Sky Box, Dish, Installation for £75 and nothing more to pay

vinylmusic

I dont know if anyones posted this already.
Last week I was in Currys and I picked up a promotional pack for Sky.
The offer was A dish, a Sky box and professional installation.with I year warranty for a one off fee of £75 and nothing more to pay.
It also included 4 of their packages free for 4 months.

You have to set up a direct debit so that if you go over the 4 months without saying anything they will charge £19 per month but they do make it clear that if you call before the billing date and cancel them there will be nothing to pay.
You will be left with 200+ channels including all the freeview ones
For me thats all I want
Its ideal for someone like me who lives in an area where theres no freeview or a poor signal area
I paid the £75 at Curry's and within a week it was installed, up and running. I just have to remember to cancel by the end of August

Browntoa

some people have had problems with this read

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=711597&highlight=sky

vinylmusic

Browntoa wrote: »

some people have had problems with this read

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=711597&highlight=sky

The link you sent me to was for a similar but older offer

I have read the wording over and over and cant see any catch.
If they dont allow me to cancel and try to force me to pay I am sure that the OFT will be with me on this.
The wording couldnt be clearer

Here's what it says:

Pay once watch forever
Watch over 200 free digital TV channels - thats four times more than freeview
And try sky TV for 4 Months

*No annual contract
*No need for an aerial upgrade
*Includes Sky Box, minidish and remote all with a 12 month warranty
*24/7 customer support
*Includes standard professional installation & setup

*After 4 months you will continue to receive Sky TV for £19 a month. Let us know before then if you no longer want to receive Sky TV

Hippychick

My Mum got this as well from Dixons, she hasn't had any problems, sky even told her on the phone the date she needs to cancel by.

I think as long as you cancel in plenty of time there will be no issue, you are more likely to get problems if you do not give enough notice.

gromituk

Sky is running scared of Freesat, obviously.

Four times more channels than Freeview - but is a single one worth watching?

super_dad

do you get sky one in with the free channels?

vinylmusic

gromituk wrote: »

Sky is running scared of Freesat, obviously.

Four times more channels than Freeview - but is a single one worth watching?

This is obvious
As the digital switchover dates draw neare they will want to sell as many as they can.
The idea of the subsidy and the free packages for 4 months is to get you hooked.
At the end of 4 months you may have forgotten to cancel or not want to lose those channels that your used to. In either case they win

If, like me you live outside a freeview area and the switchover date is a longway ahead its well worth it
Remenber that even with a freeview set top box you may need a new areiel
That depends upon kind of areiel youve got and signal strength
A set top box + aeriel + installation could easily set you back £100
Therefore the £75 offer is a good alternative and makes economic sense
As long as you dont forget to cancel the sky packages

One question I still want to find the answer for is what happens if I cancel the packages 2 or 3 months early. Or even straight away?
Do I still get keep them for the full 4 months or are they stopped as soon as I.
cancel?

Poppycat

I have been waiting for freesat for about 2 years now, looking forward to the pvrs coming out this Summer and installation is about £75 for new dish. Unsure if you can use old Sky dish the small digital ones or not, as house add Sky and we dont wont it

EdCov

Can you have this offer if you have had a Sky subsidy before?

We had Sky in our old house, but our current house does not have a dish.

This way we could get Sky fitted, and then when FreeSat HD PVRs become cheap just plug the Freesat box into the satellite dish.

EdCov

Answer my own question

"Offer only available to new Sky digital customers who have not previously entered into an Interactive Discount Contract or a Sky TV Month by Month equipment offer or whose household has benefited from either. Offer limited to one per household."

Meanwhile the first prices of FreeSat receivers have been announced.

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/04/28/first-prices-of-freesat-equipment-announced/

The real question for FreeSat is going to be the price of installation. The boxes will probably, give it a year or two, tumble to being less than £50 with HD. The problem is that installing a satellite dish will be expensive. Sky can afford to subsidise, FreeSat won't have that luxury.

Therefore if anyone wants to get a satellite dish on their wall £76 is not a bad price, but make sure you cancel. A FreeSat box and installation will probably be less than the cost of a year on Sky.

PNEfan

I would advise anyone going for this to avoid giving their DD details to Sky. They will try to get them saying that then you can order extras easily etc, but when it's time to cancel you may well find that they start to bill you (despite what the packaging says, and what's said on the phone now) and it's a battle to get this sorted out.

Contacting Sky for this deal is via an 0870 number which is not the normal one (so you can't use an alternative number from SayNoto0870).

I took out the previous 6 month deal, but I think this advice still applies.