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

kah22

Picked this tip up on another forum:

just letting you all know about a little cheat if you have a spare sly plus box..if you ring sly and tell them your card is damaged ie your kid has pulled it out and snapped it.
they will send you a new card at the cost of a tenner,and they only switch off the premium chanels on the old card,BUT STILL leave the recording function active.so you can put the old card in a second box and use it as a FREEVIEW RECORDER,,.RECORDS ch4 and 5now as well...mines been doing this now for 12months.

As far as I understand it will also play back all the FTA channels you may have recorded but not premium channels

Kevin

berriballs

Spendaholic_Chick wrote: »

you have to subscribe to hd for a year so that would work out more expensive though.

What's multi room lite?

multiroom lite is half price if you dont have movies or sports

jammin_2

kah22 wrote: »

Picked this tip up on another forum:

just letting you all know about a little cheat if you have a spare sly plus box..if you ring sly and tell them your card is damaged ie your kid has pulled it out and snapped it.
they will send you a new card at the cost of a tenner,and they only switch off the premium chanels on the old card,BUT STILL leave the recording function active.so you can put the old card in a second box and use it as a FREEVIEW RECORDER,,.RECORDS ch4 and 5now as well...mines been doing this now for 12months.

As far as I understand it will also play back all the FTA channels you may have recorded but not premium channels

Kevin

What if you cancel your account? Does the first viewing card then lose it's record facilities, as does the new viewing card?

Spendaholic_Chick

berriballs wrote: »

multiroom lite is half price if you dont have movies or sports

I didnt know about that - Idon't have either of those, but haven't been offered any discount on the multi room. Will phone sky tomorrow

kah22

jammin wrote: »

What if you cancel your account? Does the first viewing card then lose it's record facilities, as does the new viewing card?

As far as I know the old card will still continue to record. It appears that all that is cancelled on the old card is the subscription stations - the new card is the one that is cancelled completely! Though maybe someone else can confirm

Kevin

eslick

Spendaholic_Chick wrote: »

you have to subscribe to hd for a year so that would work out more expensive though.

What's multi room lite?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1476119&highlight=multiroom

it doesnt say you need to sign up to the HD package for a year just sky tv for a year

Sky+HD: £9.75 pm for the HD Pack. Sky Movies/Sports HD channels depend on your Sky TV package. Sky+HD box £49 when you take the HD Pack and Sky TV and existing customers sign up to another 12 month minimum term for Sky TV.

spikescot2005

On the 9th of Feb i phoned Sky to cancel by subscription and was transferred to another department. I was offered the same TV package at £22 a month, free broadband and free line rental for 12 months if i stayed with Sky for a further 12 months. I accepted the offer but would need to phone back with my MAC code.

To save me from giving them a call i was told Sky would give me a call on Sunday which never happened.

So today i phone up Sky to hand over my MAC code and switch everything to them to be passed from person to person and then told that this offer couldn't be given to me and shouldn't have been offered, im furious.

After complaining as to why i was offered this in the first place i was offered line rental for £5 a month for 6 months and 25% off my Sky TV package which would mean i would get the line rental free for 6 months.

I told them i would get back to them but would be more then likly to cancel as they i feel i had been mis-sold.

What do you guys think i should do?

Kentmumof1

hi,
after being on the phone ot sky for ages trying to upgrade my package i got offered sky+ for £15 plus £30 installuation, then £5 month for telephone line for six months, once i decided to take the offer (is it any good ?) they asked for payment by card, i explained I don't have a card i have no debit or credit cards (got in to much trouble before), but i pay monthly by DD, apparantly they cannot add it to your account to deduct on the next payment, so after all that i couldn't do it,has anyone else had this ???:mad:

spikescot2005

spikescot2005 wrote: »

On the 9th of Feb i phoned Sky to cancel by subscription and was transferred to another department. I was offered the same TV package at £22 a month, free broadband and free line rental for 12 months if i stayed with Sky for a further 12 months. I accepted the offer but would need to phone back with my MAC code.

To save me from giving them a call i was told Sky would give me a call on Sunday which never happened.

So today i phone up Sky to hand over my MAC code and switch everything to them to be passed from person to person and then told that this offer couldn't be given to me and shouldn't have been offered, im furious.

After complaining as to why i was offered this in the first place i was offered line rental for £5 a month for 6 months and 25% off my Sky TV package which would mean i would get the line rental free for 6 months.

I told them i would get back to them but would be more then likly to cancel as they i feel i had been mis-sold.

What do you guys think i should do?

Any ideas, is it worth taking further action if so what?

[Deleted User]

My Dad has been a Sky subscriber for years and I've talked him into having Sky+.

However, I noticed its £50 + £30 installation for new Sky customers and £100 + £60 installation for existing Sky customers.

Talk about not valuing customers loyalty !!!!

I was wondering what would happen if my Dad cancelled his Sky contract and then phoned a few days later and said he wanted Sky+? Or would they suss he was a previous sky customer and refuse?

Any existing Sky customers got Sky to give them a good deal on Sky+? Whats the best approach?