Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

jem16

onashoestring wrote: »

You have to cancel your Sky contract. You will then get offers from Sky . I cancelled last month & I am being offered 60% off to come back.

Easy to do when it's only TV. More difficult to do when phone is involved if you don't want to lose your number.

Usual way is to cancel the TV part and then to try and negotiate it all when you get an offer for TV.

mainroad

My Dad has turned 80 and has heard that he can get a discount with sky. Has anybody heard about this please?

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mainroad wrote: »

My Dad has turned 80 and has heard that he can get a discount with sky. Has anybody heard about this please?

Are you (or he) perhaps thinking of the License Fee exemption?

Any reason not to contact Sky directly with this query?

You originally posted about it here on the 7th pf December and received no reply. I'm certain Sky could have answered this by now...

Do update the thread when you know for certain. Personally, I've not heard anything of this.

System

jem16 wrote: »

Easy to do when it's only TV. More difficult to do when phone is involved if you don't want to lose your number.

Usual way is to cancel the TV part and then to try and negotiate it all when you get an offer for TV.

Why would you lose your number?
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8312/~/can-i-keep-my-current-phone-number-if-i-switch-all-my-services-to-bt-from

teddysmum

Economic wrote: »

Why would you lose your number?
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8312/~/can-i-keep-my-current-phone-number-if-i-switch-all-my-services-to-bt-from

If you cancel your broadband and line instead of migrating, there will be a cease, if the service actually goes off, so the number is lost.

pen1

Sky have changed their standard price structure.

There is now 1 base pack- "Entertainment", which includes most of the channels that were in Variety, but excludes "Kids".
http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/#section-2

Sky Entertainment: £20 per month (pm) with a new 18 month minimum term. Standard price applies when not signing up to a new minimum term or outside of minimum term. Standard price: £25pm. 

Box Sets is now an "on-demand" add-on tv pack, priced at £5 per month.
http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/box-sets/

Sky Kids is an add-on tv pack, priced at £5 per month and includes "more than 10 live channels to keep the children entertained. It also comes with the Sky Kids app, packed with over 4,500 episodes on demand".
http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/kids/

HD, priced at £5 per month, is an add-on tv pack, to receive "Entertainment" in HD (and Box Sets & Kids, if you subscribe to those tv packs)
http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/hd/

Sports, Cinema & HD Sport Pack prices appear to be unchanged.

teddysmum

I suspected this would happen after doing an independent company's survey earlier this year.


However, if you don't have children, the full price for the equivalent of the old Boxed Sets is £25 (basic)+£5 (boxedsets)+ £5 (HD) =£35 (or £30 with discount), compared to £38 where you were buying unwatched children's channels.


Though discounted with children's channels is still cheaper at £35 ; otherwise £2 more at £40..until the next price rise (They didn't have one this year)

Raging_Bull

So Sky Orignal is no more? I just signed up again after haggling. I bet it's too optimistic to presume that Sky will swap all Original customers onto this new Entertainment package...

[Deleted User]

And for the FI enthusiasts:

Sky Sports F1 is included as part of my HD package. If I change my subscription to Sky Entertainment, will I lose this?
Yes. Sky Sports F1 is now only available as an individual channel or part of the entire Sports package if you take up the Sky Entertainment.

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Entertainment/New-Sky-TV-packages/td-p/2767458

[Deleted User]

I must be on a legacy Boxsets package (I've just passed the 10 year mark with them) mainly for the HD content @ £35.25 full price (I'm on 50% off).

I've always told them that we don't use the Boxsets features very much and would have changed to the lowest package except for the loss of HD. Damned if I can see what we'd lose changing to Entertainment plus HD though.