Deals On Sky TV Service - (Mostly Cancellation deals)

invalidkey

donegal. wrote: »

what size of tv ?

26-28 ideally possibly even a 32. I must a measuring tape to the wall (currently 26 non saorview flatscreen tv)

Kristopherus

jca wrote: »

And you can't pause rewind the Saorview.

Stick a usb key/hdd and you can do it:)

Silver-Tiger

Lads, i want Sky, multiroom and sports hd pack. Possibly Broadband.

Was waiting patiently for a Groupon offer but she doesn't seem to be coming.

What's the best offer out there at the moment?

donegal.

invalidkey wrote: »

26-28 ideally possibly even a 32. I must a measuring tape to the wall (currently 26 non saorview flatscreen tv)

i'll not derail this thread any more with tv recommendations.
theres very little choice in that screen size for freesat/saorview tvs. Theres a brillant sony 32"w70c. its fairly high end, full hd smart etc so its a bit pricey , around €420 delivered from richer sounds.
theres also a walker 32" but i dont know much about this one.

(Also you can pause/rewind/record on ALL saorview tvs and boxes.)

kooga

Silver-Tiger wrote: »

Lads, i want Sky, multiroom and sports hd pack. Possibly Broadband.

Was waiting patiently for a Groupon offer but she doesn't seem to be coming.

What's the best offer out there at the moment?

i would say the car phone warehouse they seem to have a lot of flexibility with sky

jca

Kristopherus wrote: »

Stick a usb key/hdd and you can do it:)

Maybe I'm doing it incorrectly but I just get "unavailable " when I try it on either of my Samsung tv's.

CJmasgrande

I signed up for the half price Carphone warehouse deal last year. I called today to close the account and I was referred to two ladies (Irish) one of them offered me same package sports and entertainment without HD and without Sports 2,3 & 4 for €40.

I said no, then a 3rd guy (Irish man from Cork) offered me same pack I have (sports world, HD) all for €44 for next 9 months and no contract.

I was very happy with this offer so I'm staying on for 9 months. Chap was very nice he told me to call in another 9 months and see what they can do then.

uck51js9zml2yt

Got a call last week offering me 6 months free and 6 at half price but my wife has a half price contract so didn't bother.
Told them to call me in 6 months.

adox

Giselle Miniature Flagpole wrote: »

Got a call last week offering me 6 months free and 6 at half price but my wife has a half price contract so didn't bother.
Told them to call me in 6 months.

Were you a previous customer? How long ago?

jca

CJmasgrande wrote: »

I signed up for the half price Carphone warehouse deal last year. I called today to close the account and I was referred to two ladies (Irish) one of them offered me same package sports and entertainment without HD and without Sports 2,3 & 4 for €40.

I said no, then a 3rd guy (Irish man from Cork) offered me same pack I have (sports world, HD) all for €44 for next 9 months and no contract.

I was very happy with this offer so I'm staying on for 9 months. Chap was very nice he told me to call in another 9 months and see what they can do then.

The shower of feckers told me there was no way I could get HD without entering into a new contract. Mine has crept back up but I can't cancel or threaten to cancel as I've 2 months left of the bloody contract.

Avada

jca wrote: »

The shower of feckers told me there was no way I could get HD without entering into a new contract. Mine has crept back up but I can't cancel or threaten to cancel as I've 2 months left of the bloody contract.

If you've never had HD before it is a 12 month contract. Once you've done that initial contract you can add and remove as you like. Also CJmasgrande never said they didn't have HD already

uck51js9zml2yt

adox wrote: »

Were you a previous customer? How long ago?

I cancelled earlier in the summer when they refused me any discounts. My wife then got the groupon deal.
I've also 4 months to go on evision which was the worst decision I ever made.

CJmasgrande

Avada wrote: »

If you've never had HD before it is a 12 month contract. Once you've done that initial contract you can add and remove as you like. Also CJmasgrande never said they didn't have HD already

I originally had Sportsworld HD pack that included the variety pack so basically everything except movies

RainyDay

Giselle Miniature Flagpole wrote: »

I've also 4 months to go on evision which was the worst decision I ever made.

Tell me more - I'm thinking about this as a possibility

jca

Avada wrote: »

If you've never had HD before it is a 12 month contract. Once you've done that initial contract you can add and remove as you like. Also CJmasgrande never said they didn't have HD already

This is my second time having HD they duped me again. Is there any point in me trying for a deal or will I wait until I'm out of contract and play hardball with them.

CJmasgrande

jca wrote: »

This is my second time having HD they duped me again. Is there any point in me trying for a deal or will I wait until I'm out of contract and play hardball with them.

I don't think you'll get anywhere until your out of contract

Silver-Tiger

If i sign up today, What's the quickest i could get an engineer out?

greendom

Silver-Tiger wrote: »

If i sign up today, What's the quickest i could get an engineer out?

Think you're going to have to call and find out. Perhaps if you post on the dedicated Sky forum, you might get an idea.

