Deals On Sky TV Service - (Mostly Cancellation deals)

Skuxx

Cancelled my HD and box sets about 2 months ago, was paying €15 a month! Got a call today from an 021 number offering HD and box sets for €5 a month no contract!! Happy out!

jca

Skuxx wrote: »

Cancelled my HD and box sets about 2 months ago, was paying €15 a month! Got a call today from an 021 number offering HD and box sets for €5 a month no contract!! Happy out!

My hd is gone about 2 weeks now I wonder will they ring me? I'm with them 6 years now and never had a call from them.

brophs

jca wrote: »

My hd is gone about 2 weeks now I wonder will they ring me? I'm with them 6 years now and never had a call from them.

Just call them saying you got a call but didn't have time to take it.

vienne86

I never had hd but was offered it with box sets for €5 per month....for 12 months over the phone the other day.....and 021 number.

muffler

vienne86 wrote: »

I never had hd but was offered it with box sets for €5 per month....for 12 months over the phone the other day.....and 021 number.

If you watch quite a bit of telly then you cant go wrong at €5.

onform

There is a flash sale for existing customers today, movies and sports for €20 per month for 6 months.
Valid when you sign up online only.

Just be careful as I think when you sign up for this it may remove any existing offers on your account

http://www.sky.com/ireland/offers/top-tier/?DCMP=bac-ROI:ec_flash1#!2-3

onform

There is a flash sale for existing customers today, movies and sports for €20 per month for 6 months.
Valid when you sign up online only.

Just be careful as I think when you sign up for this it may remove any existing offers on your account

http://www.sky.com/ireland/offers/top-tier/?DCMP=bac-ROI:ec_flash1#!2-3

machiavellianme

20 extra per month, not 20 per month.
Also, not available to existing Sky Sports and/or Movies customers.
Still, it's probably a bargain for someone.

Avada

onform wrote: »

There is a flash sale for existing customers today, movies and sports for €20 per month for 6 months.
Valid when you sign up online only.

Just be careful as I think when you sign up for this it may remove any existing offers on your account

http://www.sky.com/ireland/offers/top-tier/?DCMP=bac-ROI:ec_flash1#!2-3

It will remove any existing offers off tv. Wont affect HD or Multiscreen offers.

gaving

Cancelled this time last year and wife took it out in her name 1/2 price for 12 months with variety, sports and hd which is ending 3rd Dec for 44.50 no real offers forthcoming offered her variety and sports 1+5 wiuth half price hd for 56.35! Have to cancel today if we wish to, I contacted sky looking to rejoin offered 1/2 price for 9 months at 27 p/m and 1/2 price HD for 12

He states I'd keep my original billing date of the 11th and I'd have to pay from now til the 11th, basically dont want to be double paying them for two accounts,if I was to ringbthem closer to the end of the month what's peoples experience would the offer still be there I got the usual can't promise it'll still be available

mint man

i cancelled today, paying 37 that was going up to 39 , got offered 10 percent off for a year in a contract or 29 a month for 9 months .
no better offer put forward , call cost me 4 euro! (20 cent per minute), i still decided to leave

delboy76

mint man wrote: »

i cancelled today, paying 37 that was going up to 39 , got offered 10 percent off for a year in a contract or 29 a month for 9 months .
no better offer put forward , call cost me 4 euro! (20 cent per minute), i still decided to leave

Just cancelled muself and ot the same offer. I declined but it was a painless process. Let us see what is available now.

A Law

joefuss1986 wrote: »

Just got my price increase letter. Changing terms in February as well. I'm on a 12 month contract, 10 half price. 10 months are nearly up. Can I cancel now as they are changing terms?

Fred Swanson wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

So I rang and said I didn't accept the terms and he said that I can't cancel my contract as they havent broken any of their terms and conditions. He was trying to explain why they are going to charge for missing the direct debits and general waffle to fob me off! No matter what i said he told me I couldn't cancel. Anybody know if hes right?

Fred Swanson

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A Law

Got this from a rep who I requested a call back from . In fairness he was very helpful and transferred me through to loyalty to see if I could cancel....

I have spoken with our legal team in relation to the late payment fees. Please see below.

We have introduced the late payment fee to cover our costs of servicing customers who have failed to pay on time. As the charge is only applicable where a customer has failed to meet the terms of their contract we do not consider that it will materially disadvantage customers and there is therefore no termination right for customers.

