MSE Sky TV for £61 for a year offer from Thursday 09/06/2016

aniahill

It worked thank you-perfect!

DavidP24 wrote: »

Assuming that you are NOT an existing Sky customer then you can follow this link and enter your voucher code

http://www.sky.com/shop/offers/proposition/MSESAQ156

If you have any problems post back.

DavidP24

Great!

Don't forget to hit the thanks button!!

leonardo

DavidP24 wrote: »

A friend of mine managed something similar once, they called BB provider to rearrage install date (he did not tell them his contract had not run out because he wanted to avoid fee) he then said he was moving and had the broadband installed in his new place..

When you sign up with Sky you will be given some choices of install date and a calendar comes up, it is based on BT Wholesale engineer availability. I chose the soonest date, but if you chose the longest, say 4 weeks and then called in 3 weeks to rearrage due to family illness or a conflicting obligation at work they will just offer you another date.

The good news is that your contract does not start till the service is installed.

What I am NOT sure about is at what stage Sky write to BT and initiate your transfer of line etc.

The risk for you is not the service start date it is the BB supplier telling the old one.

Another way to achieve this is to create a new address at your address, e.g. Flat B, 27 Acacia Avenue, when the engineer comes you say that the line is being installed in X room (which you rent out) and it becomes a new line install. Sky only charge £20 for a new line but I doubt that includes wiring so you may have to pay extra.

Also BT unlike Sky have a fee when you terminate a service but do not move it to another provider, so you would be hit by that if you used Flat B.

A 3rd option is that you put an ad on Gumtree offering 3 months of free broadband, you move your BT contract to another address, that leaves your current line free. You lose the phone number of course but that is not a biggie.

I do not understand why BT bill is £140 for 3 months if you end early, if you pay a contract up to the end does that avoid it or is that the cost to the end?

From a financial point of view you have to consider what you are saving

Sky regularly offer a deal for £161 annual cost, so you are only saving an extra £100 here.

Now they may put up their price but paying £140 to get an extra £100 does not make sense to me.

There will be all kinds of summer deals going on, including the EE summer sim which will give you mifi access for 2 months with 100gb a month. is very useful while you wait for a better deal. Mind you so is asking your neighbours if you can use their wifi.

This is a GREAT deal but there will be other deals, last September Sky had the £5.35 deal.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/broadband/2015/09/urgent535-for-a-years-sky-line-rental-and-broadband

I would suggest you use this deal to call BT and haggle, say you are prepared to take £140 loss unless they offer you something spectacular.

They may match the price and include sport, you have 5 days so get on the phone now!!

This is truly great advice.

I have a question (more an idea really) about working out, and sharing with others - the best month/time to switch.

When in the year are the best deals available?

If the best deals recur at the same time/period each year - then it would really help many many people to figure out when they should 'catch that train' - and then ride that wave for future years.

Doc_N

DavidP24 wrote: »

Great!

Don't forget to hit the thanks button!!

Please click Thanks button.

Begging for thanks is a sure-fire way of not getting them.

DavidP24

Thanks

Glad to be of help

Funny I had the same question, I know that EE to summer SIM and and Christmas SIM which give you 2 months at 100gb per month for £10. Just needs a mifi router off ebay for £25

I use these to keep me going if I am between contracts. So I try to make sure my contracts end in late June or late December.

I do not know if Sky will repeat the £5 deal, it was a first I think.

I have been monitoring Plusnet deals since January and they are dire.

BT seem to do deals with cash back sites and this site in combo sometimes.

I hate talktalk so not been monitoring them but until recently they were offering a kwap deal via letterbox mailing, then online slightly bettwe and on sites like this a tad better. They were not doing any loyalty deals for customers. Then I heard on here they were pulling out the £27 for a year in response to this Sky deal if people said they were leaving. Only heard it in one place so maybe a one off rather than policy change.

I think your best option is to get on the phone and hassle BT, if you get someone not interested ask for retentions, or play dumb and ask for a MAC code (these are no longer needed) but it shows you are serious about leaving.

The problem with the riding the wave thing is that you often have to swap suppliers every 12m to get another deal, (unless they are OK to haggle). So you end this contract with Sky in June next year but that does not mean Plusnet will have a deal ready in June.

Then you have the 18 month contracts. It would be good to keep a diary of the best offers, then you might know it is worth hanging on, but no guarantee deal will be repeated.

I still think neighbours are a good source, rather than trying to have all your devices connect to their BB (with their authority) you get a powerful AC router to act as a repeater, it logs into their BB and then sends out a new SSID or same SSID around your house. I have known some neighbours run an Ethernet cable between tow houses, then you pay them a bit to reduce rheir costs and maybe reverse it a year later.

My AC cable router cost me £33 on eBay retails at quite a lot more, dead easy to set up.

leonardo wrote: »

This is truly great advice.

I have a question (more an idea really) about working out, and sharing with others - the best month/time to switch.

When in the year are the best deals available?

If the best deals recur at the same time/period each year - then it would really help many many people to figure out when they should 'catch that train' - and then ride that wave for future years.

peacellily

Not working for me, blagged a code just wont allow me through checkout.

Unable to continue with your order

An error has occurred

Unfortunately, we have been unable to proceed with your order. To place an order by phone, please call 0800 151 2758.

Have called sky said there was something wrong with the site and it would be back working in an hour that was 2 days ago Not a happy bunny so far !

Luddenden

I'm having same issue have been told different things by three people, latest is that the code from MSE is wrong and it's not a sky deal so they cannot process it manually.

Has anyone else had this error and managed to get past it please?


Phoned again today 13/6 to complain and was told "it's ok I can process the deal for you". All signed up exactly as advertised, shame it took persistence and hours out of my life, but got there in the end thanks to the pleasant young man who answered my call today.

DavidP24

Seems to happen every time they do these deal, servers get overloaded and are set to kill of code process running on web client.

I suspect it has been up and down,

What is suggests is that Sky servers would not do very well in a DDOS attack, hopefully not connected to customer DB or they could be a another TalkTalk hack just waiting to happen with about 3x as much data at risk.

poddell

I just called and they refused to offer me the deal as i currently have Sky TV. Apparently the offer/code is not valid for Sky TV customers.

Poor and a complete waste of time.

BAU

Oh the joys of living in the UK countryside.

Signed up for the deal on Thursday 9th, received "Your free Sky Broadband code" by return and nothing else.

Called Sky on Friday c 11:00 to be told there were "issues" with the offer and to expect a reply within 24 hours.

Called today (Monday) and offer code was matched to an offer... but not the one I'd signed up for:

Quoted £30 re-connection fee vs £20 stated in offer and speeds likely to be below 1mb.

Very nice lady agreed to remove our details from their marketing after I stated I am not happy with Sky offering one thing then when I finally get to confirm the offer it changes because of where we live .

Q WHY are they allowed to state headline grabbing offers that, when you persist in trying to take up the offer, SKY change the package to something entirely different that have higher costs and worse conditions because of where you live ...... Makes a mockery of HM Govs claims re digital inclusion and improving services by making everything "Online"....

As for Sky's customer satisfaction rating, mark them down by at least one to whatever they claim.