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

tonycottee

I'm currently paying £78 for the full TV package and multi-room. I called last week but all they would offer is a £10 a month discount for 3 months. I've now cancelled Sports and Movies.

longwalks1

I have the Virgin XL package (no added extras like sport or movies), and it costs me between £60 and £70 a month, how can i cut this back, and not loose too many tv channels please?

I never use my landline, ever, it just sits there :mad:

Would any kind of tv 'box' allow me to cancel my virgin and just get a contract for broadband on its own? Surely i can moneysave a fair bit?
Thank you in advance

thor

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Instead of cancelling, why not tell them that you are considering the TalkTalk package you mention and see whether they'll match it? You can always cancel if they don't.

That is what I am planning to do. Comparing talktalk's package to vm's won't be a like for like comparison so I'll need to research that a bit more to arm myself against vm's cust service but eventually I would be happy if I could get a reduction of a tenner pre price increase.

garfy1

I cancelled on January 15th and my TV package was cancelled on Feb 15th. I was unable to cancel my Phone because i use it as a business number and not having it is not an option. I realise this reduces my haggling power, however....

On 19th i called Sky on the pretense of cancelling my Phone/BB and the girl offered me the exact same package i had previously for £63 per month instead of the £98 i had been paying (TV/Phone/BB included). I realise that this is still way more than say the 75% offer but i was unlikely to get offered that, with still being a phone and BB customer.

Anyway, over £400 per year saving so i'm more than happy with that.

JC126

Following my cancellation earlier this week, Sky rang me today and offered me 45% off my TV. I asked if they were able to do anything on my line rental/broadband but they said no could only discount the TV. I said I could get a better offer on broadband with EE (£2pm + £11pm for line rental) but said I'd rather save the hassle if they could offset the saving by giving me a greater discount on TV. The guy came back with a 50% off the TV package for 12 months and still gave me the option to cancel line rental and broadband so I took it and will switch to EE for broadband.

I cancelled movies and the HD pack as they wouldn't discount the HD and my offer on that was ending so would have been £10.75 which isn't worth it (hoping for another offer as was paying £2.50 pm for HD previously). But will now be paying £21.50pm for sky entertainment and sports package for 12 months and £13pm for broadband (inc line rental) with EE (slightly less in reality after £105 tcb!) as opposed to £83ish if I hadn't made the call! Very happy with my efforts!

gypsymoth

Sky been off for 2 months now.

Had a few calls offering 50% off, and 2 mailshots to 'take advantage of 50% off and half price sky go extra before Feb 27th'

hanging on for 75% off OR 50% plus free sky multiroom now..

Scudlink

gypsymoth wrote: »

Sky been off for 2 months now.

Had a few calls offering 50% off, and 2 mailshots to 'take advantage of 50% off and half price sky go extra before Feb 27th'

hanging on for 75% off OR 50% plus free sky multiroom now..

Every few months Sky would keep calling me offering me 50% off the TV packages or some other 'great' offer but I kept turning them down, since I wasn't really bothered about the TV.


The other week they called and offered me the Entertainment Extra Pack, Movies, Sports, SKY+ HD, plus the Sky HD box and free installation all for £25 per month, fixed for 25 months. Also, they threw in 12 months free Broadband. Sadly no 2TB box though.

secondtoughest

I recently cancelled Sky TV and they offered me 20% off TV with Sports and multi-room for £2.50. I said no, but I did sign up for their broadband and line rental for £7.70 for 12 months as I felt that was a great deal.

I do 'need' (:cool:) the TV for the Premier League so I don't really want it switched off. It gets turned off on Tuesday so I rang back today and they offered me 25% off TV with Sports and multi-room for £5.63.

This would make it a total of £45.95 for TV with Sports, multi-room, line rental and broadband.

I said no but very tempted to ring them back on Tuesday and take it!

sparky200

When I review the 'my sky' contact details I note there is only an option to input your mobile number. As I will be changing this where do I input the land line number as it does not appear to allow this option?

Goldust

Need some help making a decision! I've got a 50% off Sky deal ending on the 15th and they've only offered me the usual 25% off which made it around £52 for the full package for 12 months (rolling contract)

I also have Virgin medium phone and 30MB broadband which costs in the region of £31.

I'm happy to try to drive both down or move my TV to Virgin - not keen to move the internet to Sky. What's the best tactic to get these prices down?