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MrsWenger

shaggy wrote: »

Is this for sky Q?
I rely would love a deal to match or come close to my £18.50 a month for the full package on normal HD box but I doubt they will match that this year.

Hi Shaggy,

No it is for HD. I was paying £32 per month last year.

You have an extraordinary deal at £18.50 for the full service in my opinion. I genuinely don’t recall seeing others quoting that kind of low price. Best of luck when it is your time to renegotiate with them.

teddysmum

MrsWenger wrote: »

Hi Shaggy,

No it is for HD. I was paying £32 per month last year.

You have an extraordinary deal at £18.50 for the full service in my opinion. I genuinely don’t recall seeing others quoting that kind of low price. Best of luck when it is your time to renegotiate with them.

A lot of us were offered 50% off ,even at cancellation, but refused, hoping for the usual increased offer which doesn't seem to have appeared.


When the spoil you with a very good offer (some of us had 75% off and £100 credit) it's difficult to accept a very much inferior offer.

MrsWenger

teddysmum wrote: »

A lot of us were offered 50% off ,even at cancellation, but refused, hoping for the usual increased offer which doesn't seem to have appeared.


When the spoil you with a very good offer (some of us had 75% off and £100 credit) it's difficult to accept a very much inferior offer.

Hi Teddysmum,

Apologies, I don’t think I made myself clear in my previous post that you quoted. I do recall the time when exceptional offers were made and I fact I paid £32.00 last year when the full price was £84.00.

I was really referencing the fact that recent posts indicate the discounts now are not as great as they were in past times.

The point you make is a valid one and I told the Retention guy exactly that. He told me his price was a good deal as it was 30% off. I told him that whilst that his calculation was correct it was well over 40% more than I paid last year!

edmund_blackadder

teddysmum wrote: »

A lot of us were offered 50% off ,even at cancellation, but refused, hoping for the usual increased offer which doesn't seem to have appeared.


When the spoil you with a very good offer (some of us had 75% off and £100 credit) it's difficult to accept a very much inferior offer.

That's pretty much the situation I'm now in.


I was on a 60% offer and they offered me a 50% offer... which they said was 'only' £15 per month more expensive... so I cancelled.

therivierakid

Just tried haggling with Sky via Live Chat. We're currently paying about £71 a month for Variety HD, fibre b/b and line rental. Definitely over the odds! Seen a package with BT for £45 a month with £30 activation (only losing out on Sky Atlantic really) so quoted that at them. No joy... best they could do was £56 a month so I've bitten the bullet and cancelled. Fingers crossed I get a 50% offer in my MySky inbox - do they still do this?

gazbeer

Sky are definitely refraining from giving large discounts at the moment. Being something who cancels on a annual basis and then calls sky's bluff, they've only offered a 30% discount and £25 credit. That came from both the cancellation team and the win-back team. They're really keen to keep pushing the VIP card despite me gaining no benefit from it.

Still another 2 & 1/2 weeks to go so we'll see where it ends up.

shaggy

gazbeer wrote: »

Sky are definitely refraining from giving large discounts at the moment. Being something who cancels on a annual basis and then calls sky's bluff, they've only offered a 30% discount and £25 credit. That came from both the cancellation team and the win-back team. They're really keen to keep pushing the VIP card despite me gaining no benefit from it.

Still another 2 & 1/2 weeks to go so we'll see where it ends up.

Dont be afraid to vote with your feet and just leave and do without. You'll find life carries on and after a few days you wont miss Sky whatsoever. Ive been there, done that, and only came back because they offered me a 75% off deal off everything last year. Now about to expire and happy to do the same for as long as it takes. Netflix is much better value IMHO.

GTR_King

Ok so we have Sky TV (I pay for it) Virgin Media BB/Phone (Mum pays for it)

I have Family Bundle + Sky Sports HD Multi Room/Sky go (2 Sky HD Boxes One wireless one isn't)

£57 a month.

I would Like Sky Q (Multi Room) Sky Sports HD, Sky go, Fastest Unlimited BB/Phone Maybe Sky Cinema.

I don't wanna pay for Sky Q Boxes or installation fee

I did check on Sky website £112 they quoting can I Haggle this down to get it cheeper? If sky won't budge I will go Virgin Media

Neil_Jones

If I log into my MySky account, my notice period having run out on Jan 9th, in the "left Sky in the last 12 months section" I'm immediately offered 35% off the new Sky Entertainment package (which is offered to me for £13 a month on a 12 month contract) and 40% off each of the new addons with 31 days rolling. With at least one addon it'll work out to an average discount of about 38% for 12 months and I believe they'll just reactivate my Sky+HD account and I can keep using the box I have now.

But I've had no contact at all from Sky with regards to their asking me back - no text, email, letter or anything. I only found the offer by accident when I logged in.

GTR_King

I rung sky to see what they could off me.

Fiber Max BB/Phone Talk Evening/Weekends

Sky Sports HD
Sky Cinema HD
Family Bundle HD
Sky Q Box 1TB

£115 (Installation fee)
£102 A month (£122 From August)

Tried to get him to budge on price would at all..

He said I Already had discount on TV and price will go up in August

So I am off to Virgin to See what they can offer