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

KrazyKel

I still have Sky Broadband and Line rental, was offered free BB after I cancelled my sky but no offers on TV at all or calls!
Just strange that a week after switch off I still get this page when looking at my offers page or even the normal sky shop to add tv

Unable To Proceed
Unfortunately we are unable to show your exclusive offers available online. To continue or for more information, please call 03442 411 818.

teddysmum

KrazyKel wrote: »

I still have Sky Broadband and Line rental, was offered free BB after I cancelled my sky but no offers on TV at all or calls!
Just strange that a week after switch off I still get this page when looking at my offers page or even the normal sky shop to add tv

Unable To Proceed
Unfortunately we are unable to show your exclusive offers available online. To continue or for more information, please call 03442 411 818.

That's what I got, but made my deal after cancelling tv (gone off) and calling within a few days of the end of my phone/bb minimum term,to ask what they'd offer to keep me.

batch_2001

Just a quick report back on some success, it may be useful in knowing what offers are about . I am a customer of 14 years. I was on the variety pack (£28) + HD pack (£10) - this is a legacy pack and the HD subs allowed my access to F1HD.

I cancelled on 14 dec (so switchoff was 14 Jan). Got a call from retentions which I though was a 33% offer and declined. Looked at the bill more closely and realised it may have been better.

So got back in touch to double check. Short story: Dropped the HD pack and moved to "family bundle" (so lose F1 ), but got a 50% off for 12 months discount which is applied regardless of package changes during that 12 months - also its no commitment since I already had HD for the previous 12 months its not a new HD sub.

So £16.50 a month now from £38 - fantastic. Shame about F1 but I'll live without it (or with just BBC).

Hope this helps someone, if not, sorry!

quoit

I've had Sky switched off since mid-October. I had the Family package, Movies, Sports, HD Pack and x2 Multiroom at a cost of £93.75 per month. Already saved over £200 in just two months and 12 days since switch off.

However, I received a mailshot in the post recently from Virgin who were offering what they referred to as an "Exclusive 50 offer" which consisted of their Big Kahuna bundle plus all Sky Movies, Sky Sports, BT Sport, free Netflix for 6 months and free Multiroom (normally £6.25), 152mb fibre broadband all for £50 per month for 12 months (£82 thereafter)... plus virgin line rental of course. I thought I'd use the Virgin offer in the post as a bargaining tool in negotiations with Sky.

I logged into my Sky account and when clicking MySky the 50% discount offer off any Sky bundle was still there (or free Samsung Galaxy Tab). I clicked on the chat button and the following conversation took place (summarised)...

How can I help you Sir?

<Name, account details, password, etc, checked for authenticity>

I'm interested in resubscribing to Sky TV channels.

Would you be interested in the same bundle as you had before? Family, Movies, Sports, HD pack?

Yes, but I need to save money. I'd like multiroom too but not in two extra rooms like last time, just the one extra room this time. What is the best price you can offer?

I can offer you Family bundle, Movies, Sports, HD pack and multiroom at a discounted rate of 50% off for £49.50 per month on a 12 month contract. That's £33 for Movies & Sports, £11.25 for multiroom and £5.25 for the HD pack.

Thank you. That's a very generous offer. However, I've recently had a very attractive "Exclusive 50 offer" from Virgin... it interests me very much so I thought I'd contact you first to see what you could offer instead.

I can offer you Family bundle, Movies, Sports, HD pack and multiroom at a discounted rate of 60% off for £42.90 per month on a 12 month contract. That's £26.40 for Movies & Sports, £11.25 for multiroom and £5.25 for the HD pack.

I decided to deal there and then.

So I'm now paying £42.90 a month instead of £93.75 and saving £50.85 per month in the process. Over the next 12 months that's a total saving of £50.85 x 12 = £610.20 plus the £200+ I've already saved since being switched off in October.

If anyone else would like to use the Virgin offer as a bargaining and haggling tool when in negotiations with Sky, the details of that deal are at the following link...

http://store.virginmedia.com/special-offers/sky-switcher-50.html?buspart=sky-switcher-50

Cheers :beer:

Alias_Omega

Sky...


Sky Tv - £16.50 per month.


