Deals On Sky TV Service - (Mostly Cancellation deals)

millie12345

Only wrote: »

SUCCESS!!!!
Have threatened to cancel with them a couple of times before and ended up with 20% off..... didn't hold and cancel fully to get better discount but today was determined I needed to get more than 20% so.... rang and asked immediately to be put through to cancellations. The girl asked why and I told her it wa too expensive. She put me through to cancellations where another girl did her best to get me to stay offering 20% off - even trying to get me to cut my package (Variety Package + Sports) to reduce cost. Told her no, I really needed to cut costs. She then said she was putting it through and would pass me on to next guy to discuss my final bill. Got on to him and straight away he asked if there was anything he could do to get me to stay. I told him that the girl had offered 20% off but wouldn't be interested in staying for that. So immediately he offered me 50% off for 6 months with no contract for €31.50 instead of the €62 I am paying now ... well happy
It was definitely the Irish call centre too - all Irish people I spoke with.

What time if the day did you ring?

I'm hoping to get multi room at reduced price, what are the chances of that.....

soundsham

Ya can be done my multi room is €5 I think
I pay 50 for everything except movies & multi room
I told them this was all I could afford otherwise I'm cancelling
Year nearly up now

AlanS181824

Soarer wrote: »

Bet you still haven't rang!

You're right... I haven't.

I'll do it in a few minutes as my bill is due to be made today :pac:

Owryan

Cancelled both of my subscriptions with them today. My god they really do try make you stay with them. Took almost half an hour on the phone before they accepted I wanted to cancel.

They kept offering different deals, 3 months free movies/sports, 50% off for 6 months, 3 months free and so on.

They even threw in a years free broadband if I kept both sub's.

muffler

AlanS181824 wrote: »

You're right... I haven't.

I'll do it in a few minutes as my bill is due to be made today :pac:

So how did you get on?

Tipsy McSwagger

muffler wrote: »

So how did you get on?

He's gonna leave it till Monday:)

Super-Rush

Cancelled around this time last year and have received three or four letters from them offering any package half price for 9 months.

I reckon i'll hang on until September and take it up.

Kristopherus

Super-Rush wrote: »

Cancelled around this time last year and have received three or four letters from them offering any package half price for 9 months.

I reckon i'll hang on until September and take it up.

Is there not a time limit with those begging letters? There was in the ones I got.

Only

Soarer wrote: »

That's not 50%!

Oops .... That should have read €31 obviously

Can't do multiquote but I phoned at 3pm for the boardsie that asked (can't scroll back either to see who asked)

Super-Rush

Kristopherus wrote: »

Is there not a time limit with those begging letters? There was in the ones I got.

Yeah the latest on was valid until the end of August.

FourFourRED

Signed up today for basic + sports @ €64 per month with first month free + €50 cash back which covers the €49 fee for the Sky Box.

Do you guys who have experience with Sky, think I might be offered the HD at a discounted rate at some stage? I would like it but €15 is a bit much.

Thanks!

firestarter51

Aodhagan wrote: »

Signed up today for basic + sports @ €64 per month with first month free + €50 cash back which covers the €49 fee for the Sky Box.

Do you guys who have experience with Sky, think I might be offered the HD at a discounted rate at some stage? I would like it but €15 is a bit much.


Thanks!

They charged for the box ?
Wasn't there an offer on for free box and installation ?
You should have haggled for it considering your signing up to a 12 month contract

FourFourRED

firestarter51 wrote: »

They charged for the box ?
Wasn't there an offer on for free box and installation ?
You should have haggled for it considering your signing up to a 12 month contract

That offer expired very recently but then the free month + €50 cashback offer came in too so it's not too bad.

firestarter51

Aodhagan wrote: »

That offer expired very recently but then the free month + €50 cashback offer came in too so it's not too bad.

Last time I did a cash back deal with them it was a cheque

Fred Swanson

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Timmyctc

Not exactly looking for a better offer myself. But we have Sky Tv and Broadband but the Broadband (advertised 12mb) was consistently around 1mb. Rang up, threatened cancel, was told the 'issue' (totally not throttling, just an issue :pac:) was resolved. DL now around 3mb and Upload <1mb. I'm no scientitian but I dunno if these numbers add up to 12mb :pac:

Anyways. Any of you coy feckers here have any experience with threatening to cancel to receive a service yer already fecking paying for?

muffler

AlanS181824 wrote: »

You're right... I haven't.

I'll do it in a few minutes as my bill is due to be made today :pac:

muffler wrote: »

So how did you get on?

Anything to report yet?

Tipsy McSwagger

FourFourRED

Does anybody know if you buy Sky Sports 1 seperately (€21) along with the basic package, do you get access to the Sky Sports News channel as well? (I know it comes with the variety pack and/or full sports package).

Nalz

soundsham wrote: »

Ya can be done my multi room is €5 I think
I pay 50 for everything except movies & multi room
I told them this was all I could afford otherwise I'm cancelling
Year nearly up now

Must try this for the folks. They're paying 65 odd quid for sports 1+2 and bare bones.

