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

dansdad

I've decided to take Sky up on their 6 months free offer they made last week but asked for movies and full HD and without any trouble they gave it me.
I've now got all the channels, sports, movies and HD for free. I'll have to remember to cancel in 5 months. Wonder what they will offer then.

superbigal36

Yes seems to be a good run of offers at the moment from cancelation team.
I can confirm my workmate whos cancel date was 2nd August got a second call last night.
He has the "complete" package with sports and movies.
Opening gambit was 50% off for 12 months. Rejected on basis of cost.
2nd offer 6 months completely free with no tie in. Accepted.
Will be very interesting to see how this pans out in 5 months.

DragonQ

Heh, I only got one call from retentions after cancelling and the guy very quickly admitted the offer he was able to make wouldn't be good enough after all the trouble they'd caused me.

twinkle0101

Hi there, just noticed this thread and its quite pertinent to the problems i'm having at the moment. I have everything with sky, broadband, tv and calls, 2 multirooms and hd subscription. I pay £90 per month. I tried this morning to get some discount on the package and was point blank refused. even though we've had problems with broadband and have had 4 engineer visits and countless phonecalls to them??
Any tips appreciated!

Thanks in advance
Sarah

DragonQ

twinkle0101 wrote: »

Any tips appreciated!

Thanks in advance
Sarah

Cancel....

twinkle0101

DragonQ wrote: »

Cancel....

I'm sorely tempted to but I live in an area which doesn't have much coverage for the other competitors...

KTF

twinkle0101 wrote: »

I'm sorely tempted to but I live in an area which doesn't have much coverage for the other competitors...

You can phone up the day before you are due to have it cut off and say you have changed your mind and continue on as before.

You have nothing to lose by giving your notice at all.

DragonQ

twinkle0101 wrote: »

I'm sorely tempted to but I live in an area which doesn't have much coverage for the other competitors...

If you can receive Sky, you can receive Freesat and Freesat From Sky at least. You need to be in a cable area to get Virgin Media TV, you need to be in a decent Freeview reception area to get Freeview HD or TalkTalk or BT's YouView, plus the latter two provide extra channels if you are in a fibre area.

Youngy

I only have the tv package (Entertainment with HD pack) Currently paying £31.75pm and just out of 12 month contract. Phoned them up to hopefully get a deal but sadly was only offered 10% discount (£28.80 for Entertainment+ with HD) So went through with cancellation, hopefully will phone me back with better offer before the 30 days is up. Whilst I don't actually watch much Sky content (mainly BBC etc) I do find the Sky+ recording very useful - shame you need a subscription to use it!

KTF

You can have SKY+ for £10 a month (or something like that) with no need for a program package.