sky tv price freeze for a year on your current package !!!

david100

kurgon wrote: »

That's brilliant. I get no more channels, less money coming into the household due to no wage rises and high infaltion, and I get to pay the same for my Sky from a company who just announced they made £790m profit in 9 months. Who am I supposed to thank?

Some of you people are so funny. Everything's going up all the time, as you say due to high inflation, and yet you're practically moaning about something not going up. What do you expect them to do, cut bills because people are struggling? No, you don't need to thank them but to come on here and make these comments seems bizarre. Personally I am very pleased that a service I CHOOSE to use (it's very much a luxury) isn't going up this year. If you are struggling, cut down or cancel, it's fairly simple.

And to the OP, this is a price freeze on packages, not on offers. You'll need to plead with them for a new offer if you want that. The comments on that thread make me laugh too - people getting annoyed when Sky won't give them a deal. Why should they? Great if they do but you can't complain if they don't. As I say, it's all choice, how much money Sky make is entirely irrelevant. They're a business, not a charity handing out free television.

jarr

No wonder they give all those offers!

AdamBrunt

If I am reading that right ....

We currently have the the variety + kids packs (for about £20).

From Sept 1st we'll be moved onto the Entertainment Plus package (in order to keep the kids channels) which will give us load more channels for the same price we are currently paying.

But come September 2012, we will have to pay and extra £5 to keep the kids channels (which are only ones in the + package we actually watch).

Is that right ?

Bootsalebargains

AdamBrunt wrote: »

If I am reading that right ....

We currently have the the variety + kids packs (for about £20).

From Sept 1st we'll be moved onto the Entertainment Plus package (in order to keep the kids channels) which will give us load more channels for the same price we are currently paying.

But come September 2012, we will have to pay and extra £5 to keep the kids channels (which are only ones in the + package we actually watch).

Is that right ?

That's right, we have the same variety & kids so we've got the same problem, our little girls only 3 so we can't cut the kids channel off but the rest are just rubbish

jbrockwell5081

I can't believe I missed the fact they were changing the packages yet again. So yes, yet again we are going to have to pay extra when the 12 months finishes as we had pretty much got rid of most of the mixes apart from kids.

Sorry hun, but you may well end up with no kids channels - freesat here we come!

rabidbun

Yeah, first question I asked my OH when he opened the mail (I had ignored it and just assumed it would be hiding a price rise ) was which rearrangements were incoming of the packages that would cost us more in the long run.

They've actually stopped asking me to upgrade to sports and movie packages though, which is nice!

kurgon

david100 wrote: »

Some of you people are so funny. Everything's going up all the time, as you say due to high inflation, and yet you're practically moaning about something not going up. What do you expect them to do, cut bills because people are struggling? No, you don't need to thank them but to come on here and make these comments seems bizarre. Personally I am very pleased that a service I CHOOSE to use (it's very much a luxury) isn't going up this year. If you are struggling, cut down or cancel, it's fairly simple.

And to the OP, this is a price freeze on packages, not on offers. You'll need to plead with them for a new offer if you want that. The comments on that thread make me laugh too - people getting annoyed when Sky won't give them a deal. Why should they? Great if they do but you can't complain if they don't. As I say, it's all choice, how much money Sky make is entirely irrelevant. They're a business, not a charity handing out free television.

And I'll be interest to see your comments when the true nature of this is unveiled come next year when many people could trim down their packages by getting rid of channels they don't watch, no longer have that choice and pay a higher gross fee Less choice that will generate more money.

Where is there any rationale for any increase - their wage structure has not increased. Their profits are increasing - not really the figures to generate the constant rises to packages that we see - I would have seen a good case for a reduction in fees and am not going to jump up and down about a hidden rise.

Saint_Chris

And the grabbit is.............................:huh:

heatherks

i wonder who worked that one out ...not giving us a choice of which channels we WANT to watch ....Sky are deciding for us esp ..putting the kids programmes on bundle 2 ... a lot of unhappy kids come next yr.. if parents need to save a £5 or whatever they decide to up it to

hunker7

to be honest i don't get any of this stuff sky's doing :mad: