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

daz.rathbone said:
I think it comes to around £85 for the first 6 months then up to around £95. I'll sort out the install in the next week or two and get all the details then, but yes I agree - seems a very good deal for everything we currently have with a £50ish saving.
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That is a cracking deal! I would be very interested in how you get on with it. :)

I think right now the setup I have here is £60 or £65 per month for the landline, 152 meg BB and one 500 gig Tivo. That is without Sky movies or sports and recently had a letter saying the price is rising by £4.50 per month starting in Feb I think so that deal you got is fantastic!
 
spoke to sky today about cancelling.
currently on 74 quid a month, they offered me to drop 6 quid.. then 11 quid.. and that's it.

Will cancel and sign up again with different name unless they come back with something better
 
Similarly when I rang to cancel I was only offered a £10 discount, from £56 to £46 p/m. That was on Xmas eve. Got a call back today (3, in fact) and gave the guy nowhere to go with his effort to 'work out my viewing habits' by saying I only had Sky for the sports and didn't watch any regular programming (which is true!).

He was very chatty (started telling me about his previous job at Sainsbury's!) but came back with £36, which I said no to. Then £29, which I accepted. Similarly to last year, at no point did they try to tie me into another 12 month minimum term, which surprised me.

I think that works out at 50% off TV/Sports and 35% off HD. Perhaps 50% off everything would've been available if I'd have pushed it once more. Maybe next year!
 
I rang up and cancelled mid dec with jan 15th shutoff date and had a 35% off letter through this morning so rang up and managed to get all the channels inc sports and movies inc hd, line rental and my normal 23mb Adsl + multiroom with a free Sky+ hd 2tb box and no setup fees for 67.30 I was playing 62 with 50% (from misschief ) off without multroom so I'm happy for another 12 months :D
 
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I can't understand why people pay for the huge Sky packages when the Now TV months passes are £10(?) a month for most of the decent channels. We have migrated away from Virgin via Freesat HD and Freeview HD (Panasonic telly ftw!) and the 'exclusive' channel outputs are nearly all available on Nowtv or Netflix. If only we could dump the tv licence as well!
 
I cancelled Sky on New Years Eve.

We had Entertainment, +HD, Mulitroom, and F1 (only F1).

Also had line rental and broadband.

Whole lot came to about £80 a month.

Now, we cancelled the multiroom in November as our £5 off offer was ending, but we noticed that it was still working and we had been charged £11 for it this month, so I phoned up and they said 'we have no record of you cancelling' :0

Anyway, I kicked off, told them to cancel the whole TV subscription for messing me around.

Eventually a bloke made me an offer, got us down to about £50 a month, I said no, he seemed VERY offended by my refusal.

I said I wanted to keep broadband so he offered £6.99 off the line rental for 12 months.

I'm pretty happy, Freesat +HD box being purchased next week, already have Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and access to Now TV via PS3.
 
Is it still possible to cancel and then be seen as a "new customer" if my wife were to sign-up (so different first name, same surname, same address, different bank account details?)

I ask because we've got an aging Samsung SkyHD box with an almost certain failing HD.
I'm not too worried about spending £47 on a new 1TB Seagae Pipeline HD to replace the failing disk with.
However if we can cancel and get "new customer" deals along with a brand new 2TB box then that would be an option worth looking in to.
 
stoofa said:
Is it still possible to cancel and then be seen as a "new customer" if my wife were to sign-up (so different first name, same surname, same address, different bank account details?)

I ask because we've got an aging Samsung SkyHD box with an almost certain failing HD.
I'm not too worried about spending £47 on a new 1TB Seagae Pipeline HD to replace the failing disk with.
However if we can cancel and get "new customer" deals along with a brand new 2TB box then that would be an option worth looking in to.
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Yes, just make sure it is in your Wife's name and use different bank details as suggested. ;)
 
I've been on the 50% offer for the last 11 months giving me multi room, hd, movies and entertainment for £38 a month. Just rang up and they will extend this for another 10 months for 37 a month and then the last months at full price which is around double that.

Sound ok or should I hold out for a bit better? I'm not that bothered about cancelling to be honest for the amount of live tv we watch now.
 
Yeh now tv is good for some people but doesn't really intrest me would cost near enough the same a month for what I'm getting but for less channels and no record for 40 quid a month or 10 quid a week between 2 of us I can live with that.

Now tv a week of Sky sports 10.99 I'm getting a month for 12 movies is 6.99 and I'm getting it for around 6 so Sky is cheaper but I'm on 40-50% off over all
 
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tribz said:
I've been on the 50% offer for the last 11 months giving me multi room, hd, movies and entertainment for £38 a month. Just rang up and they will extend this for another 10 months for 37 a month and then the last months at full price which is around double that.

Sound ok or should I hold out for a bit better? I'm not that bothered about cancelling to be honest for the amount of live tv we watch now.
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Its a good deal I got offered 10% when my 12 months were up so I cancelled and waited till they offerd me 35% or more now I'm paying 40 now for tv but that's all channels, hd and multiroom Sky go plus and a free Sky + hd 2tb box and free install.
 
Just realised my F&F deal is about to end as my next bill is jumping up nearly £50! Time to see if there's any deals out there as I'm not paying over £100 for TV and internet, ridiculous!
 
leon4112 said:
Yeh now tv is good for some people but doesn't really intrest me would cost near enough the same a month for what I'm getting but for less channels and no record for 40 quid a month or 10 quid a week between 2 of us I can live with that.

Now tv a week of Sky sports 10.99 I'm getting a month for 12 movies is 6.99 and I'm getting it for around 6 so Sky is cheaper but I'm on 40-50% off over all
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I pay 8.99 a month for the movies. The entertainment so many deals around has been free for the last 6 months. The sports I grab as and when I want f1 so yep its a better deal than I could get by subbing and no wires in the house :)
 
rang up today and they offered only 10% off my standard package not the whole thing. which would save.. 3 quid. so cancelled. last day is 6th Feb.. will see if I get post!
 
Just cancelled mine as my F&F discount runs out this month. They offered a 35% discount to keep it the same as it is now but a new F&F code works out as 40% and TCB/Quidco paid out last year so I'm hoping it does again this year as it's £194 for the complete bundle.
 
Right, never had Sky TV but they provide my broadband at the minute. Looking at the Movie pack on Topcashback, is this the lowest cost I am going to be able to get it for?

25% off normal price
£50 bill credit
£157.50 cashback

Total price per month = £11.21

Will my broadband then become free too? I'm on the standard UL broadband option (not fibre).

Cheers
 
You're paying £11.21 for Sky Broadband? How? When line rental is like £14 - or £15 there about…

Sky Broadband isn't free unless you're an employee. Same with TV.
 
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