They want the multi-room.

Any tips ?

neiphin

http://www.donedeal.ie/tv-for-sale/every-channel-for-only-60-per-year/7458023

is this legit ?

matrixf

neiphin wrote: »

is this legit ?

doesn't look very legal, streaming service similar to xbmc i would think!

beardo81

Aodhagan wrote: »

Does anybody know if you buy Sky Sports 1 seperately (€21) along with the basic package, do you get access to the Sky Sports News channel as well? (I know it comes with the variety pack and/or full sports package).

I don't have Sports, just variety and I have Sky Sports News, so I would say yes.

Sunny Dayz

Free SKy sports next Saturday, 16th August.

http://www.sky.com/tv/show/free-sky-sports-saturday?dcmp=emc-MSW33WEB/ENTPL/FreeSkySportsthisSaturday


Son is hounding me to get the F1 channel, typical there's no F1 race on this weekend! :rolleyes:

firestarter51

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

Free SKy sports next Saturday, 16th August.

http://www.sky.com/tv/show/free-sky-sports-saturday?dcmp=emc-MSW33WEB/ENTPL/FreeSkySportsthisSaturday


Son is hounding me to get the F1 channel, typical there's no F1 race on this weekend! :rolleyes:

Cheapest way to get f1 is to add hd to your package
If you can get it half price to try it outðŸ˜
All the better

Sunny Dayz

firestarter51 wrote: »

Cheapest way to get f1 is to add hd to your package
If you can get it half price to try it outðŸ˜
All the better

I know - I was trying to get it at half price but they wouldn't budge on it - they said that because I am on a "Loyalty" price with my package they can't give it to me at a discount and I don't think it's worth €15 per month for it.

firestarter51

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

I know - I was trying to get it at half price but they wouldn't budge on it - they said that because I am on a "Loyalty" price with my package they can't give it to me at a discount and I don't think it's worth €15 per month for it.

Call their bluff and cancel
I'm getting hd for a fiver, that's about all it's worth

Casher

Only wrote: »

SUCCESS!!!!
Have threatened to cancel with them a couple of times before and ended up with 20% off..... didn't hold and cancel fully to get better discount but today was determined I needed to get more than 20% so.... rang and asked immediately to be put through to cancellations. The girl asked why and I told her it wa too expensive. She put me through to cancellations where another girl did her best to get me to stay offering 20% off - even trying to get me to cut my package (Variety Package + Sports) to reduce cost. Told her no, I really needed to cut costs. She then said she was putting it through and would pass me on to next guy to discuss my final bill. Got on to him and straight away he asked if there was anything he could do to get me to stay. I told him that the girl had offered 20% off but wouldn't be interested in staying for that. So immediately he offered me 50% off for 6 months with no contract for €31.50 instead of the €62 I am paying now ... well happy
It was definitely the Irish call centre too - all Irish people I spoke with.

I just did the same thing, kept insisting on cancelling, for 10 mins as they tried to talk me out of it. Had to be put through to someone else 'to calculate my final bill' she immediately gave me a 50% discount for 6 months when the first guy in cancellations could only go 20%. I'm on the basic package so took it, doubt I would get any better!

discombobulate

On hold for 18 minutes trying to get onto cancellations. They better off me 50% after this!!!!

whiteshorts

What happened?

discombobulate

whiteshorts wrote: »

What happened?

Got through after 25 mins. Offered 20% said no. He couldn't cancel as i'm under contract for 34 days so need to ring again 4 days. Paying €111 a month for full pack and one multi after my last offer expired.

Mech1

discombobulate wrote: »

Got through after 25 mins. Offered 20% said no. He couldn't cancel as i'm under contract for 34 days so need to ring again 4 days. Paying €111 a month for full pack and one multi after my last offer expired.

I was on that exact package, expecting to be cut off on the 25th and ive been promised a call back within 4 hrs of that offering 50% off

Check my posts for the detail

discombobulate

Mech1 wrote: »

I was on that exact package, expecting to be cut off on the 25th and ive been promised a call back within 4 hrs of that offering 50% off

Check my posts for the detail

A callback 4 hours before your due to be cut off or after you cancelled?

Mech1

discombobulate wrote: »

A callback 4 hours before your due to be cut off or after you cancelled?

within 4 hrs of the cutoff, after the cutoff, I think i will survive.

Super-Rush

Super-Rush wrote: »

Cancelled around this time last year and have received three or four letters from them offering any package half price for 9 months.

I reckon i'll hang on until September and take it up.

Got another one today valid until Sept 24th.

The Pontiac

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

interesting. My bill went from €24 to €30 this month without any notice. Going to call them to see wtf is after going on

Tell 'em you got a combo box with freesat and saorview. Box costs €90, monthly bill = €0. Every channel you will ever need and as many multi-rooms as you want! RTE HD, BBC HD etc

If they offer you SKY Sports free, just tell 'em you can stream it for free.

If they offer you SKY Movies free, just tell 'em you can download any movie via torrents 6 months before it's released on SKY!

