Sky TV

[buffymad]

I keep hearing about this ... has anyone phoned Sky threatening to leave and they get offered a lower monthly price or a free new box or whatever to stay? I've been paying for the whole kit and caboodle for years and years and now feel like I'm missing out on something!!

[VHG]

It can vary.

Some do get offered a deal, or movies or sports at half price, that sort of thing.

Others are told "ok leave if you want"

It depends who you get I think.

I think ringing up threatening to leave may not work.

Maybe ringing up with a sob story "you cant afford the Sky payments, what can you do to help me" may be a better approach.

[sunstar]

yes i phoned last week and was told they will take £8 a month off and give me a month free ,

[WesterRoss]

I also had the full Sky package for years but last year I decided to dump them for Freesat not the Sky one the BBC ITV one. I was offered a year at half price which I declined. I have since had regular phone calls from Sky offering me a year at half price to go back to them but with the prospect of paying about £70 per month after twelve months I have not taken up their offer. When asked why I was ditching them I just said too expensive and all of a sudden they made me an offer I could refuse.

[whiskeryron]

I too was paying the full package for Sky for years until we realised that we were actually paying for some progs we never watched & also coming to the conclusion that there are an awful lot of repeats so we have gone for Freesat & we are very pleased with it. We also had H/D multiroom in 2 rooms, I have kept 1 Sky H/D box & get Sky Freesat & replaced the other Sky H/D box with a Humax Freesat box so we can still use the hard drive facility. I cannot get over the fact that we were paying so much & now getting the H/D progs for free. Ron.

[lisajade8]

i havent heard of this as my dad was paying 72 pounds a month for sky and two multirooms they didnt offer us anything at all to help us

[whiskeryron]

lisajade8. If your dad wants to do this he needs to give Sky 30 days notice of cancellation, then the multiroom Sky boxes will automatically receive Sky Freesat ( inc H/D) tell him to leave the Sky cards in the digiboxes (which will work for Sky Freesat until they need renewing he will get a message on screen when they need renewing --- £25 to Sky) The only downside is that the Sky+ facility will stop working
ie. you will lose the ability to record & playback progs from the Sky digiboxes. I have got round this by connecting my DVD recorder to the 1 H/D box, & buying a Humax+ digibox for the other room . Ron.