Our new Sky Haggling guide - please share your feedback

miamoo

I am rubbish at haggling, but I managed to get my full sky package inc multi room down from £92 a month to £41.60 a month, 12 months, no new contract.
Included in this is multi room which they have reduced to £6 a month, which I can remove/re add at any point if I want to reduce the monthly bill further to £35.60. They also gave me the next months sky bill completely free.

I'm happy with this price, there is no way I will be paying £90 odd a month ever again!

teddysmum

stephenliverpool1 wrote: »

No idea...this is what T/talk offered !



I already have a 50% off deal for my TV package; including Skysports. This expires later this year and I will make sure Sky renew is with another 50% off deal; otherwise I will cancel it.

I am on a 12 month contract for my phone, b/band and line rental, which is separate from my TV deal, where I am not in contract.

For info, I was with Plusnet for b/band and phone. After my deal with Sky, I have now left them.

The deals are separate, but they sometimes say they will make you a very special offer if you re-order tv , too.


Last week , on cancelling tv, I was offered tv and the ADSL calls and line for £2 more than just the ADSL calls package and line price; but full price, which I said I had no intention of paying.

brewerdave

brewerdave wrote: »

Put in my cancellation this morning via live chat. No real offers -best was existing package 18% overall discount for 10 months:( ( actually 20% off TV packs,no discount on HD pack) .
Interestingly, for the first time in 4 years NO attempt to offer me anything on broadband or phone rental.
Now for the wait..............

60% off for 12 months already showing via the Sky box,altho' nothing on MySky; I'll give it until the day of switch off to see if I get offered a bill credit as well:)

stephenliverpool1

brewerdave wrote: »

......can't include b/band and phone because I've paid 12 months LR upfront in July and have a very good 24 month deal on b/band from Plusnet -free for 18 months then 6 months at £9.99:)
Just thought it was interesting that they didn't even float a possible BB/Phone deal -they have done on the previous 3 negotiations!:)

Interesting.

As I advised, I was with Plusnet until I moved my b/band and phone to sky. I had been with Plusnet for almost 2 years. They were very good and offered me some good deals. For my last deal, I was lead to believe by them that I had paid my line rental upfront for 12 months. By chance, I found that this was incorrect and cancelled my alleged contract penalty free after the recent P/net price rises. I offered P/net the chance for renewal if they could match sky. They refused to do this so byeeeee lol !!!!

FrozenChicken

Tried my luck again on Live Chat, bearing in mind they've probably got quarterly targets to hit.

Got offered:
60% off TV
50% off Multiroom
£100 bill credit
No contract

Hope that helps as a benchmark

teddysmum

Following my email offering 60% off until 30th September, I now have a letter extending the offer to 3rd October.

JP1978

Does the board think that the call centre staff look to see if your house can get Virgin before they offer a deal.... ie, if they know you cant get Virgin, do they keep their prices up?

I ask as we will be going to Sky soon as we are moving house to a non Virgin area....

Also, BT fibre checker says approx 5 months until the area is on fibre - so if I do a deal when we move in, will I be able to upgrade to fibre as soon as its ready or will I have to wait for the 12 month minimum term to expire?

teddysmum

I imagine they do know, as my daughter-in-law used to work for BT and said call centre staff have a list of the offers from other companies, so know if you are bluffing.

mije1983

JP1978 wrote: »

Does the board think that the call centre staff look to see if your house can get Virgin before they offer a deal.... ie, if they know you cant get Virgin, do they keep their prices up?

I ask as we will be going to Sky soon as we are moving house to a non Virgin area....

Also, BT fibre checker says approx 5 months until the area is on fibre - so if I do a deal when we move in, will I be able to upgrade to fibre as soon as its ready or will I have to wait for the 12 month minimum term to expire?

I don't live in a Virgin enabled area, and have never found the need to quote Virgin prices to obtain a 50 or 60% discount.

bubblegun

JP1978 wrote: »

Does the board think that the call centre staff look to see if your house can get Virgin before they offer a deal.... ie, if they know you cant get Virgin, do they keep their prices up?

I ask as we will be going to Sky soon as we are moving house to a non Virgin area....

Also, BT fibre checker says approx 5 months until the area is on fibre - so if I do a deal when we move in, will I be able to upgrade to fibre as soon as its ready or will I have to wait for the 12 month minimum term to expire?

Virgin beating deals can only be offered in cable areas. The advisors have no control over these deals - they are only available in cable areas! If you move from a cable area however then if you don't tell them then you can get the cable busting deal then keep it if you book a home move.

Don't expect a similar deal next year though.

To an extent the deal you get depends on the deal you had last year.