Upgrading to Sky+ from basic Sky

Lazarus78

Hi
Strange question, I currently pay for basic Sky for my mum its in her name payment coming from my account (I live elsewhere). I would really like to upgrade her to Sky+ but at present it would cost me £159 (£99 for the Sky+ box and £60 standard installation)

Just wondered if anyone could make any suggestions to try and get it cheaper. Would I be able to cancel it in her name and then take it out fully in my name?

I do have a spare Sky+ box but obviously her house doesnt have the cabling for Sky+ anyone know how much people charge to just do cabling?

Im based in Sheffield
Any advice would be great.
Many thanks in advance

Kurtis_Blue

If the dish is below eaves then probably £65 max for a quad lnb supplied and fitted.

macman

Or you can do it yourself for about £25. If she already has a spare connection on the LNB then it's even easier-all you you need to do is run one additional cable to the box.

socks_uk

We are upgrading to Sky+ today (the guy is coming between 11am - 1pm) but decided to take the multiroom option. This way you get the sky+hd box free (£60 fitting paid at time of ordering) but pay £10 a month for the multiroom option which will be put in my daughter's room (she's 22 before I get the usual comments of kids not having tv in their rooms!)

So, for the initial cost of £60 for the fitting we have no 'big' payment to pay out right now but, at the end of the year we will have paid £20 extra. We will assess the situation after the year (12 months new contract) but I have to add that we will be cancelling the Virgin box that she has in her room at the moment reducing the virgin bill by £5 a month.

kwaks

Hi Lazarus. Now why would you consider paying money to upgrade?

In the last 3 months I have had sky supply me with a new HD box and upgrade the feed to my bedroom for sky + capability, free of charge.(and no need to take the HD package)

Then the original sky + box went on the blink, another phone call and "discussion" led to another engineer visit and box replaced, also free of charge.

You pay sky £x per month for the subscrition, they can continue to recieve this money for the service they provide IF they supply you with a box. You will have to pay the additional £10 per month for the sky+ capability, so the least they can do is upgrade your hardware at their cost.

Chances are it will be the cancellation team who will authorise this for you. Remind them their are other options out there such as BT vision

djohn2002uk

kwaks wrote: »

You will have to pay the additional £10 per month for the sky+ capability, so the least they can do is upgrade your hardware at their cost.

I thought that £10 charge went years ago.

macman

The £10pm Sky+ charge only applies if you do not have a subscription and want to retain the Sky+ facilities.

Lazarus78

Thanks for all suggestions will be contacting Sky and trying to wangle some form of cheaper option I think. I pay £22 a month at the moment for the channels my mum wants. Fingers crossed eh

macman

Cancel Sky, get a Freesat Humax HDR PVR and never pay Sky anything again.