Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

jaxkesa

brewerdave said:

jaxkesa said:

Went on chat and was offered Signature, Sports HD, UHD and Multiscreen for £51. Not bad but others on here seem to have got better offers so rejected for now.

You may struggle to get better than that !! 

Yea I ended up phoning them to try again and they they gave me the same price. Spent several minutes trying to get it under £50 and asking for different combinations etc. but they wouldn't budge so agreed to it. They did agree to credit the £10 'admin charge' at least.

It's actually £4 less than I was paying before my last deal ended but, since it was the first offer, I was hoping for a better one. In the end I decided I had better things to do than argue over a pound or 2 a month.

Grav15 said:

jaxkesa said:

Went on chat and was offered Signature, Sports HD, UHD and Multiscreen for £51. Not bad but others on here seem to have got better offers so rejected for now.

What did the charge for signature and the hd ?

The breakdown was:

• Signature is normally £40.50, but you'll pay £20 (with a 24-month contract) This offer is for 24 months
• Sky Sports in HD is normally £40, but you'll pay £15 (with a 24-month contract) This offer is for 24 months
• Sky HD is normally £9, but you'll pay £4 This offer is for 24 months
• Ultra HD is normally £4, but you'll pay £2 This offer is for 24 months
• Sky (Q) Multiscreen is normally £15, but you'll pay £10 (with a 24-month contract) This offer is for 24 months

I think it was another £7 for Cinema but I have no need for that.

They said it was a standard deal for those on packages over £60.

Grav15

Sky sig £20
uhd and hd £0 for 2 months. Cooling off  Should I cancel and wait for black friday retention's? 

Lumphammer2

Knocked Sky on the head a few weeks ago when it got to £100.  Been looking at FreeSat boxes, but would want recording facility.

On basic Sky Q box functionality - no pause or recording and only basic channels.  Got packaging to send Sky Q box back, which included a telephone number to call.  Left it a couple of weeks.  Phoned today and said what basic offers can you give me.  Signature £20 (from £40) and I asked about Essential - they then offered me that for £7 rather than £15.  Rolling contract for 24 months at £7, I think...need to read the small print when I get the email or read about it on the App.

JSmithy45AD

Lumphammer2 said:

Knocked Sky on the head a few weeks ago when it got to £100.  Been looking at FreeSat boxes, but would want recording facility.

On basic Sky Q box functionality - no pause or recording and only basic channels.  Got packaging to send Sky Q box back, which included a telephone number to call.  Left it a couple of weeks.  Phoned today and said what basic offers can you give me.  Signature £20 (from £40) and I asked about Essential - they then offered me that for £7 rather than £15.  Rolling contract for 24 months at £7, I think...need to read the small print when I get the email or read about it on the App.

Essentials is just the free to air channels, you can't even add HD so it's SD only I believe. Presumably you'll still have 2 April increases in that but given the full price is only £15 it won't amount to much.

Edit: seems they've made some changes I wasn't aware of, Atlantic & Netflix (for what that's worth nowadays) is included, but the £15 price is for a fixed 24 month contract, it was £18 a month for a rolling monthly deal.

That said. I have seen posts that Sky are refusing Essentials deals on Q for new, if not existing, customers.

JSmithy45AD

Grav15 said:

Sky sig £20
uhd and hd £0 for 2 months. Cooling off  Should I cancel and wait for black friday retention's? 

On Stream I guess? It's not bad but if you don't have Sports then UHD is a waste on Q, is there more content on Stream? HD full price is £9 which is a rip off, I had an idea that HD was free on Stream though?

Detail_Merchant

JSmithy45AD said:

Essentials is just the free to air channels, you can't even add HD so it's SD only I believe. Presumably you'll still have 2 April increases in that but given the full price is only £15 it won't amount to much.

Edit: seems they've made some changes I wasn't aware of, Atlantic & Netflix (for what that's worth nowadays) is included, but the £15 price is for a fixed 24 month contract, it was £18 a month for a rolling monthly deal.

That said. I have seen posts that Sky are refusing Essentials deals on Q for new, if not existing, customers.

I think you are mixing up Sky TV Essentials - https://www.sky.com/help/articles/tv-essentials - which allows Sky Q customers to record FTA tv, and Sky Essential TV - https://www.sky.com/tv#comparison-table-header - which is a Sky Stream package including Sky Atlantic and Netflix.

They are two different things despite the similar names.

JSmithy45AD

Detail_Merchant said:

JSmithy45AD said:

Essentials is just the free to air channels, you can't even add HD so it's SD only I believe. Presumably you'll still have 2 April increases in that but given the full price is only £15 it won't amount to much.

Edit: seems they've made some changes I wasn't aware of, Atlantic & Netflix (for what that's worth nowadays) is included, but the £15 price is for a fixed 24 month contract, it was £18 a month for a rolling monthly deal.

That said. I have seen posts that Sky are refusing Essentials deals on Q for new, if not existing, customers.

I think you are mixing up Sky TV Essentials - https://www.sky.com/help/articles/tv-essentials - which allows Sky Q customers to record FTA tv, and Sky Essential TV - https://www.sky.com/tv#comparison-table-header - which is a Sky Stream package including Sky Atlantic and Netflix.

They are two different things despite the similar names.

Ahh, would explain why I couldn't make head nor tail or it

Not the first time Sky have used the same or similar names for different packages.

P38auto

Best/Latest offer (Renewal was £135 including Fibre 100)

Sky Q Signature / Sky Sports/ Sky HD/ SKY UHD, Multiroom, Sky Cinema, Netlfix basic with ads, and 500 Broadband for £103

7 days before the contract ends - The advisor advises letting it cancel and calling back for Stream, as some good conversion deals are in the pipeline.

Boohoo

P38auto said:

Best/Latest offer (Renewal was £135 including Fibre 100)

Sky Q Signature / Sky Sports/ Sky HD/ SKY UHD, Multiroom, Sky Cinema, Netlfix basic with ads, and 500 Broadband for £103

7 days before the contract ends - The advisor advises letting it cancel and calling back for Stream, as some good conversion deals are in the pipeline.

Don't let your broadband go off unless you have started a switch somewhere else.

If you haven't told Sky to cancel/stop your fibre then it's ok 

Let your TV go off and call back on or just after switch off and you MAY get a good deal.

missfunkymonkey

I presume any recordings from Sky Q disappear as soon as the switch off happens even if you're able to agree a new deal soon after?