Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

Terry98

You look like you have a good deal on the line rental/fibre but are they allowed to offer you different contract lengths in view of this ruling in 2016 https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/guides/broadband/asa-broadband-pricing ?

I have been offered £11 for Entertainment but £14.50 for all Sports channels but I left a couple of months ago.I would have thought they could improve the Entertainment price for you but you might have to threaten cancellation.

stuartmck

Sky TV turned off yesterday.

Live chat offered:
Line rental, Fibre Unlimited, Entertainment & HD for £33.40 a month on a 12 month contract.
Grabbed it.

Space_Captain

My standard Sky broadband unlimited is OK but am considering moving to fibre when I haggle next month.
Is Sky Fibre unlimited any good ?

STPE

I think I'm paying through the nose for my Virgin bundle of TV, Broadband, landline and Tivo box. My question is, does anyone know what happens when you switch providers? Does the TV box go and if not, does it still work with another provider?

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Space_Captain wrote: »

My standard Sky broadband unlimited is OK but am considering moving to fibre when I haggle next month.
Is Sky Fibre unlimited any good ?

Depends on your definition of "good". As long as it works and you're fairly near to a cabinet all fibre should be the same barring customer service perhaps and of course price. Sky don't seem to be particularly bothered about retaining current customers at the moment for some reason. NowTV, despite being owned by Sky, will treat you as a new customer and they have their £20 a month deal on again, you also receive the re-badged Sky Q router which although only having 2 LAN ports (not a problem for the majority I'd have thought) is pretty decent.

brewerdave

STPE wrote: »

I think I'm paying through the nose for my Virgin bundle of TV, Broadband, landline and Tivo box. My question is, does anyone know what happens when you switch providers? Does the TV box go and if not, does it still work with another provider?

Virgin are the only ones who can use their cable system. If you switch ,you will have to go with one of the providers who use BT's infrastructure for broadband and phone.

You can get TV either thru these providers (a mixture of Freeview via an aerial and streamed stuff) or go with Sky via Dish.
Virgin will want all their equipment back ie Tivo box and cable modem/router.
Your best bet is to try to haggle with Virgin to get a better deal under the threat of cancellation.

shaggy

In this day and age I would think sky would at least try and be a bit more competitive with Netflix and amazon prime. Viewing habits have changed and since cancelling sky in April I've not missed it at all. I find a combination o d amazon and Netflix will give u all the TV and movies you're likely to want - sky movies these days is rubbish and better stuff on Netflix and amazon anyway.

The only things I miss from sky are the odd sports and westworld / game of thrones. That's the obky thing keeping them from going under in my opinion

Dan_chez

Hi all,

I've not haggled at all with my deal so I'm thinking it may not be too good? I left sky within the last 12 months but now moved house pretty much rushed into this over the phone...

Fibre max broadband
Entertainment
HD
Sky Sports HD
Sky Q UHD box
1 mini box
Box sets
Phone line
£82 per month for 18 months. Still in my cooling off period so having second thoughts atm.

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Dan_chez wrote: »

Fibre max broadband
Entertainment
HD
Sky Sports HD
Sky Q UHD box
1 mini box
Box sets
Phone line
£82 per month for 18 months. Still in my cooling off period so having second thoughts atm.

Isn't that pretty much full price?

Edit: It's £94 for new customers for that lot so they've not knocked much off.

ccdorset

I left Sky in December last year and have been looking at subscribing again. They are currently offering me via Live Chat and in My Account:

£15 Entertainment
£1 HD
£1 Box Sets
£11 Sky Cinema
TOTAL £28 per month

This is on a 12 month contract on Entertainment. 31 day rolling on the other elements.

Not sure whether I could push for anything better, or whether this is the best I am going to get.