That's what I did 18 months ago. Was on the phone for around 45 mins trying to cancel, so was a bit píssed off at that stage. They offered me everything, but I still cancelled.

SKY are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think people will pay €64 per month for a basic package with sports. Most of the basic package is already free with a freesat box anyways.

Lemlin

Got a letter offering Movies half price for 6 months. Does anyone know how much Movies is?

Etnies

Trying to charge me 21 Euro a month for Sky Sports 1 only.. unreal, was looking at the "Sky Sports Mobile TV" app 5.99 for Sky Sports 1 and 2..

Super-Rush

Lemlin wrote: »

Got a letter offering Movies half price for 6 months. Does anyone know how much Movies is?

The movie package is €28 per month.

muffler

The Pontiac wrote: »

If they offer you SKY Sports free, just tell 'em you can stream it for free.

If they offer you SKY Movies free, just tell 'em you can download any movie via torrents 6 months before it's released on SKY!

That is illegal.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

muffler wrote: »

That is illegal.

Good, so is jaywalking, two men getting married, growing weed in your garden and blasphemy. The law is an ass and should be ignored. :pac:

Tipsy McSwagger

Telling Sky you want a discount because you can illegally download movies or streaming games is totally the wrong way to go about it. Anyone looking for a discount should just say you can't afford to pay full price.

Soarer

The Pontiac wrote: »

Tell 'em you got a combo box with freesat and saorview. Box costs €90, monthly bill = €0. Every channel you will ever need and as many multi-rooms as you want! RTE HD, BBC HD etc

If they offer you SKY Sports free, just tell 'em you can stream it for free.

If they offer you SKY Movies free, just tell 'em you can download any movie via torrents 6 months before it's released on SKY!

Probably not best to tell them you're doing stuff illegally. Instead tell them you can watch the sports in the pub for free, and you can buy any movie you want online from America (or wherever) before they're on Sky Movies.

muffler wrote: »

That is illegal.

I'd wager he already knows that.

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Telling Sky you want a discount because you can illegally download movies or streaming games is totally the wrong way to go about it. Anyone looking for a discount should just say you can't afford to pay full price.

That's the way to do it.

stooge

When I rang up to cancel I mentioned that I could stream for free but I'd prefer to have the better service and reliability from sky via sat. The only issue for me was cost and trying to justify an outlay of 1200E a year versus 0E. Got 1/2 price for the year without too much bother and a decent chat about the legality of streams and changing landscape for TV.

I think most customer service reps realise the problem of free streaming websites. They know the price charged for sky is extortiante and they would rather you pay 1/2 rather than nothing. Saying you cant afford it makes them more likely to try and cut channels to achieve a value you "can afford".

trebormurf

On variety package €36 a month. Only with Sky a year, rang yest to just generally see what was on offer having watched this thread for a while & knowing my 12 month contract is up.
Rep told me I could take 1 of 2 offers - variety for €25 or half price sports for 6 months €18. He couldn't do both. After a lot of haggling, mentioning UPC offers, free streaming & so on he offered me a split sports package (sports 1 & 5 which will cover all the football) for €9 extra, €45 a month in total.
I said I'll think about it. Does anyone have this split sport package, just for football?

stooge

trebormurf wrote: »

On variety package €36 a month. Only with Sky a year, rang yest to just generally see what was on offer having watched this thread for a while & knowing my 12 month contract is up.
Rep told me I could take 1 of 2 offers - variety for €25 or half price sports for 6 months €18. He couldn't do both. After a lot of haggling, mentioning UPC offers, free streaming & so on he offered me a split sports package (sports 1 & 5 which will cover all the football) for €9 extra, €45 a month in total.
I said I'll think about it. Does anyone have this split sport package, just for football?

they offered me that as well. I watch a good bit of golf though on SS4 so it was no use to me really. cant think of anything I watch regularly on ss2 and ss3 though

FourFourRED

stooge wrote: »

they offered me that as well. I watch a good bit of golf though on SS4 so it was no use to me really. cant think of anything I watch regularly on ss2 and ss3 though

I'm thinking if getting the SS1 & SS5 package as well. I have no need for the other sports really. However I would like to have the Sky Sports News HQ but that doesn't come with the original tv package does it?

hjr

Am I correct in thinking that Sky puts the GAA games on Sky Sports 3? Just in terms of people only signing up to SS1 and SS5...

martyos121

Just off the phone with them. I'm on the Basic + Sports for €64 a month and asked to cancel. They threw offers at me from every direction but nothing too good, so they put me through to a fella to confirm the cancellation. Managed to get everything half price for 6 months after a quick chat! Delighted!

peking97

stooge wrote: »

they offered me that as well. I watch a good bit of golf though on SS4 so it was no use to me really. cant think of anything I watch regularly on ss2 and ss3 though

Same here. Very little interest in sports other than golf, and occasionally tennis, snooker...almost zero interest in football. I don't see why they can't offer a golf channel separately with the price reduced accordingly!