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

Spunkey said:
I cancelled a month before the F1 deal was announced, so I came back with 25% discount for a returning customer.

As crap as Sky and their Sky boxes are, there's little alternative.
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You obviously haven't researched enough ;) There's a number of alternatives and ways to get virtually any channels you want - for a lot less than you pay into a tied-in contract with Sky every month.

But for more information you would need to head over to a proper TV/AV forum.

And for everyone that cancels - there's another mug joining up - or another past subsciber who re-joins because he thinks the free M&S vouchers or the free HD for a year offer is a great thing (even though he is basically paying £600+ a year for a couple of channels that he watches). Which is why their profits usually continue to go up.
 
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peterintheghetto said:
Not really.

Youview is quite impressive considering it's price.
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They don't offer good service and when things go wrong - look out, had no end of problems trying to get them to fix our line fault when they kept on insisting that my equipment was at fault - I had the same issues with three routers - diffrent brands that proved the line outside was at fault.

I know everyones experience will be different and I'm not trying to turn this into this ISP is better than that one thread just voicing an opinion :)
 
Done the same myself the other day. They didn't even offer me 25% off something like 20% when I worked it out. I'm after Fibre so think I will wait and see what they can offer me with the tv,fibre and line rental as a whole before my final cut off date.
 
I cancelled my Sky subscription in August & I don't miss it TBH. I wrote to them instead as I did not want to argue with them about cancelling & end up getting the Spanish inquisition. :mad:

Any emails go straight into spam & paperwork just gets shredded.
 
If it were me I would just have broadband, but the missus needs her TV. May have to cancel the Movies because she doesn't even use it anymore.
 
Grimley said:
I cancelled my Sky subscription in August & I don't miss it TBH. I wrote to them instead as I did not want to argue with them about cancelling & end up getting the Spanish inquisition. :mad:

Any emails go straight into spam & paperwork just gets shredded.
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Ya what? They were fine with me on the phone. Very polite and didn't hound me at all.
 
Behemoth said:
They don't offer good service and when things go wrong - look out, had no end of problems trying to get them to fix our line fault when they kept on insisting that my equipment was at fault - I had the same issues with three routers - diffrent brands that proved the line outside was at fault.

I know everyones experience will be different and I'm not trying to turn this into this ISP is better than that one thread just voicing an opinion :)
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I see the same everyday unfortunately, but it's the same with any ISP. They all have their faults. TalkTalk have clueless people in their foreign call centres same as any other ISP but if you do eventually get an engineer you'll get one who knows what he's doing! (like me :p)

TalkTalk fibre, telephone and TV is bloody cheap compared to Sky/Virgin. And you can stick Sky Sports and Movies on as a package aswell :)
 
Never cancelled sky. I have no option as my area dosnt have Virgin yet.

Cant not have sky in my house. Although i have cancelled a 2nd multiroom box 2 weeks ago to be turned off today. Turns out, they cancelled the right box but also cancelled my HD package and my movies too. I dont understand how this can go wrong. The GF says im moaning about nothing but this is a persons job. To just sit there and add/remove channels for people. How can they get this wrong? If i got my job wrong as easy as they do, the company wouldnt have any Networks etc. Really rattles my cage how such a simple suggestion can go wrong.

Wouldnt mind but im only moaning because all my recordings where HD and i couldnt watch family guy on my lunch hour :)

All sorted now though.
 
Virgin keep trying to get us to sign up.

When I first enquired about it before we went for Sky, they wanted £180'000 to run a 10ft cable from the road outside into the building. And then they would only do that if everyone in the building took their package.

Sky.... Free dish, sky+box, cheaper packages and installed in under 2 weeks. Hmmmm.... Which to choose....
 
I cancelled my contract in June as the "No Signal being received" nightmare got too much for me. They came back with the 75% off for a year offer which I accepted but 3 sky boxes later I'm still getting the same error and due to credit notes being issued for loss of service i've not had to pay a penny for it as yet. Super frustrating.
 
I would never, ever, ever, ever, willingly go for any Talk Talk products. LOng story but my internet was taken over by them when they bought another company and I'm having an absolute nightmare with them.
 
I'm surprised Sky/Virgin TV is still as popular as it is now that analogue is off and so many people will have freeview available to them or even built into their TV. When it was 4/5 channels or Sky then it was different. My TV finds about 88 stations now although that's including radio etc. I think it's still 50-odd channels though and a few (1080p:o)HD ones too. I'm not saying this in any way compares to Sky but it's a hell of a deal for 0p. It's more TV than I'll ever watch.
 
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