Black Friday deals are normally about 50% off, I joined last year. Got the Sky Q box and another unit, Sky Sports + Entertainment package that includes Netflix. £55 a month for 24 months, which was due to run out in May.
They had another Black Friday deal on, rang them and got on it. I'm now paying £58 per month.
Black Friday deals are normally about 50% off, I joined last year. Got the Sky Q box and another unit, Sky Sports + Entertainment package that includes Netflix. £55 a month for 24 months, which was due to run out in May.
They had another Black Friday deal on, rang them and got on it. I'm now paying £58 per month.
Sky provide a facility which, even allowing for their heavy financial investment in the major sports, costs them relatively little per person to provide. Let's say £20 per month per person, just so that we have a figure.
They sell it to you for £80 per month (£162.37 if you are Swisdom). You pay that for several months, or even years.
But then you hear that others are getting a better deal. So, you get macho.
You call them. You haggle. You threaten to 'walk away'. It's quite amazing that Sky haven't got wise to this. And more amazing that they don't employ expert negotiators.
But they buckle under your hard bargaining skills. And they replace your £80 package with something like £50 per month. Remember that all they do is to push out a microwave signal. It goes out whether you receive it or not. One million customers, ten million customers. It doesn't matter.
But you have won. You have almost halved your monthly bill. Sky are the losers.
It's hard to believe that they actually make a profit.
Black Friday deals are normally about 50% off, I joined last year. Got the Sky Q box and another unit, Sky Sports + Entertainment package that includes Netflix. £55 a month for 24 months, which was due to run out in May.
They had another Black Friday deal on, rang them and got on it. I'm now paying £58 per month.
Is it still on?
Doesn't look like it, but there are always new offers for new customers. Just do what I did, make sure you call up when they have an offer.
I think our last bill with sky was about £99 a month, sky sports, BT sport (£25) and movies £8.50.
Internet not included, as we’re with Virgin which was £43 , but have just had to have the signal boosted with a Wi-fi extender, which all be another £3-4 a month.
And Clb leccy plus gas is £240 a month direct debit, got if down from £260, we use a lot of gas units as have inherited when we moved in an old AGA cooker which cost a bleeding fortune to run!
Not sure I’d replace it they cost a mint!
You must have that cooker on 24hrs a day. Missed out on an aga cooker where we was working. The woman for a couple of weeks was just going to get rid of it. She topped up getting £325 for the AGA. We are due to move middle , end of January and the wife wants to get me one. I keep telling the wife not at them prices , definitely a no no now you've told me about the running costs
I've got a Rayburn (Aga with a boiler!) - oil fired and it gives me cooking, central heating and hot water for about £100 a month for oil, although we don't use it a lot for cooking as we have a separate oven and hob.
Electric Aga - oh no!
But back on topic - I pay around £100 a month for Sky Q - with BT Sport on top! Been a Sky customer for over 20 years and have never threatened to close the account - but I might now give them a call!
I got a deal last year on Black Friday. My normal sky (not Q just the old system) was about to go up to £135 per month. I had the full package plus phone but only one telly. I rang to haggle and got down to £99 per month. I then asked about the Black Friday Q package and ended up with Q plus an extra mini Q and everything I had before for £88 per month. You can’t make it up.
At present I’m trying to buy a house where I’m unlikely to be able to put up a dish (listed building issues) but I watch so little sport now and sky movies is rubbish so I’m looking at non-dish options. Anyone got any experience of those?
I got a deal last year on Black Friday. My normal sky (not Q just the old system) was about to go up to £135 per month. I had the full package plus phone but only one telly. I rang to haggle and got down to £99 per month. I then asked about the Black Friday Q package and ended up with Q plus an extra mini Q and everything I had before for £88 per month. You can’t make it up.
At present I’m trying to buy a house where I’m unlikely to be able to put up a dish (listed building issues) but I watch so little sport now and sky movies is rubbish so I’m looking at non-dish options. Anyone got any experience of those?
NowTV is the best solution for you?
Some ISP's like BT and TalkTalk provide TV over the internet (IPTV) but it won't be as slick as Sky. You can go the illegal IPTV route, which I've done and that can also be hit and miss.
