sky/sky + deals for existing customer

funky-footprints

is it realy tuesday or wednesday mornings the best to ring to cancel ?

I dont want to cancel ..but our HD is crashing again and last time they told us it would require an engineer call out as it freezes in films and wipes the sky plus films we have saved. hoping if i threaten to just go with freeview they will offfer free engineer call out and an insentive to stay !! would love the new sky plus box which stores more and you can record two programs at once, but not interested in multi room ( as we have free view in playroom) or HD as we cant afford a new HD tv.

if they dont offer something dh wont be too happy , how long would i have to wait before we ring up and take out a new subscription ? ?
thanks
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spankymonkey_2

there is an offer with cdwow where you sign up for sky and get it half price for 4 months and a £35 voucher for cdwow. i recently used this offer but got 5 months free and a voucher for same amount

zztopgirl

Sky arent charging me for next month, so i worked it all out, it makes me better off by £2.25, as well as getting half price for 6 months.

I just need to persuade my dad to go for this now, he will refuse but he is planning to cancel anyway as he is retiring soon and wont have as much money. Any tips on how to convince a grumpy old git please? He doesnt have sky+, just normal family pack.

libitina_2

Sky rang me up yesterday and said I was chosen as one of a handful of special customers (Yeah, right!) I could upgrade from the family package to get the films for ONLY £8 pm extra until after xmas. I think I threw her when I said no thanks, lol.

funky-footprints

Zed_Ex wrote:

Yes i have a sky digital box with the old card in with no subcription and i still recieve:

All the BBC channels 1,2,3,4 , beebies, news etc
All the ITV channels 1,2,3,4
S4C Digital
Channel 4
Channel 5
Sky Three (repeats old sky one and sky two shows)
Men and Motors
Film 4 and Film 4 +1
Quite a few news channels
True Movies 1 + 2
Zone Horror and Zone Action
Movies 4 men 1 + 2
Pop - Kids Channel

And there are a few more as well which i cant think atm, not bad for free tho.

Ive just plugged in a Thompson sky digi box into the airial point in our kitchen, I get sky menu appear no problems. when you press tv guide it says no satellite signal is being received ? i hoped it would work as my free view box did when i plugged that in, in the playroom ? am i doing something wrong ? ? can you help a silly old me ? ?

funky-footprints

ignore above ..i have realised i need a sky aeiral coming from the actual dish, hopefully we will have a very nice sky engineer when he comes to repair the sticking sky+ box !! then we will get the freebie channels in kitchen. feeling very daft !!!

purplepatch

funky-footprints wrote:

ignore above ..i have realised i need a sky aeiral coming from the actual dish, hopefully we will have a very nice sky engineer when he comes to repair the sticking sky+ box !! then we will get the freebie channels in kitchen. feeling very daft !!!

If he won't help, check out my thread over on the techie board for how to do it yourself with some very helpful info from hunnymonster.

phoebe03cat

spankymonkey wrote:

there is an offer with cdwow where you sign up for sky and get it half price for 4 months and a £35 voucher for cdwow. i recently used this offer but got 5 months free and a voucher for same amount

Hi, anyone know of any other deals for new customers please. Have been with retentions on telewest when I threatened to change before, but am fed up with negotiating every three months. If I forget I find they don't contact me and leave me on a high tarriff. Had enough! Just looking for best n.c deal please. Thanks

macca64

Phoned Sky, was paying £18 per month, got 25% discount for 12 months! Was also offered 1/2 price for 3 months. So managed to keep same channels but for £13.50 instead of £18 per month.

Equanimity1

Rang up to cancel films and sports as my offer had ended ...he didn't offer anything ...so I asked if they would extend the offer ...he said we do not do back to back offers any more......so I cancelled ...may look at getting a set top box