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

Cheapest Possible Sky Deal

I'm on a mission to get my Sky package as low as I can but don't want to compromise on the broadband.

I have the Sky Fibre Pro (£30 a month) and pay £20 on top for the originals TV bundle and the damn £17.40 line rental charge.

Got it down recently as was also paying for HD which I don't want/refuse to pay more for.

So any ideas if I can achieve either of the following:

-Drop the line rental entirely so I lose my land line number but still keep sky fibre?

-Drop the originals TV package so I just have my existing Sky+ box and standard freeview channels (BBC etc) coming through from the installed dish?
 
Do you need a static IP? If not, change to fibre max and save £5, and if you're not under contract play them off against another provider?

You can't drop line rental and keep your fibre.
 
MissChief said:
Do you need a static IP? If not, change to fibre max and save £5, and if you're not under contract play them off against another provider?

You can't drop line rental and keep your fibre.
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Thanks MissChief.

Any idea regarding the Originals tv package? Can I get rid of that entirely and, if I did, would that leave me with freeview channels on the Sky box?
 
Phonesis said:
Thanks MissChief.

Any idea regarding the Originals tv package? Can I get rid of that entirely and, if I did, would that leave me with freeview channels on the Sky box?
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Freesat channels,which are slightly different but yes you'd still be able to watch TV. Might be worth asking if you can get the recording functions free as well.
 
MissChief said:
Freesat channels,which are slightly different but yes you'd still be able to watch TV. Might be worth asking if you can get the recording functions free as well.
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Ended up getting a pretty good deal I think. Cancelled the Originals bundle and got £5 off my line rental for 12 months too. Just had to commit to 12 months new contract for broadband and phone line.

So now paying £52 a month for Sky Fibre Pro, Line Rental, and Sky+ with just the freeview channels. Suits me fine.
 
Poppy said:
Just signed up for original package with a sky Q 1tb box for £10 a month (leaving VM but keeping a negotiated broadband with them)
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Be interesting to hear what your keeping with VM as I'm thinking of doing the same as the TiVo just doesn't cut it. Slow and tedious.

wedrum said:
£50 a month 2tb sky q and free 4k 43" tv is a good deal plus £130 topcashback.

yay or nay ?
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Not really in the grand scheme of things plus you'll be waiting nigh on 80 days for that tv to turn up :D
 
I am on the Variety bundle with legacy HD pack (gives me Sky Sports F1 HD) which costs me £41.75 a month. I have been with Sky for over 15 years and was fed up with paying full price when they are giving new customers fantastic deals so decided to try my luck with cancelling this morning. I finally got someone on live chat as they were very busy and she offered me 20% off my current package. I said no thanks and she pulled the just check with my supervisor trick and came back and offered me 40%. I stuck to my guns and she said that's the best she could do so I said go ahead with the cancellation. Within a hour I had a offer in my account for 60% off my current package for 12 months which I took up (the wife would have killed me if I did actually cancel). Why the hell couldn't she have just offered me that in the first place instead of wasting 30 minutes on live chat?
 
pastymuncher said:
I am on the Variety bundle with legacy HD pack (gives me Sky Sports F1 HD) which costs me £41.75 a month. I have been with Sky for over 15 years and was fed up with paying full price when they are giving new customers fantastic deals so decided to try my luck with cancelling this morning. I finally got someone on live chat as they were very busy and she offered me 20% off my current package. I said no thanks and she pulled the just check with my supervisor trick and came back and offered me 40%. I stuck to my guns and she said that's the best she could do so I said go ahead with the cancellation. Within a hour I had a offer in my account for 60% off my current package for 12 months which I took up (the wife would have killed me if I did actually cancel). Why the hell couldn't she have just offered me that in the first place instead of wasting 30 minutes on live chat?
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Because most people will accept a lower offer...

40% for example in my book is good!
 
NeilFawcett said:
Because most people will accept a lower offer...

40% for example in my book is good!
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In the context of sky tv 40% isn't good, think of sky like DFS sofas or dominos pizza where 50% is pretty much the normal price. Anything more is a deal and anything less you are overpaying. :)
 
The thing is I didn't push for the 60%. At no point in my live chat did I ask for anything but a cancellation. She was the one doing all the offering just to try to get me to stay. At the end of the day I really couldn't have cared less if I got nothing and it was cancelled anyway. I hardly ever watch the tv, it's mainly for the wife. The 50% offer which turned into a 60% offer when clicked on appeared on My Sky's main page after I cancelled and I would have been daft not to accept it. Now I will be paying £16.70 a month instead of £41.75 a month for exactly the same package.
 
I've just cancelled my sky package today.

They didn't seem too interested in making me stay. Offered me to go down to the basic package for £16 a month or to just keep the sky box features (series link/record etc) for £10 a month.

If they send me a really good offer I may sign up if not I'll get a Humax 1100S and stick with freesat and now TV and save £38 a month!
 
apple_man77 said:
I've just cancelled my sky package today.

They didn't seem too interested in making me stay. Offered me to go down to the basic package for £16 a month or to just keep the sky box features (series link/record etc) for £10 a month.

If they send me a really good offer I may sign up if not I'll get a Humax 1100S and stick with freesat and now TV and save £38 a month!
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Log back into your account and you should have a 50% discount offer waiting for you. I did and when I clicked on it turned into a 60% off offer. It says you can use it for other packages over your current pack as well.
 
Hey guys, could you help on the cancel then sign up in other persons name thing?

So our full HD package with Sports/Movies, multiroom, Fibre and standard phone is about £130 now our offer has expired.

Even with the cancel and awaiting/ haggling for a 50+% offer would bring the TV package down circa £60.

If I try the cancel then move from my partner's name into mine, do we have to cancel all TV, Phone & Fibre, or can we just leave the phone/fibre in her name then have me take on sky TV in my name? (I was last a sky customer back in 2013): Jez, Psycho Sonny the experts on this?

New customer Q offer with 2TB box, multiscreen. Full package = £81.75
Family referral = -£125
TCB Boxset bundle?= -£110
Sell Xbox free gift = circa -£200
Install fee = £15

(£81.75 * 12)+15 =£996
less above discounts = £46.75 pcm

Or remove sports and it's £24 pcm


Seems far better value to go Q as a new customer with discounts than hope for a large discount on our standard upgraded HDD 2 x 2TB boxes, if the cancel and change account over to myself works that is!
 
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How have you got the install fee at £15 for that?

Is that a bespoke offer you have?

Edit: Ahh, I see where it's from, it's part of the extended black Friday deal.

My current deal is coming to an end in Feb and I pay £55 for:

2 Sky+ HD boxes
Sky Complete bundle (or is it boxsets now, I lose track of the names)
Movies
Sports

I phoned up to cancel and they didn't offer me anything as they said my deal is better than what they currently have, I half tempted to just call it a day on it and cancel it all and see where we are in the new year with offers.
 
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