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

Liberty1577

rusonjitsu wrote: »

Cancelled 2 weeks ago, heard nothing except a survey email, do i:
• Contact them now - ask for the deal.
• Carry on waiting..

Personally I'd ring and ask for a deal. Best offer at the moment seems to be 50% off any TVs package plus £50 credit. This seems to be whether you just cancel or whether you go through with the cancellation. My parents had been cut off 3 weeks, when my dad decided he wanted it back. This is the only deal they were offered and they had to take out a new 12 month contract. When I did it I rang after 2 weeks so it didn't actually cancel and I didn't get tied in to a new contract. Obviously if your happy to be without it longer you may get a better deal, or if your happy for a new contract you could wait and see if the offers change. But if you want the 50% off and the credit, I'd just ring them now. Ask for their best deal. If it's isn't the 50% off and £50 credit, tell them that's what you want. If they say no then you can still go through with cancellation, but they''ll give you it X

rusonjitsu

Liberty1577 wrote: »

Personally I'd ring and ask for a deal. Best offer at the moment seems to be 50% off any TVs package plus £50 credit. This seems to be whether you just cancel or whether you go through with the cancellation. My parents had been cut off 3 weeks, when my dad decided he wanted it back. This is the only deal they were offered and they had to take out a new 12 month contract. When I did it I rang after 2 weeks so it didn't actually cancel and I didn't get tied in to a new contract. Obviously if your happy to be without it longer you may get a better deal, or if your happy for a new contract you could wait and see if the offers change. But if you want the 50% off and the credit, I'd just ring them now. Ask for their best deal. If it's isn't the 50% off and £50 credit, tell them that's what you want. If they say no then you can still go through with cancellation, but they''ll give you it X

Thought sodit and contacted them, managed to get bill from £128 per month to £97 per month (this includes all tv, sport, movies, multiroom, fibre broadband and unlimited anytime calls).
Was also given the £50 bill credit, bit annoyed as this isn't off the £97, its off the pro rata'd amount on the change which is £147ish.. Slightly annoyed but have saved money nonetheless.


Advisor also put a note on file so that can contact the broadband department and maybe get a bit more off.
Paying less than we were which is the main thing... Just have to make a note on calendar to do it again in 12 months....


For anyone thinking its a lot, I set up a new sky basket with exactly the same as what I have now (using a friends details).. Works out 122.40 per month for 12 months then its 132.40 after then (new fibre/phone is 18 month contract). Only difference is new customers get a free tv or £100 voucher. Id rather pay £97 per month for 12 months .. Totalled it up, excluding voucher and the cost of a second HD box/installation/etc new customers pay about £303 more than what we are now paying. Result.


GOOD LUCK EVERYONE and thanks for the help!


EDIT: Guy on webchat put a note on file originally as broadband department was shut, just spoke to them now and they've taken extra £10 off fibre for 10 months..

treet0ps

So after reading this thread I took the plunge and cancelled my tv package. I have since spoken to them on chat and been offered 50% off and £50 credit to stay (5 mins after i called to say im leaving!)

My question is has anyone had any joy with reducing the line rental, broadband cost? When i called in 2014 i managed to get half price line rental. Do you negotiate this separate to the TV cost?

thanks for any advice

afc80

getting sky q is going to be problematic when getting your yearly half price tv as sky will own the box and in theory can come and collect it when your notice period runs out.

May have to come to a deal with sky before the months notice is up.

afc80

treet0ps wrote: »

So after reading this thread I took the plunge and cancelled my tv package. I have since spoken to them on chat and been offered 50% off and £50 credit to stay (5 mins after i called to say im leaving!)

My question is has anyone had any joy with reducing the line rental, broadband cost? When i called in 2014 i managed to get half price line rental. Do you negotiate this separate to the TV cost?

thanks for any advice

i said i was leaving sky broadband for the free bt sport 6 months ago.

They gave me free broadband for 12 months and a 50 quid credit to stay with them.

Liberty1577

treet0ps wrote: »

So after reading this thread I took the plunge and cancelled my tv package. I have since spoken to them on chat and been offered 50% off and £50 credit to stay (5 mins after i called to say im leaving!)

My question is has anyone had any joy with reducing the line rental, broadband cost? When i called in 2014 i managed to get half price line rental. Do you negotiate this separate to the TV cost?

thanks for any advice

We currently have everything with Sky. Before Christmas I cancelled my TV. I then rang and asked for a deal. At the time the best deal was 60% off tv and £50 credit with no contract which I accepted. Then a couple of weeks ago I rang to ask for a deal on broadband and line rental. They offered free broadband for 12 months and discounted line rental (£9.99) for 10 months with a new contract. I said no and cancelled. I then rang broadband reinstate team and asked for a deal. They offered me free line rental for a year, so now I just pay £7.50 for unlimited broadband. I'd definitely recommend dealing with them separately.

treet0ps

Thanks so much for the advice. We have everything with them too so will speak to the broadband team 😊

satchef1

I've just renewed Sky at 50% off for 12 months, £50 account credit and no minimum term (so I can cancel after the free credit runs out if I wish). Happy with that. I was pushing for a bigger discount or more account credit, but it seems the above is the best they can do at the moment; 60% off and £100 account credit were both off the table no matter how much I pushed for one or the other.

Boohoo

Well my broadband, line rental and calls are with Sky and i have tv also.
My free broadband offer runs out Tuesday so i did online chat and the result is i was not offered anything not 1p off and my cancelation of all services apart from tv goes off on 16/02/2016.
So that didn't go to well for me.

CommitedToChange

CommitedToChange wrote: »

Well still no call from Virgin but I saw the deal they are giving new customers for line rental and BB so called them to see if they'd match it for me.

Best they said they could do was if I paid line rental in advance I could have BB for £10 a month which works out at £24/month so not bad but still not great.

I said no and will wait and see. But thought they would have called by now. Still annoyed they treat new customers better. :mad:

Well Virgin finally called back and after some discussion - nope £29/m is still too high they offered me 50m BB, line rental plus free weekend calls and basic TV but keeping my TiVo box for £20/m.

Took that and very happy with it. :j