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

joroshe

Thank you Los pollos Hermanos. I have been with sky for 13 years and never had a discount. However after reading this forum decided to cancel to see if I would get a discount. Nothing was offered and Sky went off last Wednesday. Don't know why some people get offers and others don't. Hopefully I will get a letter soon................

Los_pollos_Hermanos

joroshe wrote: »

Thank you Los pollos Hermanos. I have been with sky for 13 years and never had a discount. However after reading this forum decided to cancel to see if I would get a discount. Nothing was offered and Sky went off last Wednesday. Don't know why some people get offers and others don't. Hopefully I will get a letter soon................

The longer you have had Sky plus the harder it is to go cold turkey and have it whisked away.

I think the longer you have been paying full price the more you have to play hardball with them, as they think you will crack and come back at full price.

Until you cancelled you were the dream customer, someone who payed full price for a long time. They are not letting you become the awkward customer without a fight.

You have to get them to think of you as the customer they can have some money from or no money from IMO.

IMO i am paying what sky is actually worth with 50% off. I will not be paying full price again and if that means being cut off so be it. I should point out i do not have any other Sky products except TV as having their Phone and internet makes it much harder to switch the lot off.

I still have free view and We have Netflix which has hundreds and hundreds of hours of quality entertainment for the entire family. and it is only £6 a month.

I cannot see how Sky is going to maintain it premium product buisness model for ever with Virgin and BT attacking the conventional TV market and the likes of Netflix hitting them for the internet side of things.

robbies_gal

fondue wrote: »

Had a missed call from Virgin Telemarketing yesterday so rang the number on the message.

They said they couldn't put me through as it was just outbound etc

The advisor then started the ask me why I was leaving etc

He said I was at the top of the loyalty bonus, i think I get £11 off and he sees the same offers that telemarketing would see.

Offered to reduce services again rather than any other offers. I found it strange that TM had rang me (I know its automated etc) but if they had the same offers then it would be a wasted conversation.

Going to hold off and see if I get another phonecall and see if what TM offer and the advisor I spoke to last night are saying is the same.

looks like we're not the only ones not getting any offers i was also told to downgrade

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Moneyineptitude wrote: »

You need to urgently check if your original 50% off deal is still in operation. Usually, accepting any additional offer will void the previous one.

My Landline was finally working again on Friday (problem at the exchange apparently)

I gave SKY a call & double checked that the 50% HD offer was as well as the original offer. Luckily it was, and my bill arrived today with both discounts active.

I also got a refund on the Landline & Broadband charges for the period my Landline was down too.

Thanks for the heads up in case though

blisteringblue

joroshe wrote: »

Thank you Los pollos Hermanos. I have been with sky for 13 years and never had a discount. However after reading this forum decided to cancel to see if I would get a discount. Nothing was offered and Sky went off last Wednesday. Don't know why some people get offers and others don't. Hopefully I will get a letter soon................

Was in your boat this time last year. 13 years full price and cancelled. No offers to keep us. It was off for 3 months and then just before Xmas last year out of the blue they offered it us 100% free for 4 months. They have since rolled it over twice and it's still been 100% free for 10 months in total.

Was half expecting them to do it again this time but I guess that was pushing it. Best they could offer was 20% off. No thanks Mr Sky. I want better than 50% off, so currently cancelling again and it goes off in a fortnight.

You have to cancel though, as Los pollos Hermanos also posted, to get the best deals. Believe me even after 13 years it wasn't so bad. The kids find junk on the free channels to watch and you will do the same. BBC and ITV aren't that bad after all

shaggy

Hello. I am in a bit of a wierd situation. I have my internet, phone and tv with Sky. I want to cancel all of it and try and get a better deal, but the problem is I dont want to sign up to a new 12 month contract as it is likely I will be moving house before that and I don't want Sky to charge me a premium for moving my services/fitting new dish/fitting new phone line at the new house.

I have a three month half price Movies/Sports add on offer sent to me through the post. I only subscribe to the full entertainment package and dont really want to add this and ideally just want 50% off my current package.

Do I just wait it out and cancel when I move house, or do I try and fight for a better offer now ?

KingWoollard

We are moving house soon and we can't take Virgin with us as they don't serve the area we are moving to. I've managed to wangle out of the majority of the Virgin disconnection fees but I'm desperately looking for a Sky 50% code. What are the chances of them appearing again on the MSE weekly email over the next couple of weeks? Missed out a couple of weeks back as the house move wasn't confirmed.

Also, do the codes apply 50% off to the whole bill, or just the tv channel package?

DragonQ

They shouldn't charge any disconnection fees if you're moving and they don't provide services to your new home, surely?

The Sky 50% discount codes typically only cover TV.

KingWoollard

DragonQ wrote: »

They shouldn't charge any disconnection fees if you're moving and they don't provide services to your new home, surely?

The Sky 50% discount codes typically only cover TV.

They do. You've signed up to an 18 month contract at your address. If you choose to move that's your problem in their eyes. Landlord putting the house of for sale or not!

I've actually been with them for 6 years but as we moved 12 months ago it started a new 18 month contract. They wanted £270 in cancellation fees, I've managed to get them to agree to half that.

Lifes_Grand_Plan

Just finished a deal for £10 a month for BB and Phone (including line rental).

Rang them up saying I wanted my MAC and was leaving them and got offered free BB but the line rental was £14.75 or something like that. Best they could do on that was a few quid off if I paid 12 months up front... refused the offer and have tonight signed up with EE which will work out under £6 a month after £100 topcashback.

Not sorry to be leaving Sky to be honest, good service but don't like having all my eggs in one basket.