It will depend (I imagine) on where you are based and what the demand is like in that area.

Avada

Silver-Tiger wrote: »

If i sign up today, What's the quickest i could get an engineer out?

You don't want it in less than a week as your viewing card wont arrive before then.

kooga

just going to update the sky tv offer with car phone warehouse, available nationwide

original €15 per month for 12 months

original, sports and movies €38 pm for 12 months (normal price €74)

extras available

add hd €10 pm for 12 months

add multiroom €7.50 per month for the first six months then €15 for six months

There is no install fee, a deposit of €10 is taken and refunded. All you need is a credit card or bank details to sign up

variety is not available with this deal if you want variety and the above channels there is no discount or offer available all packages are full price

Hagar7

Is this good to anyone?

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sky-tv-family-bundle-unlimited-broadband-weekend-calls-line-rental-16-40-per-month-2276378

Avada

Hagar7 wrote: »

Is this good to anyone?

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sky-tv-family-bundle-unlimited-broadband-weekend-calls-line-rental-16-40-per-month-2276378

Thats a uk deal. Not valid in ROI.

GY A1

Rang earlier to cancel took almost an hour of listening to waffle.
On variety. And best they offered was original at 20 euro for 9 months and contract for a year.
Said no thanks cancel

meath4sam

Ok was thinking of switching to Eircom for broadband and tv. Currently with sky for tv only, so called to enquire about cancelling and they offered basic sky pack with hd and broadband for 50 euro 6 months then after 6 months 103euro. Not really a great deal imo . Has anyone got a broadband and tv deal.

kooga

meath4sam wrote: »

Ok was thinking of switching to Eircom for broadband and tv. Currently with sky for tv only, so called to enquire about cancelling and they offered basic sky pack with hd and broadband for 50 euro 6 months then after 6 months 103euro. Not really a great deal imo . Has anyone got a broadband and tv deal.

Are you out of contact? If yes cancel and say going to eircom not sure what their triple bundle price is though with them
New customer with sky triple bundle is 49 € pm

Gotya

meath4sam wrote: »

Ok was thinking of switching to Eircom for broadband and tv. Currently with sky for tv only, so called to enquire about cancelling and they offered basic sky pack with hd and broadband for 50 euro 6 months then after 6 months 103euro. Not really a great deal imo . Has anyone got a broadband and tv deal.

I have variety pack, sports, movies, HD and broadband with sky for 79e p/m for nine months, I got it earlier this year after cancelling so i'll be ringing to cancel again shortly

The Ayatolla

Heading to CPWH tomorrow to see what the best deal I can get is. Hope it's as good as what peeps mention on here. Just looking for Variety + Sports and maybe HD.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Rang up to cancel my tv as Im out of contract with tv and broadband.

After much haggleing got free upgrade to fibre,variety pack and HD pack for €48 until Febuary.
1 year contract on Fibre,no contract on tv.

Was told to call back in January to discuss tv package again.

Not too shabby for tv,bb and phone.

Avada

kooga wrote: »

Are you out of contact? If yes cancel and say going to eircom not sure what their triple bundle price is though with them
New customer with sky triple bundle is 49 € pm

You cant transfer a sky line to sky though. And if you cancel the line you'll be without it for 2 months at least.

The Ayatolla

Just got original + sports + movies for 38 in car phone warehouse.

HD would have been an extra tenner but left it off for now.

Happy days.

GY A1

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Just got original + sports + movies for 38 in car phone warehouse.

HD would have been an extra tenner but left it off for now.

Happy days.

I was paying 38 just for variety. That's why I cancelled

The Ayatolla

Sign up again in a CPWH store. It's a great deal.

Be sure to use a different name, phone number and bank details. And tweak the address slightly, like if its 28, put it as 28A or whatever.

Dord

Called to "cancel" spent less than 10 mins on the phone, and got the e19/m deal.

sheroman01

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Just got original + sports + movies for 38 in car phone warehouse.

HD would have been an extra tenner but left it off for now.

Happy days.

May get on that so. I wonder could ya swap movies for HD :P?

frankz

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Sign up again in a CPWH store. It's a great deal.

Be sure to use a different name, phone number and bank details. And tweak the address slightly, like if its 28, put it as 28A or whatever.

CPWH only seem to offer deals with the original pack which doesn't have music, kids or docs
so paying for a few subscrip channels (and sky+ options) and mainly channels that are free

IMHO Original is crazy dear for what you get.
better off going to sky themselves and get variety bundle

The Ayatolla

I'm mainly just interested in the sport and the FTA channels anyway, can't have sports without the other. No kids or music channels necessary. I use wikipedia for my history

meath4sam

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Rang up to cancel my tv as Im out of contract with tv and broadband.

After much haggleing got free upgrade to fibre,variety pack and HD pack for €48 until Febuary.
1 year contract on Fibre,no contract on tv.

Was told to call back in January to discuss tv package again.

Not too shabby for tv,bb and phone.

