Kippax lives in a tree in a field.
Well actually he lives near Rawtenstall, pretty much the same thing!
His sky is 56k dial up!
Printable View
4 HD boxes and £144!! Jesus wept!!
My sky has had a new lease of life since moving due to my Harmony ultimate. Didn't realise you could change the channel in a different room so all my TV's with Sky cabled to it (so just the picture, not an extra box) I can change the channel and use it as though I'm sat in the living room. Very very happy with this.
Update...
Well I have been on live chat and basically said that I have had a letter through my door saying that they will offer 60% off and cash back of £50 (was really just 50% off). Anyhow they corrected me with it is 50% off and £50 cash back, that is the only offer that they are doing.
I told them I would only be interested in 60% off deal and they said they can't, so I told them I will continue with my cancelation.
I am going to stick with it and fight for more, if I don't get it well they can do one :)
I have just finished a sky chat session.
My Sky just went up to £72 per month for Sky Original and Sky+HD, Sky Talk and Fibre unlimited. I told the rep I wanted to cancel as it was too expensive now. The rep offered me a reduction to £51.40 which I declined. So she has started the closure of the account (Sky on 23 January and BB on 9 February).
Wife will kill me if it goes through, so now the wait starts :-)
Had a chat session earlier and cencelled.
Got offered some pathetic deal equating to about 20% off which I told them to jog on.
Cancellation is on the 9th February I will either take it back out in wife's name as new customer or if they offer a decent deal sign back up
Does anyone have one of the Android boxes, I've seen them on eBay for £20-30. On the face of it they seem too good to be true.
Are they like the dodgy cable boxes the bloke down the pub could get?
I do think Sky are a bunch of robbing barstewards but,,,
If your original bill is £87 per month, with 50% off and £50 cashback (being equivalent to £4.15 ish a month) that saves you roughly £47.65
You are holding out for 60% to get the grand sum of a further £4.55 per month!
If saving £47.65 isn't enough, is a further £4.55 any different?
Why bother fighting for it when you could save a further £35 by just sticking to dumping Sky without all this drama.
Torrent what you want to watch, unless it's live sport that is.
I despise the extortion we put up with to watch the box.
More channels = more junk.
Another way to save a chunk of cash easily is to pay a one off payment for the line rental rather than pay monthly.
I don't know what Sky charge, but Virgin Media charge £17.99 per month (£216 per year). Paying a one off lump sum (called line saver rental - and all the providers do it - savings may vary) only costs £164, saving £52.
Add that £52 to all the other savings you make via negotiation.
Called up this morning to cancel the phone and broadband on top of the tv cancellation yesterday and informed that if I cancel then I will have a dead line for two weeks before BT can take it over. Said I should initiate the transfer from BT which is then a problem if I am looking for sky to come back with a better offer as I will already be committed elsewhere...
They mentioned the 50% discount and £50 cash back was from the win back team
Isn't there enough crap on Freeview to keep you amused? We don't have sky or any of the paid view services but there still seems to be enough rubbish on the 'free' channels to keep us going. Okay so the 'blockbuster' movies tend to be the 'blockbusters' from a couple of years back but I can live with that!
Do people not think that sky read forums when they post to state that the email said 60% instead of 50%?
Having read this thread I 'cancelled' and then settled for 50%+ £50 credit. Just shows that loyalty means nothing.
Why would it - you are a faceless number on a balance sheet.
So an update:
I have ordered fibre broadband through Plusnet, and SKY have sent me a letter acknowledging that Plusnet are going to take over on 28 January. My SKY TV cancellation is progressing and will cancel on 10 Feb.
Just had a phone call from them to talk about any outstanding amounts on my bill!
Anyway, she asked if I would be willing to stay with SKY if they could do a deal and I said yes if it was good enough - she offered me a total monthly payment of £62! I told her that they had offered me £51.40 the day I cancelled!!
She said that was the best they could do today.
The order progresses with Plusnet and I will drop back to SKY Freesat I guess.
Time to confess to the wife when she loses the comedy central!
The NowTV entertainment package includes Comedy Central, and you can often buy a box together with 6 month entertainment subscription for £15 - £20. A couple of those and you're okay for the next 12 months after which you could consider rejoining Sky on one of their new customer packages (half price, M&S vouchers, >£100 cashback etc.)
