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hi all,
I know this has been discussed before - how much of a better deal should I aim for (currently paying £123/month) for Sky Sports HD, landline phone and basic internet please?
Do you have Virgin in your area? Not Virgins!
Ask for half price and take it from there. I jacked SKY in a few months ago and won't be going back. Screw them as far as you can.
Pretty sure we do have Virgin - do they do Sky Sports HD?Originally Posted by Maccy Blue
Be prepared to cancel and wait and expect AT LEAST around £30 pcm off that. If you have no actual intention of leaving it is a game of mexican stand off. if youre prepared to actually cancel then a bit more once its cut off once you rejoin.
Yep - ring them and ask what they can do. Then as Pearcey3 says do the stand off with them. Say you have been offered x from Virgin and can they match etc. Say you want to leave and expect the calls to make you stay.
i would be expecting 40% of that bill
We're paying £90 for Sky HD (with Sports, Movies, Multiroom)
BT's Fibre is significantly better than Sky ever provided, and Virgin haven't cabled our street, so we went to BT for our broadband (so we get free BT Sports...which is a necessity)
So overall we must be paying well over £100 a month.
Im paying £56 for Hd package and multiroom with everything except movies (which I source ahem elsewhere). Ill be pushing for a much cheaper deal in June - I have BT infinity and wouldn't change. Not cheap but fast and reliable
In March, I cancelled BT played Sky off against them & ended up saving around £45/mth. I've now got a full Sky package including their top broadband package @ £103/mth, I did have to agree an 18 month termhi all,
I know this has been discussed before - how much of a better deal should I aim for (currently paying £123/month) for Sky Sports HD, landline phone and basic internet please?
Just read some comments above our experience is totally the opposite, Sky broadband has been light years better than BT (which is why I moved) The £103 is £65 for a full Sky HD pack including movies, including multiroom, £19 line, £11 broadband + £8 talk anytime
Last edited by Des Parrot; 12-04-17 at 20:42.
Re broadband. I recently upgraded my BT router to their latest one and it made a world of difference to my wireless broadband.
Sky are crooks, the sooner everyone gets out the better. It's only a matter time hopefully as Sky has been no.1 for about 20 years, too many competitors now for them to charge stupid prices like that.
They did when I was with them just over a year ago.
My contract with Sky runs out in ten days and, despite receiving a letter from Sky last week saying I can have the same deal for slightly less than half price, I won't be going back to them either - I'm jacking in BT Sport as well as all of the Sky Sports Channels, I've had enough of paying rip off prices.
You're paying far too much. Full Sky package with Sky Q is costing me just £52. UHD sport is amazing.
Is that with Sky broadband , landline?
I don't agree the prices are a rip off. They're only a rip off if you feel you have no other option. You used another option - you left. Sky TV is not an essential. Competition is driving prices up. The next step, I think, will be for an internet based company (similar to Netflix, possibly Amazon) to take over sports rights offering clubs a direct share in profits. Once that happens, Sky will be cooked because they are years behind the curve in this regard. Plus, I think it will be more flexible with people paying on a game by game basis.
No.
Let's get things straight here Sky broadband is BT broadband, as Sky have no broadband infrastructure of their own and use BT's
Come to utility warehouse, you'll get your broadband, gas and electric cheaper with free LED lighbukbs for life 😉👍
Then go back to SKY and say ' I've left you for broadband and phone what you going to offer me to keep my tv??
sky do have dedicated sections in the exchange ( not all though ) for BB
at least they used to, if its changed i stand corrected
They do have broadband racks, installed and maintained by BT , Sky ,Talk Talk etc, are all parasites Virgin and BT are the only people who provide any infrastructure
They are a rip off. You have elderly people probably paying top whack because they have no idea they can negotiate discounted prices. These people are being ripped off. If SKY can discount their charges by 50% it begs the question why they are charging so much in the first place. I was paying something like six times the price of my Netflix subscription for the SKY basic package. Even with the discount it was more than three times as much and I was watching a lot more Netflix than SKY
Complete rip off and hopefully more and more will switch off.
THIS^^^^^
Well, Openreach.
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