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Former_MSE_Archna
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UPDATE MARCH 09. Sky has extended this offer until Thursday 26 March.
What's this about?
Sky's offering this deal to MoneySavers in response to the error it made back in January for giving us permission to publish a code in the weekly email. (See the original thread)
The Full Low-Down
New Sky customers can get a years contract with a free Sky+ box (which is the famous hard drive recorder with live pause etc) plus £50 M&S vouchers before 24 March. The basic package costs £16.50 a month.
What you get
1. Go to this special Sky page before 26 March
2. Pick the package you want and check out.
Can this be beaten?
As a straight open to all deal, you can just sign up for a Sky+ box it's untouchable. Yet for those willing to spend time and play, there are some alternatives that are worth considering.
It's a hard-drive recorder which means you can live pause and rewind live programmes, and record things without tape. It's been called Sky's "killer application" and is rated by the Which? as the top box of its type.
Note there is no commercial relationship between Sky & MSE over this deal, as explained it's purely a 'sorry' for incorrect info given previously.
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What's this about?
Sky's offering this deal to MoneySavers in response to the error it made back in January for giving us permission to publish a code in the weekly email. (See the original thread)
The Full Low-Down
New Sky customers can get a years contract with a free Sky+ box (which is the famous hard drive recorder with live pause etc) plus £50 M&S vouchers before 24 March. The basic package costs £16.50 a month.
What you get
- Free Sky+ box (usually worth £99)
- Free 2Mb broadband (if you rent your line from Sky rather than BT)
- Free weekend calls
- £50 M&S vouchers
- Installation, which costs £30
- Telephone line rental, which you get from BT or Sky at £10/month.
1. Go to this special Sky page before 26 March
2. Pick the package you want and check out.
Can this be beaten?
As a straight open to all deal, you can just sign up for a Sky+ box it's untouchable. Yet for those willing to spend time and play, there are some alternatives that are worth considering.
- Forum Type Codes. There are often a few codes flying about (possibly even on this site) which can get you a slightly better deal (roughly £25 cheaper) on a Sky+ box - though currently Sky says none are active.
Yet these codes are given by Sky for specific individuals as promotional deals, and it is within its right to block you using them even after the fact (this is what happened with the original deal, it first said a code was "fine to tell people about", but actually it wasn't").
Rather than using them directly, the best thing to do is get the details of those details, phone its call centre, quote the deal and haggle to get it to match it.
- Cashback Sites for HD Deals.
Currently Sky has a promotion on that you can get a Sky HD box (ie higher definition) for £49, free installation, £30 M&S vouchers. So on the surface it looks like this is only £50 more than the deal above and you get HD.
Yet the subscription for HD is £9.75 a month more expensive, meaning over the year its actually nearer £170 more.
However, if you sign up for this deal via a special cashback website, you can get £120 cashback for it as well, that takes us back down to roughly the original £50 difference. Do remember though, while it usually works, cashback from cashback sites is never 100% guaranteed.
For those new to cashback, for more info on how it works see the Top Cashback Sites guide and to find the highest payer, the Cashback Sites Comparison Site.
Yet if you do have an HD TV, and want the HD box, it's a pretty good deal.
It's a hard-drive recorder which means you can live pause and rewind live programmes, and record things without tape. It's been called Sky's "killer application" and is rated by the Which? as the top box of its type.
Note there is no commercial relationship between Sky & MSE over this deal, as explained it's purely a 'sorry' for incorrect info given previously.
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I would make sure that you get the vouchers....I ordered similar deal online in december, deal was order online, pay £49 for sky+ box and get free install, would get £15 credit on first bill and £50 M&S vouchers within 28days, month later called them...told 28working days...called at that time and told would be sent to the correct team to issue vouchers...march 10th and still no vouchers, called today and was told to write in to customer services, asked to speak to someone from the voucher team but couldnt do that so he put me through to someone in a different customer service team...he said that he could email the voucher team and give them another month to issue the vouchers, told him that I didnt really want to have to phone again in april to get to this point and could we not just jump to the point where it could be sorted today---given £50+ credit on account, even better that the vouchers imho
Good offer but just make sure you get the vouchers!0 -
I phoned about this today, "Ah we can give you the Sky+ box but no vouchers" !!!!!!!!!This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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... .... ... great deal, hope it's working tomorrow
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are these new boxes, or refurbed ones (ie, the ones they were trying to get back recently?)Long time away from MSE, been dealing real life stuff..
Sometimes seen lurking on the compers forum :-)0 -
When are they going to give there existing customers the same deal? thier deals are always for new customers only. Once you are a loyal customer they dont care about you any more,GONE ENGLAND0
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My Mam's been sent this deal but it was "for previous Sky customers only", good deal.....but no deal lol.Debt which IS NOW GONE before 31.12.2011: CC - GONE!!! :j Loan: GONE!! :j
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My daughter has Sky+ & every few months she gets sent two coupons for a relative or friend to sign up. The new customer gets free sky+ box broadband telephone etc package & my daughter would get £50 M&S vouchers per new person. You still have to pay installation fee.0
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I went for this the last time it was on this site. Sky wouldn't give me the deal advertised so I ended up paying £25 for them to install (the ad had claimed free installation). My third bill still has not seen the £15 discount they promised on the first bill and my vouchers never arrived. What's worse is they don't make clear who you contact regarding the vouchers so I'm in limbo!!!0
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nothingwitty wrote: »I went for this the last time it was on this site. Sky wouldn't give me the deal advertised so I ended up paying £25 for them to install (the ad had claimed free installation). My third bill still has not seen the £15 discount they promised on the first bill and my vouchers never arrived. What's worse is they don't make clear who you contact regarding the vouchers so I'm in limbo!!!
I should have made my point aboves clearer. Not only would Sky not offer me the Sky+ offer (said it was an error and should never have been advertised) but they charged me for the installation of the standard Sky box (claimed installation was free!). Great that they are correcting this mistake now but what about those of us who trusted them the last time and paid for the luxury of a standard box, did not get the promised £15 discount and did not get the £50 in vouchers. Feels like I have been scammed. Would recommend people who are considering joining Sky to do so with their eyes wide open.
Am thinking of paying people £50 in M&S vouchers NOT to join them.... if only I had the money...0 -
I have been wanting to go for a Sky deal for a while now and this one seems very good. Trouble is that you can only get the free Sky broadband if you pay line rental to Sky I think, which means I have to give up my cheap '18185'! Just free weekend calls are not going to do it in a household with three teenagers!
Is there a way around that?
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