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

the_tired_one

Try this.

Call NTL and say that you are thinking of changing your phone supplier-but would consider staying aith NTL if they were to offer you a 'low user' discount (basically knock £5 off your existing monthly line rental)

louisg

Called sky yesterday and only manamged to get sky + for £100 with no multi room.

rang back today and said how much they messed me around, Ian in disconections was most helpful and a really nice bloke.

He gave me Sky+ for £65, no multiroom and free conection

Well happy
Thanks all

Also phoned NTL regarding broadband charges they gave me £6 off for 6 months

result :beer:

taxationistheft

hi. Do/did all you people who got Sky+ have at least one premium package? I'm on the basic family package at £21/m and would like sky+ without the extra premium channel cost.

louisg

i have sky sports world which is classed as 2 premium channels at £36 a month

So yes. Dont know anyone who has it without 2 premium channels as you have to pay £10 on top if you dont.

Louis

taxationistheft

taxationistheft wrote:

hi. Do/did all you people who got Sky+ have at least one premium package? I'm on the basic family package at £21/m and would like sky+ without the extra premium channel cost.

OK, to answer my own question. Just rang Sky (6pm). 20ish minutes on hold, thru to off-shore, then transfered to cancellations.

Told the nice girl that I was annoyed at collegues etc being offered this and that, etc. She offered me Sky+ for £49 and half price line rental (i'm currently on the £21 family package) for 6 months.
I told her I wasn't interested in paying over £21 for TV (which i'm not...I still think that is a rip off..but the wife likes her Sky one), so she put me on hold for a couple of mins whilst she spoke to her manager.
Came back and offered 12months half price. Which kind of brings me up to what I'm currently paying but I'm getting sky + which is really what I was after anyway.
I did ask if I could drop the package size or the sky+ charge but she was having none of it.
Delivery next wednesday too....or March for a weekend call!!!

MARTIMAN

Im with Telewest/blueyonder & currently pay 15.50 for the supreme package(soon to go upto 17.50), & 25.00 for broadband. Ive just phoned them, telling them im looking at different products to save money, ie sky,preview,wandadoo ect, & before I take any of their offers up, was just checking to see if they could offer me a better deal, seeing that ive been a loyal customer for nearly 10 yrs. Theyve offered to reduce broadband to 17.99, & for the next 4 mths, 1/2 price supreme pkage.

sullly

MARTIMAN wrote:

Im with Telewest/blueyonder & currently pay 15.50 for the supreme package(soon to go upto 17.50), & 25.00 for broadband. Ive just phoned them, telling them im looking at different products to save money, ie sky,preview,wandadoo ect, & before I take any of their offers up, was just checking to see if they could offer me a better deal, seeing that ive been a loyal customer for nearly 10 yrs. Theyve offered to reduce broadband to 17.99, & for the next 4 mths, 1/2 price supreme pkage.

was your broadband 512 recently upgraded to 2meg , only been paying 17.99 since i downgraded to 256 2 years ago, they then upgraded it to 512 at no charge and recently upped it again to 2 meg , must be easier to have all the base packages on same speed

MARTIMAN

No, ive boardband elite, upto 4Mb speed, which i am now getting for 17.99. If they didnt offer me any discount i was going to ask to be down graded to 2Mb, seeing that ive only recently been upgraded from that, & wouldnt have known the difference anyway.

shays_mum

taxationistheft, so did you still have to pay the £10 p/m sky+ charge?

Wayne1_2

Have a look at https://www.satalogue.com/section1/page2.htm where they have a 200 free English satellite channels and radio stations for use in the UK box for £99 + fitting.

It is also worth having a look around their other pages at the alternatives they have including football packages.

Indications for installation prices are linked at the bottom of the pages to https://www.ukapsi.com