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

djwoody

I'm thinking of phoning Sky tonight to cancel my TV package.
Does anyone know if the following deal is still available for returning customers?:
75% off Sky TV, Movies & Sports for 12 months when you take the HD pack.

If this is the case I will cancel and then leave it a few weeks and give them a ring to re-join.

Chris

pody

djwoody wrote: »

I'm thinking of phoning Sky tonight to cancel my TV package.
Does anyone know if the following deal is still available for returning customers?:
75% off Sky TV, Movies & Sports for 12 months when you take the HD pack.

If this is the case I will cancel and then leave it a few weeks and give them a ring to re-join.

Chris

Nope, you can only use the 75% off if you have been sent the leaflet - its marked on your account. I'm sure you have to be a non sky customer for much longer than 2 weeks.

I got various 50% off and 6 months free offers before I got the 75% off 3 months after I left

socmwils23

we got our 75% offer after a couple of months. The funny thing is that once you give up sky you realise you didnt really need it anyway. I think the current offer of 75% ends this week or next so i doubt you will get in on the current offer if you cancel now but there will be others.

djwoody

socmwils23 wrote: »

we got our 75% offer after a couple of months. The funny thing is that once you give up sky you realise you didnt really need it anyway. I think the current offer of 75% ends this week or next so i doubt you will get in on the current offer if you cancel now but there will be others.

I don't think I would miss it either. The only thing I would miss is the Sky+ so you can record. As far as I know you need the base package in order for this to work.

DragonQ

No, you can pay £10 per month to Sky for recording capabilities if you have a Freesat From Sky card (or expired subscription card).

It's probably more economical to just get a Freesat+ HD box though if you want to record free channels.

Bille

Phoned and said I was leaving...amazing how Sky sprung into action and sorted it all out:

New Sky + HD box to replace our broken one, going to be installed on Saturday.

Free Broadband for the next 6 months.

£ 5.00 rebate for my trouble.

Reduced my TV, Phone and BB bill from £ 97 per month to £ 49.50 :T

Nobleman

Another 50% off for 12 months offer received in the post yesterday, only 2 weeks after the last one. Only valid until 27th Sep but it may as well be forever for all I care, I want a better deal Sky or you wont get my custom!

susan47

Well I saw so many people had got better deals so I called Sky and told them I wanted to lower my package. I'm £75 a month for 2 HD boxes with movies and sports. They told me that just cancelling the sports channels would save me £12 a month (I only keep them on the offchance my son is visiting and don't watch them myself). So I said ok, cancel the sports, I'll take the £12 saving. But they didn't seem to want me to cancel the channels and said they'd give me the discount for six months 'to think about it' and I can keep the channels meantime anyway. So I've made a note in my diary - 6 months and I'll be back on the phone to them and see what they say then...either way, I'm not going back to paying £75 a month.

lucy1038

Rang Sky after reading forum and went though to disconnections. Told them Virgin was offering a better deal and we were going to leave (in fact Virgin don't even operate in our area!) They offered free HD for 6 months, a HD box for £49 plus £15 delivery and free line rental on our phone for a year! (Our package is in total Sky HD+ x2, phone, unlimited broadband and unlimited talk.) I was happy with the result saving us about £20 per month.
Also recently came out of contract. Still had an old grey sky box as our multiroom box which I had tried and failed to get them to replace for free/cheaply. Best they said they would do was I had to buy a new box outright for £199! So as soon as contract up cancelled multiroom and the next day "joined" multiroom getting the deal of a 1TB HD Sky+ box for £49! I don't actually think the multiroom was ever disconnected!

rigsby1208

Hi
Is the MSE Sky deal still active? if so what is the deal? I tried doing a search but couldnt find an active sky deal.