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

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It will be a little less per month if you pay the line rental in advance for the year. The basic tv and BB costs me £14/month. (I had to pay £25 for Tivo installation as it was a new service for me)

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W1zz

Just come to the end of my contract.

Was paying £39 per month for:

XL TV Package
M Telephone
XL Broadband 60MB
2 * TIVO boxes
Superhub 2

I paid the line rental in advance last year.

As I managed to get one of the Sky 25 months for £25 deals a couple of months back, I didn't really need the TV package. So armed with the Sky offering 2 years free broadband for just the £15.99 line rental I went in with a decent bargaining chip.

It actually worked out £1.50 more to remove the 2 Tivo boxes and TV package, than keep 1 Tivo and reduce the package to M TV (61 channels).

I paid £144 advance line rental and now I have:

XL Broadband 60MB (Due to be upgraded to 100MB in October)
M TV Package
M Telephone
1 * Tivo
1 * Superhub 2

Paying £20 per month (after £144 advance line rental). 12 month contract.

Also paying Sky £25 per month for their full everything TV.

cifpower

Got a call. They offered 12 months half price Family including HD (£16pm)

I accepted and also haggled for a £45 bill credit

I'm happy.

cifpower

Saga continues.

I placed an order with TalkTalk to take over my broadband and line rental from Sky. Last night, after I agreed a deal for my TV, I received an e-mail from Sky saying my cancellation had, in fact, been cancelled. But TalkTalk had already given me a new line with a new number. My Sky broadband was still working. Confused.

So - today I cancelled my order with TalkTalk. And Sky gave me £9.99 line rental and free broadband for 12 months. Which is nice.

Peco141

cifpower wrote: »

Saga continues.

I placed an order with TalkTalk to take over my broadband and line rental from Sky. Last night, after I agreed a deal for my TV, I received an e-mail from Sky saying my cancellation had, in fact, been cancelled. But TalkTalk had already given me a new line with a new number. My Sky broadband was still working. Confused.

So - today I cancelled my order with TalkTalk. And Sky gave me £9.99 line rental and free broadband for 12 months. Which is nice.

Fibre or treacle broadband?

*KKH_KISH*

I just posted this in the "Virgin Media Retentions" thread in the Broadband forum before seeing this thread, so apologies if you read it twice!

I think I just negotiated a pretty good deal. I'm currently on XL TV, 60Mb Broadband and basic phone (Talk weekends) for £68.50ish. I called to cancel on the 1st July, and declined a couple of offers as I was going to go with Plusnet and freesat to save money due to having had a recent reduction in income.
On the 4th, I received a call offering me basic phone and 50Mb broadband for £5 if I pay the line rental saver price of £144 upfront (altogether, the equivalent of £17 pm), or I could have the basic TV (M) and keep both my Tivo and V+ boxes for an additional £12 (the equivalent of £24 pm). I said I'd think on it and discuss it with my partner.
They rang me again yesterday and I asked them what they could do for M+ TV. They said £20. I haggled this down to £15, and he said I could have a new Tivo box to replace my V+.

So I have agreed to 50Mb broadband, M+ TV and basic phone with a new Tivo box to replace my V+ box and keeping my current Tivo box, plus a new Superhub2 for £15pm on top of line rental which when paid upfront works out to be the equivalent of £27 pm. Starts Monday.

I'm fairly happy with that, but can't help wondering if I should've waited or pushed for better.

Thoughts?

cifpower

Peco141 wrote: »

Fibre or treacle broadband?

Normal non-fibre. My cabinet has not been upgraded but I get 16-18mb anyway and its only me there so I'm happy with it.

Olduserpasswordforgot

I had a call on my mobile at lunchtime from 0800 915 9081 which i presume is Sky (i Googled the number). i guessing its from there retention team (can anyone else confirm that is the number from retention at sky?)

do they normally call back if un-answered. Furious at BT :mad: for not getting off the phone i would rather chat to sky than BT

jem16

Olduserpasswordforgot wrote: »

I had a call on my mobile at lunchtime from 0800 915 9081 which i presume is Sky (i Googled the number). i guessing its from there retention team (can anyone else confirm that is the number from retention at sky?)

Previous posts would indicate it is.

do they normally call back if un-answered. Furious at BT :mad: for not getting off the phone i would rather chat to sky than BT

I had a call from the same number on 30th June and missed it. They haven't called back.

Olduserpasswordforgot

jem16 wrote: »

Previous posts would indicate it is.



I had a call from the same number on 30th June and missed it. They haven't called back.

:( not good, i have few weeks before cut off, so i will give it week or 2 and then maybe call them and state i had a missed call to see if anything comes about from this