We've been on the Plusnet FTTC service for about 6-8 months now. Also calls/line inclusive. Took three bookings for the installation before someone turned up to actually DO the installation! Apart from that they're okay. FTTC is miles better than the old DSL though, tbh, for most things (email/web) you really don't notice much of a difference in speed. What you do notice though (in our case) was how stable the connection is. Oh and if anyone does any dodgy downloading then I'd expect that to be a lot faster on FTTC. We've gone for the starter 38meg speed and that's ample for us.
Currently playing the game with them, managed to get the bill from around £77 down to £65, but trying to get cross what I was after seemed difficult.
Now tv is looking like the way forward couple with phone and BB from another supplier but it's still early days so will see how it goes.
My Sky contract recently ended, after which the cost went up to c£90 pm (i'd previously been on a friends and family deal provided by one of our friendly members here). I had family pack, sports, movies, Sky Go etc.
I cancelled and agreed a deal with Virgin Media. Sky then contacted me a few times via letter and telephone.
Eventually managed to negotiate the same channel package plus an extra Sky +HD box for upstairs for £45 pm. I've read of other silly cheap deals at renewal, but I was pretty pleased with that. Extra box installed yesterday at no cost.
Ian
My sky bill has just gone up to over £100 a month after a discount period. Contract runs out next month
Need to either change provider or get sky down
After a ppv event it was £128 this month
Cancelled Sky Sports the other evening (was paying £78 for HD / 2 boxes (one the cut-down non-recording type) / Sports.
For some reason I believed that Sports was still around £13 pm but actually it was £25pm - so a nice saving there.
Was immediately offered a £5pm discount but will wait and see what happens before the cut-off.
Might drop them altogether - provided that I can find a TV provider that doesn't show "Come dine with me" / "Four in a bed" / "Goggle-box" / "Real House wives of ?????" / "any of the other brain rot that my wife watches" - any suggestions on that score?
I was paying 35 last year for family and HD, broadband calls etc. Just gone up to 66. Chatted online for ages! As current box freezes a lot, wanted a discount and replacement box.
They offered me 52 a month, and nothing else! So rang them and went through it all again. They've still stuck to 52 a month, how can they expect me to pay that much more than I did last year for the same thing!
Goes off on the 3rd March, will ditch the broadband alsi I think.
Typical as walking dead, game of thrones back in shortly! Ba@!#£ds!!
Does the now tv entertainment package include fox, sky one etc?
Yeah that will do I think unless they offer something spectacular! Thanks
It does seem a business model of most service providers nowadays, mobiles, insurance etc. That you have to ring up threaten to cancel etc to get any kind of deal, my parents etc just wouldn't do that so pay full price for everything.
I asked sky why don't they profile their customers? They nlknow I won't pay full price as never have so why not just save mine and their time and offer me a deal at renewal?
I seem to have to call someone and spend an hour on the phone nearly every weekend! Draining! :(
Sky must be looking for new business again. Had an email yesterday offering me £150 if I introduce a new member and £150 for them to join.
Let it go off
They will send you a fifty per cent off letter within days
Just sit tight
Get an Amazon fire stick and have Kodi put on it
You can watch pretty much anything for free
Definitely have to wait it out with Sky. You need to be prepared to go through with the cancellation. I am currently on 50% off the TV package, half price fibre optic broadband and free 'phone line rental. Works out at about £46 per month for everything but movies.
I viewed my now-defunct Sky package in a different way ................. when you are paying around £1000 per annum out of your hard-earned. already taxed cash to Murdoch's gang, what is the likelihood of your employer offering you a no-strings £1200 a year rise in salary with no strings? (OK, unless you are banker). I needed the £1200 more than I needed a collection of old US comedies and 1980s movies.
Once I got my head round that it was quite simple to ditch Sky and live on a diet of FreeSat. (And it still includes some old US comedies and 1980s movies) :unconscious:
My monthly bill is £38 just phoned sky to cancel and they put it down to £7.80 a month
Also cancelled Sky after reading this thread, just accepted a 50% off my existing bill and £50 quid credit.
Thanks for the thread guys, as I never thought of doing this, but its saved me a lot of money now.
Cancelled my sky TV but kept the phone and broadband. Due to be switched off on Wednesday, and have had no offers through from them to stay. Just bought a new TV and will try out Netflix, Amazon prime and freeview and will see how that goes for a while
I never got a 50% offer, best was circa 23%.
Telephone and broadband is now with Plusnet and Sky TV goes off on 20th of this month. Can't say I am that bothered tbh, now using Netflix and Freesat. When I actually looked at what channels we watch we only really lost Comedy Central.
My Sky has now ended, I have been offered now 33% off for 5 years. I told them to do one