Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

mits999

Iptv is £5 a month for every single channel 

brewerdave

Kim1965 said:

Mwood1 said:

Kim1965 said:

Sky are debiting £72 pm for sky hd+ sport and basic package (no cinema, Disney, no bt sport).
 What should i be aiming for?? 

Sky’s offer for me to come back on above package is £28pcm. Signature + sport.

So did you actually have to leave in order to get this deal? As consumers do we have to do this every year to avoid being fleeced. It becomes tiresome!
 

You have to threaten to leave at the very least; I got Signature and Sports in HD recently for £38pm at the first negotiation compared with the list price of £72pm.. If you want better then actually leave,when you MAY get an offer to come back to Sky at even lower rates as per Mwood 1's post above. Or you may not get an offer at all -that's the risk!

Rammie65

Kim1965 said:

Mwood1 said:

Kim1965 said:

Sky are debiting £72 pm for sky hd+ sport and basic package (no cinema, Disney, no bt sport).
 What should i be aiming for?? 

Sky’s offer for me to come back on above package is £28pcm. Signature + sport.

So did you actually have to leave in order to get this deal? As consumers do we have to do this every year to avoid being fleeced. It becomes tiresome!
 

I told them to cancel my subscription, you get 31 days notice period, within 2 weeks they had emailed me twice and phoned with a good offer.

failbubble

2 weeks into my cancellation period and just been offered £69.50 for signature, sports, cinema, HD and superfast broadband, tried to get a fix or a reduction for a couple of months because it’s going to go up in April but got nothing, anyone had a better offer for this package or should I give up and accept it?

superbigal

I have All Tv package. With UHD Sports Movies & Multiroom.  
Broadband Superfast with Evening & Weekend Calls.
Notice went in 2 weeks ago.

Was TV £53.50
Renegotiated at £50.00

BB & Calls was £31.00
Renegotiated at £28.00

Happy Bunny for another 18 months at £78 (Apart from annual rise)
Discounts were even more random than last years.
Full price is around £150

tuffet1

Must be luck of the draw with Sky retentions.

Been with Sky 6 years and want everything, BB, Phone, Anytime calls, Every Channel including Sports, Movies and BT Sport, UHD, Netflix and Multiroom. Basically the full monty!

Best offer £130, tried 3 times, same offer every time. 

Just put my order in with Virgin. £79 for all of the above (less Atlantic).

Plus with Virgin i got -

1gig BB (Sky 20mbps absolute rubbish, loses connection regularly, apparently Openreach have laid the cables for Superfast but that was 6 months ago and still not available!). I also won't lose picture every time it rains (crappy Sky dish!) and i get a free unlimited 02 sim card (Ultimate Volt package).

Virgin also threw in a £200 bill credit with the offer.

Would probably have stayed with Sky for £100 just to avoid the swapping over hassle, and the hope that Superfast BB comes online soon, but i am not paying twice the price for an inferior package.

Interested to know what others think a good Sky price would be for my requirements, i don't think £100 was unreasonable?

In the meantime i am not ringing Sky again, they can !!!!!! off and Virgin can start drilling through my house

superbigal

tuffet1 said:

Must be luck of the draw with Sky retentions.

Been with Sky 6 years and want everything, BB, Phone, Anytime calls, Every Channel including Sports, Movies and BT Sport, UHD, Netflix and Multiroom. Basically the full monty!

Best offer £130, tried 3 times, same offer every time. 

Just put my order in with Virgin. £79 for all of the above (less Atlantic).

Plus with Virgin i got -

1gig BB (Sky 20mbps absolute rubbish, loses connection regularly, apparently Openreach have laid the cables for Superfast but that was 6 months ago and still not available!). I also won't lose picture every time it rains (crappy Sky dish!) and i get a free unlimited 02 sim card (Ultimate Volt package).

Virgin also threw in a £200 bill credit with the offer.

Would probably have stayed with Sky for £100 just to avoid the swapping over hassle, and the hope that Superfast BB comes online soon, but i am not paying twice the price for an inferior package.

Interested to know what others think a good Sky price would be for my requirements, i don't think £100 was unreasonable?

In the meantime i am not ringing Sky again, they can !!!!!! off and Virgin can start drilling through my house

Post previous. Apart from less calls and no Netflix I have just got £78 for the same as you.

bigstevex

Annoyingly our TV and Broadband doesn't sync on contract dates because we upgraded to sky fibre 500 but our bill which was £120 per month was about to go to £155, managed to get the following for TV, does this sound good compared to others?

Sky Signature

Sky HD

Sky UHD

Sky Kids

Sky Ultimate

Sky Sports

Sky Cinema

Sky Multiroom

All for £60 a month, not sure on the individual breakdown sadly, just know they said it was £60 for the above.

Kim1965

tuffet1 said:

Must be luck of the draw with Sky retentions.

Been with Sky 6 years and want everything, BB, Phone, Anytime calls, Every Channel including Sports, Movies and BT Sport, UHD, Netflix and Multiroom. Basically the full monty!

Best offer £130, tried 3 times, same offer every time. 

Just put my order in with Virgin. £79 for all of the above (less Atlantic).

Plus with Virgin i got -

1gig BB (Sky 20mbps absolute rubbish, loses connection regularly, apparently Openreach have laid the cables for Superfast but that was 6 months ago and still not available!). I also won't lose picture every time it rains (crappy Sky dish!) and i get a free unlimited 02 sim card (Ultimate Volt package).

Virgin also threw in a £200 bill credit with the offer.

Would probably have stayed with Sky for £100 just to avoid the swapping over hassle, and the hope that Superfast BB comes online soon, but i am not paying twice the price for an inferior package.

Interested to know what others think a good Sky price would be for my requirements, i don't think £100 was unreasonable?

In the meantime i am not ringing Sky again, they can !!!!!! off and Virgin can start drilling through my house

Similar to your self, ive been with sky for ever and they wouldnt give me the steam off their p,, s.
I think you have to go else where which is what i will do. 
Surely sky must be losing 1000s of customers every month? 

tuffet1

superbigal said:

tuffet1 said:

Must be luck of the draw with Sky retentions.

Been with Sky 6 years and want everything, BB, Phone, Anytime calls, Every Channel including Sports, Movies and BT Sport, UHD, Netflix and Multiroom. Basically the full monty!

Best offer £130, tried 3 times, same offer every time. 

Just put my order in with Virgin. £79 for all of the above (less Atlantic).

Plus with Virgin i got -

1gig BB (Sky 20mbps absolute rubbish, loses connection regularly, apparently Openreach have laid the cables for Superfast but that was 6 months ago and still not available!). I also won't lose picture every time it rains (crappy Sky dish!) and i get a free unlimited 02 sim card (Ultimate Volt package).

Virgin also threw in a £200 bill credit with the offer.

Would probably have stayed with Sky for £100 just to avoid the swapping over hassle, and the hope that Superfast BB comes online soon, but i am not paying twice the price for an inferior package.

Interested to know what others think a good Sky price would be for my requirements, i don't think £100 was unreasonable?

In the meantime i am not ringing Sky again, they can !!!!!! off and Virgin can start drilling through my house

Post previous. Apart from less calls and no Netflix I have just got £78 for the same as you.

Also BT sport? You cant seem to get it for less than £20/£25 with Sky. When you also add the anytime calls and Netflix i would probably be looking at £115/£120 based on your deal prices. To be fair the last guy i spoke to said he might be able to knock £10 off so it would be similar to your offer. Still too much, less than half the price with Virgin plus 50x faster BB and the TV won't go off when the weather is bad! £200 bill credit with Virgin as well. Sky also wanted an extra £30 for their Ultra+ BB (when it finally comes to my area) to match Virgin speed.

The Virgin TV part is actually £43/month when you include the bill credit. The 02 sim part is £25 although i have cancelled this. You are supposed to keep it to keep the TV part of the deal but if they notice i will just add it again.

To sum up -
Virgin £43/month
Sky approx £150/month

Packages would be exactly the same, less Sky Atlantic, no brainer!