Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

smallblueplanet wrote: »

You on 75% off? We're in the countryside so I can't threaten to go elsewhere - no fibre/poor download speeds. How do you get such a good deal?

I always cancel every year and wait for the deals. Last year after I was cut off I received an email offering the full package for £20 - it's the people like me that can live without sky that usually get the best deals, but for that price it would be rude not to !!!

My box went faulty a few months ago and they came out and replaced it for no charge

hpmann wrote: »

I always cancel every year and wait for the deals. Last year after I was cut off I received an email offering the full package for £20 - it's the people like me that can live without sky that usually get the best deals, but for that price it would be rude not to !!!

Same here. I was quite prepared to stay away and had even ordered an new HDMI cable for the Humax,as I thought I'd lost the other (which was actually still attached to the Humax socket).


A brilliant deal again or I will stay away. At the moment there is a lot of good free to view tv and I'm not finding time to watch all their recordings, films (many of which I give up on),as well as Sky original programmes. Besides which there are lots of books and knitting to catch up with.


I do like the Sky box's system of mixing recording, catchup and out of date , though, but the Humax's fast forward and rewind is faster as well as there being a slower than normal speed .available.

Does anyone ever get it to work? Every time I go online to do it it is always showing as busy :mad::mad:

I am trying to get a decent deal to go back - atm we have NOW TV after cancelling Sky - just want the variety package, cheapest we have been offered is £16 a month..I was hoping they would come below £15

irishdonkeys wrote: »

The £30 a month offer was for the basic variety bundle so you only get hd on things like films or terrestial channels. The box sets bundle gives you hd on all channels available. It annoys me they are still charging extra for hd. I was offered an extra £1 discount yesterday but told them no and continuing with cancel until a better offer

According to the website Variety only includes the 11 free to view HD channels.


I have Boxed Sets (with HD) and Cinema at the moment (but not much longer unless by some miracle they make another excellent offer), so get other Sky channels and films in HD and 3D.


I asked on Sky's forums, for confirmation that I wouldn't be able to watch films in 3D, if I downgraded to Variety and it is true. However, someone said you would still be able to watch films in HD as they no longer appear in SD, but that is not so, as they are available in SD or HD, some in SD, HD or 3D.