Cancelled Sky - Will They Offer Me A Deal?

del2210

Cancell in writing.I have been with them 15 years and always got a good deal.I took multiroom out and a one yr contract started and then there were no offers (very expensive)I have a 3d tv and some of the stuff on there are ppv(waste of time)Once may comes i will be giving them 30 days notice as once your tied in thats where they like you to be.My advice is stick it out as long as you can and they will call.Arrange for a nother provider to install you and let sky no.If you go on the virgin website there is a change of supplier form to download and send to sky.(I BET SKY WILL OFFER YOU A BETTER DEAL IF YOUR PAYING THEM £100 PM LIKE ME (REMEMBER YOU COULD ALWAYS CANCELL VIRGINS INSTALLATION)

Lifes_Grand_Plan

marky_dp wrote: »

i cancelled my sky world package last month, as 12 months half price deal came to an end.

when i cancelled i was offered 25% off the full-price bill, which i refused and decided to hold out for another half-price deal.

The tv went off on the 10th of this month and am yet to hear anything from sky.

Hopefully the call will come soon....

Good on you mate. If you don't hear from them by end of Jan with a "12 months half price" offer then i'll eat my hat.

Too many people come on here moaning about the cost, ring up saying "what can you to reduce my rate, I might leave if not" (mistake number 1) and then just stay with them when they get offered nothing or a rubbish offer.... This is exactly why Sky are giving crap offers out these days, because people put up with their high prices and are too worried to lose a few channels for a few months....

Various companies like O2 and Plusnet offer home phone and broadband for <£20 a month.

My halfprice sky is £24 a month for all movies and sports 1-4 plus I got a HD box off ebay so get all the free HD channels.

Total is <£45 a month for more than I could ever want. Paying £100+ a month is madness IMHO... wish I had that much money to waste.

ds1980

canceled sky after about 10 years last month. No offers as yet. Friend canceled 2 months ago and just had 50% offer sent to his address.

Going to have to keep on phone and broadband but assume ill be getting a call regarding sky sub soon. I aint bothered but think our lass likes the planner. WHats the cheapest way for me to get sky+ like tv once it gets canceled?

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macman

Buy a Freesat PVR. Staright swap for your existing Sky+ box.

afc80

Update to my earlier post.

sky phoned today, asked why i emailed them rather than phoned to cancel.

Told them i did nto think i would get another deal and i really cant afford full price sky even though i love the sports channels.

Dont be silly said the lovely girl. She is going to phone me back the day before my current discount period is over to see what she can do for me.

Another half price period beckons. :beer:

pimento

daniel.thomas wrote: »

People do so much to make sure RM does not get a penny, yet every time they watch free view or buy a newspaper the man makes money some how.

Unless he has been into your home and kicked your cat I dont understand why people cut there nose off to spite there face.

Im not having sky because RM owns it?? come on, really, should we have not grown out of this by now we are all adults after all

No, I don't have Sky because it's Rupert Murdoch, but because it's rubbish. If it were down to me, I'd get rid of our goggle box and get a life, but husband and son want it.

I don't buy a newspaper either.

pimento

Makes no difference. I've been without it for so long now that there is no way I'd pay to watch it.

.. and you're being a bit creative with the truth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation

Gratis

What you need to bear in mind when negotiating with Sky is that if you adopt the tactic of trying to play poker with Sky, Sky may very well decide to play poker with you and call your bluff. Sky can, and often does, gamble that you will cave in and withdraw your cancellation before it actually takes effect – thereby sparing Sky the cost of reducing your subscription.

And Sky's negotiators are a lot more experienced at playing this particular game than you are: they're doing it every day to keep a roof over their heads and their children fed: you're doing it once or twice a year to keep watching some television programmes.

Only if you’re prepared to stand firm and actually go through with the cancellation do you demonstrate to Sky that you’re serious and that you don’t need Sky. At that point Sky stops receiving money from you. This situation Sky doesn’t like at all. Obtaining money from you (and as much of it as it can) is what Sky is all about. By your cancellation, you have (if I may change metaphors) put the ball firmly back into Sky’s court and sat down. Sky then has to accept the fact that you aren’t prepared to pay its full fees and can live without Sky. The only way Sky can then resume obtaining money from you – which it is extremely anxious to do – will be by offering you a new discounted deal that you are prepared to accept.

The important thing to remember at all times when dealing with Sky is that – just as it costs the BBC nothing if you buy a radio and listen to the BBC’s programmes – it costs Sky, itself, nothing to let you watch its programmes. The expense to Sky of its broadcasting is, essentially, fixed: it doesn’t vary with the number of people tuning into it and receiving it, it’s the same cost, whether Sky's programmes are watched by a hundred people or ten million people. Sky, moreover, has given you (or at least subsidised) the equipment upon which to watch them; if you stop paying Sky, Sky is then making no return on that investment.

The leverage that you have on Sky is that if Sky lets you watch its programmes (even for free) Sky can then charge its advertisers more money because their advertisements are being watched by a larger number of viewers. Every thousand viewers counts – and you are one of them.

What all this boils down to is that Sky wants to obtain as much money as it can, from every premises in the land. This includes you and your home. If you aren’t prepared to pay its official tariffs it will, sooner or later, offer them to you at a discount, because getting something out of you is better than getting nothing out of you. All the time you are not paying anything to Sky, Sky regards it as being a loss to Sky. So, the longer Sky delays finding a way to resume getting money out of you, the more money it considers it is losing. Sky is a company run with ruthless efficiency at obtaining money, so, if you do cancel, it will not be long before you hear from Sky in regard to what you are prepared to pay, and for what.

Happy haggling! :money:

steve1980

You don't work for Virgin Media by any chance do you?

Trixxie

Thank you Gratis, for a wonderful post!