So I cancelled my sky and actually listened to stw!

Just had the first call.

He asked why I’d cancelled so I said it was now far too expensive, he asked if I’d reconsider if he reduced the cost. I told him possibly but asked him to call back tomorrow.

Will be interesting to see what they offer.

I was on a F&F 50% discount for a year. Phoned to cancel once that was up and they said the 50% is on my account for any package. I’ve gone for the bare minimum package at £10 a month so will see how it goes. For £18 I’ll get movies and box sets i think (at least box sets). It feels like made up numbers, anyone who pays full price for Sky is being mugged – msJimmy’s niece said they’re paying £150/month 😮

Due to be cut off on Saturday.

Didn’t receive the second call I was promised but had a 35% off offer by email.

If we do get cut off on Saturday I’m going to be even more unpopular at home. Do I fold and give them a call?

I’d hold tight till Saturday.

I base this purely on the fact I won’t be the your family turn on when they can’t access internet/TV etc on Sunday. 🙂

Just to add, before cancelling make sure the marketing options are all turned on for the person and main account.

If you have told them not to phone you, they wont phone!

Due to be cut off on Saturday.

Didn’t receive the second call I was promised but had a 35% off offer by email.

If we do get cut off on Saturday I’m going to be even more unpopular at home. Do I fold and give them a call?

Nah, you have to actually leave. Just tell your family that you’re all having a digital detox for a month. Your painful death will be all the entertainment needed to keep them going.

I went over to BT for a month, ditched the TV offering because it didn’t work, went back to Sky and got about 50% off, including a new box.

Depends how much you’re prepared to suffer.

Apart from F1, I’d quite happily live without tv for a month, no Emmerdale/Corrie/Eastenders/Dance Moms/Don’t tell the bride/Childrens A&E/24 hours in A&E/Brief encounters/all the other crap.

Not sure about the internet mind.

Will check my contact preferences now cheers.

If you need to cancel everything with Sky for a month to get the better deals you could get a PAYG wifi hotspot to give yourself internet access.

You’re going to lose the internet in 3 days!!!? Time to pack your bags!

You don’t have to ditch broadband, just the telly, if all you want is Sky to offer you a deal for the TV service.

IME they’re not going to offer you much of a broadband deal anyway, much better just to switch to a different provider doing an offer for new customers (got £150 cashback plus half price for 12 months via Quidco IIRC for switching to BT). No loss of service. Can’t be doing without internet in this day and age, sheer madness!

Boom.

Just had the 50% off email.

I will give them a call and see what else they are willing to offer.

Ask for free bband. That’s what I got if I kept my line rental with sky, which was about 50p cheaper than BT anyway. Stay strong young padawan…

Thankyou Master.

Not had chance tonight so will call them tomorrow. Would like Q but someone mentioned earlier in this thread that they wouldn’t do it.

Yeah when I asked about Q they said that’s a whole different department and couldn’t be included in any offers but worth you asking in case it’s changed now.

Cancelled ours last week and they’ve called twice a day everyday since but I’ve just let it ring out. General consensus over on Hot UK deals is to hold out and they will give you a 75% discount eventually.

75%? Is it even worth them bothering?

…but then HKUD is inhabited by people who froth over getting something from the £1 shop for 90p.

Is it worth who bothering, Sky? All they have to do is flick a switch to put your tv back on. Any money is better than no money for them

Double boom.

Just come home to a letter to say I can have free internet for a year too.

They also say if I do cancel I will still be able to record, pause and rewind on my boxes which surprised me.

I wonder if I can wangle one of those free LG tvs too?

Shysters.

Called them earlier and the best they can do is reduce it from £110 pm to £83 as apparently I’m ‘already on a deal’.

That’s for family inc sports/hd, multiroom, unlimited fibre bb, anytime unlimited phone but no contract.

Will call them again later and put the phone to basic as we never use it and see if there’s any more movement. How are people getting credits applied to their accounts? Do sky offer them or do you suggest it?

does this strategy work with virgin media?
in fact thinking of ditching them anyway and using nowtv
if i can figure out how it works from their
rubbish website

bluearsedfly – Member

They also say if I do cancel I will still be able to record, pause and rewind on my boxes which surprised me.

