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Sky plus £49 for existing customers
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Think I'm going to 'cancel' Sky tomorrow and see what happens, it's all too expensive and I need to downgrade anyway so might as well kill birds with stones!0
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Hi, after reading these posts I plucked up the courage to ring and cancel my sky and after 15mins was put through to a lovely scottish bloke who asked why and I said I needed to cut down so he suggested dropping a few channels and said we could pay £5 for multi room instead of £10 and change our phone line to sky free for a year so I was paying £54 now £41 and no phone line to pay. I then said I had heard about sky+ and I got it for free with £30 installation. so feel really happy as the family wouls have killed me if I had got rid of sky as they are sports mad.0
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Well phoned Sky this morning and didn't get as good a deal as some folk on here! I said I was working evenings (I do work some evenings so not a total lie) and I was missing prime time but I had noticed Virgin has On Demand so if I switched to that I would at least get some prime time (didn't mention Virgin is not active in my area!). Was offered Sky+ straight away for £30 amid chat about deals for loyal customers. Wow! says I, but I could sense he wasn't going to go lower. I was offered Skytalk for actual price but no reductions. I also removed Sky sports which we never watch and hinted I'd like to remove movies too because it is so expensive and I don't get to watch it but no offers. He just pointed out that I can record the films with my shiny new Sky+ and watch them at my leasure. Couldn't really argue with that, could I? If I had got rid of movies before christmas I wouldn't have been popular at home. Think after christmas I'll go that extra mile
I suppose I should have just said too expensive from the start and not used the 'missing prime time working evenings' thing and I might have got a better deal. Ho hum, we live and learn!
I was offered HD for £49 too, but I didn't want to pay extra a month for a few channels.
All in all it took about 50 minutes but most of that was politely listening to a few sales pitches and being 'talked round'.
Good luck to everyone trying this, I recommend phoning the 01506 421884 number as no Indian call centre involved.0 -
Can anyone tell me what is the difference between sky+ an V+ packages??
Which channels do you lose when you have virgin tv??
I have been offered sky + etc £30 but if take out sentana you get it for free. It cost £10 per month but can cancel it after a month.
But will have to pay for a bt line putting in .They have offer on at moment £30 instead of £125.But ends today.
I already have Virgin B/band and phone, but Sky TV.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!0 -
You lose sky 1 at least but I'm not sure what else? Probably sky 2 and 3 as well. Look on Virgin medias home page, they'll tell you what you get and compare it with sky.com's products page.0
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Sky plus and V plus are the same btw. Will 'record' what you tell it to for as long as you tell it to, i.e a series of 6 episodes or Emmerdale indefinitely. Virgin have on demand with all their packages (but only free with their XL package) Sky anytime only comes with sky+.0
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I just phoned Sky Customer Services, on 01506 421726, to cancel my Family Pack subscription (£22/month, which has just gone up again...) and told them I wanted to cancel as I rarely watch it, and have just been given a Freeview box (BTW, all this totally genuine). I was put through to another department to deal with my request, was asked why, told them that I rarely watch it apart from BBC1, ITV 1, BBC News, and radio channels, was only offered a £5 price cut for the next 3 months, but stuck to my guns and told them no, I wanted to cancel. I wasn't even offered Sky+, even through I've been with Sky for over 5 years!
At least I have 30 days to change my mind, but to be honest at over £400 per year for TV (if you include the TV Licence fee), and everyone having to watch the pennies at the moment, it's just stupid money for a few channels I can get at a one off payment of around £30 for Freeview + the TV Licence fee (£139.50/yr).
PS - Anything I miss, I watch on BBC iPlayer.0 -
god, i could only get it for £79 installed! i didn't have the !!!! to whinge for ages!0
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I'm on the phone now and still getting nowhere0
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