Digital TV Cost Cutting Article - Discuss What You've Been Offered

jarr

i would really like sky+ but currently its £159 cost plus installation. i am about to move to a new house. sky is in my name. would it be best to cancel and open a new account in my wifes name and the new address? this would give me sky+ STILL at £159 even though i'd be a new customer. saying that, i'd have a 6 month package with movies for half price and during that time not have to pay the sky+ £10 subscription fee. also i could get someone to recommend me as a new customer and split the £50 vouchers! that's the best way i can think of

any other suggestions?

wilf55

if you recommend your wife as a new customer before you leave you could keep the £50 in vouchers

i did have a leaflet allowing me to recommend two friends for free sky + and free installation i posted it on here but had no takers after a couple of weeks i binned it

try bluffing i will pm you my account details if you wish and i will ring up and have a go!!

will have a look for the leaflet which i go in the post but am sure i binned it but could tell them that and just see...will look tomorrow too late now !!

dannytoffee

I want to get Premplus for the new season, but at present it's £80 which is a bit steep. I know it normally drops to £50, does anyone know when?

Korkyb

Got to the end of my 2nd 3 month 1/2 price deal last month (on the old family pack) & no matter how hard I tried they wouldnt give me anything like as good a deal so went through with cancellation & went onto freesat just over 1 week ago.

Just had a call from a very pleasant chap who appeared to say that sky would bend over backwards to get me back. (My line was that I wasnt getting value for money).

His 1st offer was 6 months 1/2 price on my old package with no contract & when I asked about sky+ I was offered Box for £49 with free installation & my old package with the addition of Movies for 6 months 1/2 price (£18 monthly).

I was basically offered all this on a plate without having to haggle at all.

Means a 12 month contract but................................. :-)

Goes to show it is worth going all the way through with a cancellation.

Lawe

Yipppeeeeeeeee :rotfl:

Just got to say a big thanks to all. As you can guess, I got a good result.
My package now reduced by £10 a month for 12 months or saved £120 a year (which sounds better!) and all on the freephone number :money: :T

mleonard79

Just to say thanks for all the tips on here - I've managed to get the 25% off for a year deal which is excellent for me as we are on the full package! Thanks again.

Hillfly

Korkyb wrote:

Got to the end of my 2nd 3 month 1/2 price deal last month (on the old family pack) & no matter how hard I tried they wouldnt give me anything like as good a deal so went through with cancellation & went onto freesat just over 1 week ago.

Just had a call from a very pleasant chap who appeared to say that sky would bend over backwards to get me back. (My line was that I wasnt getting value for money).

His 1st offer was 6 months 1/2 price on my old package with no contract & when I asked about sky+ I was offered Box for £49 with free installation & my old package with the addition of Movies for 6 months 1/2 price (£18 monthly).

I was basically offered all this on a plate without having to haggle at all.

Means a 12 month contract but................................. :-)

Goes to show it is worth going all the way through with a cancellation.

As a mtter of interest has anyone managed to get a deal like this without going through with the cancellation?
I would very much like to get this and if i could get it without cancelling so much the better (obviously i would threaten to cancel).
I'm wondering if i should come clean about what i want to the cancellations team and see if they will let me have it (after givng them the cost saving/bad value for money line first)?

Anyone think this will work?

Hillfly

Well i bit the bullet and went through with the cancellation today. Now to bide my time and fingers crossed.........................

Lazee_Wolf

oddsocksjamie wrote:

is it true that if you cancel sky, they keep your name and address on their system so you cant get any new customer deals

If its been 2 years or more since you cancelled then you can re-register as a new customer with the same name. Less than 2 years and they will still have you registered (I found this out during a call last week).

suffolkb

I have been paying Sky £7,50 a month for 2 packages.Last week I gave a months notice to cancel as the offer was coming to an end and I`m out of work at the moment.Got a letter confirming the cancellation.On Monday,Sky `phoned and offered me the £7.50 deal for another 6 months.It keeps the daughters happy so I`ve accepted.