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

philipmag

phoned sky last night to cancel, as my monthly bill had increased to 106p/m :eek: said i was cancelling & after a bit of haggling they offered me; sky tv, phone & broadband for 12months at £45p/m

Needless to say am V Happy

foxy219

Morning, have just read up on the last couple of pages and decided to give Sky a ring to see if they could offer me any discount on my current bill - told them I was thinking of moving onto Virgin and straight away I was offered a 25% discount for 12 months, no hard sell no trying to convince me to buy anything else very impressed, will save me over £220 a year!
Very happy!

LegalBlonde

I think I will have to ring back and mention the V word next week! I just called and started lamenting about the size of my bill and could we cut down any packages, worked twice in the past for instant % off, but nada today!

deehell

I have a Sky+HD and movie pack - happy with service, if not with price.

Family keep falling out about watching more than one Sky channel at a time. Was considering multiroom but it's an extra £10.25 a month, and box cost of £49 + install of £60 - so £109 install and £120 every year. Got me thinking of purchasing the Freesat service from Sky - £175 all in so that we can watch Sky freesat channels rather than multiroom.

Any guidance about whether

a) Sky will be happy with this and let me do it?
b) better to haggle on the multiroom - and get a new 1TB box?
c) Any other strategies?

Cheers
D

macman

Eh? But you can get !!!!!! already. Just cancel your sub, and the existing set up and viewing card will give you all the FTA channels.
Buying !!!!!! just duplicates what you've already got-second dish, LNB, cabling and box.
Bear in mind that after cancelling your sub you'll lose all the PVR facilities, unless you pay £10 a month to keep them. If not you can switch to a Freesat PVR instead-a straight box swap.
You can always get some more boxes for next to nothing (freegle/ebay/car boot sale) if you want to use them in other rooms.

Moomin

I've been with Sky for 12 months today. I have Sky HD, Broadband and Sky Sports and Sky Movies. Currently paying £70/mth. I rang them up last night, and I was only offered a reduction of £12/mth - bringing it to £58/mth - do you think this is Ok? I did mention the V-word also.

Whitemonk

deehell wrote: »

I have a Sky+HD and movie pack - happy with service, if not with price.

Family keep falling out about watching more than one Sky channel at a time. Was considering multiroom but it's an extra £10.25 a month, and box cost of £49 + install of £60 - so £109 install and £120 every year. Got me thinking of purchasing the Freesat service from Sky - £175 all in so that we can watch Sky freesat channels rather than multiroom.

Any guidance about whether

a) Sky will be happy with this and let me do it?
b) better to haggle on the multiroom - and get a new 1TB box?
c) Any other strategies?

Cheers
D

If you've had your kit for more than a year, you are out of contract and can do what you like. Remember, Sky, Freesat and Freesat from Sky all come from the same dish. You probably have a quad LNB on your dish with two cables coming from it to your Sky HD Box.

Option 1: use the two spare LNB outlets for a new Freesat box

Option 2: change the LNB for an octo (eight way) one. This will give you three pairs of spare outlets!

If you are up to it, this can be DIY. Otherwise, get the retailer of the new Freesat box to organise it. It should not be more than £100 plus cost of parts and the Freesat box(es). More than worth it for family peace

heathrow86

I cancelled my Sky subscription a couple of weeks ago. Mainly due to cost. I was not offered any deals at all. Anyway at the moment i cannot afford my own PVR, so i called Sky and asked for the recording to be put back on, thinking i would be charged £10 a month for the privelage, but no i was told it was free. Happy days then.

penrhyn

A new one on me, does it work now?

heathrow86

I don't know to be honest.