Totally agree everything posted.
Just put a phone reminder 30 days before the end of contact to call and cancel. They will phone you or be prepared to do a 10min hunt for half price codes.
Been doing it for 3 years now, cycle between my GF and my name. Cancel and got offered a dumb deal. Missus signed up new with better deal. Done. Last year, she called to cancel - 24 hours later she was offered better deal, half price and we get to keep F1 channel without Sports sub.
Not doing anything is to sit and burning money away.
your actually missing out on more savings, every time you sign up as a new customer go through quidco, i got £165 cashback last time i did this, which basically equates to 2-3 months of the 12 month subscription being paid for itself.
which means that the best deal going is even better.
So you cancel, and they renew under the other person's name?
So - as a new customer/install - when Sky then talk about coming along to install their dish and box you say what each time?
you say nothing, when the engineer comes round he will use his eyes to see you already have a dish, if you want it setup in a different or new room let him do this, otherwise let him install your brand new box and pair it up and be on his way after 5 minutes.
or you can possibly get him to install a brand new dish if your old one is worse for wear.
I love these type of people like, Psycho Sonny. Who think they know all to their circumstances. There's people out there who don't have access to Virgin, then what? I also know people who wont go Freesat HD because the channels are dire. Some have jumped back and forth between Sky and BT. Thats a lot harder if your phone line and broadband is with Sky.
What happens once you've used up the two different names in the household… how do you then register as a new account holder?
Heh, that you're a cheap stingy swine?
Chances of seeing the same engineer are slim.
I'm just curious what happens after you've used up the allocated slots that lives in the house after each year. Ask the kids to get them Sky? you can only do that several times then you're stuck. So which part is that being an idiot if you've got very little options.
It's one thing for Psycho Sonny to start labelling people idiots when he doesn't know their situation and options.
well let me type this out clearly
you do not need to have 300 people to able to sign up as a new customer.
you effectively become a new customer if you have not subscribed to their service for 12 months, their contract length is also 12 months.
now if you still need help understanding then this means you only need TWO people to be able to do this.
Person A signs up as a new customer to sky in November 2013.
Person A cancels contract to sky in November 2014.
Person B signs up as a new customer to sky in November 2014.
Person B cancels contract to sky in November 2015.
Person A signs up as a new customer to sky in November 2015.
See you don't need access to Virgin Media, or BT or anything apart from another person using this method.
Now your going to say, what if you live alone, aren't married, etc. Well then in that case you have 2 options;
Option A
Switch between Sky, BT or Virgin every 12-18 months (18 month contract on virgin) as a new customer as soon as your new customer deal runs out, using your own name every time.
Option B
Use someone else's name to sign up for a new customer deal, let them pay the first months bill then phone up sky and switch it to your bank account. Then pay that person whatever the first bill was in cash or whatever.
Going to explain this more clearly as I'm sure you will have questions;
Get your dad, mother, brother, sister, friend or anyone who trusts you or knows you and doesn't have sky and has no intention of ever buying it to sign up as a new customer at your address, get them to pay the first bill, then switch the payment details to your bank account after the first month. Then pay your relative the £40 or so you owe them.
After their 12 month contract is up, phone up and cancel and then sign up as a new customer yourself at the same address. Then repeat as necessary.
You may think this is a lot of faffing about, but it's really a 10 minute job maximum to become a sky customer or to cancel a subscription or to change payment details.
You can also get more savings by signing up through quidco. e.g. £150+ cashback every time you sign up as a new customer depending on how big your package is, the bigger the more cashback obviously.
If you do not have any friends or family and no VM in your area, then you could always just go freesat for a year and just use other means for acquiring tv like netflix, torrents, etc until you can become a new customer again.