It is worth noting that Sky’s rates will be the lowest late payment charges in the TV market in Ireland with one operator charging €18.45. We will send warning notices to customers before imposing the charge whereas other operators impose the charge as soon as the payment is missed. Customers will not need to worry about this charge if they meet their payments on time.

Thanks for the replies as well Fred

jlm29

I just ordered sky tv today. We have no landline. Does anyone know if I need to inform them of this, will it make a difference to set up?

NATLOR

jlm29 wrote: »

I just ordered sky tv today. We have no landline. Does anyone know if I need to inform them of this, will it make a difference to set up?

It wont make any difference,no landline needed

jlm29

NATLOR wrote: »

It wont make any difference,no landline needed

That's great thanks. Last time I get sky in a land-line free house, they made an awful song and dance about it. But that was many years ago!

kgarvey

Just took me forever to cancel my SKY TV. I was on $19 per month for basic plus varity as i canceled 6 months ago but got dragged back...


I havent turned my Sky box on siince then so really wanted to cancel. I stream everything i watch the last year or so with Kodi installed on an android box. I dont think ill ever go back to a TV service

richy

I want to get a better deal on my sky. Was on the carphone warehouse deal for like 15 a month but got charged 53 yesteday for this months. Last time I rang up to cancel like a year ago? The lady offered me like 10% off and nothing more so I cancelled. Expected to get a counter offer later but never did. How do I play this? Should I just cancel and wait for a good deal to come out soon? I havent seen any in a while so should be some soon maybe

Dr Robert

What's the best alternative boxes to Sky plus? Just have the regular channels currently.

Want to keep the recording function and possibly pause, rewind too.

muffler

Dr Robert wrote: »

What's the best alternative boxes to Sky plus? Just have the regular channels currently.

Want to keep the recording function and possibly pause, rewind too.

There are lots of threads on the various boxes if you have a quick trawl through the threads over in the satellite forum

muffler

richy wrote: »

I want to get a better deal on my sky. Was on the carphone warehouse deal for like 15 a month but got charged 53 yesteday for this months. Last time I rang up to cancel like a year ago? The lady offered me like 10% off and nothing more so I cancelled. Expected to get a counter offer later but never did. How do I play this? Should I just cancel and wait for a good deal to come out soon? I havent seen any in a while so should be some soon maybe

There doesnt appear to be any hard fast rule on this. I see various posts here saying you will get this, that and the other but what they fail to mention is that there is not a "one size fit all" policy operated by Sky. What discount one person receives may not be the same as what someone else gets.

From what I can see based on my own experience and from other posts here is that the longer you have been a subscriber the better the offer you should get if you decide to cancel. There is also (Im guessing here) the small matter of staff bonuses. If they can retain you as a customer with a 10% or 20% discount then I would think that their pay packet is a wee bit heavier at the end of the month. Different agents seem to be a bit more flexible than others while the same can be said about different departments within Sky.

My advice would be to ring in and tell them you want to cancel and go as far as cancelling if you have to. After that you can "uncancel" again within the 31 day notice period or alternatively just get cut off and call back and ask what offers they have for a returning customer.

adox

So after cancelling in August and promising myself not to go back, I got a call last night from them and got suckered back in.

24 hours later and I've already changed my mind. Tried to cancel by email but have got a reply back saying that I have to call them, which I'm dreading.

It has just proved to myself and my wife that we really aren't missing that much and actually prefer the EPG with our English card inserted than our subbed Irish card.

SCOOP 64

adox wrote: »

So after cancelling in August and promising myself not to go back, I got a call last night from them and got suckered back in.

24 hours later and I've already changed my mind. Tried to cancel by email but have got a reply back saying that I have to call them, which I'm dreading.

It has just proved to myself and my wife that we really aren't missing that much and actually prefer the EPG with our English card inserted than our subbed Irish card.

What was the offer? Ive been wth out sky since August too.

adox

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

What was the offer? Ive been wth out sky since August too.

They gave me two months free and then 10 months with 50% off, no contract.

Berberis

Finished with them last month after my year with the €15/month CPWH offer.
Got a letter from sky yesterday informing me that my monthly bill will be going up by a euro and there I was thinking maybe it was another offer to tempt me back.
To be honest I think I'd only go back if they reduced it to a couple of euro a month just for the pause record facility :D

donegal.

