Try canceling sky! i just saved££££££

dlb

Hi all.
After reading some posts on here about sky wont let you cancel they will make you a offer to stay, i was brave and phone up today to cancel sky completly!!

I was only on the £21 a month package, and when asked why i wanted to cancel i told them i was only interested in a sports package and there was no way i was paying £36 a month to upgrade. RESULT WAS.....

I have now got full sky package including sports for only £18 for the next 5 months!!!!!!

Thats £3 saving a month and iv got the sports package back!!

Thanks everyone, i thought i would be a unlucky one and end up with no sky, but your advice really worked!!

terriblesaver

Well done dlb - I did it last week and got the same - also saved £6.00 a month on my house and contents by saying I was gonna cancel !

rog2

dlb wrote:

Hi all.
After reading some posts on here about sky wont let you cancel they will make you a offer to stay, i was brave and phone up today to cancel sky completly!!

I was only on the £21 a month package, and when asked why i wanted to cancel i told them i was only interested in a sports package and there was no way i was paying £36 a month to upgrade. RESULT WAS.....

I have now got full sky package including sports for only £18 for the next 5 months!!!!!!

Thats £3 saving a month and iv got the sports package back!!

Thanks everyone, i thought i would be a unlucky one and end up with no sky, but your advice really worked!!

Great - but what will it cost once the 5 months is up, and how long have you had to commit yourself?:rolleyes:

PabloNeruda

I've binned my £31 per month Sky, despite them continually ringing me back offering 6 months @ £7-50 per month.
Better off without it. More to life.

mrcow

PabloNeruda wrote:

I've binned my £31 per month Sky, despite them continually ringing me back offering 6 months @ £7-50 per month.
Better off without it. More to life.

:T

Me too over a year ago.

What a waste of money!

postingalwaysposting

PabloNeruda wrote:

I've binned my £31 per month Sky, despite them continually ringing me back offering 6 months @ £7-50 per month.
Better off without it. More to life.

:T agree :T i have never had and and not felt the need too, its just another expense, and when in the day do you get time to sit down and watch telly if you are always on mse and dont say you watch as you browse cause thats just a waste of electricity and more money :rotfl:

rog2

PabloNeruda wrote:

I've binned my £31 per month Sky, despite them continually ringing me back offering 6 months @ £7-50 per month.
Better off without it. More to life.

Totally agree. We installed satellite TV in 1983 (to get the Italian TV). There were about 20 channels available (Eutelsat - analogue) and one of these was called SKY TV. It was free and showed all sorts of programmes, such as WWF wrestling, The Simpsons and had reasonable sports coverage. After a few years, it split to SKY1 and SKY2, then, as they started getting more sports coverage, split even further, asking viewers, in addition to advertisers, to pay for their channels. With the introduction of digital, SKY now have more channels than most people have hot dinners. Every time a programme becomes popular all they have to do is set up another pay channel - there will always be somebody mug enough to pay for it:rolleyes:
I have no idea what the top rate for SKY is, but even £31 a month is £372 a year. How many UK TV licences can you get for this.
I am not advocating that you should not have the choice of channels, but there are cheaper alternatives - We have Hotbird for the Italian TV (50+ Italian Channels - most junk and about 200 other channels) and Freeview.
You can only watch one Channel at once.:beer:

dlb

Hiya, they havent made me sign up to any contract, if after 5 months i still want to cancel i can, and unfortunatly with 4 kids in the house, i just couldnt cancel it completely, i had enough earache off them when i lowered the package to the £21 a month one.

The way i look at it is, yes i could cope without it completly, but my kids have no spending money or treats other than b/days and xmas pressies, no partys ect, and this offer will save me £90 over the 5 months and my kids are over the moon that they can watch the football again.

So im happy Iv saved money and so is my hubby and the kids.

( This will not stop me trying to get them to let me cancel it again in 5 months time!! LOL )

postingalwaysposting

sorry dlb, i hope you dont think i was being hard on you? yes you have done great saving all that money, very dfw style, you should be proud of yourself :j

Baggiebird1nil

I did the same yesterday. Phoned them and said it was too expensive and I was having to cut down so they knocked 25% off for the next 12 months.

lazy&indebt

Never had it, OH has it though, nearly 1000 channels and there's never anything on! I've got freeview..that's enough!