E Unknown- Sky deal for new customers only £8.99

Del_Boy_Gupta

Spotted this one yesterday in my local woolies.

Apparently if you buy the sky starter pack at woolies, instead of it being the standard £39.99 it has been reduced to £8.99. (it said chicago pack on the display but I checked with staff and it was all the packs as they all have the same barcode).

For the £8.99 you get the remote control, free box and standard installation and you can choose either one month of the sky world packages (normally £41), or two months of sky starter package (normally £19.50). After this time you are free to change your package , but as usual the minimum subscription is for 12 months.

Has anyone seen a better deal out there for sky, for new customers? (and with this one will they still honour any refer a friend incentives- i believe normally currently £30 for you and £30 for the person who refers you?)

As i am about to move, I wanted to know if I did , during the original 12 months, would they be so good as to install it at the new home, after taking it down from the old one at no extra charge?
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ben500

As i am about to move, I wanted to know if I did , during the original 12 months, would they be so good as to install it at the new home, after taking it down from the old one at no extra charge?
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No they won't I cancelled my subscription for this very reason after subscribing to full package since sky launched and they wanted to charge me full price to re-install and no amount of bargaining would get them to move, so I cancelled and haven't looked back since and that was five years ago!

welshblob

They charge ~£40 to install a dish at your new place. I know this as I've recently moved but I wanted to upgrade to sky+ at the same time. As they wouldn't give me the same deal as a new customer, £99 inc vat and installation with no multiroom, I cancelled. The girl said that they had my new address on record now so I won't be eligable for any new customer deals. I have to say I haven't really missed it either as I tend to watch the 5 main channels anyway and I'm not into football. Currently planning to get on the roof to install a new aerial to pick up freeview properly just to give me a few more options.
Rob

System

I am unlucky living in NE Scotland, we dont have channel 5 here yet and no freeview either yet :-(

When i move out of my parents house (asap) sky will be the only option for me other than just having 4 channels, so I will be looking for a cheap deal from them.

Is it worth paying the extra for sky plus or will my video recorder do as good a job?

MoneyMachine_2

When I moved house I decided to upgrade to Sky+ and took the £99 deal by cancelling my old subscription (in girlfriends name) and taking out Sky+ as a new customer (in my name.) Couldn't find a cheaper way to get Sky+ than this. Even the Sky salesman I spoke to recommended this route.

iyiarz

Just my Opinion, but Sky has always been a Con.
I think I'll stick with Freeview. This is how it should be.
You should not have to pay for the standard channels, only for the reciever/dish itself.

They make so much money from advertising but they still charge people to watch standard broadcasts.

I feel sorry for people who can't get freeview and have no other option when it comes to the 'Big Switch Off' of Terrestrial Television.

Bargainbabe_2

I've been a Sky customer for 4years now and i have recently moved. I move around quite a lot as we are a military family but we have always been lucky as there's always been dishes already installed at the new quarters.
When i phoned up to change addresses i was quite cheeky and asked them to upgrade me to Sky plus for £99 as i had been a loyal customer who had always had one of the expensive packages and paid via DD for the duration of my Sky custom. I also pointed out that i had paid for the repairs of my sky box when really there hadn't been a lot wrong with it. Anyway, i went on pointing out how great of a customer i was when the lady on the phone caved in and had a word with her manager. After a lot of bartering and threatening to leave, i managed to get Sky plus installed for £139. If they hadn't of done this though, i would of just closed my account and opened up a new one at our new address in my name instead of my hubbys. The way i see it, they can only say no!

happymummy

Do you get a viewing card in the box too then?

Sorry to be thick lol, I've been thinking about getting sky, I live in a flat with a comunal dish so I really only need a box and a viewing card, I can get a box for free from sky and pay the £20 a month for the channels, whats so different about this then??

Cheers.

Viv