Cheaper ways to watch Sky TV?

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Hi all,

At the moment my sky bill is horrendously high and I want to find ways of cutting it down. It's about £140 a month which includes sky talk / fibre / line rental / and TV.

I want to watch Sky F1 in HD though, and I watch football as well quite a bit so is there any way of getting these still but by paying far less?

 

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Cancel TV and be prepared to to let it terminate, I did this and immediately got a 60% off all TV packages for 12 months + £100 account credit.

Move your internet to another provider so all your eggs are not in one basket as such and look for deals elsewhere, there is no reason to have you internet with them as existing customer deals simply are not that good. I understand there is a convenience factor but if cost is the primary concern then it doesn't matter.

Doing this I have a 200mb line with Virgin for £31 and full TV package with Sky for £30 p/m.

Cancel it how, by phoning them up? What if they don't offer me the same deal with the 60 percent off thing?

 

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Sky Go Extra - including discounts FREE
Sky Multiscreen £12.00
Variety with Sports HD £71.50
Sky Fibre Unlimited £20.00
Sky Talk Line Rental £17.40
Voicemail Plus £2.50
Sky Talk Anytime Extra £8.00

That's what I am paying now, it's just getting ridiculously expensive but the quandary is that I hate watching sports that aren't in HD! I remember when line rental used to be what, 12 quid... it's getting absurd!

Basically they will give you a cut off date, however after your initial call they will 99% likely send you a 50-60% offer to stay with them.

If they don't (which is very unlikely), then you can always cancel your cancellation request.

ah ok so it's win win in that sense...

 

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but if you keep cancelling don't they catch on ?

I think I may be in contract still until Feb - I'm sure the woman I spoke to talked me into one when I got multiroom around that time last year.

 

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do i threaten to cancel whole package or just tv?

 

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You're overthinking this, worst comes to worst it'll all be cancelled and you'll sign up on a new contract and still probably save some money.

Just call them and say you want to cancel the lot as it's getting too expensive and see what they offer.

i rely on my phone number for my business though so i can't risk them cancelling it all, just incase they don't offer me the 50-60 percent and i hard ball them.

 

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on phone at the mo... offered me 40 percent off. declined it... then said i need to pay £19 as a cancellation charge as my contract runs until feb - surely if i pay that there's no way they'd come back and offer me the 50-60 percent ? quick answer plz!

 

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Wait until you're out of contract and phone back.

ok. thanks. oh he's just got me on hold and speaking to his manager to see if they can waive the cancellation fee - if he can then I carry on as before?

oh ok he actually can't cancel my package today contrary to what he thought so i will have to wait until 24th feb and ring back then.

 

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yo, my contracts now up so it's rolling... shall i just ask for 60 straight off or see what they offer and decline unless its 60 percent off?

 

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ask for 60 percent off to the cancellation team tehn? i'm wondering if they might find that a bit cheeky and not oblige...

 

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and im cancelling the whole package yes to get this? phone tv and broadband, or just TV?

 

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is it 50-60 percent off the whole package though (tv, broadband and phone) ?

 

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think ive just ballssed it up, cancelled my tv but we've left it to me to cancel my tv and phone.

 

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do you even need a phone line?

i havene't had a house phone in about 10 years. it's just a waste of money. don't need to deal with cold callers, etc.

people can contact me through mobile, whatsapp, email, etc.

i'm self employed so yes I do on that. otherwise i very much see your point!

 

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OK So I had a phone call last week, a lady rang from Sky and offered me 50 percent off, I didn't accept and she said that their rates are changing all the time so would i like someone to call me next (being this) week and I said yes, so hopefully I'll get a phone call to be offered 60 percent off, I can't see what else they could offer me anyway.

But I want to leave Sky phone and line rental now and rejoin BT, reason being is that when I moved house in September to an area with a different telephone exchange, I wasn't able to keep my old phone number and had to have a new one, I was with Sky at this time.

If I was with BT I'd have been able to keep the phone number even though I'd moved to a different exchange location. So if I join BT now and have them take control of my number, if I move house again at least I can keep my phone number which is really important to me being that I use it for business.

So long and short of it, I think I'm going to have BT Phone and Line rental, and BT Broadband (or I could keep Sky as I think their broadband prices are cheaper - need to research this), but Sky TV if they offer me 60 percent off.

edit - I was wrong about the phone number, I wouldnt be able to keep it with it if it was a different exchange.

 

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Received an email for 60 percent off tonight on my TV for 12 months.

Oh it's actually worded as "60 percent off any TV bundle." So maybe not 60 % off the whole lot.

 

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This is a bit weird, just looking at my latest bill (for this month) and it looks like a heavy discount has already been applied - even though I have not agreed to any offers which have been offered to me in recent days by Sky representatives.

For instance, my latest bill shows :

22 Mar - 21 Apr

A month in advance


Variety with Sports HD £23.06
until 31 Mar (10 days)
Sky Multiscreen £3.87
until 31 Mar (10 days)
Sky Go Extra - FREE
until 31 Mar (10 days)

Sky Fibre Unlimited £20.00

Sky Talk Line Rental £18.99
Voicemail Plus £2.50
Sky Talk Anytime Extra £8.00

Total £76.42



My bill for the previous month was

22 Feb - 21 Mar

A month in advance


Sky Go Extra - FREE
Sky Multiscreen £12.00
Variety with Sports HD £71.50

Sky Fibre Unlimited £20.00

Sky Talk Line Rental £17.40
Voicemail Plus £2.50
Sky Talk Anytime Extra £8.00

Total £131.40



WTH gives?

 

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Just rang Sky,

Been offered 60 percent off TV and 50 percent off Line Rental and Broadband for 12 months bringing my total to £78 for the month for 12 months with a minimum 12 month contract.

Not bad.

 

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Thanks for all your advice guys, saved me a fair whack of money. Gone from paying £130 for Sky TV, Variety, Sports, HD, Multiroom, Fibre Broadband, Line Rental, Sky Talk anytime, Voicemail Plus to paying £70 for the whole lot for 12 months. Brilliant, chuffed