Sky+ HD box - New customer

mat.83

Just a quick question regarding Sky haggling!

I am thinking of joining Sky in next couple of weeks.. Rather than getting the standard sky+ box, ideally I would prefer the Sky+ HD box (just for the extra storage space.)

I know the current deal is £49 for the Sky+HD box when subscribing to the HD package.

If I were to just subscribe to the entertainment pack (and not the HD pack) what are my chances of Sky letting me have the Sky+ HD box at a discount price (say for about £100?)

Any help/advice would be great.

Pokerlad

Unfortunately not, they wont be interested. The £10 p/m is the real profit for them and thats why they are willing to make a lose on the box. Without the substidy expect to pay approx £299.

A little while ago Tesco were selling boxes POWF for £199 and some stores may still have some. Ebay may be another option.

jamesprime19

You can cancel the HD sub within 30 days. That's what we did. Got the box for £49 and cancelled the HD sub within a couple of weeks via email and kept the entertainment, music, news and kids mixes and just use it as a sky+ box except with bigger hard drive and BBC HD, channel 4 hd, itv HD and luxe tv hd.

Pokerlad

jamesprime19 wrote: »

You can cancel the HD sub within 30 days. That's what we did. Got the box for £49 and cancelled the HD sub within a couple of weeks via email and kept the entertainment, music, news and kids mixes and just use it as a sky+ box except with bigger hard drive and BBC HD, channel 4 hd, itv HD and luxe tv hd.

We'll you appear to have been lucky there. Officially the deal for the £49 box is that you take and keep the HD pack for 12months. Thats how they claw the substidy back.