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

1882

Sport & movies aren't part of the £1 per mix price range!

http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts/skytv/pricesandpackages

bluebro

home_alone wrote: »

Just to show how sky are getting worse next monday nights football (remember the premiership games) is Cliftonville V Linfield from the Irish league.

gary

Sky have a lot of subscribers in the three other parts of the UK and not just England and it,s about time we got coverage of other domestic leagues

1882

Coverage of the Irn-Bru Scottish Football League would be very welcome and I'd sign up immediately. That's real football - not yer credit card or bank Premier blah blah blah!

rhino_2

I have just come off the phone to Virgin Media after wanting to upgrade my TV package to XL (their best one). I was on the £35.00 a month deal which got me the Std Tel, Std Broadband and Large TV package. When I called they initially told me it would be an additional £14 in total to upgrade the TV (despite the website saying £9 extra) because it took me out of the 'discount bracket' At this point I politely said in that case I probably wont bother because my first 12 months is nearly up and would see what Sky could offer. At this point I was offered the XL TV package with the STD Telephone and Broadband for £30 a month (£5 cheaper than last year) I have got the extra channels including setanta sports (the 40+ premiership matches I was after in the first place) at a saving of £60 for the year. Happy days!

1882

I've just upgraded online through the Sky website adding Sky Sports - £10 credit applies when you add movies or sport but only through their website (registration necessary of course).

Will watch for a month catching the Champions League & all important Scotland international and will most likely cancel as it's rather expensive (I have Setanta anyway).

Ben2007

I had been planning to contact Sky to try to get the £49 Sky Plus deal but was forced into it today when my Digibox blew up. Called Sky this afternoon and they said the engineer would be £70 or a new box (only Sky Plus available?) for £130.

This evening I called back and spoke to cancelations. I said I couldnt afford the £130 so had no choice but to cancel. As I was a 'loyal customer with good payment record' they offered me the £49 Sky Plus with no installation charges.
Also got £5 a month broadband with no installation charges and Sky talk unlimited with £44 cashback!

:j

malarky

Hi just posted this on the Phones Board but thought I might get some interest here too so here goes-

I've just moved house and on the 2 for £20(TV and Broadband) deal with Virgin. I phoned them up to inform them that I was moving address and to keep the service as it was and to transfer the contract across.

She said that the contract will have to start from scratch from the new address, so I will be tied in to another 12 month deal. Is this the norm in this case? My own fault really as I should have checked the T&Cs before signing up.

I explained that I would need to discuss this with my partner before the transfer takes place but now that I am/may sign up for a new 12 month contract with them does this put me in a position of power? As I could turn around to them and say I'l pay the remainder of my contract up and move to Sky then.

In this case would they really want to keep me or would they just be happy to take the payment of the remainder of the contract? Or could they give me a better deal than the one ive got? Sorry if these are obvious questions but this is the first 12 month deal Ive personally had to deal with and not sure as to the tactics for haggling to get a better deal from the provider etc.

Any help/suggestions would be really useful.

Cheers, M

Kochanski

I've posted this already in the N. Ireland forum but I'm looking for a bit of advice.

For the past month my sky dish has been literally hanging off the wall and pointing at the ground. The j-shaped bit (technical!) has rusted through. I was thinking of upgrading to Sky+ anyway but always considered it to be too expensive. I recently saw an offer through independent sky retailers in N. Ireland offering Sky+ for £49 + £30 installation. I called them and they said a new dish would be an extra £50 and it would be "a couple of weeks". This was over 2 weeks ago now and I've heard nothing.

I'm considering calling sky tomorrow to cancel (I can't watch it anyway!) and see if they will offer me a similar offer. I would assume that a new dish would be included in the installation if needed but now I'm not so sure. I think I'd prefer to go with sky as a) my family have been a customer with them since 1990, b) if anything goes wrong they are easier and more reliable to get in touch with than local dealer and c) they can have it installed on Saturday, not "a couple of weeks".

Any help would be much appreciated!

melissa'smoney

Hi

I'm on the 3 for £30 deal with Virgin....i've wanted sky+/V+ for ages but just cant afford the installation costs and rental.

I know sky are offering alot fo deals at the mo and though ti'd try there, has anyone had aly luck getting V+ with Virgin for FREE or at a REDUCED cost?
Or will sky include sky+ if i moved over to them???

ta xxxx

jackieb

Kochanski wrote: »

I've posted this already in the N. Ireland forum but I'm looking for a bit of advice.

For the past month my sky dish has been literally hanging off the wall and pointing at the ground. The j-shaped bit (technical!) has rusted through. I was thinking of upgrading to Sky+ anyway but always considered it to be too expensive. I recently saw an offer through independent sky retailers in N. Ireland offering Sky+ for £49 + £30 installation. I called them and they said a new dish would be an extra £50 and it would be "a couple of weeks". This was over 2 weeks ago now and I've heard nothing.

I'm considering calling sky tomorrow to cancel (I can't watch it anyway!) and see if they will offer me a similar offer. I would assume that a new dish would be included in the installation if needed but now I'm not so sure. I think I'd prefer to go with sky as a) my family have been a customer with them since 1990, b) if anything goes wrong they are easier and more reliable to get in touch with than local dealer and c) they can have it installed on Saturday, not "a couple of weeks".

Any help would be much appreciated!

I thought a new dish was included in the installation price? I got Sky HD at the end of July and I got a new dish (mine was rusted) included in the £30 installation price. However, my parents got Sky+ a couple of weeks ago and the installer said they wouldn't need their dish replaced as it still looked new (they've had it for a couple of years). I think they should have got something off the installation price if they didn't get the dish. Or at least been allowed to keep the dish incase the one they had went wrong in the future.

Are you in a flat or is your dish somewhere that's not easily accessible? I do know they charge extra if it's not a standard install.