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

lee634

The £60 charge is for an engineer to come out and reinstall the dish etc.

if you can do this yourself all the better

PM me if you need to discuss how to do this

herbal

Was wondering for advice.

Had sky for 18months but in october took out another multiroom offer to get sky+. So will i be able to get any offers got the full package and dont watch movies so they will be going anyway now.

SystemFan

I posted this on a little used thread, but may be of more use here.

I have been with sky for 18 months or so, mostly paying the top package, but on advice from this site gave haggling a go.
I called them on 0800 5875707 When asked to press the * (star) key twice don't and just wait you be put through to Customer services

20 mins at 8p per min saved already :beer:
(saynoto0870.com)

I said to them I simply couldnt afford Sky anymore for the time being, and would have to leave, and was immediately offered my package at half price for 3 months. I replied it was still too much, so we talked about downgrading, and when they offered me the 2 mix package at £7 per month for 6 months I gave in. For me I only owe them £14 up until mid Oct now, and thats just fine
I know I have an inferior service, but hey the footie's nearly finished and Ive saved £238.
Great !! :j

Lyndahayes

I just tried the haggle method with SKY Digital and I asked to be put through to the disconnections dept. They were very friendly and I kept your advised 'smile' in my voice and hey presto! 3 months half price! That is so cool! I am so happy! I did say that I needed to go to Freeview and that was when they offered me the half price deal. WOW! I know it is only a small amount of money, but why shouldn't we keep some for ourselves! This is so worth a try and if you haven't done it: DO IT TODAY! The smile in the voice and the mere mention of Freeview does the trick.
Thanks every1
Lynda x

zorber

totalguitar wrote:

I rang sky last thursday to ask about moving sky to my new house and was told it was £60 to move it. Told them couldn't afford it due to house move and i would just cancel it. I was hoping they would make an offer of a cheaper or free move but they said they would cancel my sky after 1 months notice (7th May). Any suggestions on how to get either existing sky+ box reconnected or a new package (in wife's name and new address) ? Seems some people are lucky with freebies and others not so lucky !

so long as you havent told them where you are moving to just resubscribe as a new customer in say your name. get free install plus 3 months half price.
Once they have installed standard box and every thing is running ok. Connect your sky + box (you will need to bring your old LMB from your old dish) drill and connect the extra feed to the sky dish again very easy to do. When all that is set up phone up sky tell them you have a sky plus box and wish toa ctivate it on your account and get sky plus (this is all free if you are on one of the top packages).
Then sell you other standard box on ebay.

ministox5

SystemFan wrote:

I posted this on a little used thread, but may be of more use here.

I have been with sky for 18 months or so, mostly paying the top package, but on advice from this site gave haggling a go.
I called them on 0800 5875707 When asked to press the * (star) key twice don't and just wait you be put through to Customer services

20 mins at 8p per min saved already :beer:
(saynoto0870.com)

I said to them I simply couldnt afford Sky anymore for the time being, and would have to leave, and was immediately offered my package at half price for 3 months. I replied it was still too much, so we talked about downgrading, and when they offered me the 2 mix package at £7 per month for 6 months I gave in. For me I only owe them £14 up until mid Oct now, and thats just fine
I know I have an inferior service, but hey the footie's nearly finished and Ive saved £238.
Great !! :j

great just used the freephone number following your instructions was on for a while but worth it thanks

zorber

Lyndahayes wrote:

I just tried the haggle method with SKY Digital and I asked to be put through to the disconnections dept. They were very friendly and I kept your advised 'smile' in my voice and hey presto! 3 months half price! That is so cool! I am so happy! I did say that I needed to go to Freeview and that was when they offered me the half price deal. WOW! I know it is only a small amount of money, but why shouldn't we keep some for ourselves! This is so worth a try and if you haven't done it: DO IT TODAY! The smile in the voice and the mere mention of Freeview does the trick.
Thanks every1
Lynda x

Yes the best deal is to cancel and let your subscription run out then the day it gets turned off phone them up and ask to come back.
The latest offer doing it this way is 6 months half price quoting EASTER. this offer is suppose to finish on the 18th may

zorber

avondale wrote:

Anyone have any thoughts on the SKY repair plan, i pay £7.50 a month for this and have never used it in about 3 yrs, this is obviously setting me back about £90 a year. Is it actually worth having or am i answering my own question as will it cost a fortune if anything goes wrong.
Also there's a new 0800 number posted on another thread for SKY don't line there coffers with 0870, RING FREE on 08005875707.
Mods please move elsewhere if posted in wrong place

why would you pay for this service. if sky goes wrong you cancel then resubscribe in your oh name or if needs be buy a second hand box from ebay which would be cheaper than paying £90 per year.

ministox5

just rang sky on freephone 0800 587 5707 dont pess star key just hold. On for a long time waiting but eventually got through to customer services got the 25% off for 12 months plus got extra channels for less than i am paying now saving 36 quid a year. ps got the nice scottish lady.

chipbeck

herbal wrote:

Was wondering for advice.

Had sky for 18months but in october took out another multiroom offer to get sky+. So will i be able to get any offers got the full package and dont watch movies so they will be going anyway now.

I got two sky + boxes fitted in December (£98 for the pair) but it took them 6 visits to get them sorted. This being the case I complained and they gave me my first three months free, which I thought was reasonable. Anyway they now want me to start paying the £52 a month I agreed from the outset. So I rang customer services and told the nice asian lady that I was offered 3 months half price when I signed up and that the initial three free months they gave me had nothing to do with this. She said she couldn't do anything about it so I got her to talk to her supervisor. Result is another three months at half price. I can't wait for July to ring em again.