Upgrading to Sky+ on the cheap

cam101

Hi

Does anyone know if I can upgrade my sky package to get a sky plus box, without paying the £99 box price and £30 set up fee??

I'm not on a fixed contract, so I suppose I could phone them and say i'll leave unless they upgrade me.. but would that work?!

Has anybody else done the same thing? I've been a loyal sky customer for about 15 years, so the least they could do is give me a free box!

Thanks for any help and or advice

peekers

I just upgraded to sky+ today for £50 and no installation charge, i tried to cancel my subscription to change to bt vision:j

fatnbald

I have heard they will drop the price of the box to 50 quid in certain circumstances ("I am leaving Sky" sort of statements) Not sure if they will do the install for free.

I personally got a quad LNB for £9.99 off ebay and bought the CT100 cable, clips, self amalgamating tape and terminations from a local electrical wholesaler for £20 quid and did the install myself, I intend to wire locations in other rooms as well when I get around to it.

The skyplus box was donated to me by my brother after he upgraded to sky HD.

I must say how impressed I am with skyplus - it works very well indeed.

~daisy~_2

if you try to cancel they generally come up with some kind of deal

my parents were quoted over £200 to swap from regular to plus back in the day - after reading the sky+ forum on digital spy i told them to ring and say they wanted to cancel and they got the £50 offer

A_Nice_Englishman

I've heard that the cheap boxes are refurbished ones rather than brand new. Can anyone confirm whether that's true or not?

~daisy~_2

my parents was a refurb one but they knew that and they havent had any probs with it 2 years on

hope i havent jinxed it !!

Glass_Half_Empty??

My father in law to be got his about 2 weeks ago and was very chuffed to have paid £100 total cost for it. However his mate at work bragged he had "done a deal" and not paid a penny as he rang up and cancelled stating Virgins was free(as was mine) so when FIL rang sky up he said they could have their box back and cancell his subscription as he has been with them 10 years and been offered zip yet his mate at work was bragging that he got his free and bla bla bla. Anyway after 5 mins of talking they refunded the cost back to his card so he ended up with it free anyway so he is even more chuffed now his mate bragged otherwise he wouldn't of rang them up

shri_2

cam101 wrote: »

Hi

Does anyone know if I can upgrade my sky package to get a sky plus box, without paying the £99 box price and £30 set up fee??

I'm not on a fixed contract, so I suppose I could phone them and say i'll leave unless they upgrade me.. but would that work?!

Has anybody else done the same thing? I've been a loyal sky customer for about 15 years, so the least they could do is give me a free box!

Thanks for any help and or advice

Hi I have upgraded to sky plus 80gb box, by paying £49. after calling them and asked to cancelled my contract because virgin media offering £20 for phone.BB and tV medium size.

It work for me

shri

PaulK_3

We cancelled, then got messed about by VM during the install of cable and when we called Sky to see if there was anything we could do about cancelling the cancelation we actually talked them into installing Sky+ for nothing lol

devizes18193

I did just that . made out i would cancle and come back next year when lost was back . They tried flogging me sky+ ,I said we are in income suport in the end the gave it to us free

johngc

Just done it too! Phoned up and said I was looking at moving to BT Vision and they said there was a special offer tonight of £49 including installation :-). Saved me £110 off the web price (and even more from my local TV shop!)

Thanks for the tip