MSE News: Sky TV prices set to rise in September

mije1983

NittyGritty wrote: »

wonders what the point of OFCOM stating that any price rise, that is of Material Detriment to you you should be allowed to cancel free of charge, when sky wont even bother to let people leave free of charge if they keep it under 10%

wonders what sky would say if i turned round and said i,m going to reduce my subscription by 10% due to a wage freeze, a contract works both ways not just 1 way which it seems sky are doing

You, of course, did have the option to not subscribe to Sky if you were not willing to agree to their terms.

You could have also informed Sky at the start of the agreement that if your wage was frozen, you would reduce the payment you make to them by 10%. However, I can imagine they would have declined to offer you their services under those terms!

A contact does work 2 ways, but both sides need to agree on the terms at the outset.

losthour

There will be plenty of SKY/Murdoch/Prem football bashing on this thread I expect...

But I get a pretty good deal with SKY I think and a small increase I can live. I get SKY TV, unlimited broadband, HD, SKY Sports and phone line for £38 a month at the moment. All about doing your homework and negotiating.

richardw

I thought everybody cancelled before their contract ended and waited for their call to get you back at an offer price?

gadgetmind

Blimey, do people really pay that every month just for TV?

I'm happy with Freeview.

hanlou007

just watch all your sports free online

flight747

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Deadbeat

richardw wrote: »

I thought everybody cancelled before their contract ended and waited for their call to get you back at an offer price?

I used to work for Sky and this happened a lot (late 90s). Even back then Sky were aware of certain people 'offer surfing' so may not be quite so generous these days...

Kite2010

And there goes some more payers out of the door, towards freesat/ internet TV.

Niv

Kite2010 wrote: »

And there goes some more payers out of the door, towards freesat/ internet TV.

Pretty sure the net result will be a gain for sky so I am sure they will not be that bothered.

I am not a sky fanboy but I do subscribe, mainly due to football (bt's offer is gash). I also like a number of programmes/channels I would not be able to (legally) recieve otherwise. Sky is a luxury item imo, I would spend more down the pub watching footy in a month than i pay to sky for all the channels I watch so from a cost/benefit point fo view it is a no brainer.

SnowMan

I got the letter this week from Sky to say my Sky Entertainment Extra package was going up by £1 from £26pm to £27pm.

I decided to ring them up to cancel and they offered me a 12 month deal for £15.50 pm (so approximately £10.50 pm saving for the next few months going up to £11.50pm for the balance of the year). I decided to stay with Sky.

To help others I have been a Sky customer for over 10 yeras and haven't haggled for a while.