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Sky, Virgin & BT TV Haggle down prices and get serious discounts Article Discussion
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Been with sky for many many years now and have absolutely no complaints about them at all, aint half a bit expensive mind.
Been looking over a lot of the comments on here and the potential discounts that can be achieved sound pretty great.
Anyone got any experience with getting a good deal on adding sky sports / a multiroom box on top of the usual tv/net/phone package that i already have?
Thanks!
I wouldn’t describe TV, Internet and ‘Phone as being “the usual package” with Sky. Many people, for good reason, subscribe to only one, or perhaps two, of those components.
There are also several different varieties and combinations of Sky TV package, so you can’t call any of them “the usual”.
Anyway…
If you add multiroom you ought to be able to squeeze a new 2TB HD+ box out of Sky for £50 – perhaps even free if you add Sports.
You haven’t expounded upon whether you regard HD as being part of “the usual” package but hold out for an HD box even if you are currently on SD. Tell them that you’re thinking of upgrading to HD “soon”. You’re considering the “Entertainment Extra Plus” pack, etc.
What you really need to do is work out exactly what you do want – both in services and in discount – and then re-negotiate your whole deal in one go.
To tickle a 50% discount out of Sky, you’d probably need to give Sky notice to cancel, instead. And probably go through with it. If you’ve been paying Sky TV the full whack “for many, many years now” it isn’t going to believe you’d really just up and leave: it would assume you are simply bluffing, to try to obtain a discount (which, let’s face it, you would be) and it would call your bluff.
You’d then have to wait and see whether you are invited to “Return to Sky” with a 50% discount, a few weeks later. If you aren’t, you could re-subscribe on the full tariff. If, however, you subscribe currently to the HD pack (with free access to the Formula One channels) you would lose that forever in the process.Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr.0 -
Not everyone gets same deals. My BIL just had 75% off for 16 months and has just been given another 6 months half price with no contract. I ring up and get insulted with 25% off so cancelled. Doubt I'll be contacted as they didn't seem bothered that I was leaving. Have emailed and complained.0
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By the way, I asked for a free 2 TB box with my 50% offer from Sky and they agreed, but I had to turn it down in the end because it forces a new 12 month contract.
Sky are currently preparing to roll out new WiFi boxes, so they might be trying to get rid of current 2 TB stock. Seems like a good time to ask!0 -
Not everyone gets same deals. My BIL just had 75% off for 16 months and has just been given another 6 months half price with no contract. I ring up and get insulted with 25% off so cancelled. Doubt I'll be contacted as they didn't seem bothered that I was leaving. Have emailed and complained.
Insulted? Do you believe yourself entitled to be given a discount of more than 25%? Why? On what grounds? You aren't entitled to be given any discount at all. What on earth did you write in your email?
By the way, I asked for a free 2 TB box with my 50% offer from Sky and they agreed, but I had to turn it down in the end because it forces a new 12 month contract.
Sky are currently preparing to roll out new WiFi boxes, so they might be trying to get rid of current 2 TB stock. Seems like a good time to ask!
Yeah. We got offered the same, back in January. Didn't even ask; they just volunteered it. We turned it down for the same reason as you.Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr.0 -
Insulted? Do you believe yourself entitled to be given a discount of more than 25%? Why? On what grounds? You aren't entitled to be given any discount at all. What on earth did you write in your email?
Gratis, as you stated your point in bold, I'll answer. I am as entitled to a discount as you or my BIL. I felt insulted, not because I had been turned down, but because my BIL gets great deal after great deal. So more based on what he got than what I didn't get. At least I'm not complaining then not doing anything. At least I've kept my nerve and cancelled. Not everyone would.
You see, I'd settled for the 25% off 3 months ago because they assured me that customers who just had 75% off for 15 months would not get more offers immediately afterwards. But my BIL did, and I saw a post further up of someone else who did. So yes, they insulted me with a pack of lies. I may not be 'entitled' to a discount, but I am most certainly entitled to be insulted and also entitled to vote with my feet- which I have. I never used the word entitled either, you did.
I sent an email reiterating why I was leaving. I told them that when I was in a position to afford full package again that I'd be looking into Virgin as they provided my broadband and that they always made me feel valued as a customer. I also threw in about being happy making do with freeview etc, as ive heard it helps your case. If you're that interested then ill send you a copy of the email lol.
