First Time post on here - felt sick and a loser

southernscouser

Hey wey!

Hows everything going?

weymuffred

southernscouser wrote:

Hey wey!

Hows everything going?

At the moment pretty good, still trying to reduce outgoings,
But as always with us, when everything seems to be going okay, something always comes and knocks us down again. So I am just awaiting the bad news.

plumduff-2

PMA.....

Positive Mental Attitude....!

Take care... xxx

weymuffred

Well last night I cancelled Sky out of principal as they are offering new customers/cheats (who are not) the whole sky package for half price, i complained and like I said have cancelled out of principal/protest.
So I am now number 1 bad guy in my house, but look on the bright side a monthly saving of 34 quid!!

roxy7699

well done - do you still receive any of the free channels to keep the others occupied?
ALso out of interest do you keep a spending diary of any sort?

barnaby-bear

weymuffred wrote:

Well last night I cancelled Sky out of principal as they are offering new customers/cheats (who are not) the whole sky package for half price, i complained and like I said have cancelled out of principal/protest.
So I am now number 1 bad guy in my house, but look on the bright side a monthly saving of 34 quid!!

Congratulations, I'm stunned - and very pleased for you. Better that £400 a year in your pocket than sinister SKY corporation.

pigpen

YAY!!! WTG fred!! They will get used to it.. maybe just a freeview box will mollify them somewhat.. better than nothing!!

Fantastic chunk out of your monthly budget there!

Well done!!

weymuffred

I am not happy to be cancelling and my kids are absolutely angry as anything with me and cannot quite understand why I have done it. If anyone can help in anyway getting the 12 month half price deal, then can you urgently get in touch asap, as i want to get back into my kids good books

chevalier

Was the sky in your name?
If so could your wife apply and get the sky phone, tv and broadband thingy for £26 - that would save you a lot?
Other than that your satellite decoder will act as a freeview box now, via satellite I think, so you will be still able to get some extra channels! I think you can pay £6 extra and get a card that gives you a few more channels, but I am sorry I don't know how it works,

If you want a deal for sky as per your last post, then have a look on the freebies, vouchers etc boards. There might be something there.

I am surprised that you didn't get passed through to retentions who would ususally give you a better deal . First time I have heard of them just letting a customer go!

With regards to your electric, one tip I picked up is that appliances left on stand by use up nearly as much electric as when they are on properly. Ie tv, stereo etc. Also battery charges for mobiles take electric, even when not used I think. So they need to be taken out of the wall. It could also be that your electric meter is dodgy. Could you ask your company to come out and check it? May be reading funny.

chev

roxy7699

re the sky, when I moved (even though I took sky with me) I kept getting little letter from then saying please come back, everything from 3 free months, half price charges, clearing any back payments...so if you wait a while you may find that you too get these.