Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

Hammer_Time

I phoned yesterday as my bill was going up from £27.50 to £44.50.
I cancelled.
Boxsets
HD
Kids
offered
Signature £17 (18 Months)
No admin fee.

JJ_Egan

Be aware that cancelling and trying to swap ISP may mean no service at this present time .

Open Reach on lockdown no home visits swaps are non priority .

TeeDoff23

I haven't cancelled yet, but oddly going to sky.com/mydeal showed me an offer to get: 

Signature £19
HD £1
Kids £2
Movies £5
Total £27 (can add UHD and Netflix for £4 each in my current Sky Q offers page). 

Seems much more reasonable, yet hidden away until you cancel. Slimy. 

TheGame21

When people say sky chat, is that online chat or the text message number? 

Lambyr

Cancelled yesterday via Facebook Chat.

Was on a decent deal for Sky Entertainment + Box Sets (which I understand is now Sky Signature), Movies, Sports, HD and Multiroom. Going up to £95.00 a month. Big fat nope to that.

Offer I got, once I rejected their Sky Q push, was £65p/m for the same as above with a minimum of 18 month term on both the entertainment and the multiroom. There was also a £20 admin fee for this.  Said no to the agent (and "yikes" internally!).

More I think about it, the more I'm kinda thinking I might as well let it go. I can plug my satellite cable into my TV and get Freesat, don't think I even need a PVR anymore, and between Netflix, Prime and a few addon channels on Amazon, I'm pretty much covered for TV and movies. Will kinda miss rugby league and some other sports, but it's not worth a whole lot to me.

More and more, Sky just seems archaic. Minimum terms. Extra charges to watch in HD or in other rooms.

If at any point them come back with a decent offer, I'll consider it but right now, I'm not sure I'm going to miss it much.

ukbill69

Lambyr said:

Cancelled yesterday via Facebook Chat.

Was on a decent deal for Sky Entertainment + Box Sets (which I understand is now Sky Signature), Movies, Sports, HD and Multiroom. Going up to £95.00 a month. Big fat nope to that.

Offer I got, once I rejected their Sky Q push, was £65p/m for the same as above with a minimum of 18 month term on both the entertainment and the multiroom. There was also a £20 admin fee for this.  Said no to the agent (and "yikes" internally!).

More I think about it, the more I'm kinda thinking I might as well let it go. I can plug my satellite cable into my TV and get Freesat, don't think I even need a PVR anymore, and between Netflix, Prime and a few addon channels on Amazon, I'm pretty much covered for TV and movies. Will kinda miss rugby league and some other sports, but it's not worth a whole lot to me.

More and more, Sky just seems archaic. Minimum terms. Extra charges to watch in HD or in other rooms.

If at any point them come back with a decent offer, I'll consider it but right now, I'm not sure I'm going to miss it much.

Im doing the same, netflix, amazon fire sticks, disney plus, done job.

Fluffybunnyabc

I’ve been with sky for over 3 years since Martin posted that £30 a month for full sky q package. Each 18 months I ring and the most I’ve paid is £39 for entertainment(now signature) sports and movies and hd.

went on my deals on the site and they were rubbish. Went on several chats on Facebook messenger and the best they could do was £47 a month with £20 admin. The admin fee is a joke and why should we pay them for us to be loyal?

Anyway I canceled and 1 day later I went in here and read a tip. Went on sky.com/mydeal and there it was, come back to sky
£15 for signature
£1 for hd 

and also added movies and sports which I will pause when the next bill comes for £15 for both 

total £31 a month for 18 months.
 Very happy, although they have stuck a £10 admin fee on sneakily that wasn’t mentioned but I’ll sort that.

so cancel and see how you go, the deal said I would get a email confirmation which I didn’t and forgot to take a screenshot but two days later I have the email now and checked my future bills so all good.

TheGame21

Fluffybunnyabc said:

I’ve been with sky for over 3 years since Martin posted that £30 a month for full sky q package. Each 18 months I ring and the most I’ve paid is £39 for entertainment(now signature) sports and movies and hd.

went on my deals on the site and they were rubbish. Went on several chats on Facebook messenger and the best they could do was £47 a month with £20 admin. The admin fee is a joke and why should we pay them for us to be loyal?

Anyway I canceled and 1 day later I went in here and read a tip. Went on sky.com/mydeal and there it was, come back to sky
£15 for signature
£1 for hd 

and also added movies and sports which I will pause when the next bill comes for £15 for both 

total £31 a month for 18 months.
 Very happy, although they have stuck a £10 admin fee on sneakily that wasn’t mentioned but I’ll sort that.

so cancel and see how you go, the deal said I would get a email confirmation which I didn’t and forgot to take a screenshot but two days later I have the email now and checked my future bills so all good.

Is that £31 for everything or is it a different amount when unpaused? 

Fluffybunnyabc

TheGame21 said:

Fluffybunnyabc said:

I’ve been with sky for over 3 years since Martin posted that £30 a month for full sky q package. Each 18 months I ring and the most I’ve paid is £39 for entertainment(now signature) sports and movies and hd.

went on my deals on the site and they were rubbish. Went on several chats on Facebook messenger and the best they could do was £47 a month with £20 admin. The admin fee is a joke and why should we pay them for us to be loyal?

Anyway I canceled and 1 day later I went in here and read a tip. Went on sky.com/mydeal and there it was, come back to sky
£15 for signature
£1 for hd 

and also added movies and sports which I will pause when the next bill comes for £15 for both 

total £31 a month for 18 months.
 Very happy, although they have stuck a £10 admin fee on sneakily that wasn’t mentioned but I’ll sort that.

so cancel and see how you go, the deal said I would get a email confirmation which I didn’t and forgot to take a screenshot but two days later I have the email now and checked my future bills so all good.

Is that £31 for everything or is it a different amount when unpaused? 

£31 unpaused, haven’t paused yet. 

TheGame21

Fluffybunnyabc said:

TheGame21 said:

Fluffybunnyabc said:

I’ve been with sky for over 3 years since Martin posted that £30 a month for full sky q package. Each 18 months I ring and the most I’ve paid is £39 for entertainment(now signature) sports and movies and hd.

went on my deals on the site and they were rubbish. Went on several chats on Facebook messenger and the best they could do was £47 a month with £20 admin. The admin fee is a joke and why should we pay them for us to be loyal?

Anyway I canceled and 1 day later I went in here and read a tip. Went on sky.com/mydeal and there it was, come back to sky
£15 for signature
£1 for hd 

and also added movies and sports which I will pause when the next bill comes for £15 for both 

total £31 a month for 18 months.
 Very happy, although they have stuck a £10 admin fee on sneakily that wasn’t mentioned but I’ll sort that.

so cancel and see how you go, the deal said I would get a email confirmation which I didn’t and forgot to take a screenshot but two days later I have the email now and checked my future bills so all good.

Is that £31 for everything or is it a different amount when unpaused? 

£31 unpaused, haven’t paused yet. 

Wow, that is good. Seems cancelling is the way to go then.