Killed my Sky contract 2 months ago and have been very satisfied with Freeview, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Apple TV+ and StarzPlay. I get a NowTV monthly when I see a bunch of games I like the look of and BTSport I get for £5 with my phone line. Will not be returning to a £100 Sky subscription any time soon, if ever. The subscription video on demand services have opened my eyes to how much good content there is out there without the need for Sky.
If trying to get a better deal from Sky, I would definitely recommend going through the cancellation process.
You have to give 30 days’ notice - and if you actually want to stay with them, then hold your nerve - but from my experience about a week later they will then start texting and calling with a better offer.
For me, that was £20 a month less than I was offered when I had been asking for a lower price before cancelling.
And in the very unlikely event that they don’t get in touch, you can still ‘change your mind’ and call them back and you will still end up paying less than you were before.
Killed my Sky contract 2 months ago and have been very satisfied with Freeview, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Apple TV+ and StarzPlay. I get a NowTV monthly when I see a bunch of games I like the look of and BTSport I get for £5 with my phone line. Will not be returning to a £100 Sky subscription any time soon, if ever. The subscription video on demand services have opened my eyes to how much good content there is out there without the need for Sky.
Cheers. Idiot question. With nowtv, can you record stuff to watch as and when or is just watch at the scheduled time?
Killed my Sky contract 2 months ago and have been very satisfied with Freeview, Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Apple TV+ and StarzPlay. I get a NowTV monthly when I see a bunch of games I like the look of and BTSport I get for £5 with my phone line. Will not be returning to a £100 Sky subscription any time soon, if ever. The subscription video on demand services have opened my eyes to how much good content there is out there without the need for Sky.
Cheers. Idiot question. With nowtv, can you record stuff to watch as and when or is just watch at the scheduled time?
They have some on demand content but no record functionality.
55, 58 even 85 quid! I can't believe that people pay so much and line the pockets of Premier League players.
If you just stopped then it would all be over. We would go back to one free top division match a week which is enough anyway.
Personally I find that MOTD and Quest satisfies my hunger for football. That gives 3 hours a week on top of Charlton.
Why do you guys want to feed the Premier League gravy train? Stop subscribing and you cut of their lifeline. It would be better for everyone.
Because we are of free will & want to watch what they offer. Its not just football but cricket & golf. Then there are the movie channels.....and Sky Arts and all the rest of the extras like Discovery, History and old classics programmes from the 70's & 80's.
But then I doubt you'd recognise free choice, seeing as you live in the Socialist Republic of Europe 😄
I'm very possibly coming back to England next year for two years at least.
These prices are scary.
I currently use an IPTV system from AliExpress that cost me a less than £20 for 3 devices. It's not the best but it's useable and maybe I'll get in touch with @Big_Bad_World
If I only wanted Premier League football an official local package here is less than £50 for the season; every game.
The important thing is to keep an eye on your Sky contract.
The second it runs out they will put you on their 'out of contract' price which is (I found to my cost) extortionate. I was lazy and it has cost me many hundreds of pounds. I was paying about £25 a month too much. Once sorted I had a word with my (even) older neighbour who was in a similar position. Sky seem very happy for your contract to lapse, the onus is very much on the user to keep up to date. Heaven knows how many people are being taken advantage of in this way.
My contract was running out and I was initially told it will go from £58 up to £90 a month, the miserable trollop was not open to negotiation. Two weeks later a very jolly lady said the same package will be £60, I wished her a good day and told her I'll be back in 12 months. I receive broadband, the whole package minus Sky Sports, that would be an extra £20 a month.
I'm a current Sky customer and my TV/Broadband is about to jump up in price next month as have come to the end of the initial offer period. I notice there are lots of 'new year' offers on sky but has anyone had any luck in getting Sky to apply these to your bill as an existing (as opposed to new) customer?
Sky are a rip off. I have a Huawei WiFi box unlimited data £25.a month, paid £35 quid for the box from EE on a rolling contract and Iptv, although do have Netflix in the kids room etc...
I'm a current Sky customer and my TV/Broadband is about to jump up in price next month as have come to the end of the initial offer period. I notice there are lots of 'new year' offers on sky but has anyone had any luck in getting Sky to apply these to your bill as an existing (as opposed to new) customer?
