Cancelling Sky and getting a new contract in Partner's name

zen135

Hello,

My Sky contract is due to expire soon. Is it possible to just cancel my contract and get a new one in my partner's name who lives with me, thereby taking advantage of the new customer offers/quidco?

I'm currently on the Entertainment Extra + HD package paying around £35 monthly. If I cancel and re-join in partner's name, I'll make the following savings:

Quidco Cashback - £100
M&S Voucher - £50
6 months half price TV(Entertainment package only) - £60
New Sky HD box - £50 approx if sold on ebay
Free Installation

Total Savings - £260
Monthly package price after savings over the contract term (12 months) - £13

Even if I threaten to cancel and get 50% off my package(excluding HD), I would still be paying around £23.

How does this sound? Is it possible to do so?

Heinz

Sky's systems spot 'same address' and/or 'same bank account' applications.

spike7451

If you try & sell the new box on E-Bay & it hasn't been used,when the purchaser tries to set it up it'll flag up as not being in the installed address (yours) & the smart card they use will also flag up as not as sent to you,so you'll more than likely be sent a bill for the full cost of the new HD box,as it's not effectively yours until the first year is up.

zen135

Heinz wrote: »

Sky's systems spot 'same address' and/or 'same bank account' applications.

Thanks for your advice.

I can tweak the address a bit as I live in a flat (for example, instead of say, 66C, I can put in Flat C, 66). When I was a student sharing a house around 2-3 years ago, it didn't stop any of us getting new customer offers even though someone else already had a Sky connection in the same property.

The bank account will be in my partner's name.

zen135

spike7451 wrote: »

If you try & sell the new box on E-Bay & it hasn't been used,when the purchaser tries to set it up it'll flag up as not being in the installed address (yours) & the smart card they use will also flag up as not as sent to you,so you'll more than likely be sent a bill for the full cost of the new HD box,as it's not effectively yours until the first year is up.

Good point. Well, in that case, I can sell my old Sky HD box which was provided for free around a year ago when I upgraded to HD.

miss_trust_2

zen135 wrote: »

Thanks for your advice.

I can tweak the address a bit as I live in a flat (for example, instead of say, 66C, I can put in Flat C, 66). When I was a student sharing a house around 2-3 years ago, it didn't stop any of us getting new customer offers even though someone else already had a Sky connection in the same property.

The bank account will be in my partner's name.

that may cause a problem if you want their phone line, BB etc as it has to match the address exactly on their lovely system, (which I hated when I worked there) as people move addresses they don't always connect the dots, put the account in your partner's name and use their account details - it is then a new account

aslan2

Does anyone know if this is also possible with Virgin Media?

InsideInsurance

Remember the contract you agree to states that you can not have benefited from a new customer discount previously. Whilst you may get past the initial screening by playing with your address etc if they do work you are defrauding them they will charge you the full costs which are massively more than any benefit you will have received as boxes/installations etc are heavily subsidised even on returning customer offers.

MOGGYMALONE

£35 sounds cheap! i'm off to check what i am paying lol

mell242

I was wondering exactly the same thing. We're with Virgin though and it's in my husband's name. I still use my maiden name and we were considering cancelling and then me phoning up to join. We rent our house so theorectically I could have become a new tenant and he could have moved out?!

spike7451

aslan2 wrote: »

Does anyone know if this is also possible with Virgin Media?

mell242 wrote: »

I was wondering exactly the same thing. We're with Virgin though and it's in my husband's name. I still use my maiden name and we were considering cancelling and then me phoning up to join. We rent our house so theorectically I could have become a new tenant and he could have moved out?!

Not if you get your phone & broadband from them,then you'll get caught out.