Sky Discount For Existing Customers

danuk

well thanks all, just phoned up via the 0800 number and got a lovely scotish lady. Bascially stated my year contrct had ended and whilst i did not want to cancel i thought the payments were a bit much at the moment, within 2 minutes call ended with 3 months half price....


Thanks a lot also advise to ring back in 3 months time.

bob_mushroom

5 min call nice girl put me through to another nice girl (there are 2 in 1 call centre!!!) anyway 3 months 1/2 price offered by way of no payment in February and 1/2 price in March - but had to cancel my G33 subscription (sports with even number movie channels) or upgrade to full package for this period but it can be reinstated after the 3 months.

amateur_saver

So on reading most of the lastest threads, am I right in thinking that Sky + is going to be free from February onwards ?? I want a sky + box, as my box is about 8 years old now, so I would like to upgrade and be able to record etc. I don't want premium channels or multiroom particularly, so how is it best to get sky + box without all the other c**p that goes with it ?

Thanks for any help.

A_S x

amanda40

I had half price (sky +) for 3 months up until November - phoned today and they are giving me it half price for the next 3 - got a very nice Scottish chap - Stuart . Phoned telewest whilst on a role they are giving me £10 off for the next 6 months from my broadband service.. £120 saved in just 2 (free) phone calls!!

rach1973

I've just got my Hubby to phone (as it is in his name) we had to upgrade to all channels but got it at £21 for the next 3 months...still a saving of £15 on the Sports Package that we already had.

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Christmas_Scrooge

Never try to call Sky to ask for 3 months at half price at non-office times. I was told that they struggle to find staff to work atnon-sociable hours and when you call outside 9-5pm the call may transfer through to India and they don't have the authority to do any deals. The staff at Sky are based halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh are very friendly and 9 times out of ten will always do you a deal without any hassle. There is a free number to call 0800 7316965. This number primarily is to book an engineer visit but will present you with options to find your way through to the customer retntion team. In the past 8 months I have had 6 at half price and 2 at 25% off. Don't let them try to talk you into changing you package, just say you can't afford it. At £36 a month its too expensive anyway, in my opinion £25 is about fair and I will never pay the full amount ever again.

scoobie

amateur_saver wrote:

So on reading most of the lastest threads, am I right in thinking that Sky + is going to be free from February onwards ?? I want a sky + box, as my box is about 8 years old now, so I would like to upgrade and be able to record etc. I don't want premium channels or multiroom particularly, so how is it best to get sky + box without all the other c**p that goes with it ?

Thanks for any help.

A_S x

I've only seen one post re Sky + being free and that read like speculation.
The High Definition Service is going to include Sky Plus functionality, though no doubt there will be a built in charge. You could speculate that will have a knock one effect for the old Sky plus service, but I doubt whether they will offer special deals on the old service at the same time they are launching a new premium HD service, as they will be wanting to get people onto HD
Sky+'s main competition is mainly from freeview Personal Video Recorders, but at present they aren't that mainstream enough. I would predict that in the not too distant future most freeview boxes sold will be PVR's, in which scenario Sky won't be able to charge a premium price for Sky plus.

madkid88

hye im on family pack right now,want to go on sports package for bout 2 months,whats the free phone number i can ring to do that.

scoobydo_2

I rang yesterday told them i was concidering a move to a freeview box and with no persuasion i was left on the movies and I was on a 4 package mix but she upped my to 6 packages and movies to half price for 3 months and told me to ring back when i gets near the 3 months and thry'll see what offers are around then ...

debjay

madkid88 wrote:

hye im on family pack right now,want to go on sports package for bout 2 months,whats the free phone number i can ring to do that.

Check out http://www.saynoto0870.com/ as Sky keep changing the freephone number so this site may have updated freephone or at least geographical number
HTH