Sky, Virgin & BT TV Haggle down prices and get serious discounts Article Discussion

50Twuncle

Thank you very much for your email dated 5th February 2011, In regards to a 25% discount offer we do not have that offer available, but the HD box you were offered can be applied to your account.

I GIVE UP !!

red_devil

got offered HD for free this weekend. Been with sky on full package for 7 years nearly. In the past have had a couple of discounts.

geoff1057

i have been with sky for over 25 years my bill used to be £2.50 a month ,now it £65 pm ,and never got a bean off them ,sister has been with them 6 years they have offered all kinds of freebies ,hd box, free hd for 6 months ,movies free for 3months, seems that loyalty counts for s0d all , Going to try and get my bill reduced ,if only for 6 months, if not they can cancel the bl00dy lot. ANYONE GOT ANY IDEAS

50Twuncle

Amazing that - Sky was launched in 1989 (22 years ago) !!

red_devil

geoff1057 wrote: »

i have been with sky for over 25 years my bill used to be £2.50 a month ,now it £65 pm ,and never got a bean off them ,sister has been with them 6 years they have offered all kinds of freebies ,hd box, free hd for 6 months ,movies free for 3months, seems that loyalty counts for s0d all , Going to try and get my bill reduced ,if only for 6 months, if not they can cancel the bl00dy lot. ANYONE GOT ANY IDEAS

yes you have to ask they dont come to you. Phone and ask and when they see how long you have been with them they should offer something.

shelleuk

I pay £61 a month to virgin media for
v+ HD box with XL tv with movies and sports
L broadband
M telephone

Is this a good price or is it worth haggling with them, my OH usually deals with the sky etc.

bignred05

shelleuk wrote: »

I pay £61 a month to virgin media for
v+ HD box with XL tv with movies and sports
L broadband
M telephone

Is this a good price or is it worth haggling with them, my OH usually deals with the sky etc.

forgive for being rude, your being well ripped off

get on that phone now, find a similar deal with Sky, or just price a deal to join sky
mention to VM your are going to Sky, if they don't offer you a deal give notice to quit, this is 30 days

during this 30 days I guarantee VM will call you back and ask why you are leaving and can I offer you this deal to stay, if they don't ring which I expect them to you can always cancel you cancellation.

yesterday I phoned VM to cancel my V+ service & my TV deal part of my package

guess who has just phoned me with a deal to keep my TV:beer::beer::beer:

geoff1057

21Twinkle wrote: »

Amazing that - Sky was launched in 1989 (22 years ago) !!

please please accept my apologies for not remembering the exact year that i signed up (can remember we got in the 80s for the cricket world cup ,so that would be 1983 or 1987 )but im so glad that you are there to put me right. amazing that... probably get the info i need, off people who know,......but they probably wont know as much as you .

bignred05

Thought I'd post my past experience's with both SKY and Virgin.

for a number of years I always had SKY, more importantly, "I NEVER" paid top bat for my package, used to always phone up to cancel, mostly at the end of the football season, would always get offered a incentive to stay on etc, even after turning down various offers when I phoned back to resubscribe for the footy season, even then I would get offered something, I never forget the time I phoned asking the night before a major game about a deal, no deal was offered (how dare they not offer me a deal)
anyway the following evening I had to bite the bullet and resubscribe to enable me to watch my team, now without even asking for a deal I was automatically offered 3 month's half price for coming back to sky, unbelievable, never even asked for a deal yet was given one

anyway I eventually binned off SKY and have been with Virgin for a number of years now, and yes you've guessed it

I'm on a good deal with Virgin

without going through all my details with Virgin what I will say is in the last 12 month's I have threatened to either cancel all my VM package (Feb10) yet VM called my back within a couple of days with the deal I was after in the first place (result) or yesterday I phoned VM to cancel my V+ & TV part of my package (kept my B/B & Phone part of package) yet 24 hours later VM have just phoned me back to offer me a deal to keep my V+ & TV package.

firstly I was offered extra B/B for £1 and be able to keep the V+ & TV package, turn this offer down as I'm happy with my B/B as it is
next I was offered a further discount to keep my V+ & TV part of the package

RESULT :money::money::money:

mr.brightside87

apf666 wrote: »

called on monday, currently on 12 months 50% for sky world, paying £26 p/m with free hd mix, this ends this month, ended up with continued 50% for 6 months, no contract, still £26ish, however they would not give hd mix for free or discount, so just cancelled that part which is not worth the £10 per month charge.

will ring again in 6 months, if no discount then, will just cancel!

sky costs may be forced down down if choices/competition from eu become an option following ruling on pub landlady and greek subscription

af

Only on sport and only then if sky decide not to open subscriptions to the whole of Europe. And, from what I have read, the ruling only covers football because of the Saturday 3pm blackout which would mean you would still need a sky subscription to show stuff like boxing and motorsport.

You wouldn't want what's on half the European channels TV wise anyway. Especially Greek TV