Sounds like the offer I got. Does it go up to 103 euro after 6 months

ctlsleh

meath4sam wrote: »

Sounds like the offer I got. Does it go up to 103 euro after 6 months

I called to cancel, was paying 84€ for Entertainment+, HD and sports, they offered me 52 for 10 months and a1 year contract......is that good or should I go through to cancellations? Will I get a better deal?

kooga

ctlsleh wrote: »

I called to cancel, was paying 84€ for Entertainment+, HD and sports, they offered me 52 for 10 months and a1 year contract......is that good or should I go through to cancellations? Will I get a better deal?

can you tell us what you got for €84 and what you are getting for €52

The Ayatolla

If you're calling to cancel, CANCEL. Give your 31 days notice.

You get better deals when in the cancellation stage. And you can always call up in between the 31 days and take an offer. Or better yet wait for it to be completely cut off and call up on the day it's cut off...

_Kaiser_

I have a dilemma..

Initially signed up for eircom fibre and TV for €25 for the first 6 months but the TV is crap and the box/EPG nearly useless. There was a dish in place so I hooked up a Sky box to that and it was mostly ok - except that there's a load of trees behind the apartment block that causes fairly regular interference with the signal (the box will eventually stop responding until rebooted) and moving the dish higher up the block isn't an option (lucky it's there at all really)

Had taken a sub out with Sky with the idea of cancelling the eircom TV but it seems I'll need to buy myself out of that (fair enough). Can't get Saorview though so will need one or the other for the basics. At the moment I've cancelled the Sky on the grounds of the reception (gets cut off next week) but thinking of just downgrading to the basic/variety and living with the intermittent freezing. Alternatively could get a Freesat box and stick with eircom but their box really isn't up to standard.

Any thoughts?

donegal.

is that a 2 year contract with eircom, how much to get of it ?

if you can't move your dish would a bigger dish help ?

_Kaiser_

donegal. wrote: »

is that a 2 year contract with eircom, how much to get of it ?

if you can't move your dish would a bigger dish help ?

€100 to cancel apparently. 18 month contract. Don't know if a bigger dish would work. Sky did send out a guy to have a look but he reckons the only way would be to thin trees (not likely to happen) or move the dish higher up the block (also not likely as that'd mean drilling into someone else's wall)

ctlsleh

kooga wrote: »

can you tell us what you got for €84 and what you are getting for €52

As mentioned I had Entertainment +, SPORTS and HD package, only 1 box.......was paying €84 per month, they offered €52 for the same package for 10months and a new 1 year package, should I go through with cancellation?
Would I get a better deal?

whatawaster

The original, sports and movies offer with CPW looks very nice.

I am currently on original at 29 per month, but have a 6 month deal ending next month with movies and sports for 20. So effectively paying 49 for the same deal, but not sure if that will last any longer than October.

If I were to cancel, could my wife sign up for the CPW sky deal? Would we have to wait 31 days? Anyone know how long the offer is valid for?

Have I anything to lose by cancelling, with the intention of either a) taking an offer or b) wife signing up for a new account.

The Ayatolla

whatawaster wrote: »

The original, sports and movies offer with CPW looks very nice.

I am currently on original at 29 per month, but have a 6 month deal ending next month with movies and sports for 20. So effectively paying 49 for the same deal, but not sure if that will last any longer than October.

If I were to cancel, could my wife sign up for the CPW sky deal? Would we have to wait 31 days? Anyone know how long the offer is valid for?

Have I anything to lose by cancelling, with the intention of either a) taking an offer or b) wife signing up for a new account.

Have your wife sign up, but just use a different phone number and bank account. Tweak your address to be extra sure.

For example

1 Example Road
Unnamed Town
Co. Cork

1A Example Rd
Unnamed
Cork

The address is only important for getting the viewing card and the installation dude will ring anyway to look for directions if he can't figure it out.

kooga

ctlsleh wrote: »

As mentioned I had Entertainment +, SPORTS and HD package, only 1 box.......was paying €84 per month, they offered €52 for the same package for 10months and a new 1 year package, should I go through with cancellation?
Would I get a better deal?

Entertainment is that original or variety?

GY A1

when i rang to cancel i said it was way too dear and cancel
but also that carphone had deal for half price compared what he offered me,
they said if u cancel and sign up there that might be fraud LOL :rolleyes:

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Have your wife sign up, but just use a different phone number and bank account. Tweak your address to be extra sure.

For example

1 Example Road
Unnamed Town
Co. Cork

1A Example Rd
Unnamed
Cork

The address is only important for getting the viewing card and the installation dude will ring anyway to look for directions if he can't figure it out.

The Ayatolla

GY A1 wrote: »

when i rang to cancel i said it was way too dear and cancel
but also that carphone had deal for half price compared what he offered me,
they said if u cancel and sign up there that might be fraud LOL :rolleyes:

Watch out, the police be knocking on your door. Be like a scene from Straight Outta Compton.

GY A1

was put on hold about 4 times aswell
i said look just cancel i cant wait on the fone all day