Sky Entertainment +
Sky Movies SD
Sky Sports SD
Sky F1 SD


Sky Phone - Free Line Rental


Sky BB - £7.50 per month (will increase to £10 if Tv is cancelled)

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Basically, we had Sky Line Rental and BB, we were happy with Freeview HD as we would use Netflix etc. After multiple cold calls from Sky, we took the Tv on aswell, therefore we have Tv & BB/Phone at different contract periods.


The tip with the TV was to keep batting them off, and eventually they offered 75% off.

Phone/BB - We were getting a slow 4MB in speed due to living in the middle of no-where. We have the option to have a Virgin BB which is up to 50MB, for £19 per month. Slighly £4 increase. Sky was not offering any deals on phone lines, basically "just take it or leave", therefore we signed up for Virgin and attempted to transfer the phone line. I guess once they received the transfer request, it created this automatic email..


Pictures..


Sky Tv Discount -





Sky Free Line Rental Offer





Basically, you have to leave...

batch_2001

75% - stunning deal! In truth I'd never have held out long enough, I'd have gone freesat and waited for that to pay for itself before contemplating sky again.

The broadband info is very useful as my contact is up in 2 weeks. Though If they don't offer when I ring then I probably will switch to BT anyway for BT sport/hotspot reasons..

MrsWenger

Hi everyone,

Just given cancellation notice to Sky after 14 years with them. Did online chat yesterday stating i wanted to cancel and UK based analyst called me back. I pay £71.25 inc HD per month. Offered free movies, saving £8 per month then 20% off for 8 months which would be £57 per month. Said i would discuss with partner. Telephoned to cancel today. UK based analyst said they only have the same offer and processed cancellation. I did choose option one to cancel when i called. Will update post with any retention offers if i receive them. Explained i don't want to leave but not value for money at £71.25.

zxspeccy

Cancelled back on the 9th December and was only offered a 10% discount to stay, more or less straight away got a 35% discount on My SKY but felt this was still not good enough. This My SKY deal has not change over the last few weeks. However I have had a few missed calls from SKY's Retention Team over the last week. Got another call today from them today which I answered and was again offer the 35% deal that is already on My SKY. I said the discount was still not enough to for me to stay (I was prepared to go past 9th January and wait for a deal after switch off, as I was looking for at least 50%). She came back with 50% with a 12 month tie in, but being greedy I said I did not want to be tied in to a 12 month contract. After a further referral she came back with no tie in plus a £50 credit to my account, which is almost enough to cover the next two months. So signed up and am very happy with the deal. My wife is also happy as she has been downloading a lot of box sets recently and these would not be accessible after switch off.

Alias_Omega

zxspeccy wrote: »

Cancelled back on the 9th December and was only offered a 10% discount to stay, more or less straight away got a 35% discount on My SKY but felt this was still not good enough. This My SKY deal has not change over the last few weeks.


However I have had a few missed calls from SKY's Retention Team over the last week. Got another call today from them today which I answered and was again offer the 35% deal that is already on My SKY. I said the discount was still not enough to for me to stay (I was prepared to go past 9th January and wait for a deal after switch off, as I was looking for at least 50%). She came back with 50% with a 12 month tie in, but being greedy I said I did not want to be tied in to a 12 month contract.


After a further referral she came back with no tie in plus a £50 credit to my account, which is almost enough to cover the next two months. So signed up and am very happy with the deal. My wife is also happy as she has been downloading a lot of box sets recently and these would not be accessible after switch off.

Its a game, you have to cancel to force the hand of getting the best discount. I have no doubt that my 75% off will not be given upon end of the contract.


My conversation will go like...


TV


"I love having Sky Tv, the ability to watch what I want, when I want"


"I don't think its worth £XYZ a month as I work 6:30am until 5:30pm. What I do watch, it available on Council Tv."


"We have a Freeview HD built into the Tv...therefore HD is not really essential to us."


"Movies, ah yes. We did have a Netflix account before we signed up to Sky."


"Sports, it just means I will have to go to the pub..or get BT Sport".


"Why are new customers paying less than me?"


BB - That's a different ball game. We could use Virgin to play off against Sky, and the number transfer caused the free line rental offer.


What I need now, is for Virgin to Lower the price.. then have my cake and eat it.

brewerdave

...having played the "game" with Sky this year for the 1st time in 7 years of subscribing I fully intend to repeat next year and push it as far as I can.... I'm "saving" over £300 ..next year's target = £350 !!:j