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Sky, Virgin & BT TV Haggle down prices and get serious discounts Article Discussion
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Currently having an Online chat with "Wilfred" - I'll let you know what happens!
Well that failed!! - He said
"Had there been an offer now I would have definitely gone ahead and applied it for you. I do understand you have been a loyal customer. I wish I could have helped you with an offer at this point of time. I request you to keep in touch with us for offers and promotions on the website and check your emails/ letters for future offers If we have any offer in future we will definitely go ahead and apply them for you."
My A** lol0 -
Hey,
I've just bought a new 3d tv, coming on Friday, after reading everyone's posts thought I would try my luck and phone sky, I'm currently on the basic package with the kids think I pay £23 a month. Phoned up and asked if there were any offers for the 3d channel, said that I knew you had to have world but I can't afford £70 a month for tv. Guy just said no no offers. Said thanks and hung up.
I was annoyed so phoned back the cancellation department got a nice guy, said I was fed up at everyone else in my family getting offers and just because I don't pay for the full package I never get so I want to cancel. He said he couldn't do half price but could give me 25% off for 6months. I just took it, thought it would let me try out the tv!:jWaiting for the comping fairy to arrive, a big thank you to all that post comps:j0 -
just spent over an hour on text talk with sky.
offered entertainment extra £26.50
sky sports package £21
hd pack £10.25
espn £9
sky talk freetime FREE!
broadband lite 00.00
line rental £12.25
all per month.
tongue in cheek i asked for a 6 month discount.
offered half price on the entertainment,sports and hd package for 6 months. gratefully accepted.
espn free for 3 months.
phoned virgin,who i am with,asked for a better deal than they are currently providing me. was offered a £4 a month reduction.
bye bye virgin,hello sky!0 -
takethemon wrote: »just spent over an hour on text talk with sky.
offered entertainment extra £26.50
sky sports package £21
hd pack £10.25
espn £9
sky talk freetime FREE!
broadband lite 00.00
line rental £12.25
all per month.
tongue in cheek i asked for a 6 month discount.
offered half price on the entertainment,sports and hd package for 6 months. gratefully accepted.
espn free for 3 months.
phoned virgin,who i am with,asked for a better deal than they are currently providing me. was offered a £4 a month reduction.
bye bye virgin,hello sky!0 -
I just called Sky and told them i was going to leave and go with virgin who were working out cheaper. All i did was read some figures off the website and my bill was REDUCED by 25% for 6 months. I also got ESPN for 3 months free.
I now pay £49.86 instead of £62.49.
RESULT:j:j:j0 -
My half price HD package is coming to an end. I only got it last year by cancelling and then getting a phone call a day before the cancel date with the offer. Didn't really want to go through that again, so have accepted a 20% discount for 12 months, plus 50% off the HD charge. (I could have had 25% off for 6 months).
The agent was really friendly - told me I could take a chance and cancel again and see if I get a better offer, but it was a different team who deal with it once notice has been given.
It seems the 20% for a year or 25% for 6 months is the current standard offer that anyone can get.0 -
My mum has the old sky package and dish and has been with Sky for around 10 years. She's wanting to upgrade the account to a Sky+ box. I recently joined sky as a new customer and receved the new box and installation for free.
She rang Sky yesterday asking if her account to be upgraded and she was quoted £109 for the box and installation! Has anyone on this message board upgraded their account to Sky+ and successfully haggled a free box and installation?
Also - since I am a new customer to sky (only been with them 2 months), how long is acceptable to take advantage of offers and how do I find out about them without ringing the numbers up?0 -
You spent an hour to get the prices and offers available to everyone on the Sky website? The only good thing you got there was 6 months half price on 3 packages but you could've got 12 months half price on those 3 packages, plus ESPN, by asking for a code from a Sky employee on this website!
Who are the Sky employees on the website? How do you find them?
I would like a half price code for everything.Been comping for a while....still no luck though0 -
You can find Sky employees giving away codes on various websites, I'm sure I've seen them on MSE too. I dunno if I'm allowed to directly link to a thread on another website with these codes though.
The codes available right now are only for new customers. If you have any of Sky's services, you cannot use them.0 -
Thanks for the reply. They are no good to me then as I am currently a customer, even though Ive not been contracted with them since 2010!Been comping for a while....still no luck though0
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