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captain1_2
captain1_2 Posts: 5 Forumite
in I wanna buy it or do it
:confused: what with sky?£60 install for weekends and £30 for weekends?:confused:

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  • mountainofdebt
    mountainofdebt Posts: 7,795 Forumite
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    Its simple really - Sky are charging a premium to those people who can't be in during the week for example because of work and don't want to take a day's holiday
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  • captain1_2
    captain1_2 Posts: 5 Forumite
    No way round this?
  • RichyRich
    RichyRich Posts: 2,091 Forumite
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    Potentially you could try haggling with them.

    I suppose it depends how desparate for business they are.
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  • captain1_2
    captain1_2 Posts: 5 Forumite
    I want the weekend but dont want to pay £60
  • Clive_Woody
    Clive_Woody Posts: 5,969 Forumite
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    captain1 wrote: »
    I want the weekend but dont want to pay £60
    SKY will be desperate for your custom, you should be able to get this installed for free.

    Call up their order line and say you need a weekend installation, when they start rattling on about how much say you had been told that they would install for free. No doubt they will deny this, say okay then you will have to think about this and probably won't bother gettig SKY as the monthly fees are already quite high. Usually at this stage you will get put through to another dept, more likely than not a nice elderly sounding Scottish lady who will be very helpful and book the installation for you for free.

    I have done this the last two times I moved. You have to play your face a bit, but they should do it for free after all you will soon be paying them lots of money every month.

    :D
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  • Energize
    Energize Posts: 509 Forumite
    You could always install it yourself. I did.
  • Mikeyorks
    Mikeyorks Posts: 10,380 Forumite
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    captain1 wrote: »
    :confused: what with sky?£60 install for weekends and £30 for weekends?:confused:

    It's £60 for weekends and £30 for weekdays.

    But .. does it need 2 x separate threads to get your head around that?
    If you want to test the depth of the water .........don't use both feet !
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