea of having their wires coming at them from more than one direction, even to the point of paying extra for it. I haven't got their TV but it may well be that as I get itchier palms vis-à-vis HD...

BNibbles 15.03.2008 (09.06.2008) · Read review
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