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

vinylmusic

WARNING

With the £75 package, or any package for that matter you have to cancel before the last month starts. Thats onemonth before the due billing date
Therefore if your on that special offer which includes 4 months free viewing of 4 packages you must cancel before the end of the third month if you dont want to go ahead with it or you will be chargeed £19
I'm not sure but I suspect that once you've gone over the offer period and not cancelled in time you may have unwittingly entered into a 12 month contract. It would be well worth finding out

vinylmusic

Poppycat wrote: »

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

Sky is the cheapest at the moment
Their version of freesat usually costs £150 with 200+ channels is available at half price from Curry's and probably Dixons and PC World
As I said before it also includes 4 of their mixes free for 4 months but its important to cancel them in the third month or you end up tied to a contract at £19 a month
Its obviously there to get you hooked or in hope you forget to cancel

Nytehawk

vinylmusic wrote: »

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

Many folk including myself did this when it was a 6 month package and the problems encountered when trying to cancel was horrendous. They advised on their packaging that they contact you by letter prior to the end of your 6 month period offering to cancel your contract if you no longer wished to contribute "They didn't" The 200+ freeview channels offered are mainly teleshopping/music channels. We have a freeview box in another room which does what it says on the tin. Sky IMO are a big con with this package and previous threads on this subject will confirm this. It is now down to you to cancel your contract 1 month before the direct debit is due (Not many will know that date for a start) If you go over that date by 1 day and you have no confirmatory proof that you cancelled I now believe you are contratcted for a minimum of 12 months.
IMO this deal stinks and it is too good to be true...... Stick with a freeview box

vinylmusic

Nytehawk wrote: »

Many folk including myself did this when it was a 6 month package and the problems encountered when trying to cancel was horrendous. They advised on their packaging that they contact you by letter prior to the end of your 6 month period offering to cancel your contract if you no longer wished to contribute "They didn't" The 200+ freeview channels offered are mainly teleshopping/music channels. We have a freeview box in another room which does what it says on the tin. Sky IMO are a big con with this package and previous threads on this subject will confirm this. It is now down to you to cancel your contract 1 month before the direct debit is due (Not many will know that date for a start) If you go over that date by 1 day and you have no confirmatory proof that you cancelled I now believe you are contratcted for a minimum of 12 months.
IMO this deal stinks and it is too good to be true...... Stick with a freeview box

I have been on the phone to Sky and firstly I asked the name of the person assisting me.
I told her I was recording the call and had noted everything along with the time and date. I have learnt to do this from bitter experience so they cant tell me later that I didn't go by the rules.
They were in fact very helpful this time.
I have to keep the 4 "mixes" for 4 months as part of the £75 deal
If I want to continue using Sky subscription service after 4 months I can leave everything as it is and will be charged £19 per month from there onwards
Up to the end of the 4 months I can reduce the number of mixes to 1, 2, 3 or 4 mixes at £16, £17, £18 or £19 .
If I want to cancel all mixes and receive only freeview channels I must give 1 months notice in advance. That means near to but not after the end of 3 months from the date of installation, or one month before the 1st billing date. I was assured that if I did this there would be nothing more to pay in addition to the original £75
She also told me how to find out what channels I would get on top of all the freeview channels. I must remove my card and go through the channels one by one and I could see for myself.
It's rediculous and annoying that they cant simply provide a list.

So it looks to me that whatever you've experienced with previous offers this one should be different. I've checked and double checked and checked again for good measure and each customer service rep tells me the same.

I think you can't go wrong if you don't incur any charges such as pay per view or interactive ganes etc. You cancel all mixes a few days before the end of the 3rd month and for good measure, cancel the direct debit at your bank before the end of the 4th month.

piggsy_2

In my area we still cant get freeview or channel 5 so its a good deal from Sky. As long as you remember to cancel after 3 months. Will Freesat take over from freeview and will the picture be better as freeview is very glichy and supposedly the coverage will be better as its through a dish not an aerial.

gromituk

Freesat will not take over from Freeview as it is only available to those who are able to bolt satellite dishes to fixed objects in view of satellites.

gjchester

gromituk wrote: »

Freesat will not take over from Freeview as it is only available to those who are able to bolt satellite dishes to fixed objects in view of satellites.

As opposed to Freeview which is only available to those who are able to bolt aerials to fixed objects in areas of viable signals.

We are in a low signal area (till the digital switchover anyway) and also there is a council by law (largely ignored) that prohibits aerials and sky dishes to be installed. The town has a cabled aerial system through the town, Virgin media who now own the cabled system do not intend to pass freeview through it and say you should take there service instead.

Horses for Courses really.

vinylmusic

piggsy wrote: »

In my area we still cant get freeview or channel 5 so its a good deal from Sky. As long as you remember to cancel after 3 months. Will Freesat take over from freeview and will the picture be better as freeview is very glichy and supposedly the coverage will be better as its through a dish not an aerial.

The Sky deal is cheaper than Freesat but my only gripe with Sky is the picture
I dont have a widescreen TV and have no intention of paying for one in the near future
The picture coming from Sky does not fit my screen
The writing at the bottom of the screen on channels such as BBC news disappears off the edges and so does the weather girl. most of the time half of her is visible and sometimes she momentarily disappears altogether.
I complained to Sky but they fobbed me off with the excuse that they cant help it when the transmissions are widescreen.
I know with freeview you van select letterbox view but apparently not so with sky
It looks like I'll have to live with it until I can afford a Widescreen TV.
It's really annoying that Sky dont take my complaint seriously. They have left me in the lurch with that one:mad:

ashcarrot

Question then, can you do this deal and cancel straightaway? ie do it for the freesat thing phone em up cancel then no more contract ie cheap freesat and even cheaper installation for true freesat (BBC/ITV edition) just buy another box

brangy_white

vinylmusic wrote: »

I have been on the phone to Sky and firstly I asked the name of the person assisting me.
I told her I was recording the call and had noted everything along with the time and date. I have learnt to do this from bitter experience so they cant tell me later that I didn't go by the rules.
They were in fact very helpful this time.
I have to keep the 4 "mixes" for 4 months as part of the £75 deal
If I want to continue using Sky subscription service after 4 months I can leave everything as it is and will be charged £19 per month from there onwards
Up to the end of the 4 months I can reduce the number of mixes to 1, 2, 3 or 4 mixes at £16, £17, £18 or £19 .
If I want to cancel all mixes and receive only freeview channels I must give 1 months notice in advance. That means near to but not after the end of 3 months from the date of installation, or one month before the 1st billing date. I was assured that if I did this there would be nothing more to pay in addition to the original £75
She also told me how to find out what channels I would get on top of all the freeview channels. I must remove my card and go through the channels one by one and I could see for myself.
It's rediculous and annoying that they cant simply provide a list.

So it looks to me that whatever you've experienced with previous offers this one should be different. I've checked and double checked and checked again for good measure and each customer service rep tells me the same.

I think you can't go wrong if you don't incur any charges such as pay per view or interactive ganes etc. You cancel all mixes a few days before the end of the 3rd month and for good measure, cancel the direct debit at your bank before the end of the 4th month.

I did everything by the book for the 6 month deal and still got threatening letters saying debt collection agencies were being sent round. Don't trust them at all. Make sure you keep all the paperwork and don't bother ringing up. send them emails so there is a record of the correspondence. This is nothing but a con trick to scare people into a 12 month cantract.