*** Sky TV Cancellation & Negotiation Thread ***

I have been with sky for 5yrs ish now. If you cancel online or both phone then ignore their phone calls and go on their webchat 1 week before your contract ends and say "what date does my contract end?" you will be offered 60-75% off and possibly £50-100 credit to your account. I have paid £8-11/month for sky boxsets for the past few years doing this. You obviously won't be given a sky q box doing this but i'm not too fussed about that. Last year i got 75% off + £50 credit, i also went on their website for existing customers offers and got a samsung tablet too which i sold on ebay so i basically paid £10 for the whole year :p

Some of you might want to consider buying a 2nd hand talktalk youview box (huawei dn372t), it has a 500gb harddrive and can be had for £45-60 off ebay. Freeview Play is even better but no ISPs give those out so boxes with harddrives cost a lot.
 
I was paying £30 per month for sport, cinema, boxsets and HD.

Went up to £80 this month so I've just phoned up and said I'm prepared to pay the same as before for the same service and they said no. So I've cancelled.

Can I expect them to phone me back and offer me what I want? :p
 
My Virgin Media package runs out in December and I have been pricing up various options. Looking for some advice as to what others are doing.

Current situation
Virgin Media TV with TiVo in the lounge and a set top box upstairs
200Mb fibre
TV package is basically everything (Sky Sports, BT Sport) but no Movies
TV line rental included

What I'd like
Sky Sports F1 and Sky Sports Action
Virgin Atlantic
Fibre broadband
Netflix
...The ability to record unless there is a streaming service which allows you to start F1 races from the beginning even if they are halfway through the race (don't think NOW TV can do this)
...Not fussed about two boxes, have a Chromecast upstairs now

With Virgin I was on a 12 month price of £65ish and then 6 months at £106. Really keen to get this monthly bill down to £60ish including Netflix.

Any thoughts on negotiation points or places to go to that might meet these requirements?

Thanks,

Tom
 
So I did some more research last night, looking at the Sky Q box.

We don't want multi room, however we do have a TV in our bedroom. Is it possible to watch Sky on this TV using the Sky Q feature to send it to another device? If so, do I use a Sky Q mini and would I need multi room as a package?

Just to be clear, I wouldn't want to watch TV downstairs in the lounge and in the bedroom. It would be one TV or the other.
 
TomWilko said:
So I did some more research last night, looking at the Sky Q box.

We don't want multi room, however we do have a TV in our bedroom. Is it possible to watch Sky on this TV using the Sky Q feature to send it to another device? If so, do I use a Sky Q mini and would I need multi room as a package?

Just to be clear, I wouldn't want to watch TV downstairs in the lounge and in the bedroom. It would be one TV or the other.
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"...watch Sky on this TV using the Sky Q feature to send it to another device" pretty sure you have just defined Multi Room, other than splitting the signal on the Sky Q Box (probably not feasible) I'm pretty sure you'll have to have Multi Room for two TV's, unless Sky Go can be used, but I don't think it can be...someone may well correct me on that one...
 
Jez said:
Just split the HDMI output and send it upstairs. It seems mad paying for a multiroom for that.
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This is the only way to stop paying for Multiscreen. It should be noted however that if you plan to or have any into of watching Ultra HD content you need the Sky Q MS sub.
 
MissChief said:
This is the only way to stop paying for Multiscreen. It should be noted however that if you plan to or have any into of watching Ultra HD content you need the Sky Q MS sub.
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Why is this out of interest? Assuming your splitter supports HDMI 2.0 or whatever standard.
 
It's not a physical thing, it's just that Sky require you to take that extra subscription to get the Ultra HD channels. It's why I haven't bothered with Sky Q yet.

I only have one TV in the lounge; so paying for an extra box which will sit in it's packaging in a cupboard just so I can have the UHD channels turned on doesn't make any logical sense to me.
 
Totally. Why they didn't make it possible for people with just one TV to get UHD is beyond me. I've had thought, multiroom w/UHD - £12 or whatever it is. UHD alone (for those not needing multiroom) - £6.

I reckon there would be a lot of people who'd sign up for UHD if there was an option without multiroom. £12 is too steep for those with only a single TV.
 
Yea, but that's bad value for money then isn't it? Paying for multiroom which isn't needed in my situation (or I imagine quite a few others). I'd happily pay, just not for multiroom.
 
So am I right in saying a Sky Q box without multiroom offers no additional functionality than the old Sky HD box? I was hoping I could pause TV on my lounge TV, go upstairs and then carry on watching. Having multiroom for that seems excessive as I don't want to watch two different channels on two different TVs. My TVs are placed so I could in theory run some cables, but I'm not massively keen on drilling through the ceiling...could send it outside I suppose.
 
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