Understanding Sky package

Sterlingtimes

I'm not too far from the end of my contract. Sky restructures the package from time to time.

This is where I sit at the moment:
[1] Boxsets £39.50
[2] Sports £28.00
[3] HD Basic £0
[4] Sports HD £6
[5] Sky Q Multiscreen £12
Total £85.50

I am rather stuck with [2] to [5] which are demanded by my father in law. But is there a lesser entertainment package than [1]?

mije1983

Entertainment is the base package, box sets the top one.

teddysmum

At full price and assuming you agree to a minimum term , Entertainment is £20 and now includes what was Variety, except for the children's programmes. Boxed sets (literally just that) is an extra £5 and HD another £5. However, most people get this reduced.

Sterlingtimes

Thank you, both. This is helpful. We were previously told that Boxed Sets (and Children could not be removed) was the cheapest way forward. We don't require Children or the Boxed Sets themselves, so £20 +£5 might be the correct price.

Neil_Jones

If you move to Entertainment and build from there then you can remove the kids and box sets. On the older packages you can't remove the children's channels on any level and Box Sets was the next one up from Variety.

Sterlingtimes

Thank you, all. I spoke to Sky very politely today using your price points and got the price down by about third. That is close to the amount that I thought it reasonable to pay.

zaax

The agreement will only last a year, at which you will habe to phone them again, and at the 3rd time they say no.

mije1983

zaax wrote: »

The agreement will only last a year, at which you will habe to phone them again, and at the 3rd time they say no.

It's standard for the offers to only be for 12 months. But I've never had Sky say no to a discount. The last 4 years I've had at least half price discounts. Last year they even extended my 60% off discount for another year without me asking.