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

V F said:
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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Sorry, I was ignoring line rental as you pay that no matter who you go with.
 
Well, on Monday I posted on here saying they offered me nearly 4 pound off my 74 pound tariff.

Yesterday guy rings up, enticing me to stay.

Offers me 45 quid a month for 12 months with no contract.

So I signed back up :)
 
Here's a question, can you pay your monthly sub all in one for the year? I don't have sky, but I'd rather pay it off all in one. Where I stay isn't great for aerials and by the time I got a satellite, someone to install it(I done it before but it's too much hassle) and a digi box, it would near enough be the same price as sky's basic package for the year. Plus I can upgrade the packages in the winter months.
 
Bradmax57 said:
Anyone with a newish 500gb HD box upgraded the hdd? I was kinda thinking about the 2tb model but the £150 put me off, my old Amstrad box has a 1tb hdd in which I guess I could use but would like to use a 2tb drive if possible, just not sure what the make and models are likely to be for the newish hd boxes?
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I've just upgraded my Dad's box and used a 2TB WD Caviar Green drive, was a DRX-890 box which is Amstrad I think. So about £50 rather than Sky's ridiculous £150.
 
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I dropped my multi-room as its hardly used, got 35% discount off the main viewing package then called 2 mins later and got fibre 40/10 for £5 a month plus line rental

Saved us £35 ish in total, might call and change the viewing package in a months time
 
Kobi said:
Here's a question, can you pay your monthly sub all in one for the year? I don't have sky, but I'd rather pay it off all in one. Where I stay isn't great for aerials and by the time I got a satellite, someone to install it(I done it before but it's too much hassle) and a digi box, it would near enough be the same price as sky's basic package for the year. Plus I can upgrade the packages in the winter months.
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If you are talking about Now TV then I don't think so. That said a reasonable amount of offers come in for the entertainment package which seems to apply to existing users as well. If you get a Chromecast then a number of them come with free 3 months at the moment - just check it is in the details when buying it.
 
Energize said:
How's everyone getting discounts, just telling sky it's too expensive at the end of the contract period?
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Yep, the chap I spoke to even said, without me asking, what the earliest date was that I could call up and cancel again next year (30 days before the end of my discount), and advised me to put it in my diary.
 
tals said:
If you are talking about Now TV then I don't think so. That said a reasonable amount of offers come in for the entertainment package which seems to apply to existing users as well. If you get a Chromecast then a number of them come with free 3 months at the moment - just check it is in the details when buying it.
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No no, I've got now tv, I'm on about actual sky tv. I've got no problems with paying it up monthly. I'd just rather pay the basic package in one lump sum, then I don't have to worry about it. As I said, the price it costs for me to get a satellite, someone to install it and buy a decent freesat box. It'll be near enough the same price as getting sky's basic package for the year. Then I can always cancel it after the year or as people are saying, get a better offer.
 
Just resigned up myself today, on a rolling contract with first 10 months at £28 for sports, family HD etc and £100 Credit on account, so 3 months free and can then cancel effectively. Was a random call from one of the sky retentions team
 
Just to let you all know my sky TV and broadband was disconnected Dec 18th, and today 1 month later my sky email has been turned off as I cannot log in,

I kinda hoped I would get to keep my emails as I use it still :(
 
I think giving you an additional month was quite good of them, but using ISP-specific email services these days just seems like a bad idea anyway as you end up stuck if you want to change providers.
 
Maybe it was, even a quick email to let me know it was being switched off would have been nice, I was customer TV and broadband for 9years, I fall on hard times an just had to cut back on luxuries
 
Energize said:
I've just upgraded my Dad's box and used a 2TB WD Caviar Green drive, was a DRX-890 box which is Amstrad I think. So about £50 rather than Sky's ridiculous £150.
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I'm also thinking of swapping my 500gb drive to 2tb.
Is it a simply a case of swap the drive? What about partioning & formatting?
 
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