VM are worse than Sky when it comes to loyalty. They will offer you peanuts even after you cancel. Sky at least offer 50% off, etc.
I cancelled VM last year to get Sky for a year and they offered me like £10-£20 off a £120 bundle. They asked what Sky had offered me (as a new customer) and for how much, the person on the phone clearly understood why there was no way I was going to accept their offer. I even explained I've been a customer for all these years and you won't beat them? the only thing they had to stand on was that they offered far superior broadband but I had to pay more than double to get the same package as sky with that broadband.
After that call nobody bothered calling me back, they must have noted there was no way they could match the offer I had already accepted from Sky.
New customers always get the best deals.
Brand New Boxes for free.
Cheapest Prices available (no need for discounts).
Quidco Cashback on top of the cheapest prices.
You have to be ignorant to stay loyal in the tv sub market.
Even if you cannot get VM, cancel sky and sign up under your partners, brothers, fathers, name, etc every year. I posted a tutorial in this thread on how to get the best deals I told them to sticky my posts but nobody listened.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25311434&postcount=684
there is one of my posts explaining how to do things, plenty more in the thread