Sky, Virgin & BT TV Haggle down prices and get serious discounts Article Discussion

lonestarfan · 29 March 2015 at 11:23PM

Some good ideas there mije thank you

tomnat · 31 March 2015 at 12:58PM

I have just rung Sky up to cancel as I've been made redundant. We've been with them for over 10 years and are not in contract. Also we have the full package of movies,sports,variety pack, hd etc but not phone or broadband and we pay £82.50 a month!
As Im not the bill payer, hubby is, they said I couldn't cancel but could give me a deal as didn't want to lose us.
They offered £64.50 per month for all the above and if I wanted to include phone and broadband they would give it to us for £12.55 a month (inclusive of line rental).
The phone and broadband is quite a good deal but wasn't impressed with the TV package offer. Just wondered what everyone thought of what they offered?

SAHD_Jim · 31 March 2015 at 1:23PM

tomnat wrote: »

I have just rung Sky up to cancel as I've been made redundant. We've been with them for over 10 years and are not in contract. Also we have the full package of movies,sports,variety pack, hd etc but not phone or broadband and we pay £82.50 a month!
As Im not the bill payer, hubby is, they said I couldn't cancel but could give me a deal as didn't want to lose us.
They offered £64.50 per month for all the above and if I wanted to include phone and broadband they would give it to us for £12.55 a month (inclusive of line rental).
The phone and broadband is quite a good deal but wasn't impressed with the TV package offer. Just wondered what everyone thought of what they offered?

As an ex customer, the best deal I've been offered for TV was 50% off for 12 months plus £100 credit. Got that last week.

Having said that if they claim you can't cancel, I can't see how they can alternatively let you sign hubby up for a further contract either. If you are not their customer, they need to speak to him.

andrewmp · 31 March 2015 at 1:26PM

tomnat wrote: »

I have just rung Sky up to cancel as I've been made redundant. We've been with them for over 10 years and are not in contract. Also we have the full package of movies,sports,variety pack, hd etc but not phone or broadband and we pay £82.50 a month!
As Im not the bill payer, hubby is, they said I couldn't cancel but could give me a deal as didn't want to lose us.
They offered £64.50 per month for all the above and if I wanted to include phone and broadband they would give it to us for £12.55 a month (inclusive of line rental).
The phone and broadband is quite a good deal but wasn't impressed with the TV package offer. Just wondered what everyone thought of what they offered?

Just cancel it, they'll offer you at least 50% off once you do. If they didn't, for whatever reason, you won't be missing much.

tomnat · 31 March 2015 at 2:04PM

Thanks for the thoughts, I was a bit bemused myself how they said that only the bill payer could cancel yet they were willing to supply me with an offer to pass on to him. Think I'll get hubby to ring them back and go ahead with the cancellation as there's no way we can afford the £64.50 either.

teddysmum · 31 March 2015 at 5:49PM

You have nothing to lose by cancelling (giving required notice though),as you have no phone/bb contract to be affected and could get reinstatement instantly, should they offer something affordable.

It won't harm your boys to watch less tv, either.

KTF · 31 March 2015 at 5:56PM

I had an offer for 10 months half price on TV and £100 credit on my account with 31 days notice.

31 days before the credit was due (8 months remaining on the half price offer) to be used up I called them up and cancelled the TV as we were still not watching it.

Whilst they seemed surprised, they did put the cancellation through and now I am getting calls at least twice a day from the win back team.

So yes, if you give your notice, you will get a call with some sort of offer. I have no idea what they are offering at the moment as I have been avoiding their calls

mr_scientist · 1 April 2015 at 3:35PM

I signed up to Sky TV & Broadband Unlimited a few days ago. Unfortunately because we're moving into a block of flats we're not eligible for any of the cashback offers (It's in the T&Cs). After trawling through various broadband suppliers etc to see which deals combinations were going to work out the best I settled for everything under Sky.

We will be on a 12 month contract, Sky Family Pack (inc. HD) and Broadband Unlimited for £33 a month (Inc. line rental). We were offered the £100 vouchers on top (didn't want these), but ended up with approx. £8 a month discount for the next 12 months instead, which oddly worked out better than the £75 bill credit alternative instead.

N.B. Virgin Media not available in the area.

bluebiro · 1 April 2015 at 4:40PM

Hi I think i posted this in the wrong forum just now so will post here:
Just been on the phone to sky and told them I wanted to cancel, they offered me 10% off tv package and line rental for £9.99 and nothing off BB, I tried to push for more off and she said that was all they are able to do. So cutting it short she has gone ahead and cancelled everything but got 30 days,
My question is will they ring back with a better offer or shall i phone and accept because my partner really doesn't want to lose sky and shes not happy with me.
any help appreciated.

KTF · 1 April 2015 at 4:43PM

Based on my experience, they will ring you renentlessly and send you various offers in the mail so dont worry yet.

You can still call up the day before cut off and tell them that you have changed your mind and they will reverse it..

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