SKY Price Rise to £49.50! (Actually only £42.50) ;)

phingers

We cancelled our subsription last month. Annual saving approx. £480. We get all the BEEB channels, ITV 1,2,3. Ch4. A few music (eg. 455). Just have a flick through when you've cancelled. Our only problem is Channel 5. We SHOULD still get it. But all it ever says is 'No satellite signal is being received'. Still, not THAT great a loss...
And now it takes far less time to flick through and find out there's never anything on worth watching!!!

scheming_gypsy

Tojo_Ralph wrote:

Someone must know what the £49-50 package is?

i pay £41 and get everything except subscriber channels (muck, MU and Chelsea TV, Setana (sp ?), Film Four etc. You get all movie channels, all entertainment, all music, all sport, all kids etc etc

iwannamotorbike

Hi

You know what has happened. I had FilmFour for a free month care of this website. Cancelled it so I no longer receive it. Just checked and it is encripted.

Looks like Sky have 'forgotten' to remove the FilmFour subscription charge.

£42.50 + £7 = £49.50

I'll be checking my Sky bills very carefully. Thanks to all the posters and all the advice.

I'm tempted to cancel.......


Allan

Tojo_Ralph

Well perhaps the title needs changing then to...... SKY Price Rise to £42.50!..... Not quite as dramatic I know, but more factual.

As for cancelling..... I tried today as suggested..... and was offered the half price for 3 months deal ..... £61-50 saved

bbb_uk

bridiej wrote:

is there any notice period you have to give sky?..

I believe its 1 months notice period (providing you are outside your minimum term contract) but this basically because you pay a month in advance so you shouldn't get charged for the last month.

bridiej

in that case had better get it sorted!

thanks

Heinz

When I read that Sky were changing their channel packages and prices from 1/9/05 I, like everyone else, thought, “Here we go again.”

I’m on their £19.50/month ‘Family Pack’ at the moment and Sky’s letter just told me the price was going up to £21 - but did not mention the new channel packages at all.

Checking for myself, I realised that I could retain nearly all of the channels I currently have by opting to subscribe to only 4 of the new non-premium channel ‘mixes’ instead of all 6 (6 is the equivalent of the existing Family Pack) and, by doing so, the cost would fall to £18/month instead of rising to £21. I could reduce that to only 2 ‘mixes’ really but I thought I’d save that one for the next price rise.

Because DD calls for my subscription are made in advance, I e-mailed them on 24/6/05 telling them I wished to downgrade to 4 of the new ‘mixes’.

Despite repeated e-mails, they continue to deny that the new packages exist except for ‘new customers’ (despite CEO James Murdoch having said, in his 23/6/05 Press Release, “"Enhancing the flexibility and simplicity of the Sky proposition for current customers and future customers is at the centre of what we do," and, ridiculously, sent me details of post-1/9/05 prices for their existing packages.

Their latest e-mail response is, “Therefore, let me explain, when I read our previous responses, I became aware that you had been advised of a change in channel packages which may not be happening for all customers.

At the moment, although we are intending to change our packages in September, we can only guarantee this for brand new customers. This is due to a change in our billing systems. We are currently investigating whether we will be able to provide the new packages to existing customers, through our current billing systems, but cannot guarantee that this will be possible.”

So, less than a month before the new pricing and channel package structure is to be introduced, a company with nearly 8 million subscribers is “currently investigating whether we will be able to provide the new packages to existing customers“

I wonder how they’ll deal with my e-mail reply, “I am sorry to learn of your accounting and computer problems.

Will it assist if I just cancel my subscription completely and re-subscribe (to the 4 'mixes' I want) as a new customer on 1/9/05?

Please advise me as a matter of urgency because I need to cancel my DD authority within the next 9 days if that is the only way we are to proceed.”

Penny-Pincher!!

Afternoon

Is there anywhere I can find the new price lists? We have sky+ and currently on the £35 a month package, which I think is the sky movie world with family.

Thanks

Penny-Pincher!!
xxx

Stevenj214

sky movie world with family is going to £36

Stevenj214

with the new packages supposedly less than a month away, we haven't been told a thing?? (i work for sky sales)