Upgrading to Sky+ on the cheap

mightywhites29111971

If you go and order through Quidco they give you £115 off! I am going to do it myself and get rid of rubbish virgin media.

mutley74

mightywhites29111971 wrote: »

If you go and order through Quidco they give you £115 off! I am going to do it myself and get rid of rubbish virgin media.

i tried with sky yesterday Quidco only tracked with £85..so wait a few days till quidoc catch up with the new rate.

mp3pek

Did it myself a couple of months back. Rang and said I wanted to cancel because I was going to get a freeview recorder. They offered SKY+ for £49 including installation. I told them that I had heard they were offering it free to customers who had left in order to get them to come back. Was told these were refurbished boxes which still come with 12 months guarentee. I opted for this option but when the engineer came to install he told me that he hadn't seen a refurbished box for several weeks and they were sending out new boxes with refurbished part number labels. So I've got a brand new latest model box all for free. The only real extra on the new boxes is 'Sky anytime'. With this they send assorted programmes to your box that you probably don't want anyway. Most of the ones they have sent have been on channels I don't subscribe to so I can't watch them. So far haven't watched anything they have sent. It really does change the way you watch TV. You can make coffee or visit the loo when you want and I haven't had to watch an advertisement for months. The biggest trick is that if you want to watch a 60 minute programme on a channel with ads, just put it on pause at the start and go and do something useful for 10 minutes. Go back and press play, fast forward through the ads and you will have caught up by the end. Brilliant system, worth it at full price but to an MSE blagger it's blinding!

ADM

Hi
I'm not a sky subscriber yet, i was thinking of getting the basic installation with sky i.e. there version of Freeview, instead of buying Freeview box, but i like the idea of being able to record onto a hardrive, as with the sky+ box
Can You Get Sky+ without any monthly subscription?

PistonBroke_2

ADM wrote: »

Hi
Can You Get Sky+ without any monthly subscription?

In short No it's either £10 a month with Freeview or you have a have a SKY package the cheapest is £18 i think

Ian_Richardson_2

Hi

I wanted to upgrade to Sky+ and phoned them last week. I have been with Sky since day one and expected a bit of slack from them.

However, £99 + Installation was the best they could offer, I am adamant that I do not want to connect my box to the phone line, I have not done so for 15yrs and dont intend to start now. Would not budge, phone line or nothing! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I did not use any "i want to cancel" routines however now I think I actually do. For what I view a Freeview PVR would suffice, at a fraction of the cost.
Did anyone have any luck with the phone line issue, interested to know before I chuck the lot!

A_Nice_Englishman

Ian_Richardson wrote: »

Hi

I wanted to upgrade to Sky+ and phoned them last week. I have been with Sky since day one and expected a bit of slack from them.

However, £99 + Installation was the best they could offer, I am adamant that I do not want to connect my box to the phone line, I have not done so for 15yrs and dont intend to start now. Would not budge, phone line or nothing! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I did not use any "i want to cancel" routines however now I think I actually do. For what I view a Freeview PVR would suffice, at a fraction of the cost.
Did anyone have any luck with the phone line issue, interested to know before I chuck the lot!

You can disconnect the box from the phone line as soon as the installer has left. Sky don't police this, unless you are on Multiroom.

Dave_®f©

A_Nice_Englishman wrote: »

You can disconnect the box from the phone line as soon as the installer has left. Sky don't police this, unless you are on Multiroom.

I done this very thing last week. My BT box is in another room and I ran an extension cable through next to the TV for the installer. He wasn't even out the drive and I had it disconnected, rolled up and put away again.

The first thing he checked when he arrived was that there was an active phone connection though.

I got quoted £99 for the Sky+ box and £30 installation and after telling them to shove it the customer service rep dropped it to £49 for the box and £30 for installation. I settled for that but I was a home mover and tied for another six months to Sky broadband unless I moved and carried on a TV subscription so I wasn't in the best position for bargaining.

Raver2k7

Im wanting to do this sky+ but only pay £49 or less! i work nights so could threaten them with an earlier post about Virgin media. But ive only been with sky since June 4th so will it work?x

colinham

My Sky boxes have broken down a couple of times. If you phone,they say they'll charge you to replace it. Threaten to leave and get put through to the relevent department. They'll ask why you are leaving explain that it's broken and they will send someone over to replace it free of charge rather than lose a customer.

I tend to use "well my wife thinks we should ditch it because its too expensive and paying to fix the box on top of the charges ...."

Never a problem.

As a further aside never pay to "protect your sky box from repair" because they repair it for nothing anyway