£75 'No Commitments' Package from Sky Plus free Ipod/Payg Mobile/Phones/Hi-fi

harz99

harz99 wrote: »

If you live in a non digital area where you cannot get freeview, or for that matter even C5, it is the cheapest way of getting good quality digital viewing, and of course you can still record off your analogue aerial as well should you wish to.

Having booked the 0800-1300 slot, engineer rang before 0900 as promised (0846) and said would be with us between 1000-1300, turned up at 1125.

After some discussion he fitted the dish where I wanted it and all is working well. He did however, having seen our existing dish, try to get me to agree to him simply fitting an extra head and cabling to my existing dish thus shortening his installation time and gaining a dish to fit privately somewhere else - no ta! Departure after some difficulty in getting the box (a new one) initialised around 1240.

Caution - if this is your first venture into Sky, do not let them leave with a signature until the box is working properly with tv channels and not just the Sky test card or you will face a long wait on a costly 0870 phone line to do their job.

mayet

Unfortunately, it looks as though the £79 offer is no longer available. So can you help with the following?

We have just bought a house with a Sky dish on the roof. We get no terrestrial TV and so needed a Sky box. We’ve now bought a Sky digibox (PACE BSkyB 2400 box) with viewing card (from someone’s garage sale). Our house has a cable which we assume connects to the dish on the roof and which connects to the digibox but it only searches in vain for programmes and programme guides when connected via scart to the TV. (We have no remote control for the digibox).

Have you got any suggestions about what we might try next? Many thanks

patrick0

mayet - I think you'd be better off asking on the https://www.digitalspy.co.uk Sky forums.

I've tried several times each day on the Dixons and Currys websites and this offer is permanently out of stock. I've rang their customer service numbers but they just say check each day (I get the impression it's a stock answer for anything that's out of stock).

Mark_J.

A Freeview box (no dish) does not allow viewing of BBC from another region. I believe that the full Sky package does.

Does anyone know if the £79 all-in Sky TV includes all regional BBC and S4C (Welsh Channel 4)??

enzed

Managed to get around not paying the £25 for not having a landline.I just told sky that BT were due to come around next week but i wanted the telly on now.

laaljocky

Just been on Dixons website and the SKy package is finally back in stock :T

harz99

Mark_J. wrote: »

A Freeview box (no dish) does not allow viewing of BBC from another region. I believe that the full Sky package does.

Does anyone know if the £79 all-in Sky TV includes all regional BBC and S4C (Welsh Channel 4)??

Yes the £79 deal does.

Snapelover

We're gonna take advantage of this package but want to upgrade to the Sky+ box.

Will the Sky+ box be installed from the offset or will we have to have the basic one then wait? How do we go about informing Sky that we want to upgrade?

Will we be allowed to keep the basic box or will we have to give it to Sky?

Our BT phone socket is at the top of our stairs. I don't want a wire running from the living room all the way to it - can we just ask him to leave it loose and tell him that we want to hide it under carpets or does he have to fix it down? We don't want to have the phone line plugged in at all - can we just unplug it when he leaves? I don't want it stuck onto any skirting boards etc.

Lastly, will it be cheeky if I ask him to take his shoes off while he is in our house? We, as a family don't walk around with our shoes on (but I don't ask visiting friends to remove theirs) but he will be all over my living room carpet (which is new) and probably going to the top of the stairs - after drilling and getting covered in brickdust.

One last thing, we have some Currys vouchers - how can I use them towards the cost of Sky? I have tried entering the voucher codes in the promotional code box byt to no avail.

deanos

Snapelover wrote: »

We're gonna take advantage of this package but want to upgrade to the Sky+ box.

Will the Sky+ box be installed from the offset or will we have to have the basic one then wait? How do we go about informing Sky that we want to upgrade?

Will we be allowed to keep the basic box or will we have to give it to Sky?

Our BT phone socket is at the top of our stairs. I don't want a wire running from the living room all the way to it - can we just ask him to leave it loose and tell him that we want to hide it under carpets or does he have to fix it down? We don't want to have the phone line plugged in at all - can we just unplug it when he leaves? I don't want it stuck onto any skirting boards etc.

Lastly, will it be cheeky if I ask him to take his shoes off while he is in our house? We, as a family don't walk around with our shoes on (but I don't ask visiting friends to remove theirs) but he will be all over my living room carpet (which is new) and probably going to the top of the stairs - after drilling and getting covered in brickdust.

One last thing, we have some Currys vouchers - how can I use them towards the cost of Sky? I have tried entering the voucher codes in the promotional code box byt to no avail.

With the Sky+ you will be better going through Quidco and getting £85 cashback and gettting the Sky+ for £99 installed.

As for the phone line just get him to lay it loose and say you will put it under the carpet later, when hes gone just take the phone line away they will not check at all.

As for the shoes when they came round last week he had some plastic protectors on his shoes, this was a proper Sky installer but you may get a contracter.

Snapelover

deanos wrote: »

With the Sky+ you will be better going through Quidco and getting £85 cashback and gettting the Sky+ for £99 installed.

Just checked that out, so am I right in saying that we could get

Sky+ with 6 mixes for:

£129.00 plus £21.00 per month

or

Sky+ with 2 mixes for

£129.00 plus £15.00 per month

and receive £85.00 cashback from Quidco so really it would only cost us £44.00 (plus monthly subscription)??????

That cannot be right surely.:cool:

What is the minimum subscription period?