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

jammin_2

blue_mum wrote: »

Hi

Just coming here for a little rant, just phoned up sky as we are moving house, the new house already has a dish, and they said it will cost us £60 to move.

Do you have Sky+ or standard Sky? Sky+ needs two cable feeds to the dish, standard Sky needs one feed. How many feeds are present to the dish in the new house?

If it matches, just plug in the box and go. Then email Sky and inform them of your change of address. £60 saved.

By the way, if you have Sky+ but your new house has only one feed to the box and a single LNB, you can buy a quad LNB on eBay for less than a tenner. Coax cable can be bought online too, or from some DIY stores. Get good quality satellite coax though.

If you don't fancy laying the extra cable (I'm playing devil's advocate that your new house has only one feed to the dish and you have Sky+ / SkyHD), then tell Sky you'll cancel. This usually results in a free "house move" visit. Well, £60 reduced to £30, but stick to your guns at it'll come down to FOC.

blue_mum

Thank you , I am not sure how many feeds there are, moving in on friday and will have to check then unles i can get hold of the landlord before and check . We have sky plus and fingers crossed I can instal it at the new house by my self. If not I think I will call and cancel and see where it gets me!! Thanks for the advice.

Blue

blue_mum

Well a turn out for the books, I called back hit the moving and want to cancel button, got put through to a different department and said I'm going to cancel because of not being happy to pay the moving costs, the guy quickly said he'd see what he can do, an with in minutes he aranged a free move on the day a needed it for :j,happy person now, thanks for listening .

Blue

jammin_2

blue_mum wrote: »

an with in minutes he aranged a free move on the day a needed it for

Job's a good 'un.

superstylin

blue_mum wrote: »

Well a turn out for the books, I called back hit the moving and want to cancel button, got put through to a different department and said I'm going to cancel because of not being happy to pay the moving costs, the guy quickly said he'd see what he can do, an with in minutes he aranged a free move on the day a needed it for :j,happy person now, thanks for listening .

Blue

Just did exactly the same. I didn't even have to try beyond 'I'd like to cancel as I'm not willing to pay the installation fee' and they waived the £60. Result!

Wise_Bat_2

Hi,
Sky have become a pain. Why do they talk to you like cr*p when you what to cancel and quest everything you say?

Call twice now to cancel I admit first time tried to get deal but no joy so left it till today. Now here's the pain in a**e thing. I what to cancel please? "Blurr blurr" ok just cancel me? "oh i notice you changed from a standard box to having a 2nd sky+ box on your multi room now as from May 2008" Yes i brought it. You can't cancel your sky+ sub of £10 a month till May everything else you can" Why? "You are on a new 12 month contract when you change it" I have not been informed of this or was not told when phoning to pair card with new box that was orginal in the standard box upstairs, plus it was brought via 3rd party and not through sky? No letter has been sent or email informing of this new contract. "there was a letter sent according to our records" well i an't got it or was inform so why should i be on this contract its a joke... rant rant rant "err well i can cancel it on here you will have to email in and explain to get it cancelled" Right what ever thank for all the help NOT!

How and why can they do this? I haven't signed any contract or been informed of this change. Has anyone else had this prob?

Sorry to go on very angry now. Poor service to exsit customers compair to new ones.

petersandyglen

:j To everyone with Sky+ You can now buy a humax freesat+HD box £299 but you will be able to enjoy all free sat channels, record 2 programmes at once or watch one and record the other, and with a 320 G.B. hard drive, have plenty of room for storage. The dish and L.N.B. are compatible, so use your old sky dish and cable, no need to re-align dish, it uses the same satellite.

unitedwestand

Cost cutting lol? :rotfl:


Can't believe people are even paying to watch digital content in this day and age, yet alone being forced into watching adverts and repeats on top of that as well.:huh:

Seriously, if you haven’t already....

Connect you PC to your TV if you haven't already, depending on your PC and connections sometimes all it takes is one cable (£2) and 1 min, its that easy...

Being able to stop, rewind and record TV, isnt a new phenomena, people that have had media centre PCs and TV cards have been able to do that for years.

Companies that sell this function as a 'service' have actually just taken the already existing technology (like recording on to hard drives etc) slapped a brand name and market it to suggest its 'revolutionary'.... a lot of rubbish.

You can either plug an existing freeview box in to your PC or buy a freeview card (£20) for a start, that gives you a good few channels to start with.

A few clicks and you can record series, films etc just the same as any other services, you can even set it up to cut the adverts out and convert and save programs to folders on your PC its easy!

Then you've got masses of free online videos, international TV channels etc... there's loads of great free legal content from live sports to movies if you know where to look.

The cost? As above, it can be as little as (£22) for life!!!

tomexeter

I've been with Virgin Media since they used to be Eurobell, via Telewest and whatever else they've been called over the years...

For the past year or two I've been paying £43.25 a month (not including call costs):

£11.00 telephone line rental
£ 1.75 voicemail
£18.00 Broadband size M
£11.50 TV size L
£ 1.00 fully itemised billing

because the West Country area is going digital this spring, Sky have been mail-shotting us for a few months with special offers to switch to them. I've considered them but not done anything about it until just before Xmas when I finally got around to calling Virgin. Sky was offering a free Sky+ box (£30 set-up fee) with TV, wireless broadband and free eveing & weekend calls for £17 a month. I asked Virgin why I should stay with them, paying more than twice the amount...

the call-handler dillied and dallied around a bit, telling me that Sky were getting rid of old Sky+ boxes and the V+ box was a more advanced version. To be honest, I wasn't too bothered about having the Plus service - it would just end up recording hours of stuff I would never watch! She couldn't give me a free V+ box... She pointed out that the TV package I was on gave me more channels than Sky's £17 one so I would have to add more to get the same amount...

So, disregarding the Plus box, she said she could match Sky's cost to give me the same telephone, broadband and TV deal I was on, for £28.75 a month, saving £13.50.

So I end up with exactly the same package as I was already on, (less the £1 itemised billing as I hardly ever call out on the phone) but save myself £162 a year! Yay!

It really is worth making that call. :T :rotfl:

GazH

Hi All,

I've decided to get V+ and XL TV.

currently got
M phone
M BB
talk unlimited
for about £28

I have been told I can add XL TV to this and it will all be £39

before christamas I rang up and was offered the V+ box for £30.. decided to not go for it at the time.

Unfortunately this offer has ended (and there was no way the member of retentions was budging on the £99 fee)..

Apparently they won't budge as this is cheaper than anything you can get on sky....

has anyone managed to get a box for less than £99

Cheers

Gaz