{"id":98,"date":"2007-07-16T14:52:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T14:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spiderscripts.co.uk\/?p=98"},"modified":"2022-02-12T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T10:22:27","slug":"virgin-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general, I dislike companies who are trying to sell me stuff, however I just received the most fantastic phone call from Virgin Media.<\/p>\n<p>See, they took over NTL about a year ago now, and since then I have been pretty pleased with their service, and I recently moved to a very nice package deal where I get phone and broadband for \u00a320 a month.<\/p>\n<p>The phone call I received was from their sales department, and the conversation went something like this: (paraphrased)<\/p>\n<p>Sales Person (SP): Hi there, I&#8217;m from Virgin Media!<br \/>\nMe: Hi&#8230;<br \/>\nSP:\u00a0I&#8217;m just calling to see if I can save you any money, what package do you have at the moment?<br \/>\nMe: I have phone and broadband for \u00a320 a month.<br \/>\n  Long Pause&#8230;<br \/>\nSP: Right, you&#8217;re on a really good deal at the moment, and I can&#8217;t save you any more money.\u00a0 Thankyou for your time&#8230; bye!<br \/>\nMe: Bye!<\/p>\n<p>How fantastic is that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, I dislike companies who are trying to sell me stuff, however I just received the most fantastic phone call from Virgin Media. See, they took over NTL about a year ago now, and since then I have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/?p=98\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteandemma.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}