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

Trolls

I was absolutely disgusted that Sky was offering their Sky+ box free to new customers and at £99 to existing customers :mad: so I rang the customer services number and followed the process through to cancellations. I then told her I wanted to cancel my subscription because of this reason and, amazingly, she offered me a FREE Sky+ box with HALF PRICE installation!!! :j
I rang on a sunday, about midday.

Trolls

I rang today (Sun 7th June), told them I wanted to disconnect becausee they were offering new customers Sky+ for free when existing customers were being charged £99 and I was offered a free Sky+ boz with half price installation - good luck!!!

jem1276

Brother in law is not a Sky customer and is looking to join up to Sky + HD. Looking at the advice here and Martin's article, going through quidco will make him £130:money:but cannot see how he puts in our details so we both get vouchers. Do they not do that anymore?

nandrews

I joined Sky thru' the recent Cashback Kings offer of £100 and £25 Tesco voucher. But nothing has been returned and the Cashback site is showing Rejected against Sky in my online 'statement'.
I have made a claim but is this a common finding with others?

I am obviously going to fight this to the bitter end if the £100 is not forthcoming!

Nigel
P.S, Fortunately I had printed out the offer page showing me logged in. But that it precious little proof of a £125 deal!

DelBoyPhil

i think a lot of people will cancel sky cos its over priced £45 for the full package is just bad!

John_in_pinner

Please can anyone tell me if they have tried any of the offers such as fox to get live sport on the internet?

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nansenst

Watch out for refurbished boxes - we got one when we joined Sky but they didnt mention that some of the functionality wouldnt be there - we cant get the on demand free -tv replay service - they want £65 to replace the box!

On another note - in the digital tv article http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/cheaper-sky-cheap-cable it mentions going onto USwitch and entering the channels you want to watch then it will give you a good comparison between companies. I've followed the link but cant find this channel by channel selection. Anyone know where it is?

mleonard79

I've just rang due to my Sky+ box being faulty - I really wanted an HD box but was also hoping for a bit of a discount in order to pay for the new sub. I was offered a free Sky HD box and free installation but this couldn't be combined with any money off deals. I still think this is a better deal than the 20% off for 6 months as it's only worth £54. The clincher was the fact I could get it installed this Thursday - so only 2 days to wait and the faulty box will be history :j

katthehat

Advice please............digital starts in our area (cumbria) on thursday, think it's BBC2 we loose first!! I want a box that i can record on to watch whenever, but don't want to have an overpriced monthly thing going on, what would anyone suggest and where would i get what you suggest...lol Thanks for any answers, i no nothing when it comes to this sort of thing!

BexTech

katthehat wrote: »

Advice please............digital starts in our area (cumbria) on thursday, think it's BBC2 we loose first!! I want a box that i can record on to watch whenever, but don't want to have an overpriced monthly thing going on, what would anyone suggest and where would i get what you suggest...lol Thanks for any answers, i no nothing when it comes to this sort of thing!

If you don't want a monthly fee, then you have the choice of either a Freeview PVR or a Freesat PVR. It is Sky who charge a monthly fee (£10 ish per month) for the recording function of their PVR unless you subscribe to their service.


http://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview/Products/Digital-TV-Recorders

http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=products.Products&type_id=3

Freeview PVRs often sold on other sites like SVP, BigPockets, Boffer etc for lower prices too.