Berberis wrote: »

Finished with them last month after my year with the €15/month CPWH offer.
Got a letter from sky yesterday informing me that my monthly bill will be going up by a euro and there I was thinking maybe it was another offer to tempt me back.
To be honest I think I'd only go back if they reduced it to a couple of euro a month just for the pause record facility :D

you'll still have pause/record if you use ANY sat box other than the sky one.

Furzy

donegal. wrote: »

you'll still have pause/record if you use ANY sat box other than the sky one.

Nonsense - the majority of freesat boxes are receivers only although some have USB ports to allow recording. You need a Freesat+ box with dual input and hard drive to pause and record.

corsav6

adox wrote: »

They gave me two months free and then 10 months with 50% off, no contract.

Get your 2 months free before you cancel, ring in 30 days with your notice.

donegal.

Furzy wrote: »

Nonsense - the majority of freesat boxes are receivers only although some have USB ports to allow recording. You need a Freesat+ box with dual input and hard drive to pause and record.

ah not nonsense. it would be hard to find a box that didn't have pause/record
(albeit via usb - just stick in a pen drive or ext hard drive)
doesn't need to freesat. although i prefer it.
doesn't need to be freesat +, not huge advantages for the harddrive being internal instead of external.
doesn't need dual input. But obviously the more tuners the better, why stop at 2, get 3 or 4 ? . I'd add a saorview tuner for the irish stations.

adox

adox wrote: »

They gave me two months free and then 10 months with 50% off, no contract.

So just an update on this. Got an email from Sky today with "your latest bill"on it and low and behold they were charging me from the day I reconnected.

Went into the Sky app and indeed they were and we're going to charge me for a month in advance as well.

Had to ring them to query this and they said it was an error and that the guy who gave me the offer should have put a note on the account.

This was enough for me. It takes long enough to get through to them in the first place and it had annoyed me I had to contact them over this, so I cancelled again there and then with immediate effect. Got home this evening and switched the card back out for my UK one and I'm happy to see the back of them.

Had to send them an email addressing the charges as, despite the rep telling me it would be credited, I got a confirmation email saying my account was cancelled but there was an outstanding balance that needs to be paid. Since sending the email I have got a response to say my account has been credited.

Back to subscription free and happy with that.

Kildare787

adox wrote: »

They gave me two months free and then 10 months with 50% off, no contract.

How do you get subscription free?? I cancelled last week, got out of my contract a month early and all after the complete f*ck up of overcharging me, and cancelling my entire subscription instead of getting back to me with a downgrade price. I was paying 80 odd a month for everything including hd and multiroom. Said I wanted a good deal again and your man offered me 101 euro a month lol. Anyways after about 3 days of crap it was cancelled with immediate effect. it will be interesting to see if they get back onto me as I have been with them for the past four years on the top tier package. They are money hungry pigs if you ask me. My dad only signed up last week and got a letter today saying he had a price increase coming lol. They are unreal!

tellmeabit

hi all, anyone know what the best offer you can get for tv only package with SKY at the mo?
thanks,

muffler

tellmeabit wrote: »

hi all, anyone know what the best offer you can get for tv only package with SKY at the mo?
thanks,

Free 32" tv

davywalsh7

anyone that availed of the carphone warehouse deal last year have any luck with new discount when ringing back?

i rang back today as my discount is out in dec. i was on the €48 pm deal (variety hd plus sports and 1extra box) but the best theyd offer me was €88 pm. Looking for €39 a month for sports! tried explaining to him that sports isnt worth as much anymore as BT have champions league and some rugby and prem league now, he tried bs with me saying sky have all the prem games next year (dont think thats true?), anyway told him id think about it but ill prob cancel it and get it back in the old mans name on his cancellation offer. Just wondering if anybody has gotten a better deal than that so ill know for the next time i ring
cheers

TitianGerm

davywalsh7 wrote: »

anyone that availed of the carphone warehouse deal last year have any luck with new discount when ringing back?

i rang back today as my discount is out in dec. i was on the €48 pm deal (variety hd plus sports and 1extra box) but the best theyd offer me was €88 pm. Looking for €39 a month for sports! tried explaining to him that sports isnt worth as much anymore as BT have champions league and some rugby and prem league now, he tried bs with me saying sky have all the prem games next year (dont think thats true?), anyway told him id think about it but ill prob cancel it and get it back in the old mans name on his cancellation offer. Just wondering if anybody has gotten a better deal than that so ill know for the next time i ring
cheers

Sky have won the rights to show 3 PM games on a Saturday from next season. They'll also be showing Friday night games.

okidoki987

Sky have won the rights to show 3 PM games on a Saturday from next season

Only in Ireland.

