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

Middle_Sister

At Morrisons this lunchtime I asked the Sky chap about Sky+HD and it was in his leaflet at £249 but as I started to walk away he said there was a special offer on this week and he could get it installed for me for £99. He reckoned it was finishing this weekend but ......

bennyboy123_2

hi money people ive had sky for 12 months now on the 2 mix, after i got my sky mag i noticed the price is increasing again what can i do and can they offer me anything to stay, i dont have sky + but would rather have a discount and if i take any of these deals would i be tied into another 12 month contract thankyou

notsolucky_2

rang today to say I need to save some money wasnt offered any deals so cancelled! i am currently paying 48.oo a month so will be a good saving,hopefully we all will be able to survive without sky we will be switched off july 29th!
havent told the kids yet!!

inamabilis

Just got this in an email - don't know if it's any good to anyone?

SPECIAL OFFER!! GET SKY TV FOR FREE!!
If you’ve been enjoying Live Roulette (or Live Blackjack) on Virgin or Freeview, then we have a great special offer for you. Live Roulette wants you to keep watching on TV as well as playing online, so if you want Sky TV we’ll pay for your installation AND 2 month’s rental – this is a great special offer worth over £60. For further information and terms send an email to [EMAIL="marketing@netplaytv.com"]marketing@netplaytv.com[/EMAIL] with the subject line ‘FREE SKY TV OFFER’. We’ll reply with full details on how to claim.

dmg24

I assume you are then tied to a twelve month contract, and possibly a minimum package?

Would be good to get more details x

inamabilis

I would assume so but since I already have sky tv I simply ignored the email

LizM_2

What's the best time of day to contact VM to get the price down. I don't want to spend forever on hold.

I've just discovered that we are paying more than the advertised full prices for our services!!!

nigey670

I hope this may help anyone out there trying to save a few quid.

My original package was 6mix and extra sub £31 p.m

and Setanta (only for boxing) £12.99 p.m


Rang Setanta 0191 5013601 to cancel but was offered £7.50 p.m for 6 months

Rang Sky reduced to 4 mix (£2 less pm) and was offered the extra sub for half price for 6 months

Total saving each month £12.49

Its always worth trying. I was prepared to give up Setanta and the extra sub if necessary but the saving changed my mind (for now)

bakerlad1983

I rang sky not expecting anything but got sky talk anytime free for being a loyal customer, the woman also mentioned they are looking at getting another 18 HD channels by the end of the year and they would be surprised if they passed many onto VM.

BexTech

bakerlad1983 wrote: »

I rang sky not expecting anything but got sky talk anytime free for being a loyal customer, the woman also mentioned they are looking at getting another 18 HD channels by the end of the year and they would be surprised if they passed many onto VM.

Well I doubt at the moment they'd pass their own HD channels over to VM.

However they couldn't stop other broadcasters doing deals with VM to carry their HD channels. Sky might 'pay' some channels to go exclusive to satellite for a while - but that's all they could do.

VM however have said they have no interest in carrying any more HD channels and they think VOD will save them! :rolleyes:

Remember Sky own no satellites, Sky don't 'carry' channels like cable does.

Sky, ITV, BBC, Ch4, Five and all other broadcasters lease capacity on satellites from SES Astra or Eutelsat, they then pay an uplink provider (Sky also have up-link facilities, not everyone uses them, not by a long shot) - so they don't have to involve Sky here at all. If they want an EPG number on a Sky box, then they pay Sky a yearly fee for this. They may decide they want to become part of a subscription package, they can either like Setanta or the Adult type channels run the subscription themselves or they could ask Sky to collect the subscription and they get a cut out of it - hence your 6 mixes for example, each channel in these mixes gets a cut of the subscription Sky collects.