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

shays_mum

Was just offered 25% off any sky package for a year for myself & my folks!!-if you want this when you get through mention the 'redemption rate' that your friend/family member got

gcpc1

This is my first post on the Forum, so I hope this is the right place to post this.

Yesterday, I purchased a 40hr Sky+ box for £65 total cost and was so chuffed that I wanted to pass on how I did it.

I'm an exisiting Sky customer (for over 12 months) and wanted to get Sky+ but baulked at the £259 (£199 + £60 installation fee) exisiting customers are currently being charged, compared to new customers who can get it for £89 (if subscribing to a Premium channel.)

I had a look on eBay to see what I could find. There was a guy advertising "Get Sky+ for £50" for 99p. He had 700+ deals and 99%+ positive feedback and talked a good game in his advert, so I thought I'd give it a go. Nothing ventured nothing gained and only 99p.

He e-mailed me details which said, basically, this. Phone Sky and ask to be put through to their cancellation Dept. They will ask you why and you say you are an exisiting loyal customer and wanted to obtain Sky+ but were fed-up that exisiting customers are discriminated against, compared to new ones etc etc.

I did this and straight away was offered a 40hr Sky+ box for £65 total cost - no hidden extras, so I'm very pleased. The engineer's coming next month.

Points to bear in mind. 1) Always be polite and courteous to the operator and don't start yelling at them 2) If they call your bluff phone back 10 minutes later and ask to cancel your, er, cancellation 3) the £50 offer has pretty much gone and the best deals are now for £65. This is for a new box, not a refurbished one 4) I currently pay £43/month for the Sports/Movie channels and so maybe the higher your current subscription the more chance you have of succeeding.

From buying off eBay to confirming the engineer's appointment took no more than 45 minutes.

I hope this is of help to folk.

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

Can any one help ? Had Sky installed Sept the full package Sky World but i have lost my job and am struggling to keep it going , now i know i can downgrade the package probably to just 2 lots at £15 but can i cancell the whole subscription as im still in the 12 month tie in ? Is there away out of this
PS is this Free Phone No 0f 0800 731 6965 still available or do i still use the 0870 rip off line !

dean2230

I have just completed my 3 months at half price.

I was prepared to haggle for Sky+ at £49 multi room with no £10 extra subscription.

Firstly 08007316965 got me through on option 2 had to wait almost 40 minutes but it cost them not me so I wasn't going to put it down.

I think I got through to an offshore call centre who put me in the queue for cancellation. This took me to a Scottish operator in Livingstone where the fun began.

Firstly I was adamament I wished to cancel giving my reasons, I was told that I had had 3 months at 50%.

I mentioned sky plus and was offered it for £199 plus £60 fitting (yeah right) for straight sky+, if I took it out as multi-room I could have it for £99 plus an extra £10 (£52.50 a month yeah right again) I explained I had called to cancel as it was too expensive and in no way did i want pay more.

I was then offered Sky + for £65 with no strings and no Multi-room now we were getting there.

I got out of the rep that Skys new boxes would be on line very soon so it was likely that other good offers would be available, that was the clincher, I stook to my guns to cancel at which point she offered me 2 further moths with 40% off the full package to give me more time to wait for an attractive offer.

I will save Freeview and TUTV for February.

:xmassign: :beer:

Frank_Wells

I logged on to "Christianity Today.com" and found a site "http://www.inklineglobal.com/adsales/abc/tvo_offer_fire_abcnews.html?mcp=GB "that advertises 1000+ TV channels on your computor - for a one off fee of £20. With the appropriate cableing from PC to TV it sounds terrific -especially if you cannot recieve freeview.Has anyone got this up and running?

Ash3G

Frank_Wells wrote:

I logged on to "Christianity Today.com" and found a site "http://www.inklineglobal.com/adsales/abc/tvo_offer_fire_abcnews.html?mcp=GB "that advertises 1000+ TV channels on your computor - for a one off fee of £20. With the appropriate cableing from PC to TV it sounds terrific -especially if you cannot recieve freeview.Has anyone got this up and running?