Yes. I got a blinding deal last November (2019). Ended up with sky Q, 2 rooms, the whole package, phone and Fibre broadband for £88 a month just as they were about to put my old sky one room not Q up to £135. Just rang up and explained that I was a long standing customer who didn’t want to leave (I didn’t threaten them with Virgin or any other competitor) and they couldn’t have been more obliging. Probably could have got even more if I’d played hardball but I didn’t need to.
People are entitled to their opinions and that's fine, I went the IPTV route and thought I was happy with it. But really I wasn't, yes it was only £10 or so a month but the interface was slow and then after the police raided a place in Italy most IPTV services either went down or many had sporadic service. Also I wanted 4K content as I planned to get a 4K TV.
The Sky Q box is slick, much better than any Youview box or IPTV software based system. Also with IPTV there is such a delay, I heard the local pub cheer before I saw a goal once. Bloody annoying that.
If IPTV works for you then great, but for someone who works in IT I was constantly having problems I wanted something to meet my requirements. Don't judge me for that, I don't judge you doing what you do.
Like with most things, you get what you pay for. F1 in UHD is great!
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Just wonder how much they spend on logs a month?
They had another Black Friday deal on, rang them and got on it. I'm now paying £58 per month.
Sky provide a facility which, even allowing for their heavy financial investment in the major sports, costs them relatively little per person to provide. Let's say £20 per month per person, just so that we have a figure.
They sell it to you for £80 per month (£162.37 if you are Swisdom). You pay that for several months, or even years.
But then you hear that others are getting a better deal. So, you get macho.
You call them. You haggle. You threaten to 'walk away'. It's quite amazing that Sky haven't got wise to this. And more amazing that they don't employ expert negotiators.
But they buckle under your hard bargaining skills. And they replace your £80 package with something like £50 per month. Remember that all they do is to push out a microwave signal. It goes out whether you receive it or not. One million customers, ten million customers. It doesn't matter.
But you have won. You have almost halved your monthly bill. Sky are the losers.
It's hard to believe that they actually make a profit.
My Sky Q mini is terrible and always loses connection
NowTV is the best solution for you?
Some ISP's like BT and TalkTalk provide TV over the internet (IPTV) but it won't be as slick as Sky. You can go the illegal IPTV route, which I've done and that can also be hit and miss.
You have to give 30 days’ notice - and if you actually want to stay with them, then hold your nerve - but from my experience about a week later they will then start texting and calling with a better offer.
For me, that was £20 a month less than I was offered when I had been asking for a lower price before cancelling.
And in the very unlikely event that they don’t get in touch, you can still ‘change your mind’ and call them back and you will still end up paying less than you were before.
If you just stopped then it would all be over. We would go back to one free top division match a week which is enough anyway.
Personally I find that MOTD and Quest satisfies my hunger for football. That gives 3 hours a week on top of Charlton.
Why do you guys want to feed the Premier League gravy train? Stop subscribing and you cut of their lifeline. It would be better for everyone.
But then I doubt you'd recognise free choice, seeing as you live in the Socialist Republic of Europe 😄
The second it runs out they will put you on their 'out of contract' price which is (I found to my cost) extortionate. I was lazy and it has cost me many hundreds of pounds. I was paying about £25 a month too much. Once sorted I had a word with my (even) older neighbour who was in a similar position. Sky seem very happy for your contract to lapse, the onus is very much on the user to keep up to date. Heaven knows how many people are being taken advantage of in this way.
My contract was running out and I was initially told it will go from £58 up to £90 a month, the miserable trollop was not open to negotiation.
Two weeks later a very jolly lady said the same package will be £60, I wished her a good day and told her I'll be back in 12 months.
I receive broadband, the whole package minus Sky Sports, that would be an extra £20 a month.
The Sky Q box is slick, much better than any Youview box or IPTV software based system. Also with IPTV there is such a delay, I heard the local pub cheer before I saw a goal once. Bloody annoying that.
If IPTV works for you then great, but for someone who works in IT I was constantly having problems I wanted something to meet my requirements. Don't judge me for that, I don't judge you doing what you do.
Like with most things, you get what you pay for. F1 in UHD is great!