This must be something new because my SKy+HD box won’t record, pause etc anymore.

I am a few months into being Sky free and I don’t miss it at all.

We have a Humax Freesat box which does us fine.

I’m glad people are still getting the 50% deals and even 75%, I’ve had a guys full though – £90 a month to sky, some of the best stuff we watch is on Netflix for £10 a month or the Beeb for £12 a month or ITV/4/5 for nowt. Even discounting the useless phone line to carry the internet the TV element is £50 a month or more, and all the content I want on that is on NowTV for £6.

It’s a crying shame to me that Openreach can’t offer me more than 4meg internet.

I’ve realised the only thing I really watch on Sky is Game of Thrones so when my contract is up in Nov I’ll move to just fibre and get a NowTv box for Game of Thrones.
I do watch the Liverpool games when they are on Sky Sports but that hasn’t given me much joy recently 🙁

Shysters.

Called them earlier and the best they can do is reduce it from £110 pm to £83 as apparently I’m ‘already on a deal’.

That’s for family inc sports/hd, multiroom, unlimited fibre bb, anytime unlimited phone but no contract.

Just got them down to £60 p/m from over £110 p/m.

That’s for family package/sports/hd/multiroom/unlimited fibre bb/anytime phone. 12 month contract on the bb and phone but none on the tv.

Not too fussed about the contract as I’d keep the bb and phone with Sky anyway and I think I’m going to give Sky Q a go later in the year.

After a few weeks of ending my Sky sub, and starting BT Vision/Youview, Sky called up and offered:

£100 credit to my bill
75% off any package
No minimum contract (that bit turned out to be a lie and after arguing for several minutes, they put me on hold whilst they listened to previous phone call recordings from 9 months earlier and then waived the charges since my £100 credit ran out)

After showing some interest I went for a basic HD package, I then reminded him I would need a new box, turns out he should have asked that question up front and it wasn’t free, so after some wrangling in the background I got a new HD box with free delivery bolted on.

So after several months my bill credit ran out, I’d hardly watched any Sky as BT Vision was catering for all my needs, and managed to get them to honour the ‘No Contract’ part of the deal and got it all switched off.

I really don’t get the business model of premium price for a service that is only really watchable after Sky+ing everything so you can fast forward through the constant adverts. Trying to watch live Sky is tedious, and you can’t even channel hop as all the channels go to adverts at the same time!

Did this myself yesterday. After calling up last monday and asking why my direct debit has gone up (now £48 p/m) when i have the basic package for TV, unlimited broadband and phone line. Ended with me cancelling the TV and keeping everything else for £24 p/m, he offered me £33 p/m to stay on my current deal.
Got the call yesterday offering all in for £17 p/m for the next 12 months.
I do this quite regular but this the best deal i have ever had from them and it was very easy to do. I stand to save almost £400 in the next 12 months

So… Does this work with Virgin too? Hope so else I am in real trouble with the wife and mini dopes.

Does it work for Virgin? Damn right it does! Just wanted to express my thanks to the forum here. I have both Virgin (for broadband) and Sky for TV. I phoned each, told them I was cancelling to go to the other, and rejected their first “please stay” offer. Got a termination date from each, and sat tight. Hey presto two weeks later, 50% discount on each, which is about 480 notes saved a year. If you are out of contract and haven’t done this, do it!

Sorry to resurrect, just cancelled today and hope to get a deal! Anyone else recently had any good offers?

Cancelled nearly 2 weeks ago, not heard a peep from them yet, not fussed either way other than missing F1 when it starts.

I cancelled mine 3 months ago and went over to BT….I get a call at least once a week from Sky offering me deals…. Latest was 60% off a package….. Dodgy box on the way as we speak…so fair to say I won’t be returning. Lol

Just called me, reduced from £68 to £27 a month with no contract for 12 months, just need to remember to cancel again this time next year otherwise it will revert to the £68. Possibly could have got more out of them, but life is too short as that call took over 20 minutes.

I cancelled and went through with the cancellation and got offered 75% off and £50 credit after a few weeks. Being without Sky+ was the most annoying part of it.

now have free sky tv for 8 moths

What do i get for 7 flies & 2 wasps?