SNNUS

okidoki987 wrote: »

Only in Ireland.

We are In Ireland??.. They rang me offering HD for €5 a month but HD should be standard now..

davywalsh7

SNNUS wrote: »

We are In Ireland??.. They rang me offering HD for €5 a month but HD should be standard now..

yea that charge for HD is a joke. i cant understand why it isnt standard by now as all it does is annoy people when calling about a bill and hearing its €15 a month

davywalsh7

emmetkenny wrote: »

Sky have won the rights to show 3 PM games on a Saturday from next season. They'll also be showing Friday night games.

yea sky have extra games to broadcast in ireland but as far as i know BT will still have the sat morning games as well as the champions league and ufc . the operator made it sound to me that BT wasnt going to be worth having this time next year when really not all that much is changing.

Kristopherus

davywalsh7 wrote: »

yea sky have extra games to broadcast in ireland but as far as i know BT will still have the sat morning games as well as the champions league and ufc . the operator made it sound to me that BT wasnt going to be worth having this time next year when really not all that much is changing.

Way Off Topic: But Sky must be sh***ing themselves with all the Championship games they are covering this year to make up for what they've lost to BT. In December they are showing 10 Championship games on 10 consecutive days !!!!

Avada

davywalsh7 wrote: »

yea sky have extra games to broadcast in ireland but as far as i know BT will still have the sat morning games as well as the champions league and ufc . the operator made it sound to me that BT wasnt going to be worth having this time next year when really not all that much is changing.

Sky have saturday morning matches (12.30), BT now have saturday evening.

kooga

davywalsh7 wrote: »

anyone that availed of the carphone warehouse deal last year have any luck with new discount when ringing back?

i rang back today as my discount is out in dec. i was on the €48 pm deal (variety hd plus sports and 1extra box) but the best theyd offer me was €88 pm. Looking for €39 a month for sports! tried explaining to him that sports isnt worth as much anymore as BT have champions league and some rugby and prem league now, he tried bs with me saying sky have all the prem games next year (dont think thats true?), anyway told him id think about it but ill prob cancel it and get it back in the old mans name on his cancellation offer. Just wondering if anybody has gotten a better deal than that so ill know for the next time i ring
cheers

CPW
my dad was on the above deal had variety, hd and sports for €33 a month.
His deal was up in September and so I got him to ring had him well prepped. Initially nothing being offered so he insisted on asking to be put through to cancellations.

Final deal he got was original and sports half price for 9 months at €32.50 going up to €33.50 next month.

To be honest he is happy with that not bothered with variety or HD as no interest in kids, documentaries and doesn't have a mega tv etc.

The 9 month deal takes him up to the end of may where he will offload sports and see out his contract with original at full price.

On top of that he added the BT offer of 12 months for €129 so between the two subs is paying €44.25 pm

whatawaster

Sky cancelled and switched off 19 days ago. Still no phone calls or offers from them.

At this stage, I'm thinking of getting my wife to sign up for CPW offer of Original for €21 per month with a €100 CPW voucher, or else the Sky deal at €29 per month with a free TV.

kooga

whatawaster wrote: »

Sky cancelled and switched off 19 days ago. Still no phone calls or offers from them.

At this stage, I'm thinking of getting my wife to sign up for CPW offer of Original for €21 per month with a €100 CPW voucher, or else the Sky deal at €29 per month with a free TV.

The only current offer with the CPW at the moment is 25% off all packages.

whatawaster

kooga wrote: »

The only current offer with the CPW at the moment is 25% off all packages.

http://www.carphonewarehouse.ie/sky-tv

and a €100 CPW voucher

JTMan

When does the CPW offer expire? Thanks.

davywalsh7

thanks for the help lads, will try again tomorrow with cancellations

SmallBalls

Just signed up for CPW deal of 25% off and the €100 voucher.
Anyone know how this €100 voucher is collected....by post, by email, collect in store?? Sky rep I spoke with didn't know himself.