Setanta Sports for £5 a month

Totality

First off, its great to see the forums back up and running! :T

There's an advert on Oddspreview.com offering Setanta Sports for £5 a month for 3 months without a 12 month contract to sign. Offer ends this Friday before it goes back to the usual £10 a month. I've just signed up to it now - looking forward to the boxing this weekend for half the price! :cool:

inspace

Good price but other posters in the past have said its a nightmare to cancel if you need to.

wigan_rl_till_i_die

My mum rang to cancel ours and they gave her 3 months for £5 and the forth month free

real1314

inspace wrote: »

Good price but other posters in the past have said its a nightmare to cancel if you need to.

presumably you pay by Direct Debit? if so, a phone call, maybe an email. then copy to your bank and let them stop the payments.

and a threat to setanta (or whoever) that you wil report them to the police for obtaining money by deception?

inspace

ok I guess it should be easy but this is just one of many post on here regarding cancellations and problems doing so.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=536808&highlight=setanta

Totality

A few friends and family of mine have had it before. From what they say, the situation with cancellations etc is better than it was. Plus, as said, if you run into any problems once its back to £10 a month, you can always stop the Direct Debit from leaving your bank.

I'm giving them my business for at least 3 months. Depending on what I watch and what I think of the channels, I may actually dump Sky Sports from my package and use Setanta instead.

coyle888

I phoned earlier to cancel my subscription, held on the line for over twenty minutes and eventually spoke to the customer account manager.

He asked me why I wanted to cancel and I told him that I could no longer afford it. I was then offered the next 3 months at only £5 so I accepted the offer and am quite chuffed.

Just thought id mention it, if you are a subscriber, I would recommend you call and threaten to cancel as you will most likely get offered this deal too.

Totality

Interesting. I wonder what the chances are of calling up after my initial 3 months are up to try and continue at £5 per month for a little longer then?

sima3069

If you can get it for £5, go for it.

having been through a cancel with setanta I wouldn't go back. to cancel with setanta you have to cancel direct debit as email is a non starter, phone number is a 0870 number and on hold for ages and they didn't cancel via phone for me for a few month. if you cancel direct debit, you have to ignore harassing letter's and phone calls & also

setanta sell your phone number onto sales. got hattan fight and had a few to drink when I ordered, so entered me name wrong on the sky remote, so my surname was spelt wrong, I now get sales calls for that name and setanta is the only person who used that spelling of my name.

read why not to get it here

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=528751

Totality

Are you allowed to cancel anything like Sky, mobile phone, etc by email?

Didn't realise this earlier but apparently the Setanta deal is for Freeview customers as well as Sky.

tin

I'd watch out cancelling anything by cancelling direct debit only. Dunno about Setanta, but Sky's policy is to then bill you "to avoid interruption to your viewing", charge £4 per bill for the pleasure, then chase you for the "debt"