Switching Sky to partner's name to get new customer discounts

jenc410

All, I just wanted to share my recent success in switching our Sky account to my name (from my husband's) so that we could benefit from the New Customer deal.


I wanted to use the MSE 40% deal but went onto sky chat to first check that it was allowed (to create a new account in my name even though we have sky in my husbands name). I was told that it was fine, that I was a new customer (as I hadn't had sky myself in over 12 months).


When I told him that I had the 40% deal so would do it online he said that he could offer me a 50% deal for 12 months if I did it through the chat with him - even better!


He talked me through it all online, and to get around already being a customer he told me to manually enter my address with 00 before our number (rather than using the auto find as that comes up and says "you seem to be a customer already etc etc").


I was able to pick an installation date just over a month away so that when we cancel my husbands package we don't have a gap, and then my husband phoned Sky and cancelled our current package.


So now i'm getting the variety pack for £14 per month for the next 12 months, and you get to choose a reward of either £100 Mastercard/M&S/Tesco or a Galaxy Tab 4

and on top of that, I clicked through topcashback to sky page before clicking the link sent to me from the Sky Chat and so that tracked at another £121! Not a bad morning's work! Hope this helps someone else!


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audigex

I wish I'd seen that last sentence before I did my own, but you may have just hit on a good way to always get the best new customer deals - swap every 13 months (so there isn't an overlap of the 12 months). I'll have to keep that in mind.

And yeah the "if someone already has sky at that address" thing is a nuisance, as it makes it really hard to arrange to get set up immediately after moving in if the current occupier has sky we got around it by using the word Ten as the house name, rather than the number 10