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Make a profit and get free sky for a year!

bluebaron
bluebaron Posts: 152 Forumite
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Having just moved into a new home I was planning on plugging in my freesat box but...... no dish!

Dish installation has to be around £150 so i digged about to find a better way. After a bit of thought I figured this out.

Sign up for sky via quidco get the following:

Free Installation- £120 saved
Free 2TB Sky+HD box - £499 saved
50% off basic package for 6 months = £63 to pay/saved
quidco cashback - £60
full price 6 months - £129.00

So i pay £129.00+£63 for 12 months minus £60 cashback = £132.00 Total for year.

Now here's the good bit, I got a FREE Sky+HD 2tb Box which are going for anything from £150-£200 on ebay so that puts me in profit and after 12 months I plug my Freesat box back in to my new (free) dish!

;);)
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  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Does your freesat box have a viewing card slot?
  • bluebaron
    bluebaron Posts: 152 Forumite
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    Not sure its in the loft now! But I only watch freeview channels normally so after a year Ill give up on sky and go back to that either way.

    Or course you could keep the free Sky+HD box.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    bluebaron wrote: »
    Not sure its in the loft now! But I only watch freeview channels normally so after a year Ill give up on sky and go back to that either way.

    Or course you could keep the free Sky+HD box.

    well in that case you arent 'getting' sky free ;)
  • Tiddlywinks
    Tiddlywinks Posts: 5,777 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Where is the 'free Sky for a year' bit... I seem to have missed that?
    :hello:
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Tiddlywinks wrote: »
    Where is the 'free Sky for a year' bit... I seem to have missed that?

    uing the OPs method
    it would only be 'free' if you already had a sky box
  • HappyMJ
    HappyMJ Posts: 21,115 Forumite
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    Tiddlywinks wrote: »
    Where is the 'free Sky for a year' bit... I seem to have missed that?
    You sell the box.
    :footie:
    :p Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) :p Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. :p
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    HappyMJ wrote: »
    You sell the box.

    and dont watch the free sky :rotfl:
  • brewerdave
    brewerdave Posts: 8,860 Forumite
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    ...what the OP is saying is that he will pay out £132 over the first 12 months ...but that he will recover it all at the end of the 12 months by selling the Sky HD+ box for at least £132 -hence free Sky!!
  • bluebaron
    bluebaron Posts: 152 Forumite
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    edited 26 August 2013 at 11:57AM
    yes exactly - and i get the dish installed for free which is the problem I had in the first place!

    So thats FREE sky for 1 year!

    Really they are paying me as I should get at least £150 for the box, so they are paying me around £18 to get a dish installed and watch sky for a year.
  • lazer
    lazer Posts: 3,402 Forumite
    You should know that the skyplus features will be disabled when you stop paying the subscription - whereas an alternative box may have a recorder in it.
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