Is Virgin Media's offer of a discount on a big package a good deal or not

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Hi, I'm a VM customer, who is out of contract, facing a price increase on 1st March from £124.5 to £133 for the existing package of:-
Anytime calls, Maxit TV with Sky Sports and BT Sport, 2 TV boxes and M200 Broadband
I've been offered the same package as above but with M350 Broadband by inbound retentions for £93 for 18months (no increase on 1st March) but was interested in whether forum members think that's a fantastic deal, average or frankly take the risk and you'll get a better deal within 30 days of cancelling.as outbounds will call me back.
Anytime calls, Maxit TV with Sky Sports and BT Sport, 2 TV boxes and M200 Broadband
I've been offered the same package as above but with M350 Broadband by inbound retentions for £93 for 18months (no increase on 1st March) but was interested in whether forum members think that's a fantastic deal, average or frankly take the risk and you'll get a better deal within 30 days of cancelling.as outbounds will call me back.
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As a previous poster said maybe you can get rid of the second box, which will save you some per month. You'd also save £50-80 a year (depending on how much time it's in standby/recording/play back) on not having the box plugged in and using electricity.... Which in turn may save you more in electricity as you may need the TV plugged in. Smaller carbon footprint badge for you if you do.
Just phoned retentions and after some haggling was offered £101pm for the same package on an 18 month contract - (I'm currently out of contract)
I would have liked to have got it down below £100, but he wasn't moving any further - so I don't seem to have been offered as good a deal as jrgriffin who got £93 for M350 broadband and 2x TV boxes?
Any views?
By the way, is there any time, day or phone number which gets you connected to somebody in the UK? I could barely understand what the agent was saying!