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The wife phoned UK retentions. She's not the best at this kind of negotiation. Way too nice. She got us the same as what we had, 350mb broadband, Sky sports HD and TNT HD, Phoneline (which isn't even wired up) and 2 x TIVO boxes for £83 per month for 18 months.
I mean it's not bad.
I added up new customer deals with all different combos from different places and I can't really get all that for much under a ton. We did point out new customer deals come in slightly under but she wasn't having it. 350mb is generally good enough for us because Virgin deliver all the TV over the cable taking load off the internet. We've never had issues with virgin and the ease of just carrying on as before with all the same wiring/equipment is appealing. We rely on the live sport a lot so we've stuck it out. The conversation was fast and easy from what I overheard. I feel we could have pushed for 500mb but meh.
 
To be honest paying the same price for the same service would do me - this is for broadband, car insurance, almost anything really. No brain space needed, just renew. It's the blood price hikes at renewal that annoy me.
 
LuckyBenski said:
To be honest paying the same price for the same service would do me - this is for broadband, car insurance, almost anything really. No brain space needed, just renew. It's the blood price hikes at renewal that annoy me.
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Yeah sorry when I say the same as what we had, I meant in terms of content. In terms of price, we were paying mid 90s. So £83 is good. Plus it's after the April price rises so won't change until next year. If we did nothing, our May price was showing as being £150 odd! Jokes.
 
jaybee said:
The wife phoned UK retentions. She's not the best at this kind of negotiation. Way too nice. She got us the same as what we had, 350mb broadband, Sky sports HD and TNT HD, Phoneline (which isn't even wired up) and 2 x TIVO boxes for £83 per month for 18 months.
I mean it's not bad.
I added up new customer deals with all different combos from different places and I can't really get all that for much under a ton. We did point out new customer deals come in slightly under but she wasn't having it. 350mb is generally good enough for us because Virgin deliver all the TV over the cable taking load off the internet. We've never had issues with virgin and the ease of just carrying on as before with all the same wiring/equipment is appealing. We rely on the live sport a lot so we've stuck it out. The conversation was fast and easy from what I overheard. I feel we could have pushed for 500mb but meh.
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That sounds like a great deal. I pay half that just for cable internet!
 
R4z0r said:
That sounds like a great deal. I pay half that just for cable internet!
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Yes, I'm only on 250Mb broadband and don't have sky sports but otherwise similar with anytime phone added and pay £10/month more than this from the renewal deal they gave me .... VM online chat person offered me £126 as the "best deal possible"!
 
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