Half Price Sky+

pinkmilkplease

Phoned Sky today to ask if they would do an offer on the Sky+ box.
Said the usual sort of thing; local customer, also take broadband from you, & mentioned that NTL were doing a much better package by offering their new TV Drive Box (the equivalent to Sky+) at no extra cost.

True to form I was fobbed off & Sky would not budge.

At this pint, I said I was going to cancel & move to NTL. Immediately I was transferred & offered Sky+ at half price with FREE instillation.

Not sure if this is the correct place to post, but thought I would share this gem of information with you all...

RickHoughton

I got mine for £49 the other day. How much is half price?
Done more or less the same as you.

pinkmilkplease

£49 is half price & I bet Sky are still making £48 profit.

slowen

pinkmilkplease wrote:

Immediately I was transferred & offered Sky+ at half price with FREE instillation.

Did they transfer you to retentions and you got it offered then or was it the first person that you spoke to?

Think my 12 month's is up or nearly up and would try and get SKY+ out of them if I can for £49

Did they say you needed to keep your old sky box and set it up as multiroom

weaver

Remember with sky+ unless you have one of the top packages it will cost you £10 a month to have sky+

Thats an extra £120 a year - is it worth it?????

slowen

Think I pay around £37 a month for the sports package which includes most channels apart from the movies

lowonmoney

slowen wrote:

Did they transfer you to retentions and you got it offered then or was it the first person that you spoke to?

Think my 12 month's is up or nearly up and would try and get SKY+ out of them if I can for £49

Did they say you needed to keep your old sky box and set it up as multiroom

I got the same offer last week. I threatened to cancel my subscription as my sky box was playing up and Sky wanted £65 to look at it, plus I'd have probably needed to buy a new box. You need to say you want to cancel and be transferred to retentions. I said my sky box wasn't working and I wasn't prepared to pay for a new one as I'd just bought a new TV with built in freeview. They then offered me Sky+ for £49. This includes a new sky+box, remote and fitting. I ordered it on Thursday night and it was fitted Monday morning. They didn't mention multiroom, but you do need to pay £10 extra per month or have a premium package as the previous poster pointed out.

We were originally only having it to get the new box out of them, but don't think OH will be able to give up his new toy. He's taken to pausing the TV every few minutes to comment on the programme!!

ckerrd

weaver wrote:

Remember with sky+ unless you have one of the top packages it will cost you £10 a month to have sky+

Thats an extra £120 a year - is it worth it?????

And people complain about the licence fee (BBC)

biglugs

Thats an extra £120 a year - is it worth it?????

It's worth EVERY Penny!! I can't imagine how we coped without it.
You can get a similar result by buying yourself a personal HDD recorder, but probably won't work with Sky to record multiple series etc.

amanda40

Anyone got a free phone number for Sky?

Thanks

Pav

I am moving house next month so phoned sky looking to get set-up with sky + with the sports package (ive never had sky before) - they were wanting £99 for the sky + box and £60 for installation, total rip-off I.M.O, any way of haggling with them? - my brother as a new customer in the summer last year got free sky + box / free insatllation and 3 months half-price rental - Dont like how they can sway there prices so much! may just wait untill andother 'intro deal' comes up