Gratis, you obviously feel some sense of entitlement to a discount or you wouldn't keep threatening to leave and refuse to pay full price. I'm in a position where I've had to cancel as on unpaid ML till January next year, so I really won't be caving in at day 31!0 -
I wanted broadband only as I moved the TV over to sky on a 12 month half price deal. Finally came out with 30mb broadband, phone line and M pack TV for the bedroom for £19.49 per month. I dont really need a phone line, but it is there just in case for emergencies.Fairly happy with that. By the way always make sure they keep the HD channel facility switched on if downgrading to the M TV pack.0
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Indiana_joe wrote: »I wanted broadband only as I moved the TV over to sky on a 12 month half price deal. Finally came out with 30mb broadband, phone line and M pack TV for the bedroom for £19.49 per month. I dont really need a phone line, but it is there just in case for emergencies.Fairly happy with that. By the way always make sure they keep the HD channel facility switched on if downgrading to the M TV pack.
£19.49 plus line rental?
Thats how they got me...my 'deal' wasn't much of a deal at all.0 -
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Insulted? Do you believe yourself entitled to be given a discount of more than 25%? Why? On what grounds? You aren't entitled to be given any discount at all. What on earth did you write in your email?
Gratis, as you stated your point in bold, I'll answer. I am as entitled to a discount as you or my BIL. I felt insulted, not because I had been turned down, but because my BIL gets great deal after great deal. So more based on what he got than what I didn't get. At least I'm not complaining then not doing anything. At least I've kept my nerve and cancelled. Not everyone would.
You see, I'd settled for the 25% off 3 months ago because they assured me that customers who just had 75% off for 15 months would not get more offers immediately afterwards. But my BIL did, and I saw a post further up of someone else who did. So yes, they insulted me with a pack of lies. I may not be 'entitled' to a discount, but I am most certainly entitled to be insulted and also entitled to vote with my feet- which I have. I never used the word entitled either, you did.
I sent an email reiterating why I was leaving. I told them that when I was in a position to afford full package again that I'd be looking into Virgin as they provided my broadband and that they always made me feel valued as a customer. I also threw in about being happy making do with freeview etc, as ive heard it helps your case. If you're that interested then ill send you a copy of the email lol.
Gratis, you obviously feel some sense of entitlement to a discount or you wouldn't keep threatening to leave and refuse to pay full price. I'm in a position where I've had to cancel as on unpaid ML till January next year, so I really won't be caving in at day 31!
Not true. The reality of the matter is that none of us – you, I, your brother-in-law (?) or anyone else – is entitled to any discount whatsoever from Sky (unless, perhaps, it is by way of compensation for Sky having screwed something up in the past).
To be given a discount by Sky is a favour, not a right.
To be “insulted” (sic) at not being offered one of more than 25% is totally unreasonable. You aren’t entitled to any discount at all. And neither am I.
(Do you even know for certain that your brother-in-law actually gets the discounts he tells you he has? But let’s not pursue that one.)
Certainly, you are totally incorrect to claim that I “obviously feel some sense of entitlement to a discount or (I) wouldn't keep threatening to leave and refuse to pay full price.”
When a discount period I have been enjoying ends (and sometimes before it actually does) I give 31 days’ notice to cancel.
When asked why I am leaving I explain, truthfully and very politely, that we don’t watch Sky much. At a price discounted by 50% it is a justifiable household expense but at full price it is totally uneconomic for our own particular usage (and that's the key point). Would you pay £381 a year to watch live 10 motor races that will be showing four hours later on the BBC in HD anyway? Especially when five of them will be broadcast live by Sky in the middle of the night?
We let the cancellations go through. Sooner or later, Sky then invites us to “Return to Sky” at a discounted price and if the figure offered is reasonable for the small amount of Sky we’ll actually want to watch, we accept.
The difference between you and us is that we are grateful for the discounts we receive (and say so, to Sky) whereas you seem to regard getting a hefty discount on the rates that Sky charges others as some sort of personal right to which you are entitled.
Given your attitude, I’m not surprised that Sky “didn’t seem bothered that (you were) leaving.”
Anyway, if “ML” means maternity leave (?) I congratulate you on your new arrival and hope you will enjoy the time off. In all probability you will, during its currency, receive from Sky the offer of a discount that you regard to be commensurate to your totally unjustified perception of personal entitlement.
And yes, I’d be fascinated to read how you worded your email of complaint to Sky. Why not post it on here instead of PMing it to me? I’m sure it would be most illuminating to everybody and I would not wish to deprive others the joy of reading your gem.
PS. You might like to ponder on the ambiguity of your chosen phrase “I am most certainly entitled to be insulted”.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr.0 -
Indiana_joe wrote: »Nope. the £19.49 is INCLUSIVE of line rental..!!! :rotfl:
Id wait to see what the contract says...0
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