All these types of programmes do is allow you to watch existing webstreams on your TV. This also assumes your computer is up to it.

Bear in mind to make use of the above you'd need to leave your computer on all day, and think of the extra noise generated/electricity used as a result.

The other word of warning, most of these "1000+" channels consitute of shopping and religious channels from around the world. A fair few of these would not be English langauge. The only UK channels I know of that stream are BBC Parliament, QVC, Bid TV and Price Drop TV. You might get a few illegal rebroadcasts from the states as well depending on how above-board the provider is.

So to conclude:

You won't get any UK channels, except for if you want shopping channels. So forget BBC One, UKTV Gold etc...

You will need a computer up to the job with a decent TV out + soundcard.

Most streams you can view for free anyway, so just do some googling and save yourself £20!

Freeview will eventually have as good a coverage as the analogue channels, but you will just need to sit tight for the next 3-7 years for the coverage holes to be filled.

:xmassign:

dean2230

gcpc1 wrote:

This is my first post on the Forum, so I hope this is the right place to post this.

Yesterday, I purchased a 40hr Sky+ box for £65 total cost and was so chuffed that I wanted to pass on how I did it.

I'm an exisiting Sky customer (for over 12 months) and wanted to get Sky+ but baulked at the £259 (£199 + £60 installation fee) exisiting customers are currently being charged, compared to new customers who can get it for £89 (if subscribing to a Premium channel.)

I had a look on eBay to see what I could find. There was a guy advertising "Get Sky+ for £50" for 99p. He had 700+ deals and 99%+ positive feedback and talked a good game in his advert, so I thought I'd give it a go. Nothing ventured nothing gained and only 99p.

He e-mailed me details which said, basically, this. Phone Sky and ask to be put through to their cancellation Dept. They will ask you why and you say you are an exisiting loyal customer and wanted to obtain Sky+ but were fed-up that exisiting customers are discriminated against, compared to new ones etc etc.

I did this and straight away was offered a 40hr Sky+ box for £65 total cost - no hidden extras, so I'm very pleased. The engineer's coming next month.

Points to bear in mind. 1) Always be polite and courteous to the operator and don't start yelling at them 2) If they call your bluff phone back 10 minutes later and ask to cancel your, er, cancellation 3) the £50 offer has pretty much gone and the best deals are now for £65. This is for a new box, not a refurbished one 4) I currently pay £43/month for the Sports/Movie channels and so maybe the higher your current subscription the more chance you have of succeeding.

From buying off eBay to confirming the engineer's appointment took no more than 45 minutes.

I hope this is of help to folk.

I got offered this deal and more just by standing on the 99p you spent at ebay was really a scam!

shays_mum

I was told that the £65 was a one off, that was ok, but the additional £10 i won't be charged for multi-room, was actually for the privilage of using the sky box to record etc, is this correct?, so in essence, I AM being charged the £10!!!!!!! can anyone advise?!, thanks in advance

raeble

Some more information is required - What package are you currently on? What have you signed up to? Do you have multi-room? If you are subscribing to $Ky+ without having sports and or movies you will be charged the £10 subscription fee. This is waived if you subscribe to either or both of those packages. If you ever stop paying your sky plus subscription then your box reverts to a normal digi-box and you cannot view any of the programs that you have recorded.

charjoe

Hello there.
I dont have telewest in my area & have contemplated SKY, but , looking at the threads, it seems they are major rip offs!

I was at my sons football training the other day (Junior Blades hurrah) & noticed in the bar they had a stack of channels not available on Freeview, and thebarman said they didnt pay a penny as it was some kind of Eurosat set up. I dint know much, but free sounds good!!

I have been doing a bit of research, and found the site https://www.hisat.com & seen some systems there - they cost £300 ish to set up (include dish, tuner, hdd recorder etc). My question is - does anyone have any experince of this set up & can they offer advice.
I would like some sports channels etc & whatever else I can get for free.

Help gratefully accepted!!!!!

Kevin