MSE News: Sky TV customers to be hit with price hikes

fivesquare

Thanks. Sky has increased pricing since I joined by £2.20 (line rental and voicemail). This is another £1.50 (£3 after the promo period ends).

A good reason to ditch them in November. I think I'm going to be fine with freeview, Netflix, and will have to shop for cheap unlimited broadband.

Leebobs

I've just had my letter through. They want to charge £4.50 extra a month so £54 extra a year.

My contract is up in May and I'm cancelling.

ian-d

Can anyone confirm for me, I activated my subscription on the 6th February 2015 (so less than 60 days ago) on a 50% deal for Family/Sports/HD. The letter I received today states my bill will increase by £4 a month.

Is that correct, should I be paying this? Shouldn't it at the very least be 50% off?

jem16

ian-d wrote: »

Can anyone confirm for me, I activated my subscription on the 6th February 2015 (so less than 60 days ago) on a 50% deal for Family/Sports/HD. The letter I received today states my bill will increase by £4 a month.

Is that correct, should I be paying this? Shouldn't it at the very least be 50% off?

The letter will just give the increased cost without discounts.

if you sign in to My Sky you should be able to see your future subscription costs and you can check.

Sky_how_much

Surely they can't just get away with ripping everyone off !
Been with Sky since day one but I've had enough bill heading towards £90 ! Enoughs enough going to cancel when my last 5 months are up from an upgrade earlier this year.

Brill offer from Virgin ..... Just no longer interested in loyalty to a greedy money grabbing company who've paid far too much money for the premier league!! With us to pay for it

Sky_how_much

Leebobs wrote: »

I've just had my letter through. They want to charge £4.50 extra a month so £54 extra a year.

My contract is up in May and I'm cancelling.

Think they'd soon change their tune if we all left and made a stance ! Ramifications would cripple them !! Just imagine the premier league would also suffer no 5.5 billion !!!!!!! Nuts!!

Rugby_fan

What about the fact that in addition to the exhorbitant price increase (5.4% in my case); I also now have to pay an extra £16.5 per month to Bt Sport to watch premiership rugby;previously available on Sky!!

pinkteapot

Got my letter yesterday - we have TV only (moved bb and phone to Virgin a few months ago) and it's going up by £4.50 a month (6%). Phoned them and asked to cancel Sky Movies and they knocked £13/month off my bill for three months instead.

BUT, for those saying they'll switch to Virgin - they're just as bad. Joined them in the Autumn and after two months (of an 18 month contract) got a letter putting our price up by 11%. Because of the size of the increase, they did have to offer us the option to cancel (even though we were in contract period).

Sadly, giving up Sky isn't an option for us (much as I'd love to) as hubby watches a LOT of sport, including all the F1.

JCG51

Should I really pay a 5% hike to increase the salaries of billionaire footballers and Sky executives. B infuriating.
Time to say goodbye.

ratechaser

So let me get this straight, I just re contracted a week ago, on Thursday my new package kicks in, and on Saturday I get the "rejoice, for we are stuffing you for another £4.50 a month" letter. How can this be remotely legal? Quite aside from whatever disclaimers their Ts & Cs may contain about raising prices at will, surely they must have known this was going to happen at the point they sold me the new contract, and therefore there is more than a whiff of deception or even fraud here in their actions of locking me in at a price that would definitely not be sustained??