Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

littlemissbossy

chiefcrust1983 said:

Just re-newed my sky TV: Was paying £58 for the past 18 months.

Sky Signature is Normally £36.50 but you will pay £19.50 a month (that's a £17 discount with an 24-month contract)

HD Normally £9 but you will pay £4 (that's a £5 discount) (Rolling contract)

UHD Normally £4 but you will pay £1 (that's a £3 discount) (Rolling contract)

Complete Sky Sports in HD Normally £39 But you will pay £10 (that's a £29 discount with an 24-month contract) (Dependency offer with Cinema)

Cinema along with Sports at £9 (rolling contract with sports)

Additional services you can access at no extra cost :- Sky boxsets and discovery+ at no extra cost with signature.
Paramount+ normally £6.99, but it's included with Sky Cinema at no extra cost


This brings your total to £43.50

@chiefcrust1983

Were you in your notice period or had it completely cancelled?

chiefcrust1983

littlemissbossy said:

chiefcrust1983 said:

Just re-newed my sky TV: Was paying £58 for the past 18 months.

Sky Signature is Normally £36.50 but you will pay £19.50 a month (that's a £17 discount with an 24-month contract)

HD Normally £9 but you will pay £4 (that's a £5 discount) (Rolling contract)

UHD Normally £4 but you will pay £1 (that's a £3 discount) (Rolling contract)

Complete Sky Sports in HD Normally £39 But you will pay £10 (that's a £29 discount with an 24-month contract) (Dependency offer with Cinema)

Cinema along with Sports at £9 (rolling contract with sports)

Additional services you can access at no extra cost :- Sky boxsets and discovery+ at no extra cost with signature.
Paramount+ normally £6.99, but it's included with Sky Cinema at no extra cost


This brings your total to £43.50

@chiefcrust1983

Were you in your notice period or had it completely cancelled?

I had put in my request to cancel a week before, getting back in touch and asking what there best offer was

Popz

Was paying £81 a month which was scheduled to rise to £97. Best they offered was £70 a month so I let it run out and waited a couple of days after services were switched off. Got in touch with their Returns Department mentioned Black Friday deals and they came back with the following which I accepted:

Your Sky Q  TV

Sky Signature £36.50
24 months In-Contract discount -£5.00
24 months Sky Signature Discounted -£11.50
£20.00

Multiscreen£15.00
24 months Sky Multiscreen Subscription Discounted -£10.00
£5.00

Sky HD £9.00
24 months Sky HD Subscription Discounted -£4.00
£5.00

Ultra HD£4.00
24 months Ultra HD Subscription Discounted  -£2.00
£2.00

Ultimate TV Pack £4.50

4 months Ultimate TV Pack Discounted-£4.50
£0.00

Sky Sports Complete including Sky Sports+ £33.00

24 months In-Contract discount -£5.00
24 months Sky Sports Subscription Discounted -£20.00
£8.00

Sky Cinema £13.00
24 months Sky Cinema Subscription Discounted -£6.00
£7.00

Sky Sports HD £6.00
Ongoing Sky Sports HD Subscription Discounted -£4.00
£2.00

£49 a month (rising to £53) after 4 month when Netflix offer expires. Also waived the admin fee too.

BensonBooga

I am kicking myself as I just went for the first offer Sky offered me, I should always remember to try and haggle further. So anyway, I just got a deal of out of contract £45.50 down to £29.50 for 24 months, no admin fee. They were offering me £5 off immediately online, so not contacting customer service, which would have reduced it to £40.50 at the click of a button, but I wanted less, so used Live Chat and got it down to £29.50, but presumably this will go up in April as it mentioned "price may go up" in the small print. I only have Sky Signature and HD element, nothing else. 

Rysmee

Wow - You guys all have it lucky!
My contract has just come up for renewal - and of course I forgot, so my latest bill has gone full whack - £168.50!! 
With offers we were on about £113 per month - which is still ridiculous. That does include pretty much every package with multiroom and ultra HD, plus broadband. 

It really annoys me that A, Sky don't send out a kind email reminder that next month your offers are ending, and B, that they treat NEW customers better than loyal, long lasting customers. Its crazy that to reward us for being with them for so long, we actually get fleeced out of so much more money!

Anyway, tomorrow is the call to customer services and a bit of a moan and rant - I will report back any savings (if any!!)
Ryan. 

MeteredOut

Rysmee said:

Wow - You guys all have it lucky!
My contract has just come up for renewal - and of course I forgot, so my latest bill has gone full whack - £168.50!! 
With offers we were on about £113 per month - which is still ridiculous. That does include pretty much every package with multiroom and ultra HD, plus broadband. 

It really annoys me that A, Sky don't send out a kind email reminder that next month your offers are ending, and B, that they treat NEW customers better than loyal, long lasting customers. Its crazy that to reward us for being with them for so long, we actually get fleeced out of so much more money!

Anyway, tomorrow is the call to customer services and a bit of a moan and rant - I will report back any savings (if any!!)
Ryan. 

I suspect Sky don't regard those of us who look to reduce the renewal price as loyal. I'd suggest it is disingenuous to claim so too.

MarzipanCrumble

When I renewed my contract 18 months ago I was complimented on my 'loyalness' and got reduction because of it.  Not this time.  Implicated it made absolutely no difference at all how long been with Sky.

Have had a txt to call them but actually already switched Sky Box off and viewing through my TV.  Really not tempted to go back.

GrubbyGirl_2

I don't think they are offering deals to Sky Q customers because they want them gone.  If you look on the sky site you'll struggle to get sky Q as a new customer they are pushing sky stream

prowla

I'm feeling neglected - they've stopped sending me their (not particularly) fabulous come-back offers.

MarzipanCrumble

GrubbyGirl_2 said:

I don't think they are offering deals to Sky Q customers because they want them gone.  If you look on the sky site you'll struggle to get sky Q as a new customer they are pushing sky stream

I think you are correct.  But they don't make the Sky Streaming alternative attractive - £5 less than offer with Q Box.  

So I had Signature, Movies, HD and Netflix - offer = £47 = £564 pa + inflationary rise in April,
 24 month contract.  Did what I have outlined below and said 'no'.

Disney+ costs £90 p.a. approx
Netflix    costs £132 p.a.  "
Amazon Prime £95 p.a.  "
AppleTV           £107 p.a.  "

Sum = £424
Caveat not factored in price rises and looked at annual payments other than netflix

With Sky if you do not have Sports you are paying over the odds for a really good intuitive interface.  For families this is probably worth the price.