SKY Freesat Moving - £61+ !!! (eek!)

mentat_2

Hi, I currently have Sky Freesat and will be moving from a ground floor flat to a terraced house. I'd like to take my sky freesat with me so I called Sky to see what they'd say....

It'll cost £40 to move it (as usual), however....

Because you cancelled your subscription last november you will need to reactivate it before we could do the move. (?) (I did cancel, but fail to see why that affects moving it)

What does that entail?

Well, you were on the £21 package, so you will need to start that again, but for more than one month.

Why?

Because if you cancel after one month we will charge you more for it.

So, the total cost is at least £61 to move my freesat from one place to another?

Yes. Or you can move it yourself. (!)


After this very interesting conversation I have a few questions...

(1) Can I get a better deal from sky? (I still only want Freesat).

(2) Can I get a reasonably priced private engineer to come and remove from it from the flat and install, tune and configure it at the new house (in the same county - Bexley). Cheapest I've seen so far is £60 + VAT.

(3) Is it easier to do it myself, and if so, what do I need and how do I do it?


Thanks.

penrhyn

If your handy you can easily do it yourself, the main problem you will have is with dish alignment.
Leave your old dish at the flat and get a new one, it will cost around £25.00 (less on Ebay), then you will need satellite grade coax and a couple of F connectors, cable clips and some self amalamating tape to waterproof the connection to the LNB. Some suppliers may lone you a sat finder to help with alignment. If not you will have to use the signal test info in your boxes setup menu to align the dish.

Sky won't bother with your old dish but will fit you a new one, so £61 is probably not that bad, it would cost you twice that to have a Digital TV compatable terrestrial aerial installed.

These people sell bits and bobs for example http://www.uk-satellite-tv.co.uk/digiboxshop_59489_16012.html

feda16

personally i would just leave it and buy it on ebay as previously mentioned because the dish maybe rust at thejoints causing it to crumble and break, get it else where, new(ish) and you'd save some money!

mentat_2

OK, well I'll just unplug the box and take it with me for the moment.

I could buy a replacement dish off ebay and then either fit it myself (which I'm not very confident with) or get someone to do it for me perhaps.

The dish seems to be anything from £15 upwards, so it's not a biggee. And I think it's quite a low priority considering we have to buy a three piece suite, a fridge/freezer, a washer/dryer and a dining table!