Yes and I do as already have virgin Broadband.
*** Sky TV Cancellation & Negotiation Thread ***
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Yes and I do as already have virgin Broadband.
Up for renewal in April next year, plus it's the first time we have a proper competitor in the area in the name of Virgin so hopefully that makes negotiating a bit easier.
Only downside with Virgin is lack of UHD for Sports (F1 in particular) else I'd probably seriously consider making the switch.
Only downside with Virgin is lack of UHD for Sports (F1 in particular) else I'd probably seriously consider making the switch.
I rang them again over someone else and they put me through to the win back team. I know I could probably knock a few £ off if I waited longer but I’m happy enough with this one so I took it.
Not sure if there was a mistake or something but my future bills are showing as £51 for the above, which I'm even happier about.
Have to say that I found negotiating renewed services tougher this time than before....but managed to get to something acceptable at the wire:
Shame couldn't keep at the £56 had previous year or so
I got this on the day I cancelled, are you not able to push harder? Speak to the Win Back team if you can. Or maybe I got really, really lucky.
Finally got through to retentions, was only offered £2 off hd before. Pervious bill was £84.99 for Signature, Ultimate, UHD, Disney and Ultrafast plus. I took Disney off anyway as I hardly use it so current bill would drop to £77, new customers get the same deal for £71 and they offered £69pm.
Sky Signature £21, Ultimate £5, HD £6, UHD £3 so TV for £35 and Ultrafast BB 500Mb's at £34.
I declined the offer as I can get Netflix free using my cryto.com card, BB offer was nice but dependent on taking TV so that's gone back to £45pm on it own. I think they would need to offer me the TV side for close to £20 and BB for £34 for me to resign up.
Sky Signature £21, Ultimate £5, HD £6, UHD £3 so TV for £35 and Ultrafast BB 500Mb's at £34.
I declined the offer as I can get Netflix free using my cryto.com card, BB offer was nice but dependent on taking TV so that's gone back to £45pm on it own. I think they would need to offer me the TV side for close to £20 and BB for £34 for me to resign up.
I got this on the day I cancelled, are you not able to push harder? Speak to the Win Back team if you can. Or maybe I got really, really lucky.
That is more or less what I had the 18month stint before, but just could not get them to go back to it
Normally done alright (and I guess what I have is not exactly bad) but just couldn't get there this time, even with cancellation down to the last couple of days. Ah well, happy enough - can't win them all, but good effort 
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Currently on Virgin's Ultimate oomph deal at £79pm till Sept. 22 (18m deal then goes up to £139pm!!!) Just got a notification from Virgin of a price hike of £8pm starting in Feb. 22 which would mean £147pm.........just wow at that price. Fortunately I will stay at £79pm till Sept. 2022. Then probably back to Sky if a good enough price though I must admit as I get older I don't enjoy the hassle of changing provider. Starting to think I could get by with google tv/Netflix/Prime.
I am not big into TV etc, but 147 seems madness! who would be prepared to pay that?
That is for like every TV channel, a couple of boxes, 1Gbit internet, land line with unlimited calls, and a mobile SIM with Unlimited everything.
Not so bad but still seems a lot to me.
I pay 32 for BB and 10 for mobile a month. That is it, so 105 for all the other bits.
You get Gigabit for £32? That is a good price. As for Unlimited mobile SIM best I seem to be able to find today is £13.odd after cash back so still pretty competitive. As for hte TV, total rip off I agree.
My sim is unlimited, but not giga BB, 75Mbs from BT. To be honest I don't need any more than that. Even the sim I rarely use more than 5 or 6GB a month. I got the sim as a deal when I took the BB contract.
We are wired for Virgin but when I looked at the packages everything offered more than I needed and was poor value for me as a result. I also get a 'no price rise guarantee' with the current contracts.
I've just had the same email. To be honest I've been thinking about going back to Sky for a while. Ive been with Virgin for 3 years so I can move. I've had a quick look on the Sky website and to get a similar deal it looks about £25 a month more expensive.
I upgraded from an old Sky HD box to Q in February 2020 and only realised today I'm now well outside my 18 month minimum term.
Sky don't have access to the fibre lines on the development I live on so I can only have a 'TV Only' package with them which costs £31 a month at the moment, basically the bare minimum with HD, Boxsets etc.
I've been with them on & off for the last 10 years, haggling throughout, though this particular streak is now 5 years so will see what they're willing to concede. I'd like the F1 channel which is advertised at £18pm on a rolling contract.
Sky don't have access to the fibre lines on the development I live on so I can only have a 'TV Only' package with them which costs £31 a month at the moment, basically the bare minimum with HD, Boxsets etc.
I've been with them on & off for the last 10 years, haggling throughout, though this particular streak is now 5 years so will see what they're willing to concede. I'd like the F1 channel which is advertised at